APP reports Back in February professional mediators came to Lakewood and interviewed residents, community and political leaders to hear from them what is creating discord among township residents. Out of 160 people invited only 90 came to be interviewed (see list below). The interviewee list was hand picked and most Lakewood residents were not given an opportunity to talk to the mediators.
The assessment was paid for by local orthodox Jewish businessman for $35,000.
The report highlights areas of strength in the Lakewood region such as quality of life,low crime rate, charity giving, strong economic profile with jobs available and importunity for cross cultural diversity interactions.
Interviewees noted the Challenges faced by them, such as Misinformation, misunderstanding and misconceptions that create a lack of trust among residents. Bias attitudes antisemitism against the
orthodox, media coverage of Lakewood as a whole and APP in particular pushing negative stories exacerbates community tensions. Cultural differences coexistence and impacts of change as Orthodox Jews move into new neighborhoods. Managing Land use response to growth: Traffic were mentioned by almost all interviewees some said Traffic is not unique to Lakewood
The report suggests the following recommendations moving forward
-Expanding a convening structure for collaborative Governance
-Expanding relationship and trust building
-developing a shared community coexisting plan
-conducting collaborative Visioning and growth management planning
basically this entire list is either on or was recently on the townships payroll or is connected to the vaad. WHAt a joke
ReplyDeleteLet then interview the commonfolk who are not well connected and not so polished but will speak the truth.
ReplyDeleteVaad PR machine yes the ones who called frum innocent Lakewood residents BAD Apples
ReplyDeletedid the report address what the vaad has done to Lakewood and its citizens?
Like the Pravda giving itself an endorsement this is a joke.
ReplyDeleteagain what is the suggestion to communicate & try to get along how much ? for that answer
ReplyDeletesuch arrogance to say Traffic is not unique to Lakewood
ReplyDeleteTell that to everyone who wastes an hour every day in Lakewood on rt 9 on prospect Janmes Central cedarbridge
No wonder the Vaad handpicked who should talk.
biggest joke I've ever seen, RUOC is gonna eat this up
ReplyDeleteשקר אין לו רגלים
ReplyDeleteLook at the Names ! What an open Joke
ReplyDeleteIf they really wanted to solve problems they would have picked random people from Lakewood. I recognize a lot of the names on here,and all the ones I recognize are part of the swamp.
ReplyDeleteI find this comment scary and hilarious at the same time "conducting collaborative Visioning and growth management planning". Obviously, this is not referring to Lakewood. Lakewood is already built up, and just about everything that hasn't been built yet, already has approvals. So they must be referring to surrounding towns. The same people that destroyed Lakewood, not want to have a say in the surrounding towns development, that is insane.
The surrounding towns are going to have to change their tune of effectively banning synagogues, because it is illegal, but as far as collaborating with the destroyers of Lakewood in their development, that is ludicrous. What were they thinking when they commissioned this and typed it up? This is onyl going to have the opposite effect of what they claimed to be trying to acheive
Hershel! We need you!
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