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Mayor O'Mapp outlines demolition, housing and rent-control plans for 2025

Plainfield City Council · January 1, 2025
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Summary

Mayor Adrian O'Mapp said redevelopment is continuing, announced a 4–6 week demolition of a blighted warehouse, pledged to build more than 1,000 affordable housing units, proposed an Office of Homelessness Prevention and said the administration will introduce ordinances on rent control and a rent-leveling board.

Mayor Adrian O'Mapp used his reorganization remarks to preview the administration's agenda for 2025.

He described recent redevelopment and said crime has fallen "significantly," credited the Plainfield Police Department and announced that a long-blighted warehouse near the Netherwood Train Station has begun demolition; he said the teardown will take about "4 to 6 weeks" because asbestos abatement is required on the east corner. O'Mapp said a new warehouse, second-level recreation space and a restaurant are planned for the site when work finishes.

The mayor said city officials plan to build "over 1,000 new units of affordable housing" and to create an Office of Homelessness Prevention to help residents report housing complaints and to connect people to services. He said the administration will introduce two ordinances at the next council meeting: one to address rent control and a companion ordinance to create a rent-leveling board to implement it.

O'Mapp also described plans for a park on county-owned property on Cushing Road and said the annual Plainfield House Music Festival will be rebranded as the Lenny Cathcart Plainfield House Music Festival, honoring a longtime organizer.