Jersey City officials voted Wednesday night to introduce an ordinance that would prevent senior housing and assisted living residences from being built in the city’s medical zone.

The measure by the city council was introduced by an 8-0 vote, with one councilperson abstaining. The move comes three weeks after the owners of Heights University Hospital announced preliminary plans to build a new hospital adjacent to the current one and pair it with residential development.

“We need 100% medical services. We have to keep Christ Hospital and we have to do everything we can to get certain people in this state to back us and make sure Christ Hospital survives,” Ward C Councilman Richard Boggiano said on Wednesday.

Boggiano also said it may be time to start speaking with other medical insti

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