The diagram below is from a 2002 Asbury Park document called the Waterfront Redevelopment Plan:
By Paul Goldfinger,Editor, and Jack Bredin, Reporter and Researcher.
After recently hearing the latest ideas on the North End Redevelopment Plan (NERP) from the CMA President, it seems that the goal is to create “Asbury Park South” at our North End.
Maybe there is a secret idea of joining the two sides in one coordinated plan. After all, while our North End remains undeveloped, so does the Asbury Park South End. Why have the Parkers left that location alone?
Let’s go back to a document from 2002. At that time, The Wesley Lake Commission put out a Waterfront Redevelopment Plan and a Waterfront Redevelopers Agreement with a section called ” Wesley Lake Village.”
The drawing above shows the Asbury side, but look carefully at the diagram at the lower left corner on our side of Wesley Lake. Why are they including in their diagram that OG Block One site which is not in Asbury Park?
You can see that Beach Avenue is shown connecting to Lake Avenue on our side. But Beach Avenue does not connect to Lake Avenue now, so why does an Asbury Park plan take an interest in that detail?
Are they envisioning a roadway that would turn Beach Avenue and Lake Avenue into a vehicle passage to the boardwalk (dark black line) and then into Asbury Park ?
Perhaps this drawing is done to suggest access when Asburians do their side of the lake as well as our side of the lake as one project?
Is it possible that the secretive new OG North End Developers announced by the CMA are really from Asbury Park, wanting to extend “Wesley Lake Village” to our North End? Is there a conspiracy?
Transparency could dispel such speculation, but we do not get clarity on our side, and the CMA is probably still deeply involved.
The building on so called lot 1 was always an accessory use to the hotel and was not sub-divided from the hotel lot legally. The OGCMA sub-divided the lot on its own without seeking approval from the Planning Board.
Under the case, Loechner v. Campoli, it prohibits the subdivision of merged lands without a developer first going before the Planning Board.
Since the OGCMA’s development is not a filed development, all its property that has not been leased through the original 99 year leases is in fact merged.
In other words, all of the North End, the North End that merges into the oceanfront beach and the Lake Avenue right-of-way to Main Street is merged since there are no individual leases for the land retained by the OGCMA.
Beach Avenue is not and never has been a legal separate lot. It remains a part of all of the OGCMA’s merged lands.
If the OGCMA wants to subdivide the land that still remains in OGCMA hands, it must first file, in Freehold, a legal site-plan for a legal development before Neptune may address the North End as a separate development or sub-division. Because the OGCMA is the owner of all the land in OG, it is the one that must seek the sub-division within its development.
The problem here is that Neptune has let the OGCMA, in violation of law, sub-divide its own lands. Neptune cannot make up its own zoning laws and sub-divide the North End any way it wishes without following the law.
Joe,
The last ‘block’ of Beach Ave is not a municipal street.
It is a private road on private property, owned by the CMA, and maintained by the Township.
Joe.. What you say is interesting, but it is not the current reality, and that is what we are speculating about.
Do you mean that it is OK with you if they now turn Beach Ave. into a roadway that leads onto a Lake Avenue roadway onto a Boardwalk roadway into A. Park? –Paul @Blogfinger.net
Up until very recently, Beach Ave connected to Lake Ave. You could drive a vehicle up Beach, behind the old CMA and into the dirt lot across from 1 Boardwalk. There were just plastic barricades in the street preventing this from happening.