This, not condos, is what Ocean Grove historic looks like. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
Paul Goldfinger, Editor@Blogfinger.net
From the Master Plan (2011) for Neptune’s Ocean Grove Historic District:
“The Plan proposes to redevelop the site into a new mixed-use community with a hotel and combination of single-family residential and commercial uses including public spaces and amenities.
“The decline of the hotels and rooming houses that previously provided summer lodging gave rise to conversion to multi-family residential uses or provided additional rooming and boarding uses for the indigent. These changes had deleterious effects on Ocean Grove.
“Ordinance changes prohibiting similar conversions to multi-family use have limited additional deterioration and facilitated a renaissance of investment for single family housing, bed and breakfasts and historic hotels.”
On the other hand, the North End Redevelopment Plan calls for residences, but most of them are “multi-family residential uses (condos).”
Do you suppose that the designers of the NERP wanted to retain single family housing? If they cared about the future of the historic district, they should not have manipulated the zoning at the North End to allow many condominiums.
One has to question their motives and keep that in mind when you listen to the presentation on June 22 from a man who pioneered the NERP in 2008.
NAOMI AND HER HANDSOME DEVILS: “If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight.”