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Paul Revere’s ride. Internet graphic.

This is what happened after the British arrived.

By Paul Revere Goldfinger, Blogfinger.net

You may recall that Paul Revere came riding into Concord-Lexington in the spring of 1775 to warn that the British were coming.  He didn’t know exactly why they were coming, but he was suspicious and he delivered the warning.

At Blogfinger we are enacting the Paul Revere Syndrome to warn you all about the forthcoming Planning Board meeting on Nov. 13 at 7 pm in the Municipal Building, 2nd floor Committee room, regarding OGNED’s design for that 3 acre North End  site west of the Boardwalk.

That meeting was announced by Vito Gadaleta at last night’s Committee meeting.

Like Paul Revere, we  currently have no specific knowledge of what the agenda will say or exactly what will be discussed or approved, but we have some ideas about what the issues ought to be.

It is the job of the Planning Board to make sure that the 2019 OGNED plan for the North End agrees with the original 2008 NERP.

We know that OGNED has changed the original plan in terms of number of condominiums, details about the garage, hotel rooms, etc, but those changes were not approved using State procedures as to how to change a zone in need of redevelopment plan.

So how can the Planning Board approve something that is not in agreement with the 2008 NERP?  We guess they can simply approve it, and the hell with the laws on land use. We have seen that MO before.

In addition, as Kevin Chambers has pointed out, the Township has, as far as we know,  not done the necessary subdivisions of the parcel.

Also, we wonder about easements which the original NERP called for to provide water, sewer, gas, and electric for whatever would be built at the White Whale site east of the Boardwalk. And what have they done regarding the fact that the White Whale site is not on a street?

So, as with Paul Revere’s ride in 1775, on a fast horse, we are riding on the wings of the Internet to alert you that  OGNED will be coming with its lawyers, and our message is that they will try to slip something past Neptune officials that will not be in Ocean Grove’s best interest.

And, like Benedict Arnold, this Mayor is not on our side.

We expect an agenda before November 10th, and that OGNED will try to get a complex and worrisome plan through in one fell swoop.

(Note:    One fell swoop:  All at once, in a single action.  This term was used and probably invented by Shakespeare in Macbeth (4:3), where the playwright likens the murder of Macduff’s wife and children to a hawk swooping down on defenseless prey.

Well, OGNED and the Township are predator hawks, and Ocean Grove is the defenseless prey.

Perhaps our modern day Paul Revere will ride again to give more information for those of you who might attend that meeting.

CAST OF HAMILTON;  “History Has Its Eyes on You.”

Jack Bredin, Blogfinger researcher.