Page one of notice placed on the fence at the North End Site. Nov. 11, 2019. Blogfinger photo. Click on it to make it more readable. We photographed this right off the new North End fence. They are looking for “final major site plan approval,” all at once, at this meeting.
Page two of hearing notice. Blogfinger photo. They want no variances.
Will the Planning Board allow approvals for this giant project without a careful and detailed presentation before the public? Or is this some sort of flim-flam lawyerly gimmick to put it over on the town of Ocean Grove? The language used is designed to blow smoke in the face of the citizens.
It’s too bad the Home Groaners won’t show up with a lawyer to advise we the people. But that would never happen; the Groaners are complicit–in bed with the developers and the Township. They have never condemned this Redevelopment plan over the 8 years when they could have mounted an attack against the project.
The meeting is at 7 pm on Nov. 13, 2nd floor meeting room. Bring you BS detector.
I attended the meeting tonight, if you need a definition for rape, all you have to do is look at the North End Plan.
Kevin Chambers
Maybe once it starts they may find a revolution by the residents!
Most don’t know what’s going on!
The whole thing SMELLS.
The plan looks terrible to me. You can find the applicant documents, as well as the HPC response, on the OG Homeowners website https://oghoa.org/committees/north-end-committee/
They say that the proposal “meets the intent” of the original NERP, but shouldn’t it be exact in following the details of the approved NERP? The word “intent” sounds like a sneaky way to make changes without formally doing so. How did OGNED conjure up the “intent” of the original designers of NERP who should have expressed their “intent” in 2008 when the plan was approved legally. This sounds wrong.
Also, have you all noticed that the hotel will be 5 stories tall, while condo buildings will be 3 and 4 stories tall. When did such heights become legal in Ocean Grove?
And as for history of the site, the old North End Hotel was not historic because it was preceded by a tent village. The Hotel came about many years later.
This process is seriously flawed, and we can’t even depend on the Planning Board to live up to the Master Plan and make this project work for all the citizens of the Grove.
Without a detailed and very public and extensive environmental impact study, the “project” should not advance in any way.
They merrily go on as if they’ve never heard of a Nor’easter or any of the so-called 100 year storms we’ve experienced in the last few years.
Wesley, whatever they call it these days, is an environmental disaster as it is. Remediation will be costly unless they want to develop on a toxic water source. The ground water level is very high, since the lake/retention basin refills even without rain.