Jack Bredin (L) and Kevin Chambers at the RSIS/SIAB meeting in Trenton, 2015   . Paul Goldfinger photo.*

By Paul Goldfinger,  Editor

We posted an article yesterday about a forthcoming meeting of the  NJ-SIAB  via ZOOM in Trenton. We tried to explain the topic of parking standards in OG as we have done in the past.  Kevin has been a leader in speaking out about RISS rules.

Mr. John Lago, representing the Board, sent a letter this morning to Kevin and myself, and he explained the situation in a way that any of you who care about parking in the Grove should read:

Mr. Chambers / Dr. Goldfinger,

June 10, 2022.

“I apologize for any confusion.

“Next week’s meeting is about very broad and general parking standards.  It is not specific to any application regarding Neptune Township.  Local officials have not contacted the DCA in many years.

“If they do apply for a special area parking standards, it entails a public hearing.  They would have to adopt a resolution and publish it in the local newspapers.

“They are not making any effort like this.

“Understand, the parking standards in the RSIS are maximum requirements.  They are written in very broad terms.  This is intentional.  The standards is a statewide maximum written with a lot of flexibility.  Local officials (planning boards, municipal engineers, and other local reviewers) have the flexibility to approve developments with few parking spaces.  Localities administer the rules.  They also are responsible for enforcement (parking tickets, towing policy).

“It is an on-line public meeting on Thursday, June 16, 2022, but there will not be a discussion about Neptune Township unless someone from the public brings up an comment in that portion of the meeting.”

John Lago

Editor’s note. Thanks to Mr Lago for this explanatory note!

The OGHOA should be in the lead regarding this topic.  They would rather blab about mortgages and local politics at their meetings than to tackle the RSIS issue.  In 2020, when Jack, Kevin, Eileen and I traveled to Trenton for that meeting, the HOA did not attend.

This is the conclusion we came to regarding the Home Groaners.

“We need a new organization in Ocean Grove–one that represents everyone who lives in town, homeowner or not.

“Such an organization would be activist and would be unabashedly representative of the people of the Grove, not drinking the cool aid of the Township Committee and the Camp Meeting Association.

“It would easily  attract over 1000 members, and the dues would be used to bring lawsuits against the town.  

It would be a watchdog, not a lap dog. —–Paul*  Here is a link to the SIAB meeting in 2015 which the Grovers attended

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Showdown in Trenton fails to materialize. Neptune Township—-no show!