Here is what Blogfinger had to say last March, 2024 and below that link is the 10/10/24 Coaster Letter to the Editor from Barbara Burns:
Blogfinger post March, 2024 about this topic.
Editor: COASTER: 10/10/24
When the original North End Redevelopment Plan was approved by the Neptune Township Committee in 2008, it included a requirement that the redeveloper, OGNED, obtain a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Neptune Historic Preservation Commission. Ocean Grove residents worked hard to include this requirement in the plan to ensure that the buildings on the redevelopment site would be consistent with the built environment of Ocean Grove.
In 2019, the Neptune Township Committee approved a Redevelopment Agreement between the Township and OGNED. That agreement incorporated the requirement that OGNED obtain a Certificate of Appropriateness from the HPC.
The 2019 agreement was a contract between the Township and OGNED, a promise that OGNED would do and refrain from doing specific things, and would comply with the architectural standards set out in the plan and incorporated in the agreement.
In 2022, OGNED decided that compliance with its contractual obligations was simply too much of a burden, and sued the township with the goal of eliminating the require- ment for HPC approval. The township settled, and here we are, facing the prospect of a development that looks nothing like Ocean Grove.
This not what we want, and not what we were promised.
The North End Preservation Fund Inc was organized to raise the funds necessary to hire an attorney, a licensed professional planner and an architect to prepare and present to the Neptune Planning Board a case to restore the requirement for HPC approval to the Redevelopment Plan and the Redevelopment Agreement.
I think we can do it, and, with several of my neighbors, have donated to the fund. If you would like to join us in this effort, go to @northendpreservation on Venmo, on Square at https://north-end-preservation-fund-inc-102882.square.site/
From Barbara Burns of Ocean Grove.
Ms. Burns is a member of the HOA legal committee, but she signed this letter as a representative of a North End Preservation Fund, Inc. So, something besides words has appeared,–a request for money:
From”Cabaret”:
e are also re-posting another related article on Blogfinger
This reminiscent of when the HOA spent about $7000.00 on a lawyer to look into ground rents. The HOA never revealed the legal opinion from that initiative.