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Someone ran out of peddling room at the North End of A. Park, so they locked the bike and maybe they are flying a kite or body surfing on the beach.. Asbury Park Boards. Paul Goldfinger photograph  © 2015.  Blogfinger.net.

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net

There are citizens in Asbury Park who have formed a group to protest plans for their north end.  The details don’t interest us much, but it involves implementing a plan from 2004, that the protest group feels is wrong for their city.  It relates to a private beach being developed there, boardwalk design, and concerns about access for everyone, not just a privileged minority.

But what strikes us at Blogfinger is that when worrisome plans for their north end beachfront surfaced now, activists have sprung into action with meetings, petitions and protests. As a result a meeting was held tonight, and the City Council will review the situation.  . And one of the requests by the people is for “transparency,” and their developer, iStar, will be having a public presentation open for review and discussion.  In addition, the Asbury Park Press and Channel 12 picked up on the story today.

Unlike the relationship of the Neptune Committee to the citizens of Ocean Grove, the Asbury Mayor and Council are supportive of the people’s concerns.

But Ocean Grove is much different, with creeping inertia on the part of the public,  and it will get whatever the big-shots want at our North End.

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