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When you don’t know what to do, form a committee. The Home Groaners are doing it again.

Posted in Blogfinger Presents, tagged , , on August 27, 2019| 3 Comments »

 

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Blogfinger Editorial Board:  August 27, 2019. Ocean Grove.

 

The Ocean Grove Home Owners Association has had a parking committee since 2015. Below is from their web site today, August 27, 2019:

“Parking Committee:

— “Joyce Klein, Chair — Ken Buckley, Barbara Burns, Theresa Checki
— Billy Faccidomo — Julie Hekker, David Phillips
— Richard Williams”

This is their “mission statement:”

“The OGHOA Parking Committee’s goal is to improve homeowners’ and residents’ access to parking near their homes during periods of peak parking demand.”

“We conducted a parking survey of Homeowners to better understand concerns in all sections of OG and to solicit suggestions from members of OGHOA.”

 

If you read through their web site’s Parking Committee report, you will find a famous hair-brained idea which proposes parking along Lake Avenue in front of Founders Park.  That one suggestion alone nullifies all credibility which they might have had.

So now, after the total failure of their Parking Committee, the Groaners are forming yet another committee.  This one consists of the Groaners in “partnership” with the newly formed “Better Parking Alliance” composed of a group of OG residents.   The HOA announcement, which was sent today by email, doesn’t even mention their Parking Committee.   So what happened to them?  Have they been banished to a gulag somewhere?

In that email the HOA  introduces the problem with the understatement of the year:   “Access to parking in Ocean Grove is difficult.”   Really?

Remember, at the last Groaners’ meeting, they forbade the members from asking pertinent questions of OGNED, the North End pseudo- Redevelopers. That board should all resign because of their totalitarian approach to the residents of this town.

The new Parking Alliance is taking a bad first step by associating themselves with the ineffective and dictatorial Groaners board.

However, the first announced step is that this new partnership plans  to rope you all into yet another survey.

So, the Groaners will engage another committee and do another survey, and this is their idea of progress.

Blogfinger conducted a poll in 2017 asking, “Do you support permit parking in Ocean Grove?”  166 votes came in.  47% said yes, 47% said no, and a handful said “unsure.”  This was before any public hearings were held.  So, do we need another poll?  No, we need effective action.

What OG needs as the center-piece of a multi-dimensional plan is residential permit parking, and that won’t happen without a professional parking study which the Township hasn’t done,  and which the Groaners haven’t pressed for.  As usual, the Groaners have missed the boat as to how to conduct a forceful revolution.

Maybe they should invite the two current Republican candidates for Township Committee to tell them what they might do about our parking situation.  The current Committee has no interest.

As for the new Alliance, it seems that they are sufficiently impotent that they won’t step forward on their own, independent of the Groaners.  This failure to flex their own muscles suggests that they  are hiding in the shadows;  just a bunch of wheel spinners like the previous Home Owners’ Parking Committee.

Below are their names, but what are their qualifications that would make them experts on this subject?  This list is from the OGHOA.

It would be good if they would present themselves to the public and proclaim their independence.  Otherwise it sounds like a larger OGHOA parking committee.  We invite them to send us a press release as to what they are about and why we should rejoice at their appearance on the scene.

Lisa Boyd     Paul Kaplan     Andy Levine
Nan MacMorris     James McNamara     Cynthia Soler     Arnold Teixeira

Let’s wish them luck, and maybe the new “Alliance” will find some courage  (like the Cowardly Lion) and do something meaningful with the parking situation in the Grove.

 

Editor’s Note:  For those of you who have sent or plan to send your own theories about parking, that is not the purpose of this post.  We are not going to debate plans such as permit parking here and now on Blogfinger.
You can read our past discussions by using the search box in the top right of the home page.  Type in  “permit parking” or “parking problems” etc.
Let’s give the new kids on the block a chance to dig into the situation.   —-Thanks,   Paul@Blogfinger

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The cowardly lions of Ocean Grove. When will the OGHOA get the nerve to seek faults in the NERP process? 

Posted in Blogfinger Presents, tagged on July 6, 2015| 8 Comments »

From the Wizard of Oz. Internet photo.

From the Wizard of Oz. Internet photo.

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.   2015.

On June 30,  2015, the OGHOA President Ann Horan sent out an email to the membership attempting to summarize the current status of the North End Redevelopment Plan  (NERP)  as seen by their North End Committee.

In that email there are errors and at least one overt falsehood, so you have to be skeptical when reading anything from that group regarding this subject.

But beyond the actual content of Horan’s email, there is one glaring omission that should be noted by the members of the HOA: There is not one item of criticism or suspicion  for either the Township Committee, WAVE,  or the Camp Meeting Association; not one iota of concern about their actions, their inactions, or their lack of transparency as it pertains to the NERP.

Why isn’t the HOA digging into the situation instead of just regurgitating what the Committee and the CMA tells them?   Clearly the HOA is “in the tank” for the principals who are pushing the NERP.  Why doesn’t the HOA aggressively take the side of Ocean Grovers, ask tough questions, and look at this complex situation critically?   Maybe they are not aware of the  current BF poll which shows that 65% of OG responders  (so far) believe that there is something unsavory about the NERP process?

The HOA should strive to be vigilant and to protect the town from developers who seek to blow up the zoning which was designed in the best interest of the Grove.  Where were they for the Greek Temple and Mary’s Place?  And how about condos that were developed in town without parking?  The answer is “nowhere.”   This duty of theirs is especially important in a town which is on the National Historic Register.

As for the falsehood mentioned above, here is the quote from Horan’s report:    “At the April 27th 2015 Neptune Township Committee meeting, a new conceptual NE plan was presented by WAVE…..”  

Not so! —unless Committeeman Randy Bishop is a member of WAVE. No one came to the microphone that night at the 6:00 pm workshop session or at the regular Committee meeting that starts at 7:00 pm, to introduce themselves as representing WAVE.

What did happen was at the earlier workshop where the public is not permitted to speak.  Mr. Bishop reported to the Committee about a “NEW NERP”  (i.e. a revised redevelopment plan.)  This new plan was not prepared by the Township but by WAVE and given to Mr. Bishop at a previous meeting which had been arranged to sign a redevelopers agreement for the original (2008) Plan.

Instead, Mr.Bishop returned to the Committee with an entirely new NERP and without the long-promised Agreement.

During the regular meeting the NEW NERP was not on the agenda.   The news letter from Ann Horan is a total fabrication of the events that night.  You can check the minutes of that meeting yourself  (see link below)  She seems to find it necessary to present WAVE in a favorable light.  Why is that?

Currently, the only recent relevant document that seems to exist is a signed Memorandum of Understanding between WAVE and the OGCMA dated April 28, 2015.   It talks about an agreement between those two parties, but what is barely mentioned is the long awaited and legally required re-developers agreement between the Township and the co-developers (WAVE and CMA.)  Why isn’t that discussed  in the Horan email?

And why doesn’t she mention the following item from the Memorandum of Understanding :   “In the event the hotel is converted to condos, WAVE will pay to OGCMA ten percent (10%) of the selling price of each condo conversion at closing.”

This quote gives you a peek into the financial intricacies of this project.  The HOA evidently isn’t interested in any of that.  Don’t they know to follow the money?

And this is just a taste of the misleading info in the Ocean Grove Home Groaners Association memo. They’ll probably jump up and down and whine and groan on the Coaster and to their members as they did before regarding Blogfinger’s comments, but they need to get on the ball and dig into what Mary Beth Jahn once called a “travesty.”

THE FOUR FRESHMAN

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