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I don’t know if anyone noticed Mr Pringles diss on Doherty. Called him out for abuse of power during his reign. Classic.
Or his calling out the republicans on the board who say they’ve been helpless against Buccafusco. They have been in majority control for the last 7 months and pretend like what’s going on in town has nothing to do with them.
It’s not unlike the federal level. The country, by literally every measure, is struggling. The republicans have controlled all three branches of government for nearly two years yet they run around blaming everything on Biden (for a sleepy Joe, he certainly was an incredibly prolific president) or an imaginary boogeymen, or the eight tenths of one percent of the US population that is Transgender. That’s right .8%. (Republicans talk about transgendered folks nearly 85% of the time. Little lopsided, and yes, they’re trying to scare you, but at least gas is back up over $4 a gallon).
Thats not leadership. Its childish
Holy Macel Andy – dat guy again!!!
Nice. Mr Pringle burns Doherty and the republicans who keep saying they couldn’t do anything during Buccafusco term.
Facts
On August 6,2019 ordinance 2019-25 was passed by Walsifer administration. Ordinance 2019-25 in the Borough of Belmar was introduced on July 23, 2019 and adopted on August 6, 2019 (not August 9). It became Ordinance No. 2019-25, titled:
“An Ordinance of the Mayor and Borough Council of the Borough of Belmar, County of Monmouth, State of New Jersey, Establishing New Chapter XLIII, Establishing a Development Fee Ordinance for Affordable Housing Purposes.”
The ordinance:
* Created a new chapter of the Borough Code governing affordable housing development fees.
* Required certain residential and nonresidential developments to pay fees that would be deposited into Belmar’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
* Specified how those funds could be used, such as creating, preserving, or rehabilitating affordable housing to meet the borough’s state affordable housing obligations.
This ordinance was later repealed by Ordinance No. 2023-14, when Belmar updated its affordable housing regulations to comply with newer state requirements.
Ordinance 2019-25 was not a zoning change for a particular property or development. It was adopted because Belmar was required under New Jersey law to have a mechanism to collect and spend development fees to support affordable housing.
Here’s a section-by-section summary:
* Purpose: Established an Affordable Housing Development Fee Ordinance so Belmar could collect fees from certain new developments and place them into an Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The money could only be used for affordable housing purposes.
* Residential development fees:
* Generally 1.5% of the equalized assessed value for most new residential development.
* 6% “bonus” fee on additional units approved through certain density variances, unless exempt.
* Non-residential development fees:
* Generally 2.5% of the equalized assessed value for new commercial development or qualifying expansions, subject to state exemptions.
* Exemptions: Affordable housing projects, some previously approved developments, government projects, and certain other developments were exempt from paying the fees.
* Affordable Housing Trust Fund: Required all collected fees to be deposited into a dedicated trust fund that could only be spent on eligible affordable housing activities, such as:
* constructing affordable housing,
* rehabilitating existing housing,
* preserving affordable units,
* administrative costs allowed by state law.
* Administration: Set procedures for collecting fees, monitoring the fund, and reporting expenditures in accordance with New Jersey affordable housing regulations.
The ordinance itself did not approve any specific housing project. Instead, it created the financial framework that allows Belmar to collect developer fees to help meet its state-mandated affordable housing obligations.
Saying the Walsifer admin did nothing is unfair. They were setting things in motion to meet obligations which were very foggy at best from the state level at that time.
I don’t want to be unfair. The point of my post was that neither the Doherty nor Walsifer Administrations took any of the necessary steps to preserve Belmar’s immunity from builder’s remedy lawsuits.
Mark emailed me a copy of Ordinance 2019-25 last week. It is a slightly revised version of the proposed Development Fee ordinance my Administration submitted to COAH more than 10 years earlier in December of 2008 as an exhibit to our 2008 Housing Element and Fair Share Plan (the “2008 Housing Plan”). (The differences related mostly to replacing references to COAH – which had been abolished — to the “Department” of Community Affairs.)
Both our 2008 version and Ordinance 2019-25 include the same “Section II. Basis Requirements” which provide that the Ordinance shall not be effective until approved by the Department, and the Borough shall not spend development fees until the Department has approved a plan for spending such fees.
So, my questions are: did DCA approve Ordinance 2019-25, and if so, and how much did the Borough collect for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund? Also, have we created any affordable units with those funds?
That’s true.
Walsifer did use tax dollars to purchase a contaminated property we “needed” (because he was in a spat with the BFA family) at an above market price from a family member of his hand picked BA.
I guess that is something.
Thanks for the reminder.
That was some article in the Tapinto Belmar about King Kenny.
(Asterisks in name are mine, Editor.)
Yup. King Doherty writes (or has AI write for him) “articles” about Kenny and Mayor Donovan often. They are opinion pieces passed off as news items.
Doherty is trying very very hard to torpedo Donovan’s campaign. THAT is why she has my vote. I cannot think of a better reason to vote, for anyone frankly, than the blatant disapproval of Doherty
If he doesn’t want her to be mayor, I definitely do. If Doherty was working this hard to malign DeBlasio (he is not, on the contrary actually) then DiBlasio would have my vote. Anyone who lived through Doherty’s (Deleted by Editor) should take note.
Wish you all would turn this negative energy into a positive outcome. It would be better for your mental health.
Let it go already.
Be the shining example of our town and promote peace.