These are the two Pending Ordinances for Review
Ordinance 2023-06
Rescinding Ordinance 2022-02 Amendment to the Seaport Village Redevelopment Plan
Ordinance 2023-07
Repealing Multi Family Cluster Zone Sec 40-6.13
Belmar Planning Board Meeting – Monday, April 17, 2023
Wondering how much taxpayer $$$ was spent to establish then cancel. Lawyers did well.
Why are they getting rid of the Seaport Redevelopment plan? I thought that plan afforded the town some protections.
(It is only to rescind recent Ordinance 2022-02, Editor.)
#2- They aren’t cancelling the whole seaport redevelopment plan they are trying to get rid of the one amendment to it.
elected officials like redevelopment because the town gets the first $ payment when the agreement is signed … no need to wait for construction and certificate-of-occupancy.
time will tell if Belmar PILOT agreements were good for the Borough … some were signed when a dozen eggs cost 79 cents.
Based on the vote of the planning board on rescinding the ordinance 2022-02 is the Mediterranean project dead now? It seems the attorney of the property in question is ready to sue the town if they do after investing $ and time after getting the green light last year by passing the new ordinance.
#5 no it’s not dead yet necessarily there are other legal steps that need to be taken. The planning board review and recommendation is just one step.
I think the Mayor is trying to take short cuts and it looks like it might result in more law suits against the Borough, i.e. expenses for the tax payers
These politicians on both sides have their own agenda at the expense of the taxpayers. No projects should be entertained if they do not meet the requirements of the locations where they want to build.
Russo Development needs to design a site plan … compliant with NJDEP regulations … before returning to Belmar M&C and PB.
Mr. Creamer that is a good point. However, if Russo Development successfully designs a plan that meets the NJDEP regulations/criteria it will be very difficult for the current M&C not approving per the ordinance 2022-02. Unless they have a way not to pass it or rescinding the ordinance without the possibility of getting sued on the expenses of the taxpayers. This ordinance should never have been approved in the first place.
And the prize winner is: Mr. Creamer, please.take a bow. Stirring the pot re: building heights to get elected fully with full knowledge that the developer has the law on its side only fleeces the ill informed taxpayer
I may be wrong, but I thought the Mediterranean project wasn’t formally applied for (to the planning board or council for site plan approval). I thought it was a workshop discussion at a council meeting. If so, the builders can threaten to sue all they want, but without a pending application or an agreement, the boro is able to change zoning and redev plans however they see fit. Once the application is made, the rules are frozen as of that date. At least that is my understanding.
#12 I think the problem that will be brought up in a lawsuit is that no professionals did any type of report, etc., no planner report, engineer report for these recommendations. Even when the master plan gets updated it’s reviewed by the borough’s planner and engineer. So it seem like an important step to skip, even if it’s just a technicality still needs to be done. Mayor B should know better being he says he’s in attorney.
#13, you may be right. But I think the argument would be that it was simply reverting to what was in place previously. So the report was already done. In other words, there was nothing new to do a report on.
Personally I didn’t like the change to begin with, so I am ok with it going back to what it was. But, if there is going to be a tall building built somewhere, that’s where it should be.