Belmar Planning Board – July 21, 2025

The Vermella – formerly known as The Mediterranean

Management will have tenants’ Doggies DNA on file,
so if Doggie-doo is left unattended on the premises,
management will know whose it is.
Wish we had this for the Borough.

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Comments

      1. Here we go again. Rewarding bad neighbors with a lucrative deal to sell their neglected property. Just like 12th Ave.
        The lesson: let your building go to pot. Be a bad neighbor to your fellow Belmartians. Violate all kinds of ordinances. Rent rooms to junkies and criminals.
        If you can do that, our ****** ***** will make sure you’re rewarded with a monstrosity that breaks zoning laws so you can get the most money possible.
        Great lesson.

        (Asterisks are mine, Editor.)

  1. The damn thing is enormous. Some development —yes. Not this. Follow the *****….I recon so.

    (Asterisks are mine, Editor.)

    1. Prob easy enough to do. The Walsifer admin increased the hight restriction for this redevelopment zone before these plans were even finalized. That is a pretty hard thing to explain away.

  2. The doggy DNA is a great idea. Although I don’t see how long they can pay to keep having poo samples tested.

    Man that place is hideous. The Mediterranean, huh? Yes that should fit right in on the Jersey shore (eye roll)

    The rendering is very realistic. They only think missing if that fact that there will be five lanes of bumper to bumper unmoving traffic in both directions. Anyone who tells us that won’t be the case, doesn’t live here.

  3. Rents at 9th & Main started at nearly $3,000 for a one bedroom apartment, not including utilities or parking. I wonder how much these “luxury” rentals will list for.

  4. I like it. I think it will improve the area and Belmar.

    They should clean up the burrito factory. The tents and signs are ugly. The music is also blasting non stop that it makes it hard to sleep.

      1. How many drunk people come flying out of that parking lot? A bunch of them on golf carts.

        I remember when this was a normal shopping plaza and not a gathering point for ********** that have gas after eating burritos. I’m old and want to sleep and not be afraid of being run over. I can’t drive or move fast. Please don’t run me over. I’m sorry you are in a rush to use the bathroom. Slow down.

        (Asterisks are mine, Editor.)

  5. I wonder why only 20 units out of the 198 are considered “affordable housing” toward the state mandates? That means the town is still short around 70 units? That guarantees more of these monstrosity projects are in the town’s future. Where can a one square mile town with no empty lots come up with 70 more ah units?

    1. If NJ democrats ran the state better would everyone be dependent on “affordable” housing. You can get the housing but I bet you can’t pay the new electric bill or afford solar.

      1. Are you high? You think that “democrats” are for affordable housing because they make everything too expensive? I can honestly say I don’t think I’ve ever heard something so monumentally stu*%#. Have you been grocery shopping? Do you see what the brilliant beautiful tariffs are doing to cost of goods? Do you realize that Congress just passed a big dumb self serving bill that will take health insurance away from about 1.5 million New Jerseyans??? Most of them children?!? How can one go through life that clueless? Seriously.
        Affordable housing is needed because working class people can’t afford HOUSING.
        Oh, and solar is affordable because the government provides subsidies to incentivize usage. Well they used to anyway. Now the subsidies continue to just go to oil and coal. You’re a functioning adult?

        1. To “Anyone in there?Hello?”.Hey RUDIE, my name for you. (yes we all know your posts). I’m tired of you’re constant degrading and name calling when you try to get your point across. Please be nicer in the future.

  6. It’s big and ugly. It was cause major traffic issues while it’s being built and major traffic issues when it’s done.
    Here’s a novel idea, just renovate the building that’s there. Make it into condos or apartments, but leave the building. Like they do in AP and Red Bank.
    This town is being ruined by developers who put profit over people.

  7. environmental consideration of affordable housing-

    Executive Order 316
    On February 15, 2023, Governor Phil Murphy signed Executive Order No. 316 to target to install zero-carbon emission space heating and cooling systems in low-to-moderate income (LMI) properties to be electrification-ready by the year 2030.

    1. Good. That at least reduces the pollution from such structures. Now if we can focus on the traffic.

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