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wrote:
Over all, very good.
> North of Convention Hall. With the restructured Asbury consisting
of
> condos and year round residents, most who don't use the boardwalk
and
> partake in Asbury events, it is commuters driving to Asbury who
are
> supporting the town who can never find a place to park where they
can
> feel comfortable leaving their cars.
While I regret the overwhelming amount of condo units for other
reasons, parking is sure to be a problem but I would rather deal
with that than have no need to provide parking. I think most of the
projects will have 1.5 cars per bedroom or unit. However, as we
know, most people have more than 1.5 cars. Also, for some reason
they peg the required parking to the number of bedrooms. This
creates a creative way of getting around it. For instance, I think
the Paramount projects will have no units larger than 2 bedrooms,
however, some units have the space (family room/den) which doesn;t
require a parking space but which most will convert to an extra
bedroom (and they are marketed as such). I think other projects do
the same thing.
>
> The number one of my top ten thing sAP needs do is to emulate
Times
> Square and NYC under Rudy and lose the crime infested streets.
Yesterday
> was hooker day in AP, I have never seen more prostitutes out in AP
at
> one time than yesterday, and they were all over town. Uptown,
downtown,
> on the cross streets.
Absolutely. While not a fan of Rudy for all his years, I have to
give him credit for that and you are right, crime is #1. I keep
calling in drug buys that I see.
>
> The number two iten on my list is a little more complex. The
underlying
> problem are the multi-family dwellings that have far to many
people
> living in them and more often than not they harbor the thug
element that
> breeds the crime that has blossommed in Asbury the past 30 years.
> Somehow, these overcrowded houses need to be weeded out and the
animals
> moved out and decent people moved back in. This is a social issue,
one
> with many degrees of difficulty, but one that needs to be dealt
with
> rather harshly.
Well, firstly I agree that we need strict code enforcement, meaning
that buildings should only be allowed to be used for their legal
occupancies, no exceptions. Secondly, local government and police
need to act together and address the problem of properties being
used for illegal activity. Certainly some property owners are not
aware. For instance I see dealing going on the porches where they do
not reside. There is an absentee landlord who doesn't know or
doesn't care. This can only be remdied by police vigilance. If the
criminals do live there, government has to help the owners evict the
people and if they own or the property owner doesn;t cooperate,
perhaps the property should be confiscated.
> The third thing I would like to see start to happen is the rebirth
of
> the Ocean Grove/Asbury boardwalk. I would like to see the
homestead back
> in business and the 3 buildings that were donated to the Partners,
the
> casino, the powerplant and the carousel back in action. But more
than
> just getting those buildings back to life, I would love to see a
> feasibility study done on the prospects of turning the casino into
a
> ferry port that can get commuters to NYC in less than an hour. It
would
> cost plenty and there are many obstacles in the way, but, other
than
> C-8, the most blatant display of Asbury's demise is the accolades
for
> the re-opening of the Casino Arcade into Ocean Grove. It was done
nicely
> and it's about time, but to stop with hanging a few pictures and
a
> net to keep the sky from falling is a far cry from turning that
fertile
> area into a destination location. I would do anything necessary to
> convert the power plant into a restaurant/brewery club.
Of course many of us have been saying he exact same thing. Asbury
Partners has no intention of restoring these structures. I suspect
that they are waiting to flip them as things further improve. The
Casino is an ideal spot for the NJMHOF. I thought the same thing a
while back ago about ferry service and I suspect that it may be
possible in the future either here or in Long Branch. I had the same
vision of the powerplant. Okay, I'll say it but I know I'll take
heat for it, I envisioned "Hard Rock Cafe" there is NJMHOF goes in
Casino.
>
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