Dan,
Concerning your comments below, can you comment Interlaken, which is
nothing but homes, and it has a very favorable tax rate?
I wonder how the towns that are lighter on business compare in tax
rate to the towns that are heavy on business in Monmouth (I imagine
in the West the Farm tax rates may affect the numbers).
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <hinge98@> wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, I work in Bay Head, and whenever possible I go to the Pt.
> Pleasant boardwalk for a
> > lunchtime walk. That's when I can get a parking place.
> > The boardwalk there is and has always been successful. And it
> doesn't just benefit the
> > business's there. It's also the parking lots, hotels,
restaraunts
> and little shops.
> > Asbury has none of that, but at one time, that's what drove it's
> economy.
> > Now, Asbury is headed in another direction...boring family town.
>
> Tommy and others want to turn this into a purely residential town.
> Tommy points to that specific movement over the entire NJ shore.
> Last year or so I pointed out the folly in that, which many places
> are discovering to their own chagrine. If you only have residences
> what is your only source of revenue? Residential real estate
taxes.
> Absent run away spending, why do you think NJ towns have a never-
> ending cycle of rising real estate taxes? With a greater mix of
> commercial uses, you have other sources of revenues and do not
have
> to rely so heavily on residential real estate taxes.
>
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