Werner,
Based on your understanding of not wanting to attract people why do
you suppose there were several hotels included in the design?
Thanks
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "wernerapnj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Fred, You are incorrect in your assumptions as to what
the 'planned'
> direction was.
>
> The plan was not to 'attract people year round' is was to create a
year-
> round residential community. Visitors were not calculated into the
mix
> as evidenced by the planning board testimony. Parking for visitors
was
> not accounted for and street spaces were alocated for residential
use.
>
> Streets were eliminated and made narrower to discourage traffic as
> opposed to increasing mobility. Being a destination was clearly
> rejected from the start. 'Let them go someplace else' was the
testimony
> when asked about the lack of parking.
>
> The model, very inappropriate model, being used is that of a new
> sururban development. Such as taking a farm in Howell, building a
> residential community from scratch and then adding an adjacent
strip
> mall shopping center.
>
> Building upon APs unique heritage and name recognition as a
destination
> has been rejected from the start. Creating a 'City within a City'
is
> evident from the adopted plan and land use zoning.
>
> Certainly there are concessions to such monumental buildings as CH
and
> the CAS simply because that are too large and historically
significant
> to have been ignored. I suppose most folks have never seen the
rendeing
> of the interior of the 'new' Casino as a 3 level shopping mall.
>
> When the big picture is taken in this is a suburban development
model
> up against the Ocean instead of on a former farm.
>
> Werner
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Fred" <asburydogma@> wrote:
> >
> > The plan is to attract people year round, I for one don't want
year
> > round attractions. Come labor day I want all visiters out. Do we
> > really need tons of traffic year round? But that's what everbody
> > wants. To make it a place of desination it must be different.
Give
> > them the summer give us the rest.
>
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