Thank you, I do agree with what you observe, however even MM has been
dragging their feet. Perhaps due to problems with the Partners, I
don't know.
What I do know is that I attended the planning board applications for
the 5th Ave Pav. This project is a 'no-brainer' The Plan calls for the
Pavilion to be restored, in its entirety. They begged to be approved
for a temporary approval of a partial rehab.
This is one building that requires very little design/thought about
what the finished product should be. There are original renderings,
images, prints, etc, available.
Yet another year has gone by. Just one concrete example of continued
delay in spite of evidently having great financial resources.
What you do not comment on is my concern, the financial health of this
City. Recall that the State contributed $7.5M this year to fix our
shortfall. Its already been stated that $8M will be needed next year.
As to making things happen and a good 'show' thats all fine. I'll even
concede that the last 5 years are over. But considering that,
shouldn't the current efforts be at triple speed to make up the lost time?
Instead of asking for temporary approvals.
The question remains how is the budget shortfall going to be fixed -
By hitting the current residential property owners hard ?
Werner
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Werner, I share your dissapointment with what has not been
> accomplished over the past five years. But we are where we are and
> can't judge what's being done now by MM through the lens of where we
> should have been had the past five years been different. That is
> both unrealistic and unfair. MM has been here for less than a year.
> They appear to be trying - for the first time someone is making a
> real commitment and effort in my opinion. They don't have a magic
> wand or a time machine. By your standards unless they can step back
> in time and redo the past five years nothing they do will be right.
>
> In less than a year they have demonstrated a commitment to making
> things happen. Rome was not built in a day and neither will Asbury
> Park be restored in a year. I may not agree with everything they do -
> nobody will - but on the whole they should get credit and community
> input not criticism for the past failures of Asbury Partners.
>
> And regardless of who gets the revenue - it is critical that people
> keep coming. The boardwalk was alive this weekend - the first
> weekend in November. It should have been a ghost town down there.
> You may think it doesn't matter but it does. Momentum is a very real
> thing and I'm glad they are trying to continue to build it and not
> just closing up shop through the fall.
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