All valid points. As a visitor, my ability is limited. The lot on Kingsley is
referred to by The City as "the staging area." I have personally approached
(several times) the mayor and the deputy mayor with regard to that lot. I was
told that the lot would be cleaned up.
It is my understanding that, historically, that lot had always been parking.
It is quite possible that it is zoned for exactly that. Zoning is a matter of
public record. Again, my ability is limited as I primarily visit on the
weekends. Would one or more of you be willing to visit the code enforcement
office at 1 Municipal plaza to obtain the zoning records for that lot as well
as the Esperanza lot?
While you are at it, it might also be interesting to see what code violations
have been issued to those properties (also public record.)
Code enforcement seems to have no problem issuing violations for cracked
sidewalks outside of your residences, sandwich boards outside of your
restaurants, etc. (Look at Werner!) It is reasonable to believe that there
*SHOULD* be violations on these properties. Amongst many things, broken
fencing, damaged and non-existent sidewalks come to mind.
Knowledge is power. If a concerted effort is to go fourth on rectifying these
abominations, the facts must be known. For this effort to succeed, one or more
of you need to do some data collection. Then follow up at a council meeting
and by making formal complaints to code enforcement.
I did, as I suggested, make a telephone call to code enforcement regarding the
"staging area". I received voice mail. Since I believe that Mr. Grey is still
out on a paid leave while he defends his "conduct unbecoming" charge, I will
also send a written complaint to "Asbury Park City Hall, One Municipal Plaza,
Asbury Park, NJ 07712, ATTN: Code Enforcement." I urge you to do the same.
I have been following up with the City Council for many months now on that
staging area, a little backup would be nice.
Jack is correct, nothing will be accomplished by complaining to ourselves.
(off soap box.)
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Dave" <dsh...@...> wrote:
>
> FYI, the piece of shit Esperanza is 30 million dollars of sunk cost by a
> developer. you don't just make that "go". There are interested parties in
> taking over that parcel and actually building something there but price (bid
> ask spread) and legal hold things up.
> What the city should do is see what leeway if any it has to force some
> resolution to that parcel.
>
> Seperate point. MM has tried very hard to turn some of the "empty lots"
> along kingsly into temporary parking but has been challenged on the legality
> of it and whether the lots will be "code". When they applied for special
> event permits to put parking there on very crowded nights, they were
> summarily dismissed by the town.
>
>
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <hinge98@> wrote:
> >
> > Why doesn't anybody start a movement to get this city to actually do
> > something about the eyesores that diminish what's good about our boardwalk.
> >
> > 1- The Esperanza. It needs to go.
> >
> > 2- The pathetic construction lot behind the Empress - it also needs to go.
> > I attended a laughable council meeting not too long ago where Loffredo
> > suggested moving it to the lot across the street. Yeah right, great
> > solution.
> >
> > I think it's time that we citizens start speaking up about this. Both
> > locations suck, and there's no valid excuse to not do something about it.
> > Here's my idea - Make the lot behind the Empress employee parking for the
> > boardwalk, and surround it with something attractive, like well done
> > landscaping.
> > The Esperanza - Tear the piece of shit down. Forget about it. We can't
> > afford to have that eyesore sitting there for another decade, but nothing
> > will happen unless the citizens of this city speak up.
> >
> > And there's the problem - we're all too busy to actually make a stand and
> > go to the council meetings en masse. We're more comfortable here then
> > actually going into the world and doing something.
> >
> > That's what I plan to do, even if it's futile.
> >
> > Anybody want to join me?
> >
>
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