[AsburyPark] Re: Eminent Domain and "the league of municiaplities"

2006-03-24 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting Read. Especially "their" thoughts on appraising. See page > 12. > > Stick'em all in one room and they all agreed. funny. and they all meet > in ac. > > I go to AC and I lose. > > They go and it's win win.

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2006-03-24 Thread jerseykev
Judge reserves decision in eminent domain case Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 03/24/06BY CAROL GORGA WILLIAMSAND KAREN SUDOLSTAFF WRITERS FREEHOLD — Owners of property in an oceanfront section of Long Branch who are fighting the city's plan to acquire their homes by eminent domain w

[AsburyPark] Eminent Domain and "the league of municiaplities"

2006-03-24 Thread oakdorf
Interesting Read. Especially "their" thoughts on appraising. See page 12. Stick'em all in one room and they all agreed. funny. and they all meet in ac. I go to AC and I lose. They go and it's win win. http://www.njslom.org/White-Paper_Eminent-Domain-Final.pdf Yahoo! Groups Links <*>

[AsburyPark] Re: Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Skip Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "That depends whether NJ Transit owns the fee simple to the ROW above > and below or is just limited to a certain vertical plane above the > tracks." > I suspect they don't; the recent transit study proposed buildin

[AsburyPark] Re: Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread Skip Bernstein
"That depends whether NJ Transit owns the fee simple to the ROW above and below or is just limited to a certain vertical plane above the tracks." I suspect they don't; the recent transit study proposed building a pedestrian overpass. Wouldn't think they would suggest that without rights or consent

[AsburyPark] Re: Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread oakdorf
> > Why waste valuable surface land to park trucks? Land is not only > surface, but subsurface and air. Dig down boys! Bury the mothers under > the building. In NYC we're putting a HUGE santitation garage (a whole > city block, 200' X 800') beneath the surface and building a park on top >

[AsburyPark] How to get rid of landlords

2006-03-24 Thread oakdorf
Allow them to SELL their assests without being killed on the sale via taxes. The current system forces investors to "flip up" via a 1031 exchange. This in turn drives up prices, rents etc. So the small guys are buying what the bigger guys are dumping. Everyone reads a book and wants to be a lan

[AsburyPark] Re: Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread apoojo
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "apoojo" wrote: > > > >> wait a second now you want to move city yard to where you were > > building a 4 story office bldg.(redo your math there goes some of you > > profit) as far as

[AsburyPark] Re: Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread oakdorf
). > > That depends whether NJ Transit owns the fee simple to the ROW above > and below or is just limited to a certain vertical plane above the > tracks. > don't tell them. They'd never know. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/gr

[AsburyPark] Re: Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. The developer builds a new 4 story building on the corners from Main > to Memorial south of Springwood (over the tracks as well connected). That depends whether NJ Transit owns the fee simple to the ROW above and be

[AsburyPark] Re: Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "apoojo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> wait a second now you want to move city yard to where you were > building a 4 story office bldg.(redo your math there goes some of you > profit) as far as the old smock bucchan site i mean vaccaros site > arn't condos go

[AsburyPark] Re: on taxes:

2006-03-24 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What conceivable "frictions" did George have in mind? In Charles > Hooper's entry on Henry George in the Fortune Encyclopedea of > Economics, the possibility of clearly separating improvements from land > rent is challe

[AsburyPark] Re: Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread apoojo
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > someone please do the math, i believe your wrong, in concept i have > > no problem with the idea, i just do not believe you crunched the > > numbers, where further down on Sewall marruccas old warehouse? > amodios

[AsburyPark] Re: How much did it cost to build disney world?

2006-03-24 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've made this argument before, as home values increase (and taxes), > it no longer pays for an investor to hold onto an investment home if > the equity could be put to use elsewhere. Therefore, there will be > less h

[AsburyPark] Re: Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Give the following to a real developer in exchange for a new municenter > and a % of rent. Dan and JJ can do the math. > > 1. The entire piece of land the muni center is on > 2. The lot occuppied by RR Plaza West of the

[AsburyPark] Re: What's next??

2006-03-24 Thread apoojo
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Asbury Park spent more per-pupil than any other K-12 district in > state, rising from $18,661 per student in the 2004-05 year to $18,893 > this year, according to the report. > > > Now that the city faces a 14 cent school

[AsburyPark] on taxes:

2006-03-24 Thread oakdorf
What conceivable "frictions" did George have in mind? In Charles Hooper's entry on Henry George in the Fortune Encyclopedea of Economics, the possibility of clearly separating improvements from land rent is challenged. Hooper wrote: Henry George's proposed tax on one piece of land, is, in effec

[AsburyPark] Re: Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread oakdorf
> > someone please do the math, i believe your wrong, in concept i have > no problem with the idea, i just do not believe you crunched the > numbers, where further down on Sewall marruccas old warehouse? amodios > old green houses? guess you know im an old timer because 90 percent of > you n

[AsburyPark] Re: Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread apoojo
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Give the following to a real developer in exchange for a new municenter > and a % of rent. Dan and JJ can do the math. > > someone please do the math, i believe your wrong, in concept i have no problem with the idea, i

[AsburyPark] Re: How much did it cost to build disney world?

2006-03-24 Thread oakdorf
BB: particularly section 8 landlords... Having placed a few Section 8 tenants into housing, I've heard the stories. Many Section 8 tenants are simply in one big vacumn - they can't get out. Some are there for other reasons - drugs, abuse, education etc. I'm a softy - If the landlord wants to ac

[AsburyPark] Re: 2nd Ave Property - time is of the essence

2006-03-24 Thread Skip Bernstein
I question the city and developer's actions regarding what I had thought a standard clause in real estate agreements. Real estate agreements generally contain an actual or implied warranty that time is of the essence. It is one thing for the city to gift The Fishman Asbury's lands over 30 yea

[AsburyPark] Re: Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread apoojo
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Give the following to a real developer in exchange for a new municenter > and a % of rent. Dan and JJ can do the math. > > 1. The entire piece of land the muni center is on > 2. The lot occuppied by RR Plaza West of the

[AsburyPark] Re: How much did it cost to build disney world?

2006-03-24 Thread oakdorf
Chamber of Commerce sucks. They wouldn't know it if Cookman Ave. fell into the Ocean. No one ever has liked the chamber or other groups. Everyone has their own agenda. Another example. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Asbur

[AsburyPark] Re: How much did it cost to build disney world?

2006-03-24 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Skip Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "With the amount of money that has been dumped into AP...makes you > wonder." > > How much money has been dumped into Asbury? > Where do you want to start? 1. Schools. 2. Social Services 3. Grants 4. Affordable Hous

[AsburyPark] Muni Center - "Plan c"

2006-03-24 Thread oakdorf
Give the following to a real developer in exchange for a new municenter and a % of rent. Dan and JJ can do the math. 1. The entire piece of land the muni center is on 2. The lot occuppied by RR Plaza West of the tracks 3. Both south corners of Springwood/Main, Springwood/Memorial. In exchange,

[AsburyPark] Re: How much did it cost to build disney world?

2006-03-24 Thread bluebishop82
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With the amount of money that has been dumped into AP...makes you > wonder. > > And BB, politics has always played a role in AP. That's why it is where > it is today. Some people like AP exactly as it is today, and don'

[AsburyPark] Re: How much did it cost to build disney world?

2006-03-24 Thread Skip Bernstein
"With the amount of money that has been dumped into AP...makes you wonder." How much money has been dumped into Asbury? Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [

[AsburyPark] How much did it cost to build disney world?

2006-03-24 Thread oakdorf
With the amount of money that has been dumped into AP...makes you wonder. And BB, politics has always played a role in AP. That's why it is where it is today. Some people like AP exactly as it is today, and don't want to see any change. For some, it has been a great big piggy bank. They fear l

[AsburyPark] Re: What's next??

2006-03-24 Thread oakdorf
don't get me going on the billion or so APBOE has received just in STATE AID (not your property tax $). Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[AsburyPark] What's next??

2006-03-24 Thread Fred
Asbury Park spent more per-pupil than any other K-12 district in state, rising from $18,661 per student in the 2004-05 year to $18,893 this year, according to the report. Now that the city faces a 14 cent school tax increase what should our School Board do, cut the budget or raise taxes?. All

[AsburyPark] Re: Open Space - etc.

2006-03-24 Thread bluebishop82
You take it back? Great. Make me feel like a jerk for being so sarcastic in my post to you adn Skip. I hate it when people are nice to me. I hate it when the other guy takes the high road and leaves me standing there alone. You win this round. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <

[AsburyPark] Re: Open Space - I’ll take that bet

2006-03-24 Thread Skip Bernstein
`"By the way you always call people ignorant and uneducated and other nasty things in your posts when it comes to planning." Still don't see how you both expanded the scope of my complaint beyond planning? Hmmm... bet everyone else does.' Expansion spansion; so what? You get yourself into tro

[AsburyPark] Re: Open Space - etc.

2006-03-24 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "bluebishop82" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Skip and Dan here was my complaint right from my post about Werner: > > "By the way you always call people ignorant and uneducated and other > nasty things in your posts when it comes to planning." > > Now please g

[AsburyPark] Re: Open Space - etc.

2006-03-24 Thread bluebishop82
Skip and Dan here was my complaint right from my post about Werner: "By the way you always call people ignorant and uneducated and other nasty things in your posts when it comes to planning." Now please go back and read the last 5 words there. Read it as many times as you must to realize you bot

[AsburyPark] Re: Open Space - etc.

2006-03-24 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "bluebishop82" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Then I guess you missed this from his post to me this morning: > > "If so you display your ignorance in the subject, as you have in the > past regarding other planning issues." While one who lies can be called a

[AsburyPark] Re: Open Space - ignorance

2006-03-24 Thread Skip Bernstein
`"If so you display your ignorance in the subject, as you have in the past regarding other planning issues." So confident I am that he calls anyone who disagrees with him on planning ignorant or uneducated that…' Tom, (hope you appreciate my using your alias) your argument with Werner, over his ch

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 2nd Ave Property - Eminent Domain

2006-03-24 Thread gtscarano212
In a message dated 3/24/2006 3:55:17 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The selection of excluded properties certainly appears to have been biased.Many of the "Bergh St Properties" had recently been purchased by gay buyers. While other properties similarly situat

[AsburyPark] Alarming

2006-03-24 Thread bluebishop82
The County government spent $11 million already in 2006 buying property in Middletown for open space. Wasn't Fishman's cost to buy the Waterfront Rights in AP $13 million? Middletown also received a $125,000.00 grant from the state for their arts community. NJMOF anyone? I'm trying to sound t

[AsburyPark] Re: 2nd Ave Property - Eminent Domain

2006-03-24 Thread bluebishop82
I caught that too Joe. Tinfoil hat conspiracy fiction. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Joe D'Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 8:53 AM + 3/24/06, wernerapnj wrote: > >The selection of excluded properties certainly appears to have been > >biased. > > > >Many of the "Bergh St Propert

[AsburyPark] Re: Open Space - etc.

2006-03-24 Thread bluebishop82
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for Werner, I didn't see him call anyone here stupid or ignorant. Then I guess you missed this from his post to me this morning: "If so you display your ignorance in the subject, as you have in the past regarding othe

[AsburyPark] Re: 2nd Ave Property - Eminent Domain

2006-03-24 Thread Joe D'Andrea
At 8:53 AM + 3/24/06, wernerapnj wrote: >The selection of excluded properties certainly appears to have been >biased. > >Many of the "Bergh St Properties" had recently been purchased by gay >buyers. While other properties similarly situated on Webb St but owned >by hetero folks were slated for

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: 2nd Ave Property - Eminent Domain

2006-03-24 Thread gtscarano212
In a message dated 3/24/2006 7:08:32 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Werner you forgot about the corner house. What councilman saved that? I don't believe that owner has any clout. That corner house was residual damage, the Partners lost one extra house/ lot in

[AsburyPark] Re: Open Space - etc.

2006-03-24 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "bluebishop82" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > By the way your county government spent $11 million preserving land > in Middletown THIS YEAR ALREADY. Wht could AP do with even a $3 > million kick? If you think AP is ever going to get 10 cents of money > li

[AsburyPark] Re: Preservation and property value

2006-03-24 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "wernerapnj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan, being the "new guy" on the block you are most likely not aware > that preservation planning is what was asked of the Council by the > public. The economic benefits have long been known since NJ did one of > t

[AsburyPark] Re: Open Space - etc.

2006-03-24 Thread bluebishop82
Werner you go from Home Rule to the State plan in the same post below. Do you review your posts before hitting send? You came full circle there. Two posts from this one you further prove my point when you talk about the beachfront being a state park, which plays right into the point I made th

[AsburyPark] Re: 2nd Ave Property - Eminent Domain

2006-03-24 Thread Fred
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "wernerapnj" > wrote: > > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" wrote: > > > > Werner you forgot about the corner house. What councilman saved that? I don't believe that own

[AsburyPark] Re: 2nd Ave Property - Eminent Domain

2006-03-24 Thread Fred
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "wernerapnj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" wrote: > > > Why take one home on Fifth ? Without the Salvation Army that half of the block is worth nothing. That's why it wasn't taken. ..I have heard rumors (I ha

[AsburyPark] Re: Preservation and property value

2006-03-24 Thread wernerapnj
Dan, being the "new guy" on the block you are most likely not aware that preservation planning is what was asked of the Council by the public. The economic benefits have long been known since NJ did one of the first formal studies on the subject. Look at the files section : PreservationPlan.pd

[AsburyPark] Re: Springwood - I need your help

2006-03-24 Thread wernerapnj
Now there's an astute observation. and sense. When the "PLAN" was sold to the public we were promised new ratables within a year, in addition to the entire beachfront becoming a ratable. What have we got almost 6 years later??. Increasing tax bills!! Werner --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.c

[AsburyPark] Re: Springwood - I need your help

2006-03-24 Thread wernerapnj
Sure jump on the bandwagon of more bad planning. Destroy what little is left of the City's downtown/main street character. What are the costs of this idea in total concept? Physical and social? Re: Police: all they need to do is WALK the downtown to make it safer. Hire clean-up personal that we

[AsburyPark] Asbury as a Park ?

2006-03-24 Thread wernerapnj
Exactly why the City should have entered into partnership with the County and State. The idea of an oceanfront park is not new, and it has a lot of merit. The County Parks system has the money, political clout and expertise to have restored the Casino for public use as it was intended for. Ext

[AsburyPark] Re: 2nd Ave Property - Eminent Domain

2006-03-24 Thread wernerapnj
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >...I have heard rumors (I hate saying that but I > don't know if they are true) that the condemnation lines were > changed when the plan was being developed so that properties of > friends of the then council were taken o

[AsburyPark] Open Space - etc.

2006-03-24 Thread wernerapnj
Tom, The "Overlords" you speak of have nothing to do with planning policies in AP. As you know, or so I would hope, NJ is a home-rule State in that local municiplities have responsibility for their own fate. The poor planning and performance in AP is directly attributable to our own dysfunctio