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Category Archives: Land Use & Zoning

RED BANK: ‘GOOD LIFE’ CHURNS INTO TOWN
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RED BANK: In Churn, high school sweethearts go all in on a health-food venture; basketball school opens; a Mexican and pizza eateries near debuts, and more.
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May 21st, 2021 @ 2pm
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RED BANK: APARTMENT HEARINGS DELAYED
RED BANK: A welter of confusion dominated the zoning board meeting Thursday night, resulting in rescheduled hearings on several apartment plans.
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May 21st, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: MASTER PLAN UPDATE BEGINS
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RED BANK: At a meeting that lasts less than 12 minutes, planning board embarks on first full-scale Master Plan rewrite in 25 years.
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May 18th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLANS NEAR VOTE
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RED BANK: Two multi-use developments that would add 42 apartments to the market top a busy zoning board agenda Thursday night.
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May 17th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: KIDS SERVE UP GARDEN & MURALS
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RED BANK: Middle school students create community garden and murals as corner coffee shop property morphs into post-pandemic hangout.
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May 14th, 2021 @ 12pm
RED BANK: Kirkpatrick resigns RiverCenter, leaving downtown promo agency looking for a new executive director for the second time in 17 months.
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May 11th, 2021 @ 4pm
FAIR HAVEN: FINE-TUNING FOR TWO PROJECTS
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FAIR HAVEN: Residents weigh in again on plans for new police station and public works yard, fine-tuning designs praised for fitting in among homes.
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May 11th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN DETAILED
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RED BANK: At zoning board, developer details plan for 32 apartments at Monmouth and Pearl; three other plans OK'd; ex-mayor learns he's a grandfather.
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May 7th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: ANTIQUES, TOYS, TATS AND MORE
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a quirky antiques shop opens, a bank branch closes, a tattoo parlor inks a new lease and more.
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May 3rd, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: COUNCIL INITIATES REBUILD
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RED BANK: One day after Redevelopment Agency recommendation, council moves to jumpstart Senior Center repairs, but recriminations fly.
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April 29th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: NEW PLAN FOR CORNER SITE
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RED BANK: Developer seeks OK for retail and apartments at Monmouth and Pearl, just yards from two other pending apartment projects.
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April 28th, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER FIX-UP ADVANCES
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RED BANK: Redevelopment Agency advances repair plan for Senior Center, potentially defusing a hot issue in Democratic primary.
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April 27th, 2021 @ 6pm
FAIR HAVEN: THREE RIVER PROJECTS SLATED
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FAIR HAVEN: A new floating dock at the municipal boat launch and upgrades to two pocket parks on the Navesink are up for greenlighting Monday night.
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April 26th, 2021 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: LOADS OF PRAISE FOR DPW PLAN
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FAIR HAVEN: Latest plan for overhauling public works facility gets lots of love, and no thumbs-downs, at planning board capital review.
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April 21st, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: COOKIES, SOAP, TATS, GOLF & MORE
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a cookie bakery, an 'occult' soap shop, a tattoo parlor and a 'golf lounge' plan openings downtown.
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April 16th, 2021 @ 1pm
FAIR HAVEN: PLAN AIMS TO CUT GRIND WORK
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FAIR HAVEN: Planned changes will cut truck activity at brush site by up to 70 percent, proponents say, but one council member still wants it moved.
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April 13th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: CORNER PLAN HEARING RESUMES
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RED BANK: Hearing on plan for apartments and stores at Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. Parker Boulevard begins anew after big reductions.
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April 2nd, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: MARIJUANA GROW SITE PROPOSED
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RED BANK: Homebuilder files plan for medical marijuana growing facility in West Side warehouse, but will need a use variance, and more, to proceed.
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March 31st, 2021 @ 11am
RED BANK: CHANGE OF PLANS FOR CORNER
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RED BANK: What's Going On next to the library? Here's the latest on a developer's vision for the corner of West Front Street and Maple Avenue.
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March 29th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: DEVELOPMENT PLAN RETURNS
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RED BANK: Revised development plan for corner of Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. Parker Boulevard reduces number of apartments, shrinks retail area.
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March 26th, 2021 @ 3pm
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RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...