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Category Archives: Land Use & Zoning

LITTLE SILVER: LAW TARGETS 5G CELL TECH
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LITTLE SILVER: A year after a backlash over a new cell tower, two first-term council members proposed an ordinance targeting 5G cellular equipment installations.
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May 9th, 2018 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: COFFEE CORRAL PLAN OK’D
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RED BANK: Planning board OKs Coffee Corral expansion and creation of new deli on West Side; news ticker on OceanFirst HQ.
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May 8th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: LUXURY UNITS, OFFICE PLANNED
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RED BANK: Builder plans office and luxury units with underground parking at West Front and Maple, current site of a "really terrible" gateway to downtown.
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May 3rd, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MARINE PARK CONCEPTS UNVEILED
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RED BANK: Residents click to indicate their design preferences as planner unveils Marine Park concept plans, including kayak launch.
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May 3rd, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: LOOKING UPSTAIRS FOR PARKING
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RED BANK: Taylor spearheads effort to get a handle on how spaces above retail stores are utilized for incorporation into parking study.
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May 2nd, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BIG PLANS FOR HUMBLE PROPERTY
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RED BANK: A humble residential property could become the latest addition to booming redevelopment along Shrewsbury Avenue if a builder's plans are OK'd.
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May 1st, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: COFFEE CORRAL LOOKS TO EXPAND
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RED BANK: After six years in business, the Coffee Corral is ready to bust out of its pen with expansion plan that calls for new home and adjoining deli.
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April 27th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: NO PLANS FOR LUNCH BREAK LOT
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RED BANK: Lunch Break razes a house on Drs. Parker Boulevard. What's Going On Here?
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April 26th, 2018 @ 2pm
RED BANK: ROUND THREE FOR MEGA WAWA
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RED BANK: A controversial plan for a mega Wawa store and gas station at one of the busiest intersections in town returns to the borough zoning board Thursday night.
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April 5th, 2018 @ 5am
RED BANK: FOOD, CLOTHES & MORE IN CHURN
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RED BANK: New food and women's clothing businesses open. Also in Churn: about a 24-hour gym, a deep-freeze therapy place and a new Good Karma takeout spot in the West Side Lofts.
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April 3rd, 2018 @ 9am
RUMSON: NAVESINK QUALITY IMPROVES
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RUMSON: After a bacteria crisis, Navesink is showing "rapid" improvement in water quality, with possible reopening of shellfish beds a year earlier than expected, state DEP says.
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April 2nd, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: CONCESSION LEASE TO BE RE-BID
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RED BANK: The council has to find a new vendor for the concession stand in Riverside Gardens Park after the last successful bidder pulls out.
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March 29th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL OKS ‘REVERSE’ APPEALS
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RED BANK: Going "aggressive" at Menna's urging, council OKs 'reverse' tax appeals on commercial properties. Also, Menna gets a surprise tax bill in the mail.
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March 29th, 2018 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: COUNCIL TAKES AIM AT POT, GUNS
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FAIR HAVEN: Council takes action on two hot issues, calling for zoning ban on recreational pot sales and demanding action on assault weapons.
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March 27th, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: RAYRAP PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY
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RED BANK: House fire? Quick demolition? What's Going Here? Here's the scoop about recent activity at Harding and Hudson, the site of RayRap's long-awaited project.
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March 21st, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: TWO NEW HOME LOTS APPROVED
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RED BANK: Zoning board approves creation of two new homes on West Side riverfront estate where attorney says owner could theoretically build nine.
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March 19th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: VACANT SHOP TO GET FACELIFT
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RED BANK: A Shrewsbury Avenue retail space that's been vacant since the departure of a seafood shop decades ago is approved for a facelift.
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March 16th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: BRITISH COTTAGE EXPANSION OK’D
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RED BANK: Furniture retailer British Cottage on Shrewsbury Avenue gets OK for latest in a series of growth moves dating back three decades in town.
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March 14th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: SIDEWALK CAFÉ, STAND ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Agenda for Wednesday's council meeting includes tweak to sidewalk café law, designation of new ice cream vendor in Riverside Gardens Park.
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March 13th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: Judge rejects JCP&L power line plan along 10 miles of rail, citing "overwhelming' adverse impacts and unproven need.
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March 8th, 2018 @ 5pm
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(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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.