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Category Archives: Land Use & Zoning

RED BANK: APARTMENTS & EATERY ON DECK
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RED BANK: On Monday's planning board agenda: a controversial plan for 35 downtown apartments, and changes to the former 10th Ave. Burrito building.
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March 6th, 2017 @ 5am
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RUMSON-SEA BRIGHT: BRIDGE CLOSING
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RUMSON-SEA BRIGHT: County officials plan overnight closing of Route 520 bridge for maintenance.
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March 1st, 2017 @ 5pm
RED BANK: RESTORING LIFE TO ‘THE VAULT’?
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RED BANK: What's happening at the long-vacant former bank building at Broad and Wallace streets? Answer here.
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February 28th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: TWO HOMEWARE SHOPS CLOSING
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, two home-themed shops, both here for just a year, are rolling up their welcome mats.
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February 27th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: Council takes a step toward creation of a park on the longtime site of the borough dump and incinerator. Up next: what to include?
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February 24th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: PLAN PANNED FOR LOOKS, PARKING
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RED BANK: A controversial plan for 35 downtown apartments returns with tussles over parking and aesthetics.
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February 23rd, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: BOWLING FOR FOOD DOLLARS
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, news about Playa Bowls, Fresh Bowl and Café 28.
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February 21st, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN RETURNS
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RED BANK: A hotly disputed plan for 35 downtown apartments on West Front Street opposite Riverside Gardens Park returns next week.
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February 17th, 2017 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: VACANT LOT ON AUCTION BLOCK
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FAIR HAVEN: Ready to build your dream house? The borough plans to auction off a piece of residentially zoned real estate this month.
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February 17th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: ONE-STOP WEDDING BIZ OPENS
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RED BANK: A wedding DJ bets big on "vertical integration" of DJ, photography and other wedding services in a wedding-crazy town.
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February 16th, 2017 @ 12pm
RUMSON: UTILITIES TO GO BELOW RIVER
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RUMSON & SEA BRIGHT: New gas and water lines will be run 25 feet below the bed of the Shrewsbury River as early as next month.
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February 14th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: PARKING FORUM OPENS ‘DIALOGUE’
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RED BANK: A town hall meeting kicks off "dialogue" between merchants and residents on issues of parking and the role of a possible new downtown garage.
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February 7th, 2017 @ 3pm
RED BANK: HAMPTON INN WINS APPROVAL
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RED BANK: Hampton Inn gets a green light after developer withdraws a traffic element that opponents said would lead to crashes.
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February 7th, 2017 @ 12am
RED BANK: TOUTING A ‘SIMPLE’ PARKING FIX
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RED BANK: Downtown landlord John Bowers thinks the council's parking solution will lead the town over a cliff. He's put up $10k to create a simpler plan.
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February 3rd, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: Business Alliance plans town hall meeting next week to make its case for a parking garage and hear residents' concerns.
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January 31st, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: SUIT FILED OVER GARAGE HEIGHT
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RED BANK: A group led by former Councilwoman Cindy Burnham, just four weeks out of office, sues to derail White Street garage plan.
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January 30th, 2017 @ 5pm
RED BANK: FOOTWEAR, FRUIT BOWLS, FACIALS
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RED BANK: Retail Churn reports on the closing of the Doc Shoppe, opening of Playa Bowls, and high-end beauty products retailer coming to town.
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January 30th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: PARKING PLANS SOLICITED
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RED BANK: White Street garage plan clears another speedbump.as the council tweaks and OKs an RFP for prospective developers.
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January 26th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: DONATED HOUSE COMING DOWN
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RED BANK: A house left to Saint James Church put $359,000 in its coffers. It's now to be razed for parking and, eventually, development, new owner says.
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January 25th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: WHITE STREET PARKING ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: The idea of a White Street parking garage returns to the spotlight as the council crafts an RFP for prospective developers.
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January 24th, 2017 @ 7am
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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.