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Category Archives: Land Use & Zoning

TOWN FIRES BACK IN GAS EQUIPMENT SPAT
Gas utility crews have been working downtown this week to replace gas regulators in pits beneath sidewalks without moving them. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Escalating a disputeContinue reading "TOWN FIRES BACK IN GAS EQUIPMENT SPAT"
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July 12th, 2012 @ 9am
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CHURN: COMICS, FURNITURE, BURGERS & MORE
The reality show about comic book aficionados is being taped once again at Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash as well as at 28 Broad Street, above. (Click to enlarge)Continue reading "CHURN: COMICS, FURNITURE, BURGERS & MORE"
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July 11th, 2012 @ 3pm
NJNG TO REPLACE ALL SIDEWALK VALVES
The disputed gas pressure regulators are beneath steel covers like this one outside 12 Broad Street. The utility contends they should be above ground for safety, like the one outsideContinue reading "NJNG TO REPLACE ALL SIDEWALK VALVES"
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June 29th, 2012 @ 4pm
A fee moratorium has helped fill vacant spaces downtown, and should remain in effect through the rest of the year, the mayor says. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARDContinue reading "MENNA: GIVE PARKING WAIVER MORE TIME"
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June 29th, 2012 @ 8am
RED BANK MOVES TO LIMIT BUILDING HEIGHTS
Under the proposal, structures as tall as the Atrium, left and Riverside Towers on Riverside Avenue, seen above last September, would no longer be permitted. (Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "RED BANK MOVES TO LIMIT BUILDING HEIGHTS"
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June 28th, 2012 @ 7am
Juanito’s International Marqueta is the latest in a line of food-related businesses owner Juan Torres has created in town. Below, the store’s placeta-style checkout station. (Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "JUANITO’S OPENS MEGABODEGA ON WEST SIDE"
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June 27th, 2012 @ 8am
COW PUT DOWN AFTER RIVER PLAZA ACCIDENT
One of the two cows that got loose in lower Middletown early Tuesday. Her half-sister was destroyed by police after she was struck by a car. (Photo courtesy of MaryContinue reading "COW PUT DOWN AFTER RIVER PLAZA ACCIDENT"
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June 26th, 2012 @ 9am
NEW PARKING PAY SYSTEM PULLS IN MONDAY
A borough employee working on the installation of a new parking kiosk at Maple Cove Friday. (Photo below by Stacie Fanelli. Click to enlarge) By STACIE FANELLI Green-vested greeters wereContinue reading "NEW PARKING PAY SYSTEM PULLS IN MONDAY"
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June 22nd, 2012 @ 5pm
KEEPING BUCK AND VIOLET COOL AND CLEAN
3:20 p.m.: Pudgie Conroy feeding Violet, a calf, at Sheep’s Run farm on Rumson Road in Rumson. (Photos by Connor ‘Solstice’ Soltas. Click to enlarge) “Okay, Stinky. That’s it.” TheContinue reading "KEEPING BUCK AND VIOLET COOL AND CLEAN"
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June 20th, 2012 @ 6pm
New Jersey Natural Gas says it needs to install 88 pressure-relief regulators above ground, and has filed suit to force the borough to issue permits. (Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "RED BANK SCORES FIRST IN GAS METER SUIT"
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June 19th, 2012 @ 7am
TEAK PLANS SECOND STORY AND DECK
A portion of the addition would allow for open-air dining overlooking Monmouth Street.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Just over a year after changing hands, Red Bank’s TeakContinue reading "TEAK PLANS SECOND STORY AND DECK"
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June 12th, 2012 @ 12pm
Red Bank wants the regulators, below, enclosed beneath sidewalks, like one outside 26 Monmouth Street, above.  (Click to enlarge) Three months after Red Bank borough and New Jersey Natural GasContinue reading "RED BANK GAS SPAT MOVES TO STATEHOUSE"
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June 5th, 2012 @ 9am
LITTLE SILVER MAKES WAY FOR MORE PARKING
Bulldozers razed a house, seen in the distance below, to make way for a new parking lot.  (Click to enlarge) By DANIELLE TEPPER Not everyone likes the solution, but parkingContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER MAKES WAY FOR MORE PARKING"
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May 29th, 2012 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER MEMORIAL SPRINGS TO LIFE
Memorial Park was built on a site where a drive-thru bank was once proposed. (Photos by Danielle Tepper. Click to enlarge) By DANIELLE TEPPER When the residents of Little SilverContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER MEMORIAL SPRINGS TO LIFE"
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May 23rd, 2012 @ 12pm
AUTO SHOP SET TO ZOOM INTO SHREWSBURY
A long-empty Shrewsbury garage will soon be revving to the sounds of Lamborghinis and other big-ticket cars.  (Photo below by Danielle Tepper. Click to enlarge) By DANIELLE TEPPER For twoContinue reading "AUTO SHOP SET TO ZOOM INTO SHREWSBURY"
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May 23rd, 2012 @ 8am
PLANNERS DEEP-SIX EAST SIDE 7-ELEVEN
The Welsh Farms store, which now closes at 10 p.m., would have become an all-day 7-Eleven if the plan had gone through. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD RedContinue reading "PLANNERS DEEP-SIX EAST SIDE 7-ELEVEN"
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May 21st, 2012 @ 9pm
The board found the proposed hotel exceeds the height limits of the waterfront development zone along the Navesink River.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Adding yet another twistContinue reading "ZONING BOARD RULES HOTEL TOO TALL"
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May 17th, 2012 @ 11pm
After months of arguing that Fair Haven’s tree ordinance is unconstitutional and needs to be put through a chipper, borough Councilman Bob Marchese is now proposing that it be dugContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN TREE LAW MAY BE TRANSPLANTED"
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May 16th, 2012 @ 7am
SPACE LEAVING WHITE STREET, UM, SPACE
Briggi Brandner plans to relocate her furnishings business to Deal. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A prominent space on White Street in Red Bank is available for rentContinue reading "SPACE LEAVING WHITE STREET, UM, SPACE"
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May 10th, 2012 @ 11am
LAWYERS SQUARE OFF OVER 24/7 7-ELEVEN
The Welsh Farms store on East Front Street, site of a planned 7-Eleven, would be banned from opening all night under a law passed Wednesday night. (Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "LAWYERS SQUARE OFF OVER 24/7 7-ELEVEN"
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May 10th, 2012 @ 10am
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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 ...