I haven't talked to anyone recently about this but I would think that members of the Lincroft Village Green Association(LVGA) and SONIC (Save Our Neighborhood’s Integrity and Character) are not very happy. These two community groups have raised and spent nearly $70,000 fighting this redevelopment and I wonder how much they have left to fight it.
The LVGA and SONIC have put up a good and courageous fight but ultimately I wonder if it is not a losing battle, eventually something will be built on those grounds and it may or may not be conducive or acceptable to area or it's residents.
If at all possible, it might be a good idea if the attorney's for each party involved (LVGA & SONIC, Middletown and Four Ponds) sat themselves down in a locked room somewhere and came up with an acceptable plan that all could live with, thus saving themselves and township tax payers any further pain, aggravation or money. Just a thought
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The groups will fight it out, and the lawyers will collect the fees. Then, Four ponds will build what they have been planning all along (~350 units), and we the taxpayers will foot the bill. Everybody wins!
Middletown's TC should foot the bill for this appeal unless the nonsense they have been telling the public is just more of the BS they feed us. If they are really opposed, fight this. Sonic and the LVGA have done enough.Time for the town to put the TC money where their mouths are ! Let Nelson earn his money for a change.
Nothing ever changes and truth is never a strong point with Middletown's governing body.
The lawyer for 4 Ponds is a former TC member and mayor. So, the handwriting is on the wall. The planning board rejected it so they could have their election then lose the appeal afterwards. Starting to smell like the sludge they want to scoop out of Shadow Lake, which is another election time debacle.
Who's the lawyer for 4 Ponds?
Rich Brodsky
Funny thing is there is something already built on the property. Developer made an investment to build an office building 30 years ago, made a ton of money, now with no tenant he wants out so why not jam a bunch of row homes down middletown's throat to maximize his profits. OH and Middletown will be stuck with building new schools. Middletown the next Carteret, NJ. Middletown just another urban town.
Anon 9:15 AM
Maximizing profits is an objective in a capitalist economy and society. No one is jamming homes down anyone's throat -- there seems to be an ongoing debate and process. Some of the proposed homes could have been part of the Bamm 'Sweet Deal' Hollow agreement.
How will Middletown "be stuck with building new schools"?
Maybe Scharfenberger's new Economic Development Committee will come up with a profitable way of maximizing revenue for the township and not have homes built on the property and avoid the kind revenue loss that happened when they changed the deed requirements on Swim Club Utility property prior to turning it over to the new owners.
That's what you get when government in Middletown has all the rejects from north of the Driscoll Bridge serving on the TC today !
PC must be desperate for candidates to settle for these wannabees.
They should be wooing business to the area, change the zoning back as promised and look for a business to move in.
If you make an incentive attractive enough you will find some business to bite. Middletown can rezone.
Take a look at the voting records from 2011 and look at the districts that Lincroft is a part of and then calculate how many Lincroft residents voted for Fiore and Murray to represent them on this issue -- get what you vote for.
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