Yesterday I saw my neighboring town of Belmar complaining about the over development going on there. Driving through really has shown a lack of small town business but a boom in high condo buildings. Where are these small towns headed?
Just this past week here in Bradley Beach, I found out about a lawsuit that our town recently settled on. Settled, meaning they would have lost the case, so they paid the persons legal fees to hopefully shut it down. That’s my take anyway on why legal settlements happen.
So to sum it up and keep it short, this case was based on a “private attorney client privilege” meeting that the Bradley beach administration had regarding a public property that they wanted to sell without public knowledge. A very involved resident was thankfully on his toes and opra’d (requested and received) the information. Low and behold, this meeting was not ONLY attorney and client, but included a building developer in this meeting. So by settling this legal case means that our fellow neigbor exposed that the administration had secret dealings with a developer for development in Bradley Beach without the people of Bradley Beach.
These types of issues then begin to make sense about other things.
We have a historic church in town. Bradley Beach bought it a few years back but haven’t protected it in the meantime, therefore allowing it to get worse from weather etc. The only people involved in this church from the beginning, seemed to be mostly those who wanted to keep it. You rarely heard a peep about anyone against it. UNTIL, our current administration threw out a $10m number without backing it in any way, and now everyone is of course against it. Any tax payer is just going to rebel at $10m. If they didn’t know or care prior about this building, all they will care about now is not wanting to pay that amount. It was clearly planned this way so that the people could say no. Now ask yourself, hmmmm more development incentive for the administration?? When an administration doesn’t answer questions, rolls their eyes when people talk, scowls at the crowd and never gives clear direct answers, you must ask, why in the world are you sitting there for this town? For the people, or for your pockets? Take a ride around Asbury, Long Branch and Belmar. See what you like and don’t like. Only we in Bradley Beach get to decide together unless we are battling an administration as we have now. So our voices must get louder. I invite you to get more involved if this matters to you. I am happy to keep updating what I can here as things move along.
See you in the sand.
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