me and call to order all right folks council member abz Anderson I'm here council member Chapman here council member Clayton here Deputy Mayor Quinn here mayor Moore here please stand for a silent prayer moment of reflection we will now salute the flag I
pled Ali to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation indivisible withy and justice for all as comply with the open public
meeting app chapter 231 PL 1975 adequate notice of this meeting has been provided in the following manner the annual notice was forwarded to the Asbury Park Press the coaster and the Star Ledger on January 16th 2025 and posted on the bulletin board the same date all notices are on filed with the city clerk we're
now on special event applications from Recreation director Leisa Floyd good evening um this evening there are five returning applications and four wedding applications are there any questions
comments no me no questions good thank you all right thank you you good night we're now on to marison city council council member abz Anderson oh nothing for me other than good evening everyone thank you council member Chapman I have nothing this evening
thank you thank you council member Clayton I also have nothing this evening thank you Deputy Mayor Quinn uh nothing thank you mayor Moore yes nothing thank you thank you moving on to Mars from the acting city manager uh nothing thank you Maris
from the city attorney nothing this evening thank you thank you we're now on to a presentation by EO alera and Eric neemo for the 2023 safety incentive program award thank you thank you good evening govering body mayor council members
councelor Deputy city manager my name is e o Al you're I'm the risk manager for the city of Asbury for uh we represent the city when it comes to insurance and insurance matters safety um tonight I'm here to present with actually my associate Matt and with Eric who is the attorney from uh from our
administrative uh arm of the New Jersey intergovernmental Insurance Fund so uh I'm proud to present to the mayor and Council for the seventh year in a row you've achieved the safety award uh this year you were awarded actually it's for 20123 you were awarded a check for $500
we have the plaque to present to you mayor on behalf of us as your Risk Managers and the administrative arm of the joint Insurance Fund for keeping a safe Community for adhering to all the practice practices that the that the joint Insurance Fund requires um quarterly meetings which we'll be here
in another two weeks for that cyber security um a lot of safety incentives that that the town has hit and therefore we award them again seven years in a row the city bsur par is a very safe Community all you residents are in good shape with this governing body so let's
here for our governing body congratulations coun may congratulations congratulations we are now on to a presentation by Pamela major for the Mercy Center hi
everybody hi hello I'm going to call you Mr Mayor tonight okay so um good evening uh Mr Mayor and councel and thank you for squeezing me in I know that these um agendas tend to be very full so I certainly appreciate
being able to come here this evening so for the past four years I've been a consultant with Mercy Center working directly with their domestic violence sexual violence programs and bu building relationship with the faith community
because we know that the faith community is a place where people tend to lean on when they're having struggles and we want to begin to bridge our relationship with the faith community and with city
councils and what we are doing is hosting and and many of you have come to our events we host events in October uh for domestic violence aware aess and in April for sexual assault and this April we'll be having an event directly at
Mercy Center on April 24th and giving you more information why we want to come to you tonight is we have four Faith communities directly in Asbury Park Trinity uh Church Second Baptist Church
St Stevens and the rebirth church that have been working with us over the past several years we are re invigorating our packages so that the churches have the information and can actually be
satellite or uh dare I say sanctuaries for women that have been victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence and I had to look it up again just to see you know it's only been just over 30 years where
women or wives um where it's considered considered rape considered sexual assault if their spouse um violates them sexually it's only been just over 30 years that that
has been a nationwide concern and one in four or five women has been the victim of sexual assault and I know that's not something that this Council wants to see continued
and I know that this city because we're a city that really wants health for everyone and safety for everyone and so as we have this information as we have these packages we want to make you we want to make you aware that this
information will be available we can certainly have information at City Hall but also being able to direct people this is where you can get information this is where all the places that can give you help often women leave their
dwellings with the shirts on their bags sometimes they can't even take their children with them and when they leave and everybody knows how grants work you can buy certain things and you can't buy other things Mercy Center can
buy a bed but they can't buy sheets they can't buy the basic household in um items that people need and we're doing a drive right now at the and and donation centers are at asber Park Library um Cathedral I'm sorry we have five
churches Cathedral International by the shore you know you probably reach for dis detergent and don't even think about it these women that are driven out of their homes often they have to use soap
for bathing for washing their dishes for everything because they leave with nothing and so we also looking for donations like I said the asway Park library has the list and has a donation bin and we're doing this work up through
March 15 so we are going to give you more information about um the activity on April 24th at the mercy Center where we're asking everybody in the city to wear teal and blue because these are the colors of sexual assault as well as um
children's uh this is also a children's assault month so we want to come together as CommunityWide in every aspect and we'll coming here to give you this information we'll be sending more um paper information so that you can
look over it in your own time but wanted to bring this information to you tonight and I thank you for the time thank you very much for this and all the other good work and projects you involved with in the city and uh any Flyers anything you want you on our
news blast please share with us and we'll get those out and everything anything we can do and when we get closer we'll remind everybody the dates so C thank you very very much anybody have any questions just thank thank thank you we're now on to a
presentation by director of planning and Redevelopment Michelle Alonzo for an overview of the city's Adu ordinance good even good evening everyone can you hear me okay great so I've been asked tonight to do an over
view of our accessory dwelling unit ordinance the city passed this ordinance it's actually two ordinance two parts um almost a year ago to encourage more forms of housing in the
city oops so in case you don't know what is an Adu an accessory dwelling unit it's typically thought of as like a granny flat or a cottage in the back of a of a lot but it we do have a broader definition it's an independent
residential dwelling unit located in the stand alone in same lot a standalone or also within a single family home um you an Adu can be you can do the conversion in your own house or in a structure at the rear your property or
any portion behind the main house so adus as I had given this presentation a year ago we we talk about soft density the idea of the Adu is that it's not a full to family that it's supposed to be
density that is not as noticeable that there's an increase in density and thus we this ordinance that we adopted has a lot of regulations and one of the reasons we did this is again to increase the type of housing in the city um it's we call
it affordable with a little a not a big a because the impact is is smaller than for example a deed restricted affordable unit and it's also as you'll see in my
presentation um unless you take a subsidy from the city you don't have to have an affordable unit in your Adu you can rent it out to any tenant with some caveats
um here's an illustration to show you what is we commonly think of as an Adu so last year we amended our zoning at ordinance chapter 30 to put the Adu as a permitted use and you can again have it as a small
structure in the back of your yard you can convert your garage or you can actually add a unit to your house well though most of the inquiries we've had has been for the Standalone unit it's supposed to be its own
Standalone unit and that it will have its own separate entrance and some of the regulations in Chapter 30 is that it cannot be bigger than the main house you're only allowed one per property only properties with one and
two family homes in the R1 R2 R3 B District stars and scared site and Washington Avenue Redevelopment areas can have an Adu they are supposed to be of same residential standards as the main house in other words it's if you walk in it it
has full plumbing and finishes as a rentable unit that would have a certificate of occupancy and it can't be more than 20 ft in height Inc you can't be tolder than two stories if it's a standalone you have to go through the
normal process you would for any form of construction in the city you need to come to my office planning and Redevelopment with a zoning permit and afterwards you would apply to the building department for construction
permits you can subdivide your unit from your main house from your property all has to be one you have to maintain your parking on site and in addition to your parking requirement for your main house you have
to provide one parking space per Adu you can't exceed the building and the coverage requirements for the property and part of that goal along with it can't be bigger than the main house is again that soft density that the the districts retain their housing
character and it also can't be in front of the the main house it has to be behind the main house so that's the zoning component of it we have a second component to it which is our regulatory component and that's found in Chapter 13 of our
municipal code for your Adu you would need an annual certificate from code enforcement your this is the biggest the biggest regulation your Adu nor your main structure can be a short term
rental we're looking to create more rentals for residents here in the city so you would have to have at least a six-month lease with a tenant and the property has to be owner
occupied and you have to be the Principal resident you would demonstrate this ownership the same with a driver's license and a bank statement and you would be inspected annually by code enforcement your unit to ensure that
you're complying with our regulations if you do choose to do an affordable unit an affordable unit means deed restricted for 10 years you can receive a subsidy from the city depending on the income of the
person you're renting the unit to depends on how much subsidy you can get if you're going to lease to a moderate income person $20,000 subsidy low income 30,000 very low
35,000 now when the biggest things if you do choose to take the subsidy is that you you you don't really have a choice in your tenant that someone who is on the affordable housing waiting list will be assigned to your property
to your unit and you're going to have to do annual reporting but again it's it'll be deed restricted for 10 years but after 10 years you actually would you would have a two family home that's part of the give back if you do the deed
restricted affordable housing there's no parking requirement if you do the affordable unit and one of the things as an incentive as well is the property does not have to be owner occupied we would also wave some of the
fees that are common with new construction the co- residential development fees sanitary sewer fees the zoning permit fee you would enter into a contract with the city as part of receiving the
subsidy if you def if you're not renting it to an income qualified person the money has to be refunded to the city and then funding would be paid in four parts as listed above 25 with the deed restriction 25%
for your first construction permit 25 for the certificate of occupancy for the unit and 25% when the lease is executed with the initial prospective tenant so now that I laid out very quickly very basically the groundwork
how do I construct an Adu if you're interested in constructing Adu your very first step is you would consult an architect or design professional like a um a design build firm they would give you take a look at our zoning say oh you
meet the criteria or you don't meet the criteria they would also give you a cost estimate of both soft cost and hard construction costs so once you've dedicated to doing the actual construction you'd file a zoning permit
with my office we would check your project against the regulations if everything is in order we would sign off on it and then you would file for your construction permits and that would include Plumbing electrical overall
construction framing it depending if you're converting a garage or you're doing a new stand loone structure a foundation permit then you would complete your final inspections for occupancy and then you would file for your Adu certificate with code
enforcement and then you would file for certificate of occupancy for a tenant to move into your unit if you even if you don't lease it and you're going to have a family member live there you would still do this procedure hurdles to an
Adu the number one hurdle not just for us Nationwide is financing current interest rates have make made people hesitant to use a home equity loan a second mortgage to finance
an Adu it's very difficult to get an outright construction loan but these are just some ways you can Finance it some people are able to just Finance it with their own finances garages that do not have foundations so you may have a garage in
your backyard and it may not have a foundation May sit just on the ground that's called a seal plate some older homes have that the garages don't have foundations you would have to lift the garage and put a found Foundation is in or knock the garage down put foundation
build a new structure you have to run sewer and electric through your backyard and for the sewer that may means digging up your backyard electric it can be above ground connecting to your main house could be underground it could come
in off the street it depends on every property situation increase in property taxes so you would not be taxed for an additional unit but you will be taxed for improvements as if you did improvements to the main structure like if you put in
an additional bathroom in your house you will have seen increase in your value increase in your taxes the same thing with an Adu would be treated that way as if it was an improvement but not taxation as a separate
unit construction if you are going to go forward with an Adu then some of the time constraints are things like proper construction that you're you're engaging with the design professional that's going to give you an
attractive design something that you can afford nuisance you have to be prepared to have construction occurring in your backyard those are the shortterm issues the longer term and term issues is if you have an Adu in
your backyard it's no longer really your private space you're sharing an ENT entrance with your tenant and that may be dissuading to some people who would consider doing an Adu and finally I I put parking because although I have not seen this yet there
may be some parcels that will have an issue providing the required parking especially if you are a one family home and you don't have parking now and you don't have room for parking even for the main house that you're an undersized lot so but again if you have an issue
like parking or an issue with with uh the setbacks or the coverage you can make an application to the Zoning Board of adjustment and again if the benefits outweigh the detriments and it's good solid project then you can be on a path
to approval and that's all I have that was meant to be brief um I'm also I should have put my email up here because you you can find my email on the website I'm Michelle Alonso at ASB park.gov you can
email me any questions you can come meet with my staff if you are seriously debating installing an Adu and also you can ask questions of course at the microphone when public comment is up thank you Michelle just so
people just for my edification there aren't uh we're one of five municipalities that have adus or even less than that no it's been increasing oh it has been and I have to say my own my own town that I live in which has had
an ad ordinance on the books now probably one of the longer ones for about six years finally are getting their first permits for use and again I think the biggest obstacle has been the financing okay but maybe someone will
prove me wrong and tell me about some other obstacles thank you thank you Mich thank you Michelle we're now on to public participation may have a motion to open the meeting to the public to open second all in favor public participation portion of
the meeting is now open any member of the public who wishes to speak please use the microphone state your name and address for the record and there will be a three minute time limit for each speaker y ready y Dan Smith 119 Sunset I have a question on the Adu okay
Michelle actually two questions one if it's a non-conforming structure and you have to tear it down to reconstruct it can you put it on the property line no you have to meet you have to meet the zoning code for accessory structure so
it's three and five okay then I don't have a second question thank you Dad don't start the clock it for one minute also one of the questions that we that I got consistently over the last couple of months was could people
provided they have the foundation from the garage can they buy one of these tiny houses and put that in their backyard okay so that if you if you could and if wonderful because that is a consistent question I've got yes as long as you have the foundation and you can
put it on and you meet the setback requirements yes it could be a prefab okay well that was most of my question thank you Amy um the second question is is just sort of um two two two minor comments just hopefully
constructive comments um one is um honestly I don't really need your subsidy but I don't want to be forced to take the first tenant down that that I'm given so maybe if you give us an option of taking one of the first three tenants
because there's always the point of if you have a tenant that is somehow unruly doesn't pay doesn't whatever it's very difficult and then we don't no one wants to evict anybody right so um it would be good to offer people an option on the
tenant that that you take right if it's an affordable or very affordable happy to have a aable happy to have very affordable Havey to have very low income but just don't want to be forced to take the first person down the road um second minor thing is um not sure why it needs
to be inspected every year not that I worry about it being inspected but um asbery Park is wonderful I know actually most of the code all almost all the code people sometimes you get a code person on a good day sometimes you get a code person on a bad day um and sometimes
they can do whatever they want so not sure why it's actually necessary to have code come every single year it you let me address let me address the first question sure the the P tenant
portion is not our regulation it it has to do with us getting credit as affordable housing so that it's that's the case with all deed restricted affordable housing in the state and that you have like we
if we're going to participate in the affordable housing program then we have to do follow those state regulations so that's only if you take the subsid subsidy because well don't
don't care about the subsidy for example I I have section 8 people right not section eight got it okay so no this is this is an affordable count as an affordable housing unit but so if Section 8 you don't follow that and
you're not applying for the subsidy you can rent to whoever you want as long as a long-term lease if you don't take the subsidy good thank you hi my name is Carrie valines and I live at 703 1 Avenue with my partner
rich and um I had well two questions and some feedback um has anybody built an Adu yet or appes buil buil an Adu no so that's the thing I was saying that we've had some inquiries and some of them have been serious and I anticipate they're
going to apply for permits soon but no one has applied for one yet okay um so I just want to give my personal feedback because it was at the homeowners association meeting last night it was feedback was encouraged um I was excited about building an Adu we
but we have a three family so we're not able to um and we do rely on our rental income for uh for to pay the property taxes and the mortgage um my understanding is because we're non-conforming our neighborhood was zoned for multi family until I think
until 2017 now we're non-conforming so because it's we're zoned for a single family house now so my understanding is we would have to turn our house into a single family house in order to apply to build an Adu in our garage and I'm guess I'm wanting is that
true yes and yes and no if you were going to apply for a permit as of right if you feel you have a good case like you could provide the parking and you can it's not going to affect the character of the neighborhood you can
apply to the Zoning Board of adjustment for variant not a guarantee you're going to get it you have to demonstrate your case that again it's a benefit to the neighborhood but yes we at the time we had you we had various people had said
that they wanted the supply to multi family but um very few of the multifamilies here in the city can actually provide the parking that's and also about um yeah that's and that and
also about our ability to also regulate it as well I really feel like your Situation's an anomaly compared to who's called and inquired so again if you think you have a good you have a good case for an Adu
then you can make the application but I have some zoning board members here there's no guarantee that you're going to get it they're going to weigh the benefits to the detriments and what your impact on the neighborhood would be okay thank you and I guess my suggestion was
going to be maybe you should maybe you would consider allowing people with three with three or more units to apply if if there's an issue with not that many people applying to build adus I really and again I not that you're the anomaly but you know many
multifamilies here in the city are not owner occupied so that's that's part of of it as well but we'll take into consideration we definitely will okay thank you just so everybody knows this is the public portion for anything and
everything not just Adu so yeah I don't want people think like appreciate you taking the adus first but you can talk about anything and everything now yes thank you Michelle you're welcome so you may still get more questions if you want to good evening uh Joe samro 1326 Locust
Drive um relatively new to Asbury came here in the summer of 2022 uh my wife and I downsized um and it's been real successful we love it here uh taxes little bit of an issue spent today over
at uh in Freehold discussing that um we've had a 62% increase in our taxes since we moved here um and from what I understand the average house has only went up 38% so that Delta seems quite large and eventually May
dissuade us from wanting to stay here we looked to retire here uh you know spend our uh rest of our years here spend our money here um but it's tough um and so I start to do a little research and I don't really have any questions just some comments based on Research I did
and I'd love to hear how it all ties into our taxes here um so everybody probably knows there's about 15,500 people here uh actually going up last year um what I didn't know is there's actually 8650 residen is here
um which means we only have 1.9 people in each residence which is the lowest of any of our counterparts so if you compare us to the Tri City or Neptune um they're all significantly higher and if we actually increase that number to the
average of 2. four we would only need 6,200 homes to take care of all the people we have here in our town so part of it I look at is maybe the the DNA of the neighborhood has changed for the
worse um and the tax pace is now putting an extra load on a certain portion of the Town um so yeah I thought those those were some pretty interesting statistics I'd love to hear what you think about all that we also have 87
percent rental rate so there's a 133% occupancy uh and a vacancy rate and um 69% of the people here are rentals so that's um a big tell when you're trying to build a neighborhood of
people I don't know if you have any comments about that yeah well the thank you for the information so you say there's 8600 residencies that's correct 8650 exact okay does that include the three towers the housing because I mean that came off census and
AP and Jersey data okay but I think it includes Asbury Towers which is several hundred which is one building the Housing Authority which is hundreds of units which is five or six buildings Philip SE view
Towers which is hundreds of units and I'm not disputing I'm just I look into that myself and we have we have an excellent tax assessor Mike Del re who's accessible anytime with any other questions you have and I'll ask
him tomorrow how it breaks down apprciate thank you Nancy Sedano 104th Avenue I was here to ask a question that keeps getting answered differently from depending on who you hear is whether or not the pilot
for 1201 has been negotiated as yet no it has not okay um I understand that this pilot will arise out of a negotiation between the developer and the city's consultant the developer will confidentially share budget and revenue
information to make a case for any requested reduction from a standard tax assessment can you share whether this negotiation has commenced or where it is in the process it hasn't started for the
proc for the development as planned now okay given that the develop is receiving a significant density bonus and will be able to build dozens more market rate units than under standard zoning will the council and negotiator consider this considerable additional Revenue in
evaluating the value in term of the pilot yes we'll consider everything and our negotiator is one of the best in the state if not the country and he looks for every penny so it's based on performers and everything and he'll
drive a hard bar while the detailed content of the pilot negotiations is confidential I'd request that the council please put some non-confidential highlevel findings in the record that provide support for the
amount and term of the pilot putting these findings in the record would go a long way in assuring taxpayers that the developer is meeting the but for standard that is the abatement is truly a necessity and that there are tangible costs and reasons for what should be an
atmost small abatement anything that can be shared will be shared will be 100% transpire I'd also like to recommend that if any nominal abatement is granted it be for no more than 15 years any longer period than this makes it
impossible to predict real estate Finance climate interest rates Revenue climate operational costs and of course the state of the city there could always be a clause in the agreement where the parties are mut invited back to the table to try to reach terms again in 15
years but that any obligation is no longer any longer than this would likely Outlast whatever burden of proof has been met in the pilot negotiation the abatement is not likely defensible for a longer period than 15
years so I know we've always all all we've ever heard is 30 years for Pilots is there the possibility of making a pilot shorter and would that be a consideration are we strictly dealing with the 30-year pilot
in the past years there's been 10 and 15-year pilot so it is a possibility we haven't gotten there yet so I can't give you an honest answer but ongoing negotiations will be made transparent along the process what can be made
transparent yes but I mean we can't violate you know their financials or anything like that but absolutely anything that can be shared will be shared thank you thank you good evening I'm mateline Monaco 151 Ocean Avenue uh I've been away for a while but I've heard a lot of different
things about whether or not SE here now as coming back uh in September or whenever this year and I just wondered if you had an update on what's happening with that we're in the final stages of negotiating a new
contract okay so so it's moving forward in negotiations you're feeling positive about it okay and will it be if if it does happen will it be in the same location or will it be in a different part of the city can't say yet it's negotiations
going on I wouldn't want to say anything but it's not moving if it's moving a little bit it's not moving much okay okay thanks thank you good evening everyone uh Su midis from uh on behalf of food and water watch I
wanted to confirm that uh you have supported the superf fund act by resolution is that correct resolution 122 is going to be named after you tonight when we vote on it resolution 122 is on the agenda uhhuh because of
your request two weeks ago so it is on tonight's agenda it's number 122 everybody play that Lottery you got an hour to get it in and thank you for bringing it to our attention and yes it will be passed tonight excellent thank you very much I want to thank you for
that and I want to thank you for your support and let you know that we'll be going to Trenton on March 10th if anybody's interested uh to hopefully move that out of committee up for a vote thank you very much and if you need a copy of the resolution you get in touch with Anthony the clerk you can give you
a certified copy thank you very much thank you good evening Kitty interven 1012 fth Avenue um just want to comment about 121 Memorial obviously and since it's gone on deaf ears about how big it it's going
to be and how dense it's going to be and how many units it's going to be and you're going to prove it I'm sure so it doesn't really matter where the parking enters or exits on Memorial on Fourth on Fifth doesn't really matter the bottom line is there's going to be a lot of
traffic Sunset Plaza right across from there is always packed with people with all the businesses they're pretty much full now there's parking that's coming all the way down fifth would you consider giving the residents that live in that area parking permits and are
would you charge us for that would it be something that the city can give those residents that live there parking permits because it's just going to get worse we all know that you know that and something needs to be done something maybe you could be proactive on that
okay well every the first Wednesday of every month at 5:30 in this chamber is the parking committee meeting and uh yeah but this would be as part of a concession with 121 Memorial specifically no we're not going to like just nitpick and
everything you can bring an idea to the parking committee like you bring it to the council tonight would it be something that the council would support bring it to the parking committee first then we'll go from there because that's how we've been operating with the parking committee okay but I'm just asking you would you support something
like that I can't say I'm going to support someone I don't know the parameters would you consider it I'm asking we're talking about parking there's parking permits on near the beach for resid consider anything Kitty again if you want to come and you don't have to come why why why do we pay for them why do we pay for Park why can't
that just be included in the taxes but a parking place in front of your house yes there might be laws against it I'm not sure but that's why I'm saying no you put a sticker on a resident parking pass that was brought up last night the Home Owners Association meeting we said
we'd look into it and we advise everybody to come to the park committee meeting you don't have to you can send an email to with your concerns and it will still be addressed if you're not there okay thank you thank you see nobody else I'm going to make a
motion to close second all in favor I all right public participation is now closed we're now on to the minutes I have the executive meeting and regular meeting minutes for the Fe 12 2025 meeting do I have a motion mov any second second thank you council
member Bez erson yes council member Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn mayor Mo yes we're now on to individual resolutions resolution 2025 110 resolution authorizing the payment of bills move it second council member Bez
Anderson council member Chapman council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 111 resolution approving special event applications it second Council mayor bezon council mayor Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn
yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 112 resolution amending temporary budget Appropriations for 2025 budget move it second Council mayor berson council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 202 513 resolution to
refund overpaid Municipal charges for various properties move it second Council May bison yes Council mayor Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 1114 resolution of the city of Asbury Park making application to the local Finance board seeking
authorization for not to exceed $28 million Redevelopment area bonds to finance the construction and installation of certain infrastructure improvements within the portion of the Asbury Park Waterfront Redevelopment area pursuant to njsa 482 a-29 A3 and 4A
call2 A- 67g move it second Council M Bez Anderson Council mayor Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 115 resolution authorizing execution of a shared services agreement with the burough of Rumson for technical
Rescue Services for confined space entry move it second Council mayor bezon council mayor Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 116 resolution authorizing the annual renewal of vector scheduling software for the fire
department move move it second Council mayor bison Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 117 resolution authorizing the emergency Wesley Lake outfall repairs needed second Council mayor bison
Council mayor Chapman Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 20218 resolution authorizing Professional Services to the Ocean County Police Academy for Class 2 special law enforcement police training move it second Council mayor B harison
Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 1119 resolution authorizing professional service contract for state police accreditation maintenance move it second Council May Bon Council mayor Chapman
yes and this is the second year of a threeyear agreement yes correct council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes may Mo no resolution 2025 1220 resolution authorizing Professional Services to celebrate for police
training moving second Council mayor bz Arison yes Council mayor Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes may Moore yes resolution 2025 1221 resolution amending resolution 2024 527 authorizing the submission of an
application to the New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zone Authority for Enterprise Zone assistance funds for the Asbury Park U program administrative expenses for fiscal year 2025 move it second Council mayor Bez Anderson Council mayor Chapman yes council member Clayton yes
Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution one second here's 122 there it is resolution 2025 1222 resolution supporting petting uh legislation Senate Bill 3545 assembly Bill
4696 which would impose liability on large f fuel companies for certain climate change related damages move it second council member Bez Arison council member Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes and thank you for bringing to our
attention Okay we are now on to ordinances for introduction I have ordinance 20256 ordinance of the city of Asbury Park authorizing the execution of a financial agreement with Somerset Asbury Park urban renewal LLC concerning property located at block 4105 lot
1.01 block 4105 Lots 14 and a portion of lot 3 150 fth Avenue on the city tax map within the Asbury Park Waterfront Redevelopment area and granting a tax exemption with a public hearing day of March 26 2025 move second Council M bz Arison no
council member Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor more yes ordinance 20257 ordinance of the city of Asbury Park in the county of Mammoth state of New Jersey provid for the special assessment of the cost of certain waste water storm water roadway streetcape utility and
other infrastructure improvements constructed on or befitting block 4105 lot 1.01 block 4105 Lots 45 and a portion of lot three 155th Avenue on the city tax map which are located within the Asbury Park Waterfront Redevelopment
area and establishing a mechanism for payment of the cost thereof with a public hearing date of March 26 2025 move it second Council mayor Bez Anderson Council Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes we're now on to ordinances for second reading and public
hearing ordinance 20251 ordinance amending the 121 Memorial Drive Redevelopment plan for property located 121 Memorial Drive block 203 lot five planning consultant Beth mcmah is going to give a brief overview of the ordinance thank you
um the that should be better okay so folks uh again my name is Beth mcmanis I'm a planning consultant for the city uh this uh this Redevelopment plan amendment is for the 121 Memorial site that is just for the record it's a property that's
about 1.55 Acres it's about 1.55 Acres it has Frontage on Memorial as well as fourth and fifth Avenues there is an existing adopt Ed Redevelopment plan that was adopted in late June last year
June 20 June 26th and that Redevelopment plan permits up to 130 housing units on the site including 20% affordable and it also permits a modest amount of commercial development along Memorial Drive uh less
than 2,000 square ft uh this amendment to that adopted Redevelopment plan really does one thing and it gives additional and specified IDE flexibility to the access location so the the vehicle access location right now the
adopted Redevelopment plan requires two-way access on Fourth Avenue period the proposed amendment would give flexibility to the planning board to determine whether uh where excuse me
where two-way access on Fourth Avenue would be whether access also belonged along fifth and it would permit the planning board to decide whether it was going to permit one-way or two-way access so essentially in or out or both
and it would not permit access on Memorial Drive and so this Redevelopment plan amendment has come to be because there was public concern about the amount of traffic along fourth and uh and the the increase the public impact
and so the council uh had considered that really in context with an act ACC evaluation essentially a traffic or access study that had been prepared by a traffic engineer who found that Fourth Avenue was best Fifth Avenue was I guess
second best also provided safe and and efficient although less so but also found that Memorial Drive was the least safe and least efficient access point and thus the plan amendment gives flexibility to the planning board to
determine whether access belongs on four or fourth and fifth and and exactly how that access should be designed and that is the that is the only change set forth in this plan Amendment it just simply gives that flexibility to the planning
board to review that decision as part of the developer site plan application that must be made before any construction can begin thank you thank you all right do I have a motion to open the meeting for public comment on ordinance 20251 open second all in favor all right
public comment on ordinance 20251 is now open any member of the public who wishes to speak please use the microphone and state your name and address for the record your comments may only be about ordinance 2025-the Sunset Plaza has all those parking spaces and they're constantly doing this
right staying from the ordinance all we can talk about now oh I can't ask okay it's not my law it's state law all we can talk about is the ordinance on the table okay so I guess I can't ask this question I'm
sorry oh what do you mean others can get and talk I'm just confused about the traffic study saying that Fifth Avenue this this has nothing to do with the traffic study either okay yeah I don't think I can ask
that question thank you thank you uh John Scully 1307 4th Avenue so you said it has nothing to do with with the the traffic study but your consultant just brought that up on the record so is is she referring to the traffic study that was done at second M Memorial that was
done between the hours of three and four second in Memorial no first and Memorial it wasn't done at fourth or fifth in memorial correct did she bring it up she did okay no that's not that's not correct the traffic study referenced or studied the the three frontages of this property
which is memorial 4th and Fifth and when was that study done prior to us voting on it Beth wasn't it yeah I would hope so yes was done trust you all uh in June 2024 June 11th it was dated and that was done on
fourth and fifth in Memorial yeah it studied the the project as a whole including its three frontages and was that study funded by the city or was it funded by the developer funded by the developer okay uh has the city undertaken any traffic study on its own
the city didn't do a traffic study but what it did do when it received that uh that document is it shared it with uh its traffic professionals to determine if they had any uh any concerns about it or felt that it needed correcting in any way and did those professionals give the
board an opinion uh no they did not appear before the council uh I coordinated with them so that I could report to the council so just to be clear the professionals looked at the study that was done by the
developer didn't give a written opinion as to that stud but relate something to you and you relate that to the to the council that's correct I worked with the city's other professionals okay and is that normal or would the Professionals of the city give an opinion since they are Traffic
Engineers I'm assuming I don't think there's a typical process I mean before planning board and zoning boards uh developers provide traffic studies for most any major project uh and in that case often board professionals issue of report because
that's part of it's part of their role serving the board as part of that site plan application here where we have a A rezoning or or Redevelopment plan Amendment it doesn't have the same process where professionals uh issue memos of of of
their various findings like they do for a planning board so there's no typical process uh as my work for the for the council here as well as for in any other many other municipalities that I work in I commonly coordinate between uh between
uh perhaps a developers proposal the municipality's uh staff and professionals and myself in myself in order to provide advice or updates to the governing body and what we had here in this city for the 121 Memorial site is no different than processes that I've
I've seen take place dozens of times throughout the state thank you I guess my only question for the hold say J you have plenty of time I thought the city Prof professionals being the planning Transportation planner and the
city engineer did give the council their opinions on the parking study yes they did they did and yes they did if I'm mistaken I apologize that's okay I I guess my question to the board is
is we put our trust in in you as elected officials and I think it's just clear by this recent dialogue that there's some miscommunication between the council and and no offense the council's professional but yet we're sitting here
and you're going to vote on this when there is clear clear evidence by the record right right now within the last two minutes that there's a miscommunication between the council and its professionals I urge you to postpone this vote until your professional and
the council has has seen all the necessary documents obviously you've seen an opinion from the board from the council and the town's professionals but your planning professional who you've hires get solden has it so how can you how can you sit here and earn the trust
of the residents to vote on this tonight I urge you to postpone it until at least your own consultant has seen whatever whatever opinion the city's professionals have given the council thank you thank you could you detail the process next that
would happen after say you pass this tonight and it goes back to the planning board what happens there and then does it come back to you after that again so if the if the council votes in favor of the
Redevelopment plan Amendment this means that the developer can proceed to their PL to their planning board site plan application and can have a dialogue with the planning board about where the access should be on 4th and 5th voting
yes facilitates that discussion voting against the Redevelopment plan Amendment means that the developer can proceed to the planning board for their site plan approval and may only propose access on uh on on Fourth thank
you so a vote in favor of the application gives that flexibility between fourth and 5ifth a vote against the amendment does not and if the public wanted to stay involved in the process we would now track this with the planning board yes absolutely so we're
essentially regardless of how the the council votes the applicant or excuse me the developer can proceed and request site plan approval at the planning board so to members of the public that are interested in how this project is going to proceed in the approval process uh unless the matter is not voted on this
evening the next steps will occur at the planning board thank you thank you I'm going to reframe my question or comment now that I understand please consider getting all
the information that you need to make the right decision to represent us if that means getting another traffic study by someone other than the developer doesn't that just seem strange to you guys come on
seriously I mean he's the developer of course it's he's going to get what he wants just think about that seriously thank you let me just say and thank you kitty let me just say a traffic planner has a license through the state of New
Jersey just like a planner does an engineer does so I mean it is not unusual for the developer to hire the plan plan no no no no no no NOP you're not going to interrupt me you can speak again so that is not unusual that
happens in every town in America now that guy is not going to lose his license over getting allow $10,000 from some developer because he'll go bankrupt and I'll never be hired by anybody else again so if you're saying or alluding maybe it could be screwed in the
developers favor because he's paying them well that could go for a planner an engineer and everything and that's just not the way this country works I mean they have to protect their licenses okay you can get back up to the mic yeah you can get back up to you want to
but if you got a serious diagnosis from the doctor you don't just say yeah cut me open you go to another doctor and get a second opinion that's all I'm saying that's all I'm saying okay thank you I was just going to say that I mean I'm like like speaking I respect all the work you guys your name and address for
the record sir please tenasa Point Road but I also have a business on on building a business on Spring what Avenue your name for the uh David Duncan and uh as so I mean you're talking about this this I think I I work in medicine
it's all about ethics um and and for me it sounds extremely unethical for for you to hire a person um or to be hired a person to do the the the traffic study that's that's the actual developer and that may be you may feel that that's uh I mean in medicine it happens all the
time that the people hire lawyers and then they get a next job and a next job because they're actually known by the developers that somebody can help them with their so he if he helps the developer then the developer gives him another job and then other developers are trying to pass things so actually it
does work like that unfortunately so I think it makes it much clearer and more ethical to clearly have somebody that's separated from the developer and we'll be happy and I think that needs to I think that needs to be done thank you okay see nobody else motion to close our
own professional do a okay yeah so I think that's important to note that our profession close move to close all in favor all thank you all right do I have a motion
to adopt ordinance 2025 D1 move it second Council bz Arison no council mayor Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore no ordinance 20252 ordinance of the city of Asbury Park in the county of Mammoth state of New Jersey providing for the
special assessment of the cost of certain Wastewater storm water roadway streetcape utility and other infrastructure improvements on block 4306 slots 1 through 8 200 210 8th Avenue 2011 209 7th Avenue and 1604 web Street on the city t m tax map which are
located within the Asbury Park wfront Redevelopment area and establishing a mechanism for payment of the cost thereof Michelle Alonzo for a brief overview of the ordinance I'm actually going to give an overview that pertains to both speak to the microphone so everybody can hear you I'm going to give an overview that
pertains both to the financial agreement with the 20253 and the special assessment which is its sister ordinance no no no no let's do one at a time one at a time sorry okay so this
part of because part of the financial agreement the ordinance is the special assessment for um the project that is known as kof's the Delta it's 45 for sale town homes and because it's a for sale um we're obligated by the
redevelopers agreement to offer um the standard 30-year pot um p in L of taxes so the special assessment is the portion where there's an additional special assessment levied on these new units that pay for the
infrastructure um in the Waterfront area thank you you're welcome move second motion open to the public so motion open the meeting for public comment on ordinance
2022 so move to open all in favor all right public comment on ordinance 2025 2 is now open any member of the public who wishes to speak please use the microphone state your name and address for the record your comments may only be about ordinance 202-225-2190
of the city of Asbury Park authorizing the execution of financial agreement with Koff Nan Delta Asbury Park urban renewal LLC concering property located block 4306 Lots 1 through 8 on the city tax map within the Aur Park Waterfront Redevelopment area and granting a tax
exemption with that brief overview from Michelle Alonzo this is the financial agreement for the Delta townhouse project that um is the agreement that allows us to we enter into a 30-year pilot thank a motion to open the meeting
for the public comment on ordinance 20253 second all in favor I I I'm confused this is dy Evans I'm 1706 Park Avenue um I'm hearing 30y year
pilot but didn't you just say that the most Pilots are only 15 years years for the for the for the Waterfront because of a 2002 agreement the pilots for any condominiums for sale units have
to be 30 years and have to be given we cannot stop we cannot change them we cannot do anything with them it's a legal document that cannot be unilaterally changed both sides would have to negotiate and change they got the best of the deal they're not going
to change it so our hands are tied so where is it the 15 year is that other area outside could be outside of the Waterfront correct okay all right thank you no thank you do I have a motion to close the public hearing on ordinance 20253 motion
to close all in favor do I have a motion to adopt ordinance 20253 to adopt second councilor bz Arison no councilor Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn no mayor Moore yes ordinance 2025 -4 ordinance amending
the Redevelopment plan for 101 1 Avenue City of Asbury Park Mammoth County block 401 Lots 10 through1 13 and with that brief overview from bre Beth mcmanis good evening again uh Beth panis planning consultant for the city so this is uh this is a Redevelopment plan
Amendment for uh 101 first this is a property that's uh got Frontage along Langford as well as first and second Avenue it's currently a vacant property a Redevelopment plan was originally adopted in March uh March 2018 March 14
and since then the project has gone through some pretty substantial changes so in March 2018 the Redevelopment plan that was adopted uh set forth uh permitted construction of about 86 housing units and uh up to about 4,000
ft of commercial space and it did include affordable housing as well uh quent to the 20188 plan adoption the project did not proceed uh it did not proceed until uh until the property was sold to another developer they
approached the city to uh to talk about potential changes to the Redevelopment plan and at that time uh the Redevelopment plan the proposed Redevelopment plan uh Amendment from the developer had looked for up to uh 124
units on the property and uh they had also included some significant changes to architecture reduced or excuse me increased the density as part of that uh decreased some of the front yard and upper story setbacks Etc uh once they approached the city the city began
negotiating to determine if there was a way to move the project forward in uh in a manner that was acceptable and uh the result is this Redevelopment plan amendment that is on the the council's agenda for this evening the current plan
uh addressed many of the uh or adjusted many of the proposed changes from the developer such that the density decrease from that 124 uh approximate units that I had indicated they came back to talk to the city with it's down 20 units to 104
units and so this Redevelopment Amendment change is really about increasing another 18 units on the property in addition to that there have been significant changes to the front yard setbacks to increase them and there
are also significantly more architectural and design standards set forth in the Redevelopment plan including concept plans of how the site as well as how the building would be designed and so ultimately what we have here uh for a comparison between what
was adopted in 2018 versus what's uh for discussion tonight there are uh let's see an increase in the permitted housing units from about uh 6 to the 104 right now uh there's also an elimination of
the non-residential or the the commercial space on the property there are uh significantly increased first floor first floor as well as upper story setbacks and one thing I want to know is uh the front yard set back actually increased
significantly uh as opposed to when the uh plan was uh originally sent to the planning board as a result of planning board changes and so we have greater front yard setbacks right now along first and second in order to to keep a nicer view down these two streets um and
as I said before we have additional substantial additional building design standards and and also now a required 5-ft buffer along the rear property some of the things that did not change are the parking ratio that continues to be uh the same as set forth in 2018 at 1.2
spaces per unit there's no change to the affordable housing set back excuse me affordable housing set aside that remains at 20% but as a result of the increase in density uh the project is going to go from uh 17 or 18 affordable units up to 21 affordable
units there's also no change to the building Heights uh one of the changes that will occur as a result of the uh the elimination of the non-residential space even accounting for the increase in housing units is that the traffic
trips the Vehicles along the roads are actually anticipated to go down as a result of the loss of commercial space so while the plan increases the density the anticipated traffic impact will actually be reduced as a result uh and
I'm happy to answer any questions thank you and just so people know again this is not a pilot this is a Redevelopment plan you just want to that's correct yeah there's been no uh uh this is not a vote in favor of a pilot that would if there's going to be a pilot on the project that would be subject to Future
negotiations and future hearings okay thank you do have a motion to open the meeting for public comment on ordinance 20254 move to open all in favor public comment on ordinance 20254 is now open any member of the public who
wishes to speak please use the microphone state your name and address for the record your comments may only be about ordinance 2025 D for thanks hello um so Jordan Modell 101 Second Avenue Ross the street uh from the project um
so first is was there a traffic study done and if so can is it made available come on back sorry thank you the developer uh submitted uh a traffic impact analysis and so I the short answer to your question is yes they submitted traffic impact analysis
to the city that was datting in October 2024 okay so um us as residents um we've actually never seen that to be able to discuss it as as residents so could I respectfully ask that we at least have
time to review that because I I don't know if if it's been mail available we certainly as the as the building rep we certainly have not seen it or or know anything about it so that would be excellent to at least be able to see so thank you very much for that um and then
uh the second thing is the 886 units if you if you know the neighborhood that would totally it's a tremendous addition to the neighborhood because from a parking standpoint right um You have the two uh lower income housing that have
their own parking but this would add another 86 cars or something when people are visiting also outside so anyway bottom line I'll shut up thank you if you can possibly see the traffic study that's all the only thing I'm sorry the only thing I want to
clarify is that this is I I would urge the the council and the public to think about this is not about 0 to 86 or 0 to 104 it's really from uh from around 86 to 104 so it's it's just the increase is really less than 20 units I I don't want to dismiss your concern but just so
we're all clear understood okay thank you anybody else like to be heard motion to close Mo second second all in favor I do I have a sorry do I have a
motion to adopt ordinance 2254 move it second council member Bez Anderson yes Council M Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes ordinance 2025-the of the city of Asbury Park to amend
special event fees move it second are we moving to open this is moving to open yet for to the public y okay this is pretty self-explanatory if anybody has any questions please go to the microphone motion to close I think she
had what's the the date on the what what's the effective date on that it has to wait 20 or 30 days 20 days after 20 days after this yeah see no other questions motion to close Mo second all in favor I I do I have a
motion to adopt ordinance 20255 uh Council M Bez Anderson yes Council Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes that is all for tonight do you have a motion to adjourn the meeting move to adjourn all in favor I thank you everyone have a good night too