Common Sense For New Hampshire

22 Comments

1. guest wrote:

   Enough already with the multi-family residential buildings!

   Monday, March 19, 2018 at 3:34 pm | Permalink
2. Average Joe wrote:

   And , of course, zero additional parking

   Monday, March 19, 2018 at 3:37 pm | Permalink
3. Anonymous wrote:

   Doherty shouldn’t be in the room during any redevelopment discussions. He’s still in conflict

   Monday, March 19, 2018 at 3:53 pm | Permalink
4. Anonymous wrote:

   Tweet the Agenda to the world.

   Monday, March 19, 2018 at 5:19 pm | Permalink
5. Why? wrote:

   So we can build a new 9 million dollar town hall and police dept?

   How much does a 1/3 block of Main street sell for?

   Monday, March 19, 2018 at 5:22 pm | Permalink
6. ALL TRUMPED UP wrote:

   #5-Well, based on what other public property has been sold for behind closed doors, about $150k, if they agree to pave a parking lot. But your personal home lot may be valued by the local tax assessor for a lot more.

   Monday, March 19, 2018 at 5:58 pm | Permalink
7. Guest wrote:

   Please resign already.

   Monday, March 19, 2018 at 6:17 pm | Permalink
8. Lifelong Resident wrote:

   I heard the same thing. He’s gonna stick around long enough to get this through to take care of his Jersey City boys. Hey McDirty, haven’t you done enough harm to the taxpayers of Belmar? Just go away!

   Monday, March 19, 2018 at 8:00 pm | Permalink
9. Eugene Creamer wrote:

   great …. move the Borough Hall business to the Acme building …. with pass-thru doors

   Monday, March 19, 2018 at 10:45 pm | Permalink
10. Moses wrote:

    YES MATTHEW! Finally, a half decent idea on the surface to add a parking garage in a town that sorely suffers from parking in the summer.

    NO MATTHEW! Adding 100+ units with exclusive rights to that parking garage will not actually help the parking situation.

    By adding 100+ families (of which a % will likely be low rent), it will have drastic consequences that Belmar may never be able to recover from.

    A multitude of obvious problems will arise.

    The traffic in Belmar will increase with 100+ new families in the north end of town (Which will undoubtedly effect the entire town). Just imagine a summer weekend when the Main Street bridge is up. This not only wastes people’s time sitting in traffic, but also creates a bit of a hazard with all the congestion. (People, Bikes, and Cars getting hit by cars).

    The parking situation will grow exponentially. Many of us Belmar residents enjoy the company of family and friends. I assume the new residents at “Doherty’s Devious, Detrimental Development”, also enjoy the company of family and friends. The current plan calls for hardly any guest spots. If each family has 1 guest car a weekend, that’s over 100 cars looking for spots in a tiny radius of town between 6th and 7th avenue.

    Main Street non-bar businesses with low foot traffic will suffer. People already park on Main Street to go to the beach and marina. Want to drive to Mike’s Submarines? Anchor Tavern and Marina Grille already hog enough parking. Want to enjoy Belmar Bagel, Hoagitos, Simply Southern, or Belmar BBQ? People will be parking there and walking to the Marina, Beach, and “Doherty’s Devious, Detrimental Development.”

    Our already dying recreation program will be put to death. I was not sure how the Jr. Guards would last with our lifeguards no longer employed. You can add basketball to the list since we will no longer have a gym. Maybe we will make an agreement to merge our recreation programs completely with Avon or Spring Lake.

    Finally, what kind of rent will these units actually charge? Will we be getting good people that will spend money on local businesses? Will it attract drunken hooligans? I would like to assume there will be no summer rentals, but I am afraid the benefit of the doubt has been lost ages ago in this town. With the potential uptick in low rent units, we open ourselves up to drug issues and other crimes. Are we beginning to see a fall from grace like Asbury Park? The barbarians did eventually take Rome, but it was due to corruption and in-fighting brought about by poor leadership.

    WINNERS: Matt Doherty, Wife Maggie, Colleen Connelly,any political buddy involved in the deal, the barbarian invaders.

    LOSERS: We the people of Belmar.

    Let’s get out and stop this thing tomorrow night before it consumes us.

    Say NO to “Doherty’s Devious, Detrimental Development”.

    Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 12:14 am | Permalink
11. OLD MAN wrote:

    Well put. However they don’t care

    Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 5:29 am | Permalink
12. Anonymous wrote:

    Message to people of Belmar: WAKE UP!
    Don’t let this fool get this through. It will only benefit him and his cronies.

    Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 5:41 am | Permalink
13. Ben Real wrote:

    Word around town is the building will have 200+ units, a parking garage, and the recreation gym will be moved to the Church where the seniors meet. It will be worse than we can imagine, and more than Belmar can and should endure!

    Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 8:06 am | Permalink
14. admin wrote:

    Didn’t we just spend a ton of money to air condition the gym?

    Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 8:57 am | Permalink
15. Anonymous wrote:

    A wise man once said, “If they are going to talk about it, it’s already a done deal”

    Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 8:44 am | Permalink
16. Anonymous wrote:

    not the plastic bags again…

    Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 3:50 pm | Permalink
17. Anonymous wrote:

    Before attending another plastic bag meeting please count how many plastic bottles, food containers, clothing, tools, chairs, shoes, plates, tables and sundry items you have in your house. Why not recycle everything right now. It works well if practiced in the and, remember your home is full of plastic including your walls.

    Teach your children and other family members to recycle.

    Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 5:32 pm | Permalink
18. Jolly Rancher wrote:

    You are all a bunch of hens. You all report to this useless blog with nothing but complaints. Yet not one of you will actually do anything aside from be a keyboard crusader, posting non-facts and slander. Fortunately for all of the posters to this blog, your voices will never be heard and you can rest assured because of that, there will always be something to comment about on belmarcommonsense.org What has to be understood with any blog/blogger, is they are not real reporters. This entire blog is built with bias in mind whether intentionally or not, solely because it is one person cherry picking tidbits of information and reporting to illustrate their opinion. Short story long, don’t pay so much homage to a man with a WordPress account and a bitter outlook on the town he resides in. For everyone else, if you truly don’t like what you see and actually are harboring these negative feelings, maybe it’s time for relocation or a visit to your shrink and they will gladly tell you your problem is you don’t have any problems. Face it Belmar is evolving and you’re not. David, try not to edit this comment too much…..

    -Jolly Rancher

    Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 6:37 pm | Permalink
19. Anonymous wrote:

    Jolly Rancher, not only did you eat the candy, you drank the Kool-Aid!

    Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 8:39 pm | Permalink
20. green giant wrote:

    There are dangerous people in Atlantic City, allegedly. Might not want to mess with some of them. Careful, Mattie, A.C. is a bigger pond; there are other sharks.

    Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 8:59 pm | Permalink
21. Anonymous wrote:

    Matty is no Nicky he’ll be a tool a d everyone knows it in industry. Just talk to the mayor is what you were told at the “Hall”.

    Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 9:49 pm | Permalink
22. Tom Dilberger wrote:

    #18 – Belmar is evolving and you’re not
    —————————————
    currect…

    Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 6:06 am | Permalink

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