Thursday, January 3, 2013
Berkeley Board of Education Vice-President wants to concentrate on school board issues
Berkeley Board of Education Vice-President James Fulcomer has resigned as chairman of the Board of Adjustment and will step down as president of the Regular Republican Organization Club of Berkeley Township in February. Fulcomer served two full terms and chaired the Board of Adjustment through a number of controversial applications, including the redevelopment of the Santo Marina site last summer. He cast the lone no vote on the application. He has served as president of the Republican Club for four years. Fulcomer said he wants to devote all of his free time to the school board. "The two positions together took up so much time that I was not able to spend as much time on Board of Education matters as I wanted to spend," he said. "Of the …
Friday, June 29, 2012
Developer Ray Masucci granted a number of variances
Even though all but one resident objected to the density of the Santo Marina redevelopment plan, Board of Adjustment members voted 6 to 1 recently to approve 15 single-family homes on undersized lots. "These houses are too close together," said Gene Faljean, Fairwood Drive, at the June 26 board meeting. "Our neighborhood is not the neighborhood it should be in. I left Staten Island because they were building on smaller and smaller lots. Is this what's going to happen to our neighborhood in the future? It just can't happen." The vote came at the end of another four-hour long special meeting on the application. Zoning Board President James Fulcomer cast the lone no vote. "I just thought there were too many houses," Fulcomer said after the …
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Residents who objected to developer's plan leave Town Hall in disgust
The Board of Adjustment approved a developer's plan to build 15 single-family homes on the old Santo Marina site over the objections of many neighborhood residents tonight. "Please, you're all on the take," one woman yelled. "You should all be ashamed, " another man said. The vote to approve Ray Masucci's proposed "The Cove On Toms River At Berkeley" was 6 to 1. Board President James Fulcomer cast the lone no vote. "I just thought there were too many houses," Fulcomer said after the meeting. The approval came after two special zoning board meetings that Masucci paid for. His original plan called for 25 townhouses on the defunct marina site off Williams Street in Bayville. Masucci later discarded the townhouse plans and then proposed 19 …
Monday, June 25, 2012
Zombies, summer concert, fireworks, meetings and more
Monday - 10 Things Every Writer Should Know, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Berkeley branch of the Ocean County Library, 30 Station Road, Bayville. Author Jon Gibbs will discuss the best ways of getting published. Tuesday - Berkeley Township Council, 7 p.m., Town Hall, 627 Pinewald-Keswick Road. The caucus meeting starts at 7 p.m., followed immediately by the regular council meeting. Hint: most of the discussion takes place at the caucus meeting. Wednesday - Berkeley Township's 2012 Summer Concert series kicks off with performances by "Big Shot," a Billy Joel tribute band and Rock n' Rhythm at 6 p.m. in Veterans Park in Bayville. The night will be capped off with a fireworks display. Wednesday - Upper Cedar Creek paddling trip from Dover Forge …
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Close to 100 attend the nearly five-hour long meeting in Town Hall
About four and a half hours into a special Board of Adjustment meeting on the controversial Santo Marina application, attorney John Paul Doyle asked for a break. His client, Staten Island developer Ray Masucci, needed five minutes to decide whether to withdraw his application to redevelop the marina site on Williams Street, continue or revise his plans, Doyle said. When they came back, Doyle asked if another special board meeting on the matter could be scheduled for June 27. "We may submit a revised plan, we may decide to withdraw," he told the board. Masucci took to the microphone to explain his plans to improve what he called the "most beautiful" site on the Toms River. And then he told the audience he could not redevelop the marina …
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Special meeting on application gets under way at 6:30 p.m. in Town Hall
Then and now. The 1950s postcard of the former Santo Marina site bears no resemblance to what exists today. Boats bobbed in tidy slips. The freshly painted marina office sat on clean white sand. The docks were level. All was surrounded by the clear, blue-green water at the mouth of the Toms River. Things have changed in half a century. Today the picture is markedly different. The battered offices, warped docks, and abandoned boats were easy targets for scavengers and vandals, until last week. And many of the residents who live on the quiet, well-kept streets of Doyle Drive, Williams Street and Riviera Terrace think just about anything would be an improvement. Except for the application that will be heard at 6:30 p.m. tonight by the …
Monday, May 21, 2012
Meeting-packed week ends with Berkeley Shores Homeowners Civic Association's annual Blessing of the Fleet
Monday - Stokes fundraiser at Tony's Pizza from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Buy a pizza or another item for $10. The business will donate 25 percent of the day's proceeds to the Stokes State Forest trip for Berkeley Township Elementary School students. Monday - Central Regional Alumni Association, 7 p.m., Central Regional High School, Forest Hills Parkway in Bayville. Tuesday - Berkeley Township Council, 7 p.m., Town Hall, 627 Pinewald-Keswick Road. The caucus meeting starts at 7, followed immediately by the regular council meeting. Most of the discussion and public comment takes place during the caucus meeting. Wednesday - Berkeley Township Board of Adjustment, Town Hall, 627 Pinewald-Keswick Road. The board will consider "The Cove On The Toms …
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Cleanup of site will begin next week, developer to pay costs
Larry Irons is going to be a busy man next week, if the weather holds up. Township officials have arranged for the longtime Bayville contractor to clean up the old Santo Marina site. The cost of the clean-up will be paid for by Ray Masucci, a Staten Island developer who bought the property from Paul Santo for $1.9 million nearly two years ago. "It's scary out there," Irons said late Friday afternoon during a tour of the site with Council President James J. Byrnes. "I've counted 25 boats so far. We counted 2,000 cement blocks." Byrnes, Mayor Carmen F. Amato Jr., Masucci and township Code Enforcer Kenneth Anderson met at the site earlier this week to determine what security measures to need to be taken and to iron out the details of the …
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12:50 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013
Holy hairdo.At least he has been in the trenches, not like the rest of the board, and understands just what goes on in the classroom, day by day. Consolidate, yes, consolidate. Please. more ›