Berkeley Dispatch

How Much Is Too Much?

Residents not happy with proposed density in redevelopment of old Santo Marina in Bayville

  When Staten Island developer Ray Masucci took to the microphone at a recent Zoning Board meeting, he posed the question many in the audience wanted to ask. "Why 19 houses?" he asked. Masucci said when he first laid eyes on the defunct Santo Marina site off Williams Street in Bayville, he thought he was the "prettiest" site he'd ever seen in his life. But his plans to build 19 three-story single-family homes on the riverfront site didn't sit well with most of the nearly 100 people who showed up at a special Board of Adjustment meeting on May 23. It also didn't sit well with zoning board planner Anna Wainwright, who hammered Masucci and well-known Ocean County attorney John Paul Doyle with questions. Masucci says he has to build 19 homes …

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Residents Pack Controversial Santo Marina Zoning Board Meeting; Matter Carried Until June 27

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 …

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