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 …
Thursday, May 31, 2012
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 …
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 …
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