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March 5, 2016
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Two More Hearings Planned For Great Adventure Solar Farm
1960s. He became Brick’s assistant superintendent of schools, allowing Auriemma Sr. to take over in 1963-64. “Coach Wolf began the program at the recreational level,” Auriemma Sr. recalled in a telephone interview while shoveling snow. “He got a bunch of boys together and they used old Brick football jerseys for their games.”
By Judy Smestad-Nunn OCEAN COUNTY – •RECOGNIZING New Jersey has some •ADDRESSING •PREVENTING 1,500 different gangs, and GANG ACTIVITY Ocean County alone has 114, said State’s Investigative Agent and gang expert, Edwin Torres, who recently
By Jennifer Peacock JACKSON – He wants any changes loophole-proof. Councilman Scott Martin asked that an ordinance amending rent control rules be tabled until its language “So now you’re be changed to en- providing an avenue sure that residents where there can be aren’t priced out of possible abuses of owners who have their homes. Municipal attor- gathered up homes.” –Councilman ney Jean Cipriani, Scott Martin whose office drafted the ordinance’s language, agreed to amend its wording. Ordinance 03-16 adds a subsection to the township’s Chapter 334 “Rent Control for Apartments and Mobile Home Parks.” The proposed language of subsection 14 states: “All affordable housing inclusionary sites with a set aside of a minimum of 15 percent of affordable housing shall be exempt from the rent control provisions of this chapter for any units receiving an initial certificate of occupancy after March 15, 2016.” So what is the problem? Martin said once that site has a subsequent certificate of occupancy, it may mean the home is no longer rent-controlled. “There’s specific language in the ordinance that provides any time a new [Certificate of Occupancy] was approved, that they would not fall under the rent control provisions. And with so many mobile park home owners owning units within their own mobile home park, it means anytime someone moves out and a new person moves in, that new person will no longer be under rent control,” Martin told The Jackson Times. The amount a rent-controlled home can
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–Photos by The Jackson Times The hearing for Great Adventure’s site plan for a solar array continues, with the applicant testifying and opposition responding, such as environmentalists, their attorney Michele Donato (above left), and citizens weigh in. Background image: KDC Solar’s array at a Monmouth County site. By Jennifer Peacock JACKSON – With testimony, cross examinations, and comments close to topping the 30-hour mark, the Planning Board will likely hold at least two more hearings in March before possibly voting on the Great Adventure and KDC Solar’s solar array project. The Planning Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. March 7 and 21 at the municipal building.
Solar Farm To Fuel Six Flags Experts for the applicant, and those from the environmental groups opposed to the plan, will continue to be heard, explaining more of the site plan. Great Adventure is seeking to clear a portion of its forest and put a solar farm there and elsewhere in the park – including the parking lot – to harness enough solar power to run the entire theme park’s operations.
Ice Hockey Still On Fire After Decades Of Growth
By Chris Christopher The name Bob Auriemma Sr. is synonymous with New Jersey ice hockey. The legendary Brick Township High School coach has seen it all – beginning with the birth of the Green Dragons’ program in the 1960s. Warren Wolf, who retired a few years back as the state’s career wins leader in football, founded the ice hockey program in the early
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The plan was met with controversy from environmental groups and some residents who feared the clear-cutting of forest to build the solar array. Great Adventure submitted a revised site plan, in a planning board hearing that has lasted several months. The attorney for environmental groups, Michele Donato, will have the opportunity to cross examine witnesses and offer (Solar - See Page 21)
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