Tuesday, October 24, 2006

CRIME AND NO PUNISHMENT IN LAKEWOOD

Editorial by Joyce Blay- Posted October 15, 2006

Half a year ago, the first story posted on NJ News & Views reported that a Lakewood developer was building an addition to his office on township land and that the township was doing nothing about it.

Nothing has changed since March.

Developer Raphael (Ralph) Zucker, whose 2-story office/retail building is located at 911 East County Line Road, is still building an addition on the former location of Twin Oaks Drive.

It is nearly completed.

A VERY UNPUBLIC DISCUSSION OF LAKEWOOD'S MASTER PLAN

Editorial by Joyce Blay- Posted October 3, 2006

It has been a week since a mayor's advisory committee presented its' recommendations to update Lakewood's Master Plan, but residents still can't read them on the township Web site.

The recommendations were presented at the September 26 meeting of the Lakewood Planning Board.

No public forum was held.

At the end of the meeting, members of the advisory committee and the planning board agreed to post the recommendations as a .PDF document on the Lakewood Township Web site.

As of October 3, the document had still not been posted.

On October 24 at 6 p.m., the planning board will hold a public hearing on the advisory committee's recommendations. That date is now three weeks away instead of one month.