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- No new covid cases in Lakewood over last few days totals remain at 13,721/309
- Over a dozen GOP Lawmakers call for Biden to undergo a cognitive test and release the results
- Murphy announces N.J. reaches goal of vaccinating 4.7M against COVID-19
- CDC Director Walensky says "these cases of mild heart inflammation, the risks of that which are quite rare, are overwhelmed by the benefit of getting vaccinated," when asked about 300+ reports of heart inflammation in adolescents who received COVID vaccine
- Yated Ne'eman: Lakewood planning board members say that neighbors don't have to be told that a school contains a wedding hall in the plans if it is not a stand alone building. they can approve the plan without notification. Residents questioned the yashrus of sneaking in a wedding hall and not letting the neighbors have an opportunity to object to a hall in their backyard with cars driving in and out late at night. The board approved the application without renoticing.
- Lakewood mayor blames county for traffic: At the township committee meeting a resident asked what is being done about the traffic situation and how many engineers are working on it. The mayor said it is a top priority and plan on setting up a meeting with residents and Ocean county officials as there are areas that the township feels are not adequately being addressed by the county. The mayor said there are up to 12 engineers constantly working to fix the traffic. Watch video here at end of meeting
- Rental market shortage of available apartments newlywed couples are faced with signing 1-2 year lease with current high prices
- Off shabbos for boys elementary schools. Rebbeim from many schools will spend shabbos at a retreat in Connecticut.
- New turning lanes installed to and from the new Chateau Grande shopping center on Route 9. (LNN)
- More foxes spotted in Lakewood. Fox Tests Positive For Rabies After Biting Jackson Child
The Ocean County Health Department says two other people reported being bitten by a fox in the same neighborhood where the child lives. The incident happened in the neighborhood between Aldrich Road and West Connecticut Concourse. The child is undergoing post-exposure prophylaxis for rabies, health officials said
After the girl was bitten, Jackson Township Animal Control captured the fox, which died shortly thereafter. The health department has received two more reports of fox bites in the same neighborhood over the same two-day span, officials said. (Patch)
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ReplyDeleteWhat chutzpah of the mayor to blame the county for all the traffic and take no responsibility. It is the approvals of the township boards with no regard to any of the infrastructure that caused all the traffic
ReplyDeleteYou’re correct. It’s the wild west policies of our land use boards that approve almost anything that comes their way, without considering the negative impacts to our insufficient infrastructure.
DeleteAnd now they want to build a bunch of wedding halls in every school without even telling any of the residents about it.. Take a look at this week’s Yated, at page 90.
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"without considering the negative impacts to our insufficient "
ReplyDeletethey're quite content ruining for the avg decent fellow
they do consider it
These halls are built in schools with large campuses, and the neighbors are not within the noise area. The traffic for a wedding is minimal, as it is not during peak traffic hours. The schools need halls to help subsidize the operation, and hopefully, more manageable tuition costs.
ReplyDeleteThese neighbors need to harp on the bigger issues in town, like the many developments with only one point of entry/exit, causing huge traffic jams at all times of the day. Cul-de-sacs add to traffic issues, and there should be a moratorium on them.
that is your opinion but it doesn't explain why neighbors should not even be told that halls are being planned for their neighborhood and are not given the opportunity to have their own opinion.
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DeleteYou are wrong. Many of these schools do not have large campuses. The cars are forced to park illegally and unsafely when attending the Simcha Halls. There are too often heavy traffic jams as a direct result of the nuisance.
The fact that the schools want to make money and its operators get bigger salaries is no excuse to destroy an overburdened infrastructure in those areas. What's the heter to destroy a neighborhood so an "institution" can make more money. There is none. Let them come with a normal site plan that can truly accommodate the parking and traffic needs.
There are several current lawsuits against these unscrupulous school-based Simcha Halls that come into a residential and even commercial neighborhoods and destroy everything. The Planning Board is also getting sued for being derelict in protecting us when they know full well what's really going on. That's another reason why our property taxes cost so much.
This is beside the fact that these schools hide the intended use as a Simcha Hall in their legally required Notice to the neighbors. Instead they use creative words like "Auditorium", "Social Hall", "Multi-Purpose room", "ancillary use", and "call-it-anything-but-simcha-hall room" to circumvent the laws. If everything is kosher, then why are they so afraid to disclose the truth?
And there's more.. These schools also don't bother telling the County Planning Department about their true "business" plans and they just say it's a school. This way the residents don't get their infrastructure properly upgraded to accommodate the huge spikes in traffic.
Is that fair? Is that yashrus? In Yiddishkeit we do not believe that the ends justify the means!
You say 'large campuses'?? What on earth does that even mean? Of course they're 'large', but so what if the parking lots are still "not large enough".
DeleteJust because a wedding hall can fit 300 cars doesn't mean that when 700 cars come to the Simcha that's it's anywhere near big enough.
Just look at Lake Terrace. Will you honestly say that they have enough parking for many of their events. The caterer himself already takes up a few dozen spots for his trucks and storage units. Let's be real about this problem.
I was obviously referring to those schools that have large areas, and the neighbors are not directly affected in a negative way. I no way approved of schools hiding their intention. But the blanket "let's stop the construction" by "neighbors" needs to be moderated and put into context. Yes, at times it's warranted, but it is overused. As for Lake Terrace, there are no residents being bothered by it, and the neighboring companies are not in operation during the wedding times, and are minimally affected.
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ReplyDeleteOak St. will soon be known as the Simcha Hall Capital of America. The current applications being heard, tell that will be at least 5 huge Halls in the span of a few blocks. The schools are already fighting about redirecting the traffic away from their Hall because of the expected gridlock impact. To make matters even worse, the township will be removing the on-street parking on Oak which will impact the guests visiting the Halls due to the already insufficient number of available off-street parking. And there are more applications coming in the pipeline for that area.
DeleteBut the problem becomes much greater when these Simcha Halls come into residential neighborhoods without Noticing the residents. In the Ridge Avenue area for instance, there's a school applicant that never bothered notifying the residents about the huge Hall he's building with a joke-of-a-size parking lot at only 78 non-handicapped spots. He also never told the County which owns the surrounding narrow roadways about his business plans. The neighbors are furious about the terrible gridlock that will keep them from getting in or out of their homes. But hey, the poor school operator needs to make money and that makes it all okay!
please! little hakaros hatov for our mosdos!!
ReplyDeleteHakaros hatov should never be misplaced. I have no problem sending them donations, taking out ads in their dinner journals, and sending thank-you cards or chanukah gifts to the wonderful teachers. But what does that have to do with destroying my neighborhood and frustrating the many families that live in my area, and making us lose hours upon hours of our lives because they robbed us of the opportunity to add our concerns about the Simcha Halls they - were supposed to but - never told us about?!
DeleteCan only Cry Wolf "Hakaras Hatov" how many so many
Deletefor so many as you are Doing them a bigger favour because you validate their existence than they're are doing you
In my experience, when someone demands hakoras hatov, hold your wallet tight. That is just the minute before the knife enters your flesh.
DeleteHow about mosdos having hakoras hatov to the public? Why is it one way?
Wow, you obviously have no idea how much mesiras nefesh the school owners give for your children...
DeleteLet's hear how much 'messiras nefesh' they have? Messiras whose nefesh?
DeleteIf it cost so much, nobody would ever fight over ownership of a mossad, right? Nobody ever fought over a Kollel, because it isn't a profit maker.
Time to Build wedding halls in Jackson and Howell
ReplyDeleteI agree. Let these banquet hall facilities buy large tracts of land in neighboring towns where the area is zoned for these Halls, and provide for a normal site plan that provides the 700 to 1000 parking spaces needed. It'll actually be a simcha to drive to the simcha!
DeleteWhat they're doing here is totally unfair to the tzibbur. We can't drive anywhere anymore!
It’s fine. It’s not a shul so it’s ok...
DeleteUntil the cost of the wedding increases $5k, then everyone will be asking why.
DeleteAnd now you know why the only building closed because of covid is the township building. The powers to be who control the committee are keeping the public away while they approve applications without giving the public an oppurtunity to have input or voice their concerns. The excuse that it is closed for public safety for the health of Police dosent fly after the town had a george Floyd protest during the height of covid with no care for the safety of the officers or any social distancing
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