RED BANK: BOARD OKS NEW HEIGHT LIMITS

Oct 3, 2023

Navesink Riverside Residences and Marina (formerly Riverview Towers), center, and the Atrium at Navesink Harbor, to its right, are in the waterfront zone. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank’s planning board made quick work of approving two pending ordinances Monday night.

At a meeting that lasted just 13 minutes, the board found proposed changes to maximum building heights, and fees paid by developers in lieu of planting trees, did not conflict with the borough’s Master Plan.

October 3, 2023 - 10:20 am |

RED BANK: POT SHOP BUYS TIME

Jul 18, 2023

The Plug Naturals shop would replace a single-family house at 156 West Front Street if approved. (Google Maps photo. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Facing possible rejection over parking issues, representatives of a proposed Red Bank cannabis shop asked for time to revise their plans Monday night.

July 18, 2023 - 8:35 am |

RED BANK: POT SHOP, BAR PLANS ON AGENDA

Jul 17, 2023

Plug Naturals hopes to create a retail cannabis shop in an existing house on West Front Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Plans for yet another cannabis shop and an expansion of a popular bar are on the agenda when Red Bank’s newly reconstituted planning board meets for the first time Monday night.

July 17, 2023 - 8:21 am |

RED BANK: CANNABIS SHOP OK MAKES THREE

Jun 7, 2023

Monteverde NJ, at 45 North Bridge Avenue, hopes to strike a deal for 11 borough-owned spaces at the bend in Morford Place (marked in red at right). (Google Map. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Though none have yet opened, Red Bank now has three approved cannabis shops, following action by the planning board Monday night.

With an OK for Monteverde NJ to convert a former dry-cleaning shop, two pot retailers could open just steps apart on North Bridge Avenue.

June 7, 2023 - 4:00 pm |

RED BANK: ANOTHER CANNABIS SHOP ON DECK

Jun 5, 2023

Monteverde NJ hopes to open a marijuana store in a former dry cleaning shop on North Bridge Avenue. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Another would-be cannabis retailer goes before the Red Bank planning board Monday night.

The applicant, Monteverde NJ, seeks an OK to convert a former dry-cleaning shop on North Bridge Avenue to a pot shop.

June 5, 2023 - 7:00 am |

RED BANK: BILLBOARD HEARING DELAYED AGAIN

May 17, 2023

A 40-foot-tall digital billboard would replace the existing display at 187 Riverside Avenue if approved. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

A hearing on a plan to erect a giant digital billboard at Red Bank’s northern gateway has been put off until late summer.

UPDATE: The May 18 zoning board meeting has been cancelled, according to a May 17 notice on the borough website.

May 17, 2023 - 9:15 am |

RED BANK: CANNABIS SHOP OK’D

May 16, 2023

Canopy Crossroad plans to lease 9 West Street, a portion of a building that also houses Red Bank Liquors. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A proposed Red Bank marijuana shop that’s been a focal point in a running debate over cannabis zoning won approval from the borough planning board Monday night.

With a more welcoming council set to take office July 1, Canopy Crossroad now appears to have a clearer path to opening next door to Red Bank Liquors, though hurdles remain.

May 16, 2023 - 8:00 am |

RED BANK: TWO POT SHOPS UP FOR REVIEW

May 15, 2023

Plug Naturals LLC seeks board approval to create a cannabis store in a house on West Front Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

An effort to tighten Red Bank’s controversial cannabis business zoning law faces a double-barreled challenge Monday night.

That’s when the owners of two proposed pot shops that would be less than 350 feet apart go to the planning board. Both are expected to argue they comply with the 2021 law.

May 15, 2023 - 7:00 am |

RED BANK: NO DECISION ON CANNABIS SHOP

May 2, 2023

A rendering of the proposed home of Canopy Crossroad at 9 West Street, next door to Red Bank Liquors. (Rendering by Stephen Raciti Architect. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A plan for a retail cannabis shop in Red Bank ran into some of the same objections fueling an effort to rewrite where such businesses can operate in town Monday night.

Among them: that it’s too close to a school.

May 2, 2023 - 6:25 am |

RED BANK: CANNABIS SHOP ON AGENDA

May 1, 2023

An application to open a retail cannabis dispensary on West Street in Red Bank goes to the planning board Monday night – in the midst of a council effort to block it.

May 1, 2023 - 7:15 am |

RED BANK: BOARD REJECTS CANNABIS LAW

Apr 18, 2023

A proposed cannabis dispensary next door to Red Bank Liquors on West Street would be barred because it is within 1,000 feet of the Red Bank Charter School. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank’s pending cannabis zoning law does not comply with the borough’s Master Plan, the planning board found Monday night.

On a unanimous vote, the board rejected the controversial law, finding that it violates the plan’s goal of furthering economic development.

April 18, 2023 - 8:40 am |

RED BANK: AZALEA GARDENS PLAN ON AGENDA

Apr 17, 2023

Azalea Gardens would be built on Harding Road, between Clay Street and Hudson Avenue. (Google Maps photo. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank may get an update on a long-pending downtown housing project this week.

Also on planning and zoning agendas: an EV charger law, and proposed zoning for cannabis businesses.

April 17, 2023 - 7:15 am |

RED BANK: SMOKE, BUT NO FIRE ‘COMPANY’

Mar 7, 2023

The cannabis shop is slated to replace the China Moon restaurant on North Bridge Avenue. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A proposed cannabis store with the “terrible” name of “Red Bank Fire Company” will change its moniker before it opens in coming months, a representative said Monday night.

The business won planning board approval to open a marijuana dispensary in a North Bridge Avenue strip mall after promising to quickly end any confusion with the borough’s volunteer fire department.

March 7, 2023 - 8:00 am |

RED BANK: MASTER PLAN’S USE DEBATED

Feb 7, 2023

An illustration from the Master Plan section on affordable housing. (Image by BFJ Planning. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Concluding a 14-month process, the Red Bank planning board adopted the borough’s first new Master Plan in 28 years Monday night.

The unanimous vote followed spirited debate about whether the many recommendations in the 166-page document should be prioritized for council action.

February 7, 2023 - 7:57 am |

RED BANK: RACIAL IMAGE DRAWS FIRE

Feb 3, 2023

Zoning board member Sharon Lee addressing billboard company attorney Jennifer Krimko Thursday night. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A Red Bank zoning board member ripped into representatives of a billboard company for what she called an “offensive” depiction of black males in its application materials Thursday night.
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February 3, 2023 - 12:55 pm |

RED BANK: MASTER PLAN GETS WALK-THROUGH

Jan 24, 2023

Master Plan consultant Susan Favate addressing attendees Monday night. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A proposed new Master Plan for Red Bank drew little criticism in its public debut Monday night.

If adopted, as expected, the next challenge will be in prioritizing the many recommendations in the 166-page document, planning board members said.

January 24, 2023 - 11:00 am |

RED BANK: MASTER PLAN DRAFT ON AGENDA

Jan 20, 2023

Two long-dormant gas stations would be razed to create a roundabout at the northern gateway into Red Bank under one of many suggested changes included in a new draft Master Plan.

January 20, 2023 - 6:40 am |

RED BANK: MASTER PLAN ROLLOUT SET

Jan 10, 2023

Planning board chairman Dan Mancuso at a meeting in October. The board ‘endorsed’ the primary school garden, below. (Photos by John T. Ward and Red Bank schools. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A draft of Red Bank’s first new Master Plan in decades will be available for public review this week, planning officials said Monday night.

At its opening session of 2023, and the first ever available via Zoom, the planning board also ‘endorsed’ the learning garden at the borough’s primary school, and learned that, so far, there are no other applications pending.

January 10, 2023 - 10:00 am |

RED BANK: BANK DOWNSIZING AT CORNER

Dec 1, 2022

A sign recently installed outside one of Red Bank’s most prominent business addresses says there’s space “for lease” in the building, now home to a single tenant: Wells Fargo Bank.

What’s Going On Here?

December 1, 2022 - 7:00 am |

RED BANK: MASTER PLAN GETS MORE INPUT

Oct 25, 2022

Joseph Pallante writes a comment on a display as his daughter, Evalyse Pallante, looks on at a Red Bank Master Plan workshop Monday night.

October 25, 2022 - 6:40 am |

RED BANK: MASTER PLAN GETS MARKED UP

Oct 14, 2022

Gianna Maita-Edwards writes a comment on a display at the session. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

About two dozen Red Bank residents grabbed Sharpies to weigh in on the borough’s Master Plan Thursday night.

They gathered at the Red Bank Middle School despite heavy rain to share their thoughts on the first wholesale rewriting of the vision plan in almost three decades.

October 14, 2022 - 7:57 am |

RED BANK: MASTER PLAN INPUTS SLATED

Sep 20, 2022

Hackensack Meridian Health’s Riverview Medical Center and its holdings comprise one of three areas of town that will get special focus in the Master Plan. (Google Map from Monmouth County property records. Click green circles for site details.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank residents will have two opportunities to weigh in on the borough’s ongoing Master Plan update next month.

Among the topics: the future of three discrete sections of town, including the area around the sprawling Riverview Medical Center.

September 20, 2022 - 3:20 pm |

RED BANK: SAXUM CHANGES APPROVED

Apr 5, 2022

Architect Adrian Melji with a rendering of the revised project’s Bodman Place side looking northwest from Riverside Avenue. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Filling in a horseshoe void, Saxum Real Estate won planning board approval Monday night for changes to a massive apartment project in Red Bank.

April 5, 2022 - 7:57 am |

RED BANK: SAXUM SEEKS MORE BEDROOMS

Apr 1, 2022

Saxum’s project would be built on the vacant former Visiting Nurse Association headquarter site at 176 Riverside Avenue. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Two years after obtaining approval for a massive residential real estate project in Red Bank, Saxum Real Estate is heading back to the borough planning board in search of a booster.

April 1, 2022 - 11:16 am |

RED BANK: MASTER PLAN INPUT SOUGHT

Mar 29, 2022

The borough’s Master Plan consultant has created a website for public input. (Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Love it? Want to change it?

Red Bank residents and visitors can now weigh in on the borough’s Master Plan update-in-progress.

March 29, 2022 - 7:00 am |

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