Friday, November 2, 2012
A meeting postponed because of Hurricane Sandy will be held later this month.
A meeting between the administration and residents of the Historic District to discuss residential parking has been rescheduled. It will now be held Tues., Nov. 27 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Paul's Church. The meeting, initially scheduled for Mon., Oct. 29, was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy. On the agenda is residential parking in the Historic District. The County is implementing a new parking program which includes a mobile phone application that shows the user where available spots are in the Historic District and the addition of multi-space parking meters on Main Street and Maryland Ave. When the new parking program was announced on Aug. 21, there was no plan for a residential parking plan. Planning and Zoning Director of Special Projects …
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Official says meeting with residents will be rescheduled.
A meeting scheduled for Monday evening to discuss parking options for residents of the Historic District has been postponed due to Hurricane Sandy. Steve Lafferty, in the county's Planning and Zoning Department, said Sunday afternoon that although the weather is unpredictable, "All indications are that we will not want to encourage people to be on the roads for a meeting." Hurricane Sandy is scheduled to reach New Jersey late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, but high winds and heavy rains are expected to begin Sunday night. Lafferty said the meeting will be rescheduled. "I am sorry we have to change the date but I believe it is the wiser path," he wrote in an email. The meeting was scheduled to discuss ways to incorporate …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
The county will meet with Historic District residents to discuss a residential parking plan.
The new Main Street parking program announced by Ken Ulman in August may be getting a tweak. In a letter sent to residents, the Department of Planning and Zoning Director of Special Projects Steve Lafferty announced a meeting at the end of the month to “provide you information about how [the parking program] will work and to discuss how residential parking may be addressed.” At a meeting on Aug. 21, Ulman announced a plan to install multi-space parking meters on Main Street and Maryland Avenue and the introduction of Parker, a phone application that uses underground sensors to map out where, at any moment, there are available parking spaces. The plan was guided in part by a study done in 2009 by Desman Associates (attached). One of the …
Peter Edelen
3:12 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
The residents meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday November 27th, 6:30pm at new NEC building at St. Pauls Church, per an e-mail from Steve Lafferty this morning. more ›