Red Bank Fund Raiser

In April of 2007 I was invited to a Red Bank Democratic Fund Raiser. Invitation to Red Bank Democratic Fund Raiser. This is where I met Rich Kosenski of T & M Engineering the Red Bank Borough Engineer. I was introduced to him by Mayor Menna to speak about my project going before the Red Bank Planning Board. Rich said “What’s your problem why won’t you just go to the zoning board?” I said I was concerned about the amount of projects before the zoning board which would delay the approval and that the monthly carrying costs were very expensive. He said with a laugh “I know it is”. He said he would see what he could do and also said “Why did you drop the original project (BLT) we would have approved that”.  BLT was a very controversal project with double  the amount of units permitted in the zone.  Danny Murphy and Pat Nulle were principals in the BLT project. I was told if I was approved by the zoning board for the old approval it could be again appealed in the courts as it exceeded the zoning density requirements. I had also been blocked by the town on the original rehearing and thought they wanted residential over retail as per Rivercenter requirements. It is also interesting to note that on the one hand he is telling me that they would re-approve a double density project but at the same time he was telling me that the new project was exceeding the density allowed and why they were concerned with the new plans. As we later find out what started out as the original 17 condos in one building became 20 condos in 5 buildings that conformed to the zoning requirements, so density was never really the issue. The most recent approvals now have 57 units in two buildings.