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The Sentinel-Ledger
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Thursday, March 19,1987
Page 2, Section Two
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, March 19,1087 Page 3
r E$TAT,
"The golden goose
That's the way the president of the Upper
Township Board of Education described it recently
in discussing how the building boom has sent
School enrollments soaring with the result that
the school tax rate in the township is shooting up
53 percent this year
No longer can Upper residents and, especially,
homeowners be swure in the
e that revenues from the electric com
[enerating station in Beesley's Point will
pany
provide the near free ride that township tax
payers have grown accustomed to
Things aren't hopeless by any means After all,
the millions of dollars coming in via the gross
receipts and franchise tax still enable the Township
Committee to put together a municipal
budget needing no local taxes.
But the handwriting is clearly on the blackboard.
This year, for example, the Committee
members are cutting back on the amount of funds
they have traditionally given the School Board
to subsidize the schools and keep the school tax
down,
Officials are fearful the amount the township
gets in the way of free money from the electric
utility will gradually be decreasing as other
municipalities across the state clamor for a
bigger piece of the gross receipts pie.
The people crunch is very real now in the
township It's no longer just a possibility that
more people will bring more demands on government
services.
Besides higher school taxes and the serious
consideration of a regionalized school system,
what's next? A police department, A paid fire
department. City water,,,
The country's being taken out of the township.
Zoning Board Chairman
Adams* March $ litter waa a
Unfortunately, the
review
man ii mistaken in his
response to several of the
points I tried to make in my
description of thecritique of the Board,
of the Board, ami I First, the purpose of the
hcaitate to disagree with him, ordinance passed In May 1986
You see, he supported my was not to "restrain growth
within th§ city" but to
Boards (todaion W grant a 5- mfc-ftin bulk development on
individual lots, It deab with
variance next door to ourbuilding bulk and lot
Ledger: All
te talk about beach tags has
gotten to me. I do not mind the
in beach Up, but let's
the good help to see that
I go to North Street beach
and have for years, I blow at
toast 10 people who never buy
a beach tag and the people
who art suppose to stt that
We thus asked the
mayor repu
to
they have them art very
As soon SJ the sunbaiher
puts up an argument, the
taggers Just walk away,
I feel If you don't have a tag,
then buy or get oft the beach,
Why have a law If you don't
enforce it? *
Let's get the taggers to do a
better Job,
G.& Mmn
Ocean City
impact
restrict construction neit Is about 20 feet and doter to the d than
door to I
Erst floor is set hack about 57 the
within the
feet from the bulkhead; so The Board, however,
limits — Moot height and a without variances the newelected to approve, with
30-foot setback from the duplex could be built I feel
a super monster 10 feet higher
(WtarUy I hold a low opinion
of litter writtri who use
phony namn o^ evtii worfe,
the eld fimlllar "name
withhiid upon requeit,"
which latter should be
outlawedi
However, I find I
agree In principle with the
point brought out by one Art
B Bombast (whoeverhe Is) in
your March 12 edition,
regarding the proposed
Wgalizatlon of serving wine
and beer in Ocean City
Local
I enjoy a drink as do many
of my friends, but somehow I
restaurants. In-
for over 100 years
new L _
A.B, Bombast U corrtet ta meals in Ocean CJ
that such a restaurants without such
lubrication. If I must have a
cocktail, I head out of town, it
bide concept of the cam-iprecedent that future en-
Aat simple.
As a lifelong resident and a
former editor of your paper, I
trepreneurs could readily use strongly urge City Council to
In court to argue that If Ocean not even seriously
City has gone this far, it
logically should go all the way measure. It can only lead to
j.too. more trouble down the lire.
along
time ago: There is no tuch
as being a little bit
and 3* feet
10 bedrooms.
Ttm chairman's tetter goes
on to deny that every variance
request under the new ordinance
was approved. I have
reviewed the public record of
every Board meeting in 1986
Ordinance 86-10. Every
was
note — ThU ft a
aMmfiFlatter to At
mtmbri
have no MH that
merchants wire sot ta
Many of the atom owncra to
have bad a cmtoraer
on oar
nta
No matter what ipe«d limit
would be set, the majority of
cuttssm fett It would be
current parttng arm
oui. and wh.t mo-t
want too.
elopment
and
that Council
the workings of the appointed
Board of Zoning Adjustment
and its Impact on lot over-
£ Chqffln
Editor,
It Is tine that none of the There is no Sentinel-Ledger
s action* has been
(
overturned. None his yetbeer md wto in
been heard. Most cases are hem, Feb. 19) from Mr. Stuart
not appealed to the court
di the
because of the legal corta to g
In
the appellant and the the people and government of
prevailing belief that you
can't beat city hall
trary
that it Is acting conto
the new
We have, accordingly,
asked our councilman to
Ocean City. But when la it
necessary for the majority to
team to live with or adjust to
the desires of those In the
ninority? That is unwanted
ange. "
It aeems to me that Mr.
beverages for a
srfftag to vane
large perttfitaie of
Do
g
cmn J» U'
"Sorry* yon can*t
flswaT Many of tb» coo-"
thU WM not fair at aH
m trice is my ttoi pto n
would gun Bm *
In addition, we ham
lined in
oordance with toll
bow imfij
planted along the four
new comfortable
Mia that would be Inand
cause a probabie ton tat.
eur
chan
Wallace Hardware Inc,
Man letters
on next
tbat of a con
resident or
Sounds more like that
sharp ftalcimannhlp.
Your
looking for a family
moipheri In which these
afcoholic tastes can I
privately at homt.
Tarn,
tcutto Director
NtwJ
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