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SAVE BARNEGAT BAY UNVEILS TRADERS COVE PARK PLAN
Date: 28 May 2004
From: Wmdecamp@cs.com
SAVE BARNEGAT BAY UNVEILS
A VISION OF TRADERS COVE AS A PUBLIC PARK
Save Barnegat Bay has posted on the Internet its vision of what the
Traders Cove site in Brick Township could look like as a public park.
The concept plan is available for viewing at
http://www.savebarnegatbay.org.
"We respect the fact that the property is privately owned," said
Jennifer O'Reilly, who is Associate Executive Director of Save
Barnegat Bay, and who created the concept plan. "But we are trying to
get public officials and others thinking creatively about the many
activities involving people that could occur there."
Save Barnegat Bay sees in the eleven-acre site an unprecedented
opportunity for a model public park because of its long waterfront,
its immediate proximity to a the Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge,
and its location on a County Road, Route 528. Among the activities the
group envisions as possible at Traders Cove are:
- Docks and a boardwalk for fishing and crabbing.
- A modest public marina that could meet the costs of maintenance and
some of the cost of acquisition.
- A public boat launch.
- A canoe and kayak launch.
- A facility for a marine science education, a nautical museum and/or
a community sailing center. - An entrance to the nature trails of
the adjacent Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge with an interpretive
kiosk.
- Use of the existing bay beach for walking and seining.
- A modest outdoor theatre-in-the-round.
- Gazebos, a picnic area, and benches. - A children's playground.
- Parking for those fishing off the remaining portion old Rt. 528
Bridge, which the County of Ocean plans to leave as a public pier.
In May the Brick Township Council overturned by a vote of five to
zero an approval by the zoning board that would have allowed fifty-two
condominiums, a restaurant and an expanded marina. The site does have
a Coastal Area Facility Review Act permit from the New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection that is being contested in
appellate court by Save Barnegat Bay and the Association of New Jersey
Environmental Commissions.
Traders Cove, which is located at the northwest foot of the
Mantoloking Bridge, sits within a five mile radius of well over one
hundred thousand people.
"A major problem in the shore area is lack of public access to the
water, both for boats and for people's enjoyment of the recreational
aspects of the shoreline," said O'Reilly. "This use of the property
would lessen those problems."
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Contact: Jennifer O'Reilly or Willie deCamp, 732-830-3600
Save Barnegat Bay
906-B Grand Central Avenue
Lavallette, NJ 08735
http://www.savebarnegatbay.org
Date: 28 May 2004
From: Wmdecamp@cs.com
SAVE BARNEGAT BAY UNVEILS
A VISION OF TRADERS COVE AS A PUBLIC PARK
Save Barnegat Bay has posted on the Internet its vision of what the
Traders Cove site in Brick Township could look like as a public park.
The concept plan is available for viewing at
http://www.savebarnegatbay.org.
"We respect the fact that the property is privately owned," said
Jennifer O'Reilly, who is Associate Executive Director of Save
Barnegat Bay, and who created the concept plan. "But we are trying to
get public officials and others thinking creatively about the many
activities involving people that could occur there."
Save Barnegat Bay sees in the eleven-acre site an unprecedented
opportunity for a model public park because of its long waterfront,
its immediate proximity to a the Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge,
and its location on a County Road, Route 528. Among the activities the
group envisions as possible at Traders Cove are:
- Docks and a boardwalk for fishing and crabbing.
- A modest public marina that could meet the costs of maintenance and
some of the cost of acquisition.
- A public boat launch.
- A canoe and kayak launch.
- A facility for a marine science education, a nautical museum and/or
a community sailing center. - An entrance to the nature trails of
the adjacent Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge with an interpretive
kiosk.
- Use of the existing bay beach for walking and seining.
- A modest outdoor theatre-in-the-round.
- Gazebos, a picnic area, and benches. - A children's playground.
- Parking for those fishing off the remaining portion old Rt. 528
Bridge, which the County of Ocean plans to leave as a public pier.
In May the Brick Township Council overturned by a vote of five to
zero an approval by the zoning board that would have allowed fifty-two
condominiums, a restaurant and an expanded marina. The site does have
a Coastal Area Facility Review Act permit from the New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection that is being contested in
appellate court by Save Barnegat Bay and the Association of New Jersey
Environmental Commissions.
Traders Cove, which is located at the northwest foot of the
Mantoloking Bridge, sits within a five mile radius of well over one
hundred thousand people.
"A major problem in the shore area is lack of public access to the
water, both for boats and for people's enjoyment of the recreational
aspects of the shoreline," said O'Reilly. "This use of the property
would lessen those problems."
* * *
Contact: Jennifer O'Reilly or Willie deCamp, 732-830-3600
Save Barnegat Bay
906-B Grand Central Avenue
Lavallette, NJ 08735
http://www.savebarnegatbay.org