"10th Avenue Freeze, You're Arrested"
"Drop the ping pong paddle and step away from the table." (Belmar Police Officer)
The Asbury Park Press has good editorial today about the efforts of Belmar’s elected officials to outlaw fun. Although I agree with the editorial, and like Belmar as a summer party town, maybe there are investment opportunities available given the town’s new priorities and direction. The housing stock in Belmar is pretty attractive in my opinion and some of the larger houses that are now filled with summer renters would probably make nice single-family year- round residences – more like what Avon has. In other words, if fun is eventually to be outlawed altogether in Belmar, maybe a nice house can be bought there for 80% of the cost of what a similar house would cost you one mile north (Avon) or one mile south (Spring Lake.)
“In its ongoing campaign to subdue rowdy renters and visitors, the Belmar Borough Council has adopted an ordinance to prohibit any outdoor alcohol-related games or contests, such as "beer pong."
We understand Belmar's attempts to improve the quality of life for its residents by enforcing noise ordinances and ticketing overcrowded rentals. But to tell people they can't play a game in their own yard — regardless of whether they are creating a disturbance? That's going too far.”
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The Asbury Park Press has good editorial today about the efforts of Belmar’s elected officials to outlaw fun. Although I agree with the editorial, and like Belmar as a summer party town, maybe there are investment opportunities available given the town’s new priorities and direction. The housing stock in Belmar is pretty attractive in my opinion and some of the larger houses that are now filled with summer renters would probably make nice single-family year- round residences – more like what Avon has. In other words, if fun is eventually to be outlawed altogether in Belmar, maybe a nice house can be bought there for 80% of the cost of what a similar house would cost you one mile north (Avon) or one mile south (Spring Lake.)
“In its ongoing campaign to subdue rowdy renters and visitors, the Belmar Borough Council has adopted an ordinance to prohibit any outdoor alcohol-related games or contests, such as "beer pong."
We understand Belmar's attempts to improve the quality of life for its residents by enforcing noise ordinances and ticketing overcrowded rentals. But to tell people they can't play a game in their own yard — regardless of whether they are creating a disturbance? That's going too far.”
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posted by Little_Silvered at 8:53 PM
2 Comments:
poor belmar! when will the mayor there stop!!! hasn't he sold out enough of the town to mcmansion people. yes, all he wants there is rich white people who; don't eat, don't like to have fun (there too busy making money) and, who can't dance! what a great fun town it was. once dj's goes, it will be all over. bring on the higher interest rates! stop the bubble and stop mayor pringle from destroying belmar and the fun it has brought so many of us and so many of us to come. i lived there for years, we used to love the summers with all of the kids and the new friends we would make and all of the fun! who needs snotty rich people!
rbyzell
I'm originally from Wall (West Belmar section). All I have to say is, Go Pringle. He's elected by the people of Belmar, not by the angry drunken bennies who want to play beer pong on their lawns. Let them rent somewhere else, and let the people of Belmar and the surrounding towns have their beach back.
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