{"id":44,"date":"2026-08-30T23:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/2026\/08\/30\/planning-and-zoning-inaction-in-red-bank\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:25:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:25:01","slug":"planning-and-zoning-inaction-in-red-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/2026\/08\/30\/planning-and-zoning-inaction-in-red-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning and Zoning Inaction in Red Bank."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Just strolled by the new One Globe Court on one of Red Bank&#8217;s more historic streets.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Once again concerned about the safety of this largely wooden building and also when apartments are going to be on sale. Given the glut of <i>&#8220;luxury apartments&#8221;<\/i> in the town I suppose a delay is inevitable.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>But my main concern today is the encroachment beyond the property line and immediately up to the sidewalk which is also compromised by an overhang and the massive utility poles set in the sidewalk which must surely reduce its specification below Complete Streets and ADA requirements.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjbQWI3yjnPAx5VoMrkaXHUxOmQMhK4DKS5H3_TJl2f_zig9eKksEdMYznKPwMcZmXBSlz51qBpCsTOG4HgYYpuK-Keu3sYK3FGI3baiLx9gEPXGJCj8EVcpEQRpJdKdhdJw7ZuHTxRerWfMNQS9iVmy1moYnJMPFMrkQkgcnuWHRVMW17yzgE89Ir-xSfL\/s2400\/mechanic01.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1350\" data-original-width=\"2400\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mechanic01.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-47\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i>One Globe Ct, August 2026, sidewalk security measures looking rather battered and well&#8230; unsafe&#8230;<\/i><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Planning\/Zoning boards approval of this development was a travesty. Yes, I attended all the meetings and listened to all the reports, even the &#8220;traffic engineer&#8217;s&#8221; rather imaginative submission&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEinVsf0C6YRZlc4hvvDJazCvYIjkvdUxguL5z2u9z4WUMTjcnjdh1pl5_iPdJ_8nwyoRsLPqkT7hyphenhyphenYswCeq3K4E94sxYiGpQj8IZcyTH0Xv74JwuWA7h590vS3aa9t0YOSeUQHo3d6WtdjJu8_opkNPQ-rYoUFnCtXWCk_gU4LWYqkgTT8ug0Rwq2eoeufe\/s2400\/mechanic02.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1350\" data-original-width=\"2400\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mechanic02.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-54\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i>One Globe Court September 2025&#8230; Don&#8217;t mention cladding, fire resistance or utility overload&#8230;<\/i><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiFrRIrQoAHA4TFowE4_S0I3eXpeiKG9C-ObjgqRDE_zLozETs9JXuUptaLDpkh7DNr4tjc8hn6gjUnOhlVMPLzthgvM_1S38r7Dq377N7kjlotzIXSUjHJmidoETLyD_N_kTSiuHLJesfwDaG1DggcacbA3Q77JPMXKqcCeHUS5uiu8wzenkRGlP6BFxXY\/s2400\/mechanic03.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1351\" data-original-width=\"2400\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mechanic03.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-60\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Red Bank heritage &#8220;ghost signage&#8221; ground up without record under One Globe Court &#8211; June 2024<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just strolled by the new One Globe Court on one of Red Bank&#8217;s more historic streets. Once again concerned about the safety of this largely wooden building and also when apartments are going to be on sale. Given the glut of &#8220;luxury apartments&#8221; in the town I suppose a delay is inevitable.&nbsp;But my main concern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/2026\/08\/30\/planning-and-zoning-inaction-in-red-bank\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planning and Zoning Inaction in Red Bank.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,47,48,49,50,21,35,51,52,53],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ada","tag-complete-streets","tag-ghost-signs","tag-heritage","tag-mechanic-street","tag-planning-zoning","tag-red-bank","tag-traffic-study","tag-utilities","tag-utility-poles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}