{"id":73,"date":"2026-07-18T07:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/2026\/07\/18\/behind-curtain-in-land-of-oz-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:25:05","slug":"behind-curtain-in-land-of-oz-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/2026\/07\/18\/behind-curtain-in-land-of-oz-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the curtain in the Land of Oz, Part II &#8211; Tactical Withdrawal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Red Bank NJ: Thursday&#8217;s Zoning Board meeting saw apartment developers, Incredible OZ, withdraw their application to build 14 units on a derelict single-family plot on the congested and polluted Shrewsbury Avenue corridor.<\/b><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh1jkhlYRCPnM6tqrLfOFImlqssJ3upqZWkD5DtSoqYCe877zianADOrIkpZ5xZssklp7RFS9ofWutFwoimtxWr8yANZWNh7LuUXGmBrPqD4zsMm1oCUl0hhNzXbx41BvZ1EA681e5zVC7FuFQsJ6SQrU97gzOdgdQssdLz78L6wngQN6w6A4g1uZ4YWec7\/s914\/240Shrews.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"914\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/240Shrews.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-77\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i><span style=\"color: #134f5c;\">AIslop view of one block of the proposed units to the&nbsp;<br \/>usual standard of Red Bank &#8220;architecture&#8221;&#8230;<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The developers were seeking extensive variances from the town&#8217;s code and there were also several business and commercial code variations and deletions which needed to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, no one, not even the board, could acknowledge the recent public &#8211; <i>well, on Facebook anyway<\/i> &#8211; debate on the rate and quality of development in the town. Nevertheless staunch Ready! Faithfuls <i>&#8211; and realtors &#8211;<\/i> on the board continued to express their support.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whilst many on the board failed to catch the pervading community zeitgeist, at least Incredible OZ seemed to realise the issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redbankgreen.com\/2026\/07\/red-bank-developers-withdraw-shrewsbury-ave-apartment-plan-for-now07172026\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>redbankgreen&#8217;s report<\/i><\/a> quoted the developers lawyer as saying they&#8217;d be back with a&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cbetter product,\u201d.&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;It will be fascinating to see what they mean by that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bank NJ: Thursday&#8217;s Zoning Board meeting saw apartment developers, Incredible OZ, withdraw their application to build 14 units on a derelict single-family plot on the congested and polluted Shrewsbury Avenue corridor. AIslop view of one block of the proposed units to the&nbsp;usual standard of Red Bank &#8220;architecture&#8221;&#8230; The developers were seeking extensive variances from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/2026\/07\/18\/behind-curtain-in-land-of-oz-part-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Behind the curtain in the Land of Oz, Part II &#8211; Tactical Withdrawal&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77,"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":[72,73,74,19,68,21,75],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-affordable-homes","tag-code","tag-community","tag-development","tag-environment","tag-planning-zoning","tag-shrewsbury-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskrat.me\/iskrat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}