Planning Board Denies 7-Eleven Application
A noise ordinance prohibiting 24-hour businesses all but sealed the deal for a developer looking to convert a convenience store into a 7-Eleven.
Though Philip San Filippo, the attorney for Dina Enterprises, was able to give his closing remarks Monday night, the culmination of a months-long application set before the Red Bank Planning Board to convert a Welsh Farms convenience store on Front Street into a 7-Eleven, it might not have mattered much. With a recently instituted quality of life ordinance prohibiting new businesses from operating 24-hours a day within 100 feet of a residential neighborhood, the board, technically, had no other choice but to deny the application on the grounds that it did not fall within the restrictions of borough law. Dina Enterprises had been looking for site plan approval to construct an expansion to house a refrigerator, include illuminated signs, and…
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9:30 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012
Rbresident I could not agree more RB is a lost town. The asbury downtown area has better restaurants and shops and it only took a couple years to make significant changes. The town council and mayor need to go in RB. more ›