Friday, September 9, 2011
Council votes 3-2 to submit pre-application to state's Green Acres program to host radio tower and building
Lake Como officials are forging ahead to remove property restrictions in Behrmann Park that could clear the way for the owners of WRAT-FM to erect a new radio communications tower on state-protected land. By a 3-2 vote, the borough council decided Tuesday night to submit the required "pre-application" for a diversion of 4,000 square feet of parkland to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Green Acres program on behalf of WRAT's owner, Greater Media, Inc. Council members Brian Wilton, Patricia Tzibrouk and Jared Cohen voted in favor of the controversial resolution to submit the paperwork to NJDEP. Councilmen Douglas Witte and Kevin Lynch cast the two opposing votes. Councilwoman Marni McFadden-Lee was absent. How …
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Council moves toward sending Green Acres diversion application to state Department of Environmental Protection.
Borough officials have sunk the idea of floating a referendum this November on the proposed move of the WRAT-FM tower from Main Street to Behrmann Park. Although Mayor Michael Ryan says he and the borough council have heard plenty from residents opposed to the proposal to raise a new, 533-foot-high radio communications tower in the Green Acres-protected park near Margerum and 22nd avenues, they have heard from just as many residents favoring that plan. Those who would like to see the existing 300-foot-high tower removed from the borough’s downtown are frustrated that it remains in place despite six years of discussion about dismantling it, Ryan said during Tuesday night’s council meeting. “For every letter that comes in saying ‘Don’t move …
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Motion filed to join Spring Lake in lawsuit against borough officials who favor allowing 533-foot-high WRAT tower in Behrmann Park
When Lake Como officials voted to allow a tower over 500-feet-high to be constructed in town, they effectively put out the welcome mat for the owners of WRAT-FM to do so. That's how Regan Stempniewicz, an attorney who lives near the site of a proposed radio station transmission tower put it to borough officials during Tuesday night's council meeting. Now Stempiewicz and several of her neighbors want borough officials to pull the welcome mat out from under Greater Media, Inc, the WRAT's parent company, by repealing the ordinance. By approving the ordinance on May 3, the council has taken the first step to accommodate Greater Media's plan to build the 533-foot-high structure on borough-owned land in Behrmann Park, Stempniewicz said. "You …
Friday, July 8, 2011
Sierra Club speaker tells council that asking Green Acres land to be diverted from recreational to commercial use for radio station tower should be 'a last resort'
Lake Como resident Diane Edgar wonders why borough officials, having invested time and money in Behrmann Park, would consider allowing the proposed WRAT-FM radio transmission tower to be raised on the state-protected parkland. While the WRAT's existing 300-foot-high tower on Main Street is an eyesore, replacing it with a 535-foot-high tower in the borough-owned park is not the answer, said Edgar, a 22nd Avenue resident who addressed the Lake Como Borough Council on Tuesday night. "We appreciate all the help that we have received with the park," Edgar said. "So I don't understand why anyone would want to see this monstrosity towering over it." Edgar and many of her neighbors urged the governing body not to apply to the state Department of …
Friday, June 24, 2011
Scoping hearing on 530-feet tower draws static from host community, Spring Lake & Wall Twp.
If Lake Como refuses to allow the owners of WRAT-FM to construct a 530-foot tower in Behrmann Park, town officials may instead end up fighting a plan to raise the radio station's existing tower downtown. And if Lake Como officials reject any future use variance application to raise that 300-foot tower, Greater Media Inc., parent company of WRAT-FM, would take the borough to court to appeal, according to one company representative. The legal fees associated with fighting Greater Media in New Jersey Superior Court would ultimately prove costly to Lake Como taxpayers, said Anthony Graziano, the company's real estate expert. Instead, the borough ought to allow Greater Media to build the new tower on a 4,000-foot portion of the park situated …
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Enright urges residents to attend June 22 public hearing in Lake Como on 530-feet tower
Mayor Frances Enright is encouraging Spring Lake Heights residents to fight city hall — or at least sound off to the powers that be — in neighboring Lake Como. That’s because the proposed 530-foot radio station transmission tower planned for the Behrman Park area of Lake Como is at the doorstep of Spring Lake Heights. It also would overshadow Rash Field and The Heights apartment complex. “This would be by the railroad tracks and right across the street from our apartments,” Enright said during the June 13 Borough Council meeting. A public hearing associated with requesting state permission to construct the tower, as scheduled for 7 p.m. on June 22 at the Lake Como Municipal Building, presents an opportunity for Heights residents to …
marine67
12:17 pm on Friday, September 9, 2011
Green Acres.Sopposed to protect green areas from development and destruction by local and state government.What a joke on taxpayers.A little graft goes a long way..Welcome to business as usual in NJ. more ›