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Residents press Asbury Park council for public meeting after waterfront infrastructure plans would take front lawns, raise flood concerns
Summary
Residents near Sixth through Eighth avenues told the City Council that an August 2024 infrastructure improvement plan and current construction will remove front lawn, replace historic bluestone sidewalks, and increase local flood risk; city officials said they will investigate and asked public works to check storm drains daily.
Gabriela Cucinada, a resident of 209 Sixth Avenue, told the Asbury Park City Council that an “infrastructure improvement plan” dated August 2024 would widen streets near her home, remove about 10 feet of front lawn and bring sidewalks “almost up to our front porch,” increasing flood risk and reducing historic bluestone sidewalks that she said have survived “a hundred and 30 years.”
Why it matters: residents said the engineering drawings, which they received only recently, would convert green lawn to impermeable surface, shrink front yards and place parked cars closer to houses — changes they said would lower property values and raise the risk of basement flooding. Multiple neighbors…
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