The Long Branch City Council on Oct. 22 introduced Ordinance 13-25, a first reading to adopt the 2025 update to the Oceanfront Broadway redevelopment plan and to amend the Long Branch city code to codify those changes.

The ordinance summary presented to council says the 2025 plan revises prior redevelopment plans and design handbooks for local development sectors, and that the updated plan will supersede previously issued handbooks for Broadway Gateway (handbook 3) and Lower Broadway (handbook 7). Where the updated plan conflicts with general design guidelines (handbook 1) and the Oceanfront Addendum (handbook 8), the new redevelopment plan provisions will prevail, the summary said.

Council moved to introduce the ordinance on first reading, advertise and post it according to law and to set a public hearing for Nov. 25, 2025. The motion to introduce passed on a roll-call vote recorded in the transcript as "Yes" from Councilman Rassos, Councilman Viera and Council President Anita Vogt; Councilwoman Wittes and Councilman Dangler were recorded as absent.

The transcript records the ordinance summary and the vote to introduce on first reading; the ordinance will return for public hearing and final consideration at the Nov. 25 meeting.

The transcript does not include debate on specific substantive provisions, projected timelines, or fiscal impacts of the redevelopment plan during the Oct. 22 meeting.