Red Bank zoning board approves pavilion, allows eight-slip dock now with conditions

The Red Bank Zoning Board of Adjustment voted unanimously on March 19, 2026 to approve a plan by Spring Point to add a covered pavilion and a phased marina at its senior-living campus at 40 Riverside Avenue, with the applicant agreeing to limit initial dock construction to no more than eight boat slips and to a dock length not to exceed 190 feet.

Applicant attorney John Junko told the board the project would not add residential units but would "add amenities to the project to serve those residents," including an open-walled pavilion, fire pits and seating on a reconstructed promenade and a floating dock to provide private slips for residents. "These amenities are on a deck that faces the river," Junko said during the presentation.

Planner Andrew Janiw and landscape architect Jack Carmen described the design as a refurbishment of an existing promenade aimed at improving…