OFFICIALS COUNTER MAPLE COVE CHATTER

The borough acquired the property in 1993, and soon after tried to determine the possibility was of putting in a boat launch at the site, Sickels said. The state Department of Environmental Protection put the kibosh on those plans, telling the borough it wouldn’t grant the necessary permits to install a launch because of the river’s shellfish resource restrictions.

“So the property sort of stayed in limbo,” Sickels said.

Some years later, in 2001, police determined the parking lot at the north end of Maple Avenue — what is now called Maple Cove — warranted permits, and implemented the system soon after, issuing 12 permits because that’s how many spots were available, Sickels said.

Construction of the Hovnanian Enterprises headquarters building just up the hill effectively ended the permit era at the lot. Sickels said the borough made a deal with Hov that, in exchange for using the lot as a staging area for construction, Hovnanian would cut a check to the borough. It did, for $17,000, with the agreement that the money would be used for future improvements at the parking lot.

Fast forward to today, and the $17,000 is being put toward the work redbankgreen reported on last week . Paving was scheduled to occur today.

Sickels said when the paving is done, there will again be 12 parking spots at the lot, two of them designated as handicapped spaces.

“The allegation on redbankgreen that we did away with 16 spaces” is false, Sickels said, referring to a reader comment.

One question that’s yet to be answered, though, is, with the return of parking spaces at the Maple Cove lot, will it take a permit to put your car there?

“That is something for the council to decide,” Menna said.

But for all the cyber chatter, he said Sickels’ presentation should put the speculation to bed.

“So, big drama,” he said. “The facts are pretty simple. Thank you.”

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