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The Herald and The Lantern^

Wedneaday, January 2g. 1981

Conda Variance OK’d

AVALON - FejL*4rwlll b« the contemjptated date for rehovat/on of the Whitebrier Hotel into the area'i newest condominium. /according to John Miller, one of the owners, who is hoping for a mid summer completion date .• His comments came following the most recent meeting of the local Zoning Board At the Jan 15th meeting of the board, attorney Henry Gorelick of North

Wildwood, representing Mill-Gill Inc . was requested to change his application for an R-lC Variance to a Use Variance, and a special continuation meeting ^vas set for Jan 22. to hear re^ maining sworn testimony regarding changeover of the Whitebrier Hotel to a condominium. At the Jan, 22 meeting, the board unanimously approved the application fpr the Use Variance. Included in the application was a re-

—Phillies To Visit— The Greater Wildwood Jaycees announce that the Philadelphia Phillies Winter Caravan will be coming here Friday, when the Phillies will be honored at a luncheon at Enrico’s Restaurant, Wildwood Crest, at 12:30 in the afternoon. The Phillies' traveling party will include Pete Rose; National League Most Valuable Player, Mike Schmidt; catcher Keith Moreland; Manager Dallas Green; Genera 1 Manager Paul Owens; additional front office staff and the Phillie Phanatic. The master of ceremonies will be Phillies broadcaster/Harry Kalns The program will include speeches by the players and the Phillies official 1900 World Series film, "Worth The Wait". Tickets will be available from any member of the Greater Wildwood Jaycees or by calling 729-5501.

quest for modification of construction plans to decrease the number of undersized units (less than 700 sq. ft.) from six to two. Board member Thomas Boyle questioned whether one or two variances would be required, but was advised by board solicitor, Joho Mead, that everything could be included in one application. At no time were any objections voiced or written, expressed by an Avalon resident or property owner. The hotel's present 59 units will be-converted into 32, an elevator will be added, the restaurant, outside bar and tennis courts will be eliminated, the swimming pool moved and the tennis courts replaced by four single-family homes.

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NeWSMMHHMNHI Diopct AccOTdn9 ° p ub ii sh0d Sports (From Page 1) beach system would work in areas where the beach is privately owned. Police being Pared MIDDLE TWP. - What has occured in other municipalities in other years is happening here now: cuts in police personnel for budgetary reasons. At least four officers on the 27-member force are to be let go, and Mayor Sam DeVico indicates that there may have to be even further personnel cutbacks. At $1,300 across-the-board pay hikes went into effect for the department the first of the year. »- Gunpoint Robbery Two young men robbed a 60-year-old Shellbay Ave. women at gunpoint of $270 after she let them in her Court House home around 8:30 p.m. Jan. 19. The two white males drove off in a dark-colored car.

* * * In Lower Township early Saturday morning, police apprehended two local teenage youths after they allegedly had broken into Platt’s Hair Dressers in the North Cape May Shopping Center. They have also been charged with burglarizing the same shop twice before. A Light Idea LOWER TWP. — Muncipal treasurer Wade Cooper has suggested this municipality revert to street lighting districts as a way of reducing the 4 township budget by some $200,000, — a figure which would bring the proposed $4 million municipal fiscal measure to only $82,000 over the mandatory 5 per cent cap. Street lighting costs here came under the muncipal bugdet several years ago after several lighting districts were abolished. The township still has fire districts for the most part — under which volunteer fire company costs are divided up among residents of the particular service area.

Where for Library? UPPER TWP. — A controversy has arisen over where the County Library Commission should locate a proposed northern county library branch. This, in the wake of a move by Ocean City to get the branch there instead of here, where it

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was initially envisioned by the commission. At issue is people, access and money. The township feels a library here would serve a wider area, be more accessible and is only right given the quartermillion dollars in county library tax revenue the township has paid over th years. On the other hand, Ocean City, the only municipality that doesn’t pay the county library tax, would become a big, new source of tax revenue for the county library system, where the branch to be located there. Pier Fix, Sewers, Fisheries Favored DIAMOND BEACH - The county Overall Economict)evelopment Program Committee gathered for its annual meeting at the Holiday Inn here last Wednesday to come up with a priority list on the use of potential U.S. Economic Development Administration funds. Here are the ratings, in order (and the. estimated costs): Ocean City Music Pier repairs and improvements (1.3 million), West Cape May sanitary sewer for the Fow Tract ($200,000), Wildwood City Convention Hall improvements ($360,000); two separate fisheries development proposals one by the Cape May County Economic Development Commission ($396,000) for docks to be leaked to Sea Harvest Industrial Park north of Ocean Dr. off Middle Thorofare Channel in Lower Twp., / the other a Middle Township proposal ($2 . million) for docking facilities north of the George Redding Bridge on Richardsons Sound in Middle Township, Also Lower Township police substation in Diamond Beach ($152,000), Cape May City Convention Hall improvements ($60,000 feh planning and engineering), Wildwood City water utility improvements ($75,000), wildwood City Burke Ave. sanitary sewer improvement ($300,000), Cape May City transportatiqp center ($6.8 million). Woodbine fire station renovation and repair ($174,800), Woodbine drainage and streets repairs ($73,360), Dennis Township maintenance garage ($175,000). ‘ The rating system is closely followed by the govenment id find-allocations.

correctionclctbonuion

A typographical error in the January 7 issues of the Herald and the Lantern reporting on a 37.8 per cent population increase in Cape May County stated the rise was since 1979; the correct date wak 1970.

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