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Herald & Untern 22 April 81

Pinelafyds Building Went On

< rrv COMMISSION CANDIDATES in Sea l*le Oty are. left to right. Alan Ganaert. Alfred P. Ugnello. William Van ArtMlalen. Jr.. William J. Kehner and Mayor Dominic C. Raffa at meeting of city Republican* Club. ^

Completes Training

v AVALON - William D Scheerer, local represen tative for Mutual of Omaha and United of Omaha, has recently completed a comprehensive insurance

course offered at the National Sales Training School in Pittsburgh, Pa. The course encompasses professional preparation in presenting innovations in

health insurance benefits and services. Scheerer is associated with the George A. Cosgrove Division Office, the Mutual and % United Agency in Vineland.

NEW LISBON - Despite widely held contrary belief, the 23-month moratorium on development in the million-acre Pinelands Region did not halt dqrelopment there, the Pmelands Commission reports. » Final tabulation of development applications coasftfered by the commission during the moratorium \show that 11,655 new housing units were approved. The new units are chiefly single family detached homes, but include townhouses, apartments and mobile homes IN CAPE MAY County, approval was given for 20 single family homes, 8 subdivisions with a total of 174 units, and 6 mis^aheous projects, includim commercial and industrial applications and requests for road construction, well drilling, etc. Turned down were applications for 9 single family homes and 4 subdivisions with a total of 229 units. Of the 11,655 approved residential units in/ the area, 722 were requested

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by owners of single-lots. This compares with 323 similar requests which were denied. THE REMAINING 10,933 units we v re -approved through 270 subdivision applications. An additional 104 subdivision requests for 16,826 homes were disapproved. Over half of these homes were included in 6 large subdivision applications. The Pinelands moratorium was instituted through Gov. Byrne’s executive order Feb. 7, 1979, and endorsed by the legislature through the state Pinelands Protection Act June 28,1979. It extended through Feb. 14 this year, when the Comprehensive Management Plan for the Pinelands took effect. DURING THE moratorium, most prospective developers who needed a state or local permit were required first to obtain the commission's approval. Criteria in considering applications included whether the project was needed to alleviate extraordinary hardship or compelling public need, was consistent with the purN.J. Bell:

poses of the Act, and whether it would cause substantial impairment of the Pinelands resources. Owners who wanted to build single family residences for their own use in the protection area were exempt from the moratorium if they owned their lots before the moratorium went into effect and if the lots were either larger than one acre or served by sewers. IN ANOTHER development, the Pinelands Commission has allocated $300,000 to 38 municipalities in the Pinelands Area to help pay for revisions of their master plans and zoning ordinances. One Cape May County municipality, Woodbine, was allocated $10,000. Of the remaining municipalities, Dennis, Middle, and Upper townships have as yet expressed no interest in applying for the planning grants. Middle, which has territory in the Pinelands National Reserve only, is not required to revise its land use requirements.

$791,460 In Taxes

New Jersey Bell paid $791,460 in real estate and personal property taxes in Cape May County last year, according to Robert Davenport, the company’s local community relations manager. The company also is one of the state’s largest taxpayers, said Davenport, having paid more than $125 million in taxes throughout New Jersey in 1960. The total includes some $38.7 million in franchise and gross receipts taxes paid directly to the State of New Jersey. IN ALL. the company incurred an expense of $304.9 million in federal, state and local taxes last year, an increase of $7.9 million over 1979. "In many of the com-

munities we serve, we are the single largest taxpayer," said Davenport. TAXES PAID by New Jersey Bell to each municipality in the county are as follows: Avalon Boro, 44,624 Cape May City, 43,629 Cape May Point Boro, 900 Dennis Twp., 23,585; Lower Twp., 140,732; Middle Twp., 114,042; North Wildwood City, 18,530; Ocean City, 112,727; Sea Isle City, 21,403; Stone Harbor Boro, 6,175; Upper Twp., 20,800; West Cape May Boro, 6,528; West Wildwood Boro, 1,922; Wildwood City, 186,610; Wildwood Crest Boro, 19,266; Woodbine Boro, 29,987.

S&L Theme Of Contest

COURT HOUSE - In anticipation of this nation's 150th anniversary of the Savings and Loan Business, the Cape May County Savings and Loan Association sponsored an essay contest. Judging by a panel of three judges from Cape May County will take place, within the week after the

April 24th deadline. A Savings account in the amount of $25 will be awarded to the student with the best essay from each school. There will also be a countywide winner for the most original and interesting essay, and a grand pNze will be awarded to that student. Prizes will be awarded during the Anniversary Celebration Week in May.

$81,283 Gift For Hospital

SOMERS POINT - The Shore Memorial Hospital Women’s Auxiliary recently $81,283.00 to D. Allen Stretch, Jr., treasure of the hospital’s board of trustees. With the check, the auxiliary has paid a total of $189,919.00 toward its $200,000 pledge to the hospital's Emergency Room Fund Drive. The auxiliary’s Junior League, Mainland and Ocean City chapters individually staged many special events during 1990 to raise funds toward their joint pledge. The $81,282.78

payment made at the annual reffect-, meeting includes wRnhf of those events, yeiffround earnings from sales in the hospital lobby’s Gift Shop and Shoreling Art display, and monies gained through the Thrift Shop on Shore Road in Somers Point.