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Herald & Lantern 29 April 81

ANNDAI Sl»RIN<i FAIR at thr Star of the Sra School parish hall. Cape May. on .Saturday fratared many activlMcs Including a basketball game. Here, little Bobby I-epor makes a bosket, really. ^ Board O’kays Subdivision

Road Work B,ock Parly

Won’t Halt Memorial , Day "traffic

FISHING CREEK - Although an adjacent property owner warned local officials «f the area's drainage problems, the Lower Township Planning Board decided April 22 to grant preliminary approval to Ihuis C. Dwyer and John Corino for a ja lot subdivision on Fishing Creek Road The proposal calls for eighteen building lots and one oj>en space lot. ranging in sire from 5 to 1.5 am*, to be created on the easterly side of Fishing Creek Rd . Just south of Tabernacle Rd Thta has been ettssified an environmentally sensitive .''area and. based upon the County's com- \ prehensive developmeent plan, development here should be restricted MYRNA ANHOLT OF SHUNPIKE told township planners that drainage in the area is a real problem She noted that although there are a network of ditches In the area to handle runoff, "anytime it rains the people down the street from me find themselves under water." An owner of 20 acres of adjacent farmland and a nurflber of show horses. Mrs Anholt also expressed concern that the homes built on Mr Dwyer’s property will be extremely close to an electric fence that exists on her property line. She explained that the fence is needed both as a means of keeping the horses on her own property and to maintain security in a field she can’t see from her own home ••I'M NOT HERE TO COMPLAIN or object to development,” she said. "I just want V# make everyone aware of the fence and drainage situation " The preliminary site plan approval is

contingent upon a number of conditions including that: •Flush concrete curbing must be installed Board chairman Lionel Eatroff ex-, pressed the opinion that this wiU be better than a bituminous roadway because it will hold up longer "Concrete is also more visible at night." he added. •THE BOARD SOLICITOR MUST approve the deed specifying that the required open space is owned by a home owners association. This is needed due to the applicant’s decision to develop his property based on the township’s high density space option. Under this provision the same number of homes can be put up as are permitted under standard conditions, but the lots are smaller and a percentage of the tract must be set aside a$ open space. Developers who intend to use the high density space option must have their plans approved by both the Township Planning Board and and the Township Committee. In Mr. Dwyer's case, the Planning Board has required that a home owners association be created to own and maintain the open space. The land will be used for recreational purposes. •Water plans must be approved by the local MUA. •Proposed street signs must be indicated on the plans. . •Additional street lights must tfe provided. According to Mr. Dwyer the lots will be sold individually for building purposes He noted that he himself plans to construct a home on one of the lots.

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COLD SPRING - The Rt. K»Ocean Hiway intersection on the north side of the Cape May Canal bridge here wdn’t be closed to traffic during the Memorial Day weekend, according ‘to the state Dept, of Transportation. ' "Absolutely not," was the reply of Paul Shedlowski, Regional construction engineer with DOT’S Region 4, when asked last Wednesday about the possibility of the busy roadway being closed while work continues on improving the dangerous intersection nearlhe foot of the Garden State Pkwy. WORK BEGAN TWO WEEKS ago on the long-awaited project, and in a letter to Mr. Shedlowski dated April 21, Assembly Minority Leader James Hurley wrote he had received complaints the intersection would be closed during the upcoming holiday weekend. Engineer Sk^llowski, in a brief telephone intervWV from his Haddonfield office, noted that specifications for the work require that the private contractor maintain at least one open lane of traffic in each direction on Rt. 109 and "local streets," which, he explained, would include Ocean Dr. "We’re going to insist on it," Mr. Sliedlowski said of the two-way traffic provision in the project specifications. IN A PREVIOUS INTERVIEW, another DOT representative told the newspaper that the contract specifications require that any traffic restrictions necessitated by the work may come only during the nontraffic rush hours between 9 a.m. and 4

p.m.

In his letter to Mr. She^owski, Assemblyman Hurley also complained that the engineer's phone number is "consistently reported busy." When the Herald & Lantern called the regional DOT office last Wednesday afternoon, the phone was busy. A call a few minutes later, however,

got thru to Mr. Shedlowski.

The assemblyman concluded his letter with a note of appreciation that the work was being undertaken by the state. "WE WANT YOU TO KNOW," Mr. Hurley wrote, "we are deeply graceful for any improvement to our Cape May roads and intersections and especially for those

promoting safety."

’ The Rt. 109-Ocean Hiway work, originally to have been completed by May, now carries a June 5 completion date. The project was to have been finished last year, but lack of federal funding for a number of

state projects proved a holdup.

THE WORK INCLUDES channelization and stop light installation. Including landscaping, the project will cost some

$300,000.

For years the intersection, directly at the northern approach to the canal bridge, has been one of the worst for traffic accidents in Cape May County. Several lives have been lost in traffic accidents over the years, and nary a week goes by without at least a "fender-bender" occurring.

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(From Page 1) will lead his 15-piece big band, which will perform at 1 p.m. Hurst will bring his bandstand show to the City’s Music Pier this summer. Known as "Dance World U S.A.”, the program will be seen in 26 major markets throughout the United States. Dance auditions for the show will be held during the Block Party at 3 p.m. under the direction of Hurst and Priscilla Parker, coordinator. SACKETT*8 BAND, which set a Music Pier attendance record here in February, will present another dance May 30 and is scheduled to play at the Pier every Thursday during July and August. The block party is part of a "spring festival" weekend by the Ocean City Retail Merchants Association and will also feature flower give-aways by many stores. ENTERTAINMENT will begin with a puppet show at 11 a.m. This will be followed by the "Young At Heart" singers, a gymnastics and karate exhibition, the Big Band performance, body building exhibitions and the dance try-outs. Many civic organizations including the Chamber of Commerce, Guest and Apartment House Association and Ocean City Police Department will offer special exhibits. The flea market will include approximately 50 booths which will span almost two blocks. The latest model boats and autos will also be exhibited along street

curbs.

OCEAN CITY’S relatively famous Hermit Crab, Martin Z. Mollusk, will attend the party to sign copies of his recently released biography, "The Martin Z. Mollusk Story ’’ or "Rhyme and Punishment”. The illustrated book tells the story of the weather-predicting crab’s rise to prominence on the Jersey shore and is written in stanza after stanza of rhyme which accounts for its sub-title. A Crop Walk Against Hunger, sponsored by city churches, will begin and end at the block party site and several radio stations will broadcast from the location. A variety of refreshments will be sold at the party, which is free to the public. Groups wishing to participate in the event should contact the Public Relations Department, City Hall, Ocean City, 609-399-6111.

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Transportation Aid (From Pagel) state funding for 100 per cent of their legal transportation expenses of the previous year. This paid for the cost of transporting students living more than IMi miles from their school, But beginning with the 1979-80 school year, the law was changed requiring local districts to receive only 90 per cent reimbursement for the previous year’s expenses. “WE HAVE GREATER expenses and less revenue from the state," Mr. KeMer reiterated, pointing to his own district, which is losing $63,000. This year, Regional budgeted $373,475 for transportation expenses. The state will provide $201,600 in funding. But in the 1981-82 budget, although more than $400,200 is budgeted to cover transportation, state revenue will only total $183,000. Other county districts to be affected, and the amount of aid they will lose include: Middle Township, $54,000; Dennis Township, $19,000; Woodbine, $22,000; Cape May Point, $90; West Wildwood, $1,500; Stone Harbor, $2,200; Avalon, $3,900 and Ocean City $20,000.

Park Shutdown?

(From Page 1 > date of a scheduled gypsy moth aerial spray program because cateqjillars are emerging earlier this year than usual. According to'County Agricultural Agent Larry Newbold, is the second hatching takes place on schedule and the spraying takes place too soon, the affect on the insecticide will be useless. The Agriculture Department is using Sevin to fight the gypsy moth in Dennis, Lower and Upper Townships. Middle Township isn’t participating in tjie spray program this year. The spraying had been scheduled to get underway around May 12.

CAPE MAY POINT - Cape May Point State Park has been included in a group of 11 parks that will be forced to close unless the state Dept of Environmental Protection can convince the state Joint Appropriations Committee that it needs an additional $4.5 million. DEP Commissioner Jerry English has reported that cleaning up toxic waste dumps has a higher prionty than park funding and unless Jnttonal funds are made available, th«pBgl will have to close. The Joint Appropnations Committee is expected to act on the supplemental appropriation request within the next month.