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COURT HOUSE - After listening to county MUS representatives, county Planning Board members decided last week to postpone adopting a specific position on pending state legislation that would require consumers to pay a deposit on all glass containers. Aimed at eliminating glass and aluminum litter along state roadways, the proposed “bottle bill" calls for a five-cent deposit on refutable glass bottles and aluminum cans and ten cents on nonrefillable containers. Consumers would get back deposits after bottles are returned to the store, and distributors would be required to sell the containers back to the manufacturer, recycle the materials or see that the waste is properly disposed. WHILE IT ISN’T the opinion of the MUA — which hasn’t yet commifted itself on the issue — authority solid waste manager Ted O’Neill and recycling coordinator Diane DeMeo indicated at the May 18 Planning Board meeting they are (Page 18 Please)

THIS WAS THE START of the Big Book Brigade Saturday in Cape May. Riding in the MAC Trolley, city fathers followed by the Teltelman junior high band eventually led more than 400 volunteers in the passing of over 12,000 books, hand-to-hand to

... Oort/ U'lirtf new library quarters, around the corner (to the left) from the old library in the basement of city hall (masked by church steeple at right).

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M«y26.1982

Pay Beaches, Parking Raise Millions and shortly, as the meters go on, the cost of tags goes up

by Bob Shiles Between beach fees and parking meters, Jersey Cape resorts last year generated more than 12.2 million revenue. And there are only a few days left before the 1982 season begins, with meters going on and tags going up.

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ONCE IT WAS a cobbler’s shop in Dennisville. Now it’s among the 13 early Jersey Cape buildings in Historic Cold Spring Village, opening this weekend.... Page26 MEETING EARLIER this month in Ocean City, the state conclave of the Lutheran Church in America calls for a nuclear freeze, abolition of the death penalty, and more.... Pageis THIS WEEKEND' S Memorial Day (and activities are highlighted ifi Cape May County Magazine and inside this weeks paper). But past weekends have been pretty memorial too when it comes to drum weakfish catches; see Boyd Tyler’s popular Ocean Bay column.... Page28

A survey of the revenue taken in by the resort communities revealed these highlights: •Of the $1,721,311 collected in beach fees from six county communities, more than half — $897,000 — was raised in Ocean ty•The biggest take in parking meter revenue — some $200,OW) — came from Wildwood. •Cape May — with about 50 more meters in operation than Wildwood — took in about 34 percent less meter money. •Ocean City and Stone Harbor are the

only communities still using meters under 25 cents an hour. •The total raised in 1981 by the six resort communities with parking meters was about $538,000. Three resorts have no meters. In one of the resorts, there are even a few penny meters. HERE ARE BEACH fee and parking meter data for the nine resort communities: p In Ocean City beach fees are the same as last year. Seasonal tags purchased by May 31 are $3.50, thereafter $5.50. Weekly tags (Page 19 Please)

Pinelands Plan—Tough Or Not Tough Enough?

by Bob Shiles COURT HOUSE - A self-proclaimed environmental radical on the state Pinelands Commission, Commissioner Gary Patterson, expressed concern here last week that environmentalist who originally pushed to get the Pinelands Management Plan established have become silent just as the process of bringing local and county

mission has conditionally approved the county’s master plan, ^t will not be deemed in complete compliance until certain conditions — especially involving water quality standards — are brought in line with the more restrictive pinelands regulations. The county hasn’t moved to comply with the commissions requirements because it feels in many instances requirements arc

“(The Pinelands Commission) hhs become an agency for political advocacy”

master development plans into conformance with pinelands regulations is getting into full swing. According to Mr. Patterson, it’s now builders and developers — not environmentalist — who are closely monitoring Commission actions to guarantee their interest are protected during the give and take of the conformance bargaining process. THE COMMISSIONER was in town May 20 to debate County Planning Board director Elwood Jarmer on the content of the Comprehensive Plan. Although the Com-

too restrictive for an area not included in the core of the preservation area. Under the regulations of the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan — adopted late in 1980 as a means of protecting 1.1 million acres of the Pinelands National Reserve — all countries and municipalities within the pinelands are required to revise their master plans and zoning ordinances to conform with regional pinelands regulations. The Commission acts as the certifying authority in the conformance process. (Page 18 Please)

Water Plan Needed COURT HOUSE — l>ocai water supplies aren’t limitless, and proper planning must begin now to guarantee that supply and demand balance each other in the future According to a County Planning Board study, released last week, unchecked increases in water use will eventually create a situation where water is being used faster than underground reserves are replenished. Wells will become contaminated with salt water when it moves in to replace the fresh water that’s pumped out IN THE LAST to years, water use in the county has increased some 30 per centra rate that can'tjcontinue without having a serious effect on the local potable water supply. Planner Ed Filipski told the County Planning Board recently that care must be given to how the county's water supply is used. “We are approaching the time in which we are going to have to be careful in how we use and allocate our water,” he said. Promote Tax Moves TRENTON — The state Assembly last week passed a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Guy Muziani that would permit resort communities to levy a special tax on businesses to pay for tourist promotion. Under thq bill - the first submitted hy the rookie legislator from Wildwood Shore municipalities could establish a five-member Tourist Development Commission to administer the local tourist promotion campaign To Study Gov’t LOWER TWP. — Township Committee Monday night introduced an ordinance authorizing a charter study for Cape May County's most populated municipality The measure, if approved in late June by the governing body, would allow the electorate to decide in the November election if a five-member commission should formally look into what form of government there should be locally. If approved by the voters, the electorate would vote the following November on the government referendum, with the effective date of a new government January 1984. Vtility Deficit? WILDWOOD - Although the city Water Utility recently received a 49 per cent rate hike,from the state Board of Public Utilities, city officials fear the (Page 19 Please)