Seven city council candidates have filed their nominating petitions by today’s 4 pm deadline, according to City Clerk Melody Hartsgrove.  Three council seats are up for grabs. Council elections in Asbury Park are non-partisan, with candidates running in one column without party affiliation. The council seats have four year terms. The election is Nov. 3. […]

A group of petitioners fighting to stave off proposed short term rental guidelines in Asbury Park launched a campaign Sunday to get the issue placed on the November ballot. “While many of you signed the online petition to defend private property rights from infringement by the AP City Council, we need your signatures on paper […]

Since 2001, a Brooklyn based property owner of three lots on Avenue A has received property maintenance violations from the city’s code enforcement department, according to city records. With a goal of utilizing two of the three lots for urban farming and the third as part of a an affordable housing project that will help […]

Robert McKeon, the city’s director of property improvement and neighborhood preservation and assistant city prosecutor, has officially been handed the reins to address abandoned properties in the city. At the Sept. 17 council meeting, city council members unanimously voted to amend the city’s abandoned properties ordinance. The change passed the responsibility of addressing abandoned properties […]