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OCTOBER 9. 1991 3 INSIDE STORY Laws for Lancton retires Margaret Lancton is miring after rent control 10 years a* supervisor of child study with the Monmouth County Superin- tendent of Schools' Office. may change PAGE* By Garry Wasko Talks continue RED BANK — After 20 years, the local The Rumson Education Associa- rent-control ordinances will be changed, tion is asking for an 8.2 salary in- according to the head of the Rent Control crease; the Board of Education is of- Board. fering 6 percent. A fact-finder is to The board will hear arguments from land- meet soon with both sides. lords and tenants over the next few weeks to PAGE 11 determine what changes are needed. The ordinances determine how much rent land- lords may charge the borough's estimated To call The Register 2.000 renters. Advertising 747-0222 "Things have changed in Red Bank in 20 Circulation 747-0222 years." said Dean Ross, board chairman. Classified 747-6565 "We thought that laws that had been in News/Sports _... 747-0222 place for that long without any changes needed to be re-examined." News releases or advertising copy may be mailed or brought to The Re- Ross added that the board would respond gister building at 766 Shrewsbury to suggestions from both landlords and ten- Avenue, Tinton Falls, N.J. 07724. ants about how to improve the rules. The board, which meets twice a month to listen to grievances and mediate disputes between building owners and tenants, has invited Photograph by Rich Schultz both groups to speak at its next four meet- INDEX WALKING FOR HUNGER ings. Tenants aired their grievances Oct. 3, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT : 28 Anthony Cauterucci, 5, and his brother Joseph, 21/i, of Little Silver, prepare for and will speak again Oct. SI,' while land- AUTOMOTIVE 53-55 this Sunday's Red Bank Area CROP Walk for Hunger, which benefits local and lords will get their chance Oct. 17 and Nov. CLASSIFIED 42-52 worldwide charities dedicated to ending hunger. For the story, see Page 11. 7. ENVIRONMENT 24-25 IN THE SPOTLIGHT 14 The board will listen to both sides before ART KAMINSCOLUMN 20 discussing possible changes, probably at its LETTERS : 4 Nov. 21 meeting. The board will then make MILESTONES 18 Council to move ahead recommendations to the Borough Council. MONEY MANAGEMENT 40 The borough is one of 108 towns in the oerruAREs 34 state that have rent-control ordinances. OFFTHE RECORD 6 with park renovation plans Ross said. The amount landlords can charge 0LDH8USE 5 is based on the Consumer Price Index. A OPINION 4 By Marilyn Puff entire park, and the parking^*! and area landlords may increase the rent to existing PARENTING 27 abutting the Sickles Place residential area tenants once a year. The increase may be no PEOPLE IN THE NEWS 32 SHREWSBURY — Residents have would be landscaped. more than 80 percent of the CPI for that POLICE BEAT 35 given the Borough Council the green light to In explaining the plan. Synder said the year. PULSE 5 go ahead with renovation of Sickles Field, a commission and council had been working PROPERTY LINES 41 3.2-acre park located at the end of Sickles on it for two years. Unable to obtain state Last year, for example, the 7 percent in- REAL ESTATE 41 Place. The borough engineer was scheduled Green Acres funding, she said, they had to crease CPI led to a maximum rent hike of BILL SANOFORD ...: 25 to report Monday on specifications and ad- seek alternate funding which is now in 5.6 percent A tenant who paid $500 per SCHOOL 30 vertisement for bids for the project place, in the form of a $230,000 bond ap- month in 1989 might have paid up to $528 SLICE OF LIFE 7 At a special meeting last week, an esti- proved several months ago. per month in 1990. SOCIAL SCENE 18 mated 70 residents listened and commented The bond, according to Councilman Carl SPORTS 36-39 on conceptual plans presented by Kathy W. 'Gardiner, is not exclusively for the When a tenant moves out however, the TRAVEL 21 Snyder. chairwoman of the Recreation Sickles property, but added that that is the rent is decontrolled, and a landlord may gel YESTERYEAR 5 Commission, and Peter Avakian from the first priority. what he can for the apartment borough engineering firm of Leon S. Avaki- Avakian said that three factors make the "The rules are intended to keep landlords an. Inc. proposal particularly favorable: the avail- from pricing their tenants out of their apart- Because he lives adjacent to the park. ability of fill material from the county: a ments." Ross explained. The Register Mayor Raymond Mass turned the meeting competitive bidding market due to the slow- over to Council President Carl Gardiner. down of the economy: and plans to overlap However, according to the chairman, the Founded in 1878 Later in the meeting. Mass expressed con- the three fields, reducing the cost of excava- ordinances "maintain a balance between by John H. Cook and Henry Clay cern about some aspects of the plan, stating tion and seeding. landlord and tenant to try to keep both sides that the field, as originally developed, was The county's Shrewsbury Avenue bridge happy." He added that many landlords feel DAVID THALER intended to be a neighborhood playground demolition project — which calls for re- trapped by the sometimes restrictive ordi- and not a major facility. His concerns in- moval of the railroad bridge and embank- nances. FRANK VINCI cluded traffic, maintenance of the facility ment and widening of the road, as well as "Owners have to receive what they feel is CimliuMsi and problems with balls landing in resi- improvement of the Route 35 intersection WILLIAM PETERSON a worthwhile return on their investment." dents' back yards. — is scheduled to get under way. now that he said. Snyder said that roost stray balls go into a the state Department of Transportation has RICHARD M POLITY nearby creek and that she had never had a approved a traffic signal at the intersection That is one reason that the board is re- Advertising Director complaint about any going onto residents' of Route 35 and Register Plaza/Avenue of examining the ordinances, according to VINCENT J GRASSIA properties. Councilman Michael G. Bell the Common. Ross. Few large apartment complexes have til •.dvsrtising Dtr* said there is nothing that can be done about Approximately 8.000 cubic yards of fill been built lately in the borough, he said, and THOMAS DeCARO traffic, which he noted is already there. He dirt from that project have been earmarked restrictive rent-control ordinances, which Executive Editor described the plan as a "neighborhood for the Shrewsbury park, provided it is apply only to buildings containing three park." and said that is what residents appear found to be of an acceptable quality.