A public hearing on the CAFRA permit was held and over 100 people came out and spoke against the permit. State DEP CAFRA staff still needs to make a decision on the permit. Surfrider staff lead a meeting with Assemblyman Sean Kean and interested environmental & historic preservation groups. It was very positive and the Assemblyman pledged to look for state funding to keep the club from being developed.
LATEST - Asbury Park Press, 2/22/2007
Activists: DEP, builder too close
As the deadline nears for the public to have its say on the proposed residential development of the former Takanassee Beach Club, some preservationists are challenging the state's handling of the development application.
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The Star-Ledger, 11/8/2007
Activists rally in city to preserve beach club site:
CAFRA permit pending before state agency for oceanfront project
It was standing room only in the basement of a Long Branch church Saturday where a rally was staged in an effort to save the historic Takanassee Beach Club property from development. Community leaders, local activists and residents joined together at St. Michael’s Church on Ocean Avenue, November 3rd to object to plans that call for a proposed luxury housing project at the beach club site.
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The Star-Ledger, 11/6/2007
State should put its money where lake's mouth is
If next May is like preceding years, we can expect various Trenton politicians to start complaining, whining, moaning, kvetching and bitching about the lack of beach access at the Shore. But where were these guys Saturday morning? About 200 locals showed up in Long Branch to call for the preservation of the Takanassee beach club, which occupies one of the few remaining stretches of open oceanfront in the northern part of the Jersey Shore. The beach area is adjacent to Lake Takanassee, which stretches for several blocks inland.
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Asbury Park Press, 11/4/2007
Takanassee supporters stand tall
A group of activists filled the basement of an Ocean Avenue church Saturday in an effort to save a collection of historic beach-front buildings from redevelopment.
They waved signs that read “Deny the Permit” and “Save Tak Beach” at St. Michael's Church during a rally to protest the possible destruction of Takanassee Beach Club. The privately owned club is home to three buildings dating from the 19th-century era of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, a precursor to the modern-day Coast Guard.
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Asbury Park Press, 11/3/2007
Save historic stations at Takanassee
The greatest assault on our historic building stock is brewing in Long Branch. There, an ultra-unique collection of three intact life-saving stations has been caught in the cross hairs of another decimating condominium project. No other coastal location in the United States houses three original stations.
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Atlanticville, 7/5/2007
Advocates: State funds needed to save Takanassee,
Voters urged to approve Garden State Preservation Trust
Environmentalists, activists and local officials gathered on the Long Branch oceanfront last week to advocate for state funding that would preserve the historic Takanassee Beach Club property.
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Asbury Park Press, 6/14/2007
Historic beach club must be preserved
A historic icon of the old Jersey Shore - Takanassee Beach Club, which has benefited the citizens of Long Branch and Monmouth County for generations - could be another priceless coastal site lost.
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Asbury Park Press, 1/23/2007
State Money Could Save Club
Environmentalists, activists and local officials gathered on the Long Branch oceanfront last week to advocate for state funding that would preserve the historic Takanassee Beach Club property.
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