An overview of a multi-municipality regional planning exercise in a beach town with the goal of linking communities and making them more livable for all residents.

1. City of Asbury Park
MONMOUTH
Ocean
COUNTY LDP: Neptune Grove
Township
CONNECTING
COMMUNITY
CORRIDORS
Borough of
Bradley Beach

2. CONNECTING
COMMUNITY
CORRIDORS
Project Partners
•Monmouth County
•City of Asbury Park
•Borough of Bradley Beach
•Neptune Township
•Interfaith Neighbors

3. Project Goals
Develop programs and consulting
services for local businesses
Identify and develop opportunities for
local entrepreneurial pilot
programming
Examine traffic calming,
pedestrian/bicycle improvements
Develop infill near transit and areas of
existing infrastructure
Develop a public transit “circulator”
loop
Improve access and usability of the
existing transit centers

4. COMMUNITY WORKSHOP - Bradley Beach
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5. COMMUNITY WORKSHOP – Asbury Park
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6. WHERE DO WE WANT TO GO?
ARTS/CULTURE URBAN
BRANDING & THEMES AGRICULTURE &
COMMUNITY
GARDENS
PEDESTRIAN &
FACADE IMPROVEMENT &
MAIN STREET PROGRAM BIKE
IMPROVEMENTS
INFILL &
ADAPTIVE REUSE ENHANCE SHUTTLE SERVICES

7. Opportunity Site #1: Asbury Park Station Neighborhood
Create a better “Front Door”
coming from transit
Reconnect the Cookman and
Springwood Corridors
Iconic building for Music
Heritage Museum – Gateway to
Springwood
Develop infill to frame and
activate the existing park space
at the station
Redevelop the Civic Complex
into a mixed use block
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8. Opportunity Site #2: Bradley Beach Station
Neighborhood
Encourage mixed use infill on
Main Street
Reconnect Bradley Beach and
Bradley Park neighborhoods
Test infill design solutions for the
Neptune Transit Village
sensitive to the neighborhood
scale and character
Create hub for additional shuttle
service options
Streetscape and traffic calming
for Memorial Drive
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