{"id":18099,"date":"2025-10-24T03:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=18099"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:48:29","slug":"seaside-park-to-host-community-meetings-on-south-seaside-park-annexation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2025\/10\/seaside-park-to-host-community-meetings-on-south-seaside-park-annexation\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Park to Host Community Meetings on South Seaside Park Annexation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3932\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ssp_berkeley.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"A &#039;Welcome to Berkeley Township&#039; sign in South Seaside Park. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3932\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3932\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ssp_berkeley-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"A 'Welcome to Berkeley Township' sign in South Seaside Park. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ssp_berkeley-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ssp_berkeley-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ssp_berkeley-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ssp_berkeley-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ssp_berkeley-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ssp_berkeley-681x453.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A &#8216;Welcome to Berkeley Township&#8217; sign in South Seaside Park. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seaside Park officials announced Thursday that the borough will host two &#8220;listening sessions&#8221; to gather public input on a petition from South Seaside Park to secede from Berkeley Township and join the borough of Seaside Park.<\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey Supreme Court earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2025\/07\/south-seaside-park-gets-ok-to-leave-berkeley-but-seaside-park-must-still-debate-annexation\/\">paved the way<\/a> for a potential de-annexation of the neighborhood from Berkeley Township, which would be <a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2025\/07\/south-seaside-park-formally-files-to-be-annexed-by-seaside-park-what-happens-now\/\">annexed into Seaside Park<\/a> if borough officials accept the petition from residents. The mayor and council will host two sessions on the proposal \u2013 Monday, Nov. 10, 2025 at 6 p.m. and Monday, Nov. 24, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of both special meetings is to hold Community Listening Sessions to allow the public an opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed annexation of South Seaside Park, the announcement said. The sessions will include a brief presentation by Government Strategies Group, a <a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2025\/09\/seaside-park-hires-consulting-firm-to-study-annexation-of-south-seaside-park\/\">consulting firm hired by the borough<\/a> to analyze the ramifications of the annexation, followed by a public comment session.<\/p>\n<p>Both special meetings will be held in person in the second-floor council chambers, located in the police department building at Sixth and Central Avenues, Seaside Park.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2025\/10\/seaside-park-to-host-community-meetings-on-south-seaside-park-annexation\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seaside Park officials announced Thursday that the borough will host two &#8220;listening sessions&#8221; to gather public input on a petition from South Seaside Park to secede from Berkeley Township and join the borough of Seaside Park. The New Jersey Supreme Court earlier this year paved the way for a potential de-annexation of the neighborhood from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[2933,1089,1959,32,105,1955],"class_list":["post-18099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seaside-government","category-seaside-heights","tag-annexation","tag-berkeley-township","tag-featured","tag-seaside-park-nj-news","tag-south-seaside-park","tag-south-seaside-park-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ssp_berkeley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-4HV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18100,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099\/revisions\/18100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}