{"id":5209,"date":"2018-05-17T03:16:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T07:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2018-05-17T03:16:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T07:16:53","slug":"seaside-heights-lot-to-offer-free-parking-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2018\/05\/seaside-heights-lot-to-offer-free-parking-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Heights Lot to Offer Free Parking Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5210\" style=\"width: 901px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-17-at-3.09.05-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"The Bay Boulevard parking lot in Seaside Heights. (Credit: Google Earth)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5210\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-17-at-3.09.05-AM.png\" alt=\"The Bay Boulevard parking lot in Seaside Heights. (Credit: Google Earth)\" width=\"891\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-17-at-3.09.05-AM.png 891w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-17-at-3.09.05-AM-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-17-at-3.09.05-AM-768x484.png 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-17-at-3.09.05-AM-667x420.png 667w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-17-at-3.09.05-AM-640x403.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-17-at-3.09.05-AM-681x429.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bay Boulevard parking lot in Seaside Heights. (Credit: Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After several years of paying the piper \u2013 well, the meter \u2013 visitors to Seaside Heights will have the opportunity to park for free this season, assuming they&#8217;re willing to walk a few blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The large lot off Bay Boulevard which runs between Hamilton and Sumner avenues has been utilized both as a paid parking lot as well as a staging area for numerous state infrastructure projects. The borough is returning it to &#8220;free&#8221; status following a parking crunch that was especially felt by workers in town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re going to be encouraging the businesses in town to steer their employees to this parking lot,&#8221; said Borough Administrator Christopher Vaz. &#8220;It has been a challenge to some of the employees in town, including our own employees, to find and pay for parking during the summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The change was unanimously approved by the borough council at its meeting Wednesday.<\/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\/2018\/05\/seaside-heights-lot-to-offer-free-parking-again\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several years of paying the piper \u2013 well, the meter \u2013 visitors to Seaside Heights will have the opportunity to park for free this season, assuming they&#8217;re willing to walk a few blocks. The large lot off Bay Boulevard which runs between Hamilton and Sumner avenues has been utilized both as a paid parking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5210,"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":[18,6,5],"tags":[1346,894,20],"class_list":["post-5209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-seaside-government","category-seaside-heights","tag-free-parking","tag-parking-lot","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-17-at-3.09.05-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1m1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209","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=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}