Following more than an hour of public comment, the Ship Bottom Borough Council on July 23 unanimously approved a site-specific redevelopment plan for the LBI Grade School property. In doing so, it ended a more than decade-old debate over the future of the school property once the site is no longer used for educational purposes.

“I want to thank you for your comments,” Mayor William Huelsenbeck said, adding he wished he “had the people who are here tonight with me at a school board meeting (to…