Voters in Margate, a well-to-do seaside
community near Atlantic City, have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to build
a boardwalk along its beachfront.
In incomplete tallies released by the Atlantic
County Clerk’s office, a non-binding referendum on whether Margate should study
the feasibility of building a boardwalk was rejected by a ratio of more than
2-to-1.
A group calling itself the Margate Boardwalk
Committee proposed a 1.5-mile boardwalk connecting Margate with Ventnor to the
north and Longport to the south.
According to the group, the $24 million project
would have cost the average taxpayer between $110 and $190 a year in additional
taxes.
AP wire services helped contribute to
this report.