From Barnegat Light all the way to Holgate, parking is to living and working on Long Beach Island what soup to nuts is to formal dining, except there is no satisfying conclusion.

“We didn’t create the problem of poor parking, not having enough parking spaces, and can’t solve the problem,” Mary Egan, a Ship Bottom resident with ties to Kubel’s in Barnegat Light, said at the April 11 Surf City Borough Council meeting.