A home proposed where llinois Avenue, New Jersey Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue meet in Brick, NJ. (Credit: Planning Document/Google Maps)
Brick Township’s Zoning Board of Adjustment has denied an application by a property owner to build a home into a small, oddly-shaped pocket of land near the terminus of three streets within a Herbertsville neighborhood.
The board rejected the application of Esther Cohen and Naomi Elkins, co-owners of the property – which does not currently have a postal address – on a triangular-shaped piece of land where Illinois Avenue, New Jersey Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue come together. The two streets meet in the middle of a neighborhood off Sally Ike Road, with the proposed single-family home having frontage on both Illinois and Pennsylvania avenues.
The applicant sought approval to build a 1,702 square foot single family home on a lot that measured just 0.1 acres, well below the 7,500 square feet required to construct a home in the underlying zone. The 4,812 square foot lot was not adequate to accommodate such construction, the board found. A driveway was proposed to access the home from Illinois Avenue, which would have had the potential to cause a traffic hazard since the property is located at the confluence of the three streets, an engineer’s report noted.
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New Home Approved on Chambers Bridge Road
The board granted an application for a new home to replace an existing home along Chambers Bridge Road. Board approval was required since the property at 129 Chambers Bridge Road is located within the township’s business zone – one of several along the busy roadway that pre-dated much of the current zoning.
The property is located several lots to the west of the 7-Eleven convenience store, and roughly diagonally across from the Brick Township post office.
129 Chambers Bridge Road, Brick, N.J. (Credit: Coletta Commercial Realty)
The new home will be another single family dwelling with an attached garage, deck, driveway, walkways, an accessory shed.
