Seaside Heights Planning Board Approves Three-Home Subdivision

122 Fremont Avenue. (Credit: Google Earth)

The Seaside Heights planning board approved a proposal to divide what is now a vacant parcel of land into three conforming lots, each of which will eventually support one single-family home.

The board unanimously granted subdivision approval to Joseph Rizzo Jr., owner of the property at 122 Fremont Avenue. Rizzo proposed only the subdivision itself at the hearing Tuesday; plans to develop the newly-created trio of lots will be presented at a future meeting. The property is currently vacant, with an existing home having been demolished. Only a bit of fencing remains, and will stay in place temporarily.

“It’s going to be handled at the time a plot plan is proposed,” said Rizzo. “The fence, as it exists, doesn’t have any variances and I think it’s in the benefit of the community for it to stay up until further construction is finalized.”

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Edward Dec, the engineer on the project, testified that his client would comply with the borough’s zoning ordinance to split the property into three, conforming 20-by-100 foot lots, the standard size for most single-family residential zones in Seaside Heights.

“We are adjacent to a condominium development that is at the corner of Fremont and Central,” he said. “At this stage, we are looking for a subdivision approval with no variances, and we will be addressing the issues such as side, and front and rear yard setbacks, when we submit the plot planes, all of which will be according to the bulk regulations. We will not be seeking any variances in the new configuration with the new buildings.”

The construction of three homes could remove as many as three on-street, metered parking spaces, however depending on the locations of future driveways, may be able to leave two of the three in place. Developers who remove parking spaces normally pay a fee to the borough to compensate for the loss, which is determined by the zoning officer.

“We’re hoping we can save at least one depending on how we can figure out where the openings of the driveways will be,” said Dec.