Building Boom: Slew of New Subdivisions Proposed in Seaside Heights for 2025

The property at 119 Franklin Avenue. (Credit: Google Earth)

The Seaside Heights building boom shows no signs of stopping as the borough prepares to enter 2025. The planning board will hear requests from property owners across town in the opening weeks of the new year to subdivide properties that will allow for the construction of new homes.

Several projects have been proposed over the course of the last week, including a parking lot located at 50 Sheridan Avenue. The 40-by-100 foot property, which once served as the parking area for the Sand & Surf Motel, would be converted into two 20-by-100 foot lots which conform to the borough’s standard residential lot size. A new single family home will be constructed on each of the newly created lots, a notice said.

The board will hear the application at its Dec. 30, 2024 meeting, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. in the council chambers.

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At the same meeting, the board will hear from the owner of 211 Blaine Avenue, who is proposing to subdivide a 50-by-100 foot lot into two lots – one 30-by-100 feet and one 20-by-100 feet. Both would conform to the borough’s standard residential lot size. No variances are required, and the owner has signaled an intention to build a new single-family home on each of the new lots.

The property is currently developed with what many in the neighborhood consider to be an unkempt sand-and-gravel driveway, with an old home in the rear of the lot. The property was recently sold, with the new owner developing the proposed two homes.

Yet another application to be heard at the Dec. 30 meeting will be that of a home long known for the advertisement of “prom rentals,” a longtime headache that officials have been trying to eliminate as the borough seeks to evolve into a traditional family resort.

The large home at 119 Franklin Avenue would be demolished in favor of two new single-family homes. The property currently measures 50-by-100 feet, and would be divided into two conforming 25-by-100 foot lots.

The lots would be located west of what was formally the Bamboo nightclub, now poised to become a high-end mixed use property.

Finally, a vacant lot located at 316 Hamilton Avenue, two doors away from the Italian-American Club building and across from the new Cornerstone at Seaside, a multi-unit 55+ complex, would be converted from a 50-by-100 foot lot to two conforming 25-by-100 foot lots. Single-family homes would be built on each other the new lots.

This application will also be heard at the Dec. 30, 2024 meeting.