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Court-Remanded Plans To Build 130 Homes Further Delayed
By Keith Hagarty
Plans to build 130 homes on West Commodore Boulevard were postponed by the township planning board this week, with a public hearing not expected to be heard until October.
The proposed units are part of the larger 12-phase 1,641-unit housing development, known as Leigh at Jackson, submitted by the New York-based, Mitch Leigh Realty Company.
On Monday, the developer's attorney, Ray Shea, asked the board for more time to present the preliminary and final site plans, which the board granted. The applicant will appear at the board's next meeting on Monday, July 2.
The board granted preliminary subdivision approval of the overall plans for the 1,641-unit project in 1989, and granted the developer a 10-year statutory protection period before construction was expected to begin. Eight years later in 1997, the board granted a subsequent five-year extension to the application.
However in 2003, the board denied the phase of the plans calling for the construction of 130 homes on West Commodore Boulevard, claiming the revised plans had substantially deviated from the intent of the original application. The developer later appealed the board's decision and, in 2005, was granted a reversal of the decision by Ocean County Superior Court Judge Eugene Serpentelli, forcing the application to once again come before the board.
Some of the issues the board has had with the application focused on the sidewalks and cul-de-sacs throughout the proposed development.
The board had originally planned to hear the plans in April, but citing a lack of updated site plans submitted by the developer for the board to compare and contrast with plans initially submitted to the town years ago, the developer had agreed to reappear before the board at the June 18 meeting with the proper documentation.
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