Atlantic City approves
six homes in Midtown

Atlantic City's Zoning Board of Adjustment approved a plan on September 24 to redraw nine city-owned lots in the Midtown neighborhood. The plan turns the land at 109 to 119 North Maryland Avenue and 835 to 837 Arctic Avenue into six lots, each planned for an affordable single-family detached home.

Each new lot measures about 38 feet wide and 101 feet deep, or roughly 3,800 square feet. The site is a block from the Showboat's parking lot and from Atlantic Avenue, the city's main commercial street. Three of the six lots sit in the city's commercial district, where current zoning does not allow single-family homes, so the board also gave permission to build homes on those three.

According to the application documents, the approval lets the city transfer the lots to a private developer, who will build the homes. The city has not named that developer. A report from the engineering firm ARH Associates says the homes will likely need more exceptions to the zoning rules, for lot width, distance from the property line, floor area and fence height, so the plans may still change.

Plans come from the approval as reported and can change. Reported by Jersey Digs. This is a summary in our own words; the full report is theirs.