A 100-residence plan is filed
for Bay Avenue in Somers Point.
By Justin Kelly
NJ Real Estate Broker-Salesperson
An applicant named 555 Bay Avenue Townhomes is asking the state for a coastal permit to redevelop a single Somers Point site with 100 residences: 80 market rate townhouses and 20 affordable apartments. A 30 day public comment window is open.
What was reported
- An applicant named 555 Bay Avenue Townhomes is seeking a state coastal permit to completely redevelop 555 Bay Avenue with 100 residences: 80 market rate townhouses and 20 affordable apartments
- The plans also cover driveways, pedestrian walkways and outdoor amenities; the state received the application June 1
- The state's latest bulletin lists the filing at the start of a 30 day public comment period; an application is not an approval, and plans can change
The story
A plan for 100 new residences on one Somers Point site is moving through state review. An applicant named 555 Bay Avenue Townhomes is seeking a coastal permit to completely redevelop 555 Bay Avenue with 80 market rate townhouses and 20 affordable apartments, along with driveways, pedestrian walkways and outdoor amenities. The state received the application June 1, and its latest bulletin lists the filing at the start of a 30 day public comment period.
Shore towns like Somers Point sit inside New Jersey's regulated coastal zone, so a residential project of this size needs a state coastal permit on top of anything the city itself requires. The bulletin entry is the step that puts the plan on the public record, and the comment window is the stretch where neighbors and anyone else can send the state their input on it.
The shape of the plan is the story for buyers. Most new construction near the shore arrives one lot at a time, usually a teardown replaced by a single home. Eighty market rate townhouses in one project is a different kind of supply, and the same filing carries 20 affordable apartments with it.
Nothing beyond the filing is public yet. The bulletin does not say what stands on the site today, who is behind the applicant entity, what the townhouses would ask, or when anything would be built, and an application is not an approval. Plans at this stage can change.
A Coastal Area Facility Review Act application is not a development approval. The state bulletin lists the filing for public comment; plans, unit counts and timing can change. Written by Justin Kelly, NJ Real Estate Broker-Salesperson, from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection permit filing.
Our take
Eighty market rate townhouses on one site is new supply for a shore town, and a coastal filing is where a plan that size starts moving in public. If you are looking for new construction near the shore, this is one to know about.
