A coastal permit is approved for 34 units
on Ventnor Avenue.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has approved a coastal permit at 6601 Ventnor Avenue in Ventnor City. The department's bulletin describes what the permit covers in its own words: construction of 34 new residential units, a new park area and a new access road serving the residential development. The same application covers new paver patios and surface parking for the commercial building that already stands on the site. The applicant named on the filing is Ventnor Cove.

The permit itself is worth understanding, because it is the part of this that is finished and the part that is easiest to misread. A Coastal Area Facility Act permit, which everyone in the trade shortens to CAFRA, is required by the state before residential, commercial, public, transportation, utility or energy development goes ahead inside the coastal area. Ventnor City sits on a barrier island, so essentially everything built there falls under it. What the department approved on August 14 is that state permit, and nothing else. It is separate from whatever Ventnor City's own boards review, and the bulletin says nothing at all about the municipal side.

The dates on the file give a fair sense of how long this kind of review runs. Ventnor Cove applied on August 29, 2025. The department marked the application administratively complete that November, asked for more technical information in December, received the response the following April, and listed the file as complete for final review on June 18, 2026. Approval followed on August 14, a little under a year after the application went in. That is a normal arc for a coastal permit on a project of this size, and it is a useful number to carry if you are watching anything else on the island.

What the bulletin does not say is as worth noting as what it does. It does not describe what the 34 units are, how they are laid out or what they will ask. It does not name a builder, a start date or a completion date, and it does not say anything about how the site is arranged beyond the park area, the access road and the parking. Nothing here should be read as a sales announcement. It is a permit record, and a permit record says what a government agency allowed, not what anyone is selling.

For a barrier island where the supply of ground has been fixed for a century, a public count of 34 units is the kind of detail that is hard to come by any other way. Most of what gets built in Ventnor City, Margate and Longport arrives one lot at a time, and a project carrying its own park area and access road is a different shape from that. Whether it moves quickly from here depends on approvals and decisions this document does not cover.

This is a state coastal permit record, not a municipal approval and not a sales announcement. The bulletin does not describe the unit types, pricing, builder or construction schedule, and permits, plans and timing can change. Written by Justin Kelly, NJ Real Estate Broker-Salesperson, from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection DEP Bulletin.