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Barnegat Home Set For Demolition, Owner Fights To Rebuild: Report
After a house fire left her homeless, a Barnegat woman has struggled to rebuild. Now, that home is set for demolition, the APP reports.
BARNEGAT, NJ — Ann Aarons has been homeless since a house fire destroyed her Schooner Avenue home six years ago.
According to a report from Amanda Oglesby of the Asbury Park Press, in the six years since, Aarons has spent many nights in her truck as she fought with the insurance company and struggled to rebuild.
Photos, also taken by Oglesby, show a home that, from an outsider's perspective, looks beyond repair.
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Barnegat Township seems to think so, at least, as the township approved a bid in March for Higgins Trucking to demolish the property at 69 Schooner Ave.
In November 2019 the Ocean County Construction Board of Appeals gave approval for the township to demolish the property and place a municipal lien against the property for all costs incurred by the township.
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According to the Resolution No. 2020-132, "the Property has been deemed uninhabitable and a danger to the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of Barnegat Township."
Higgins Trucking was awarded the bid after submitting a proposal that the work would cost no more than $14,750.
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