Brick Parking Ban Ordinance On Tap At Council Meeting

Brick, NJ — An ordinance that would ban parking on certain streets in Lake Riviera is set to go before the Brick Township Council Tuesday night for a final reading and public hearing.

If the council meeting where the ordinance was introduced is any gauge, the hearing will not be a pleasant one.

The ordinance would ban parking between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday along both sides of Duquesne Boulevard, North Lake Shore Drive between Duquesne and Bethany Lane, and Lafayette Drive between Duquesne and Bates Way.

At its introduction two weeks ago, Mayor John Ducey said the proposed ordinance was in response to numerous complaints about overflow parking along Duquesne Boulevard that was causing problems for residents who live there. The overflow is coming from the building owned by Tryko Partners, at 635 Duquesne Blvd., residents and an attorney for Tryko said at that meeting.

Tryko Partners sits on the corner of land sandwiched between Duquesne and Route 70, across from Target. The building also houses the offices of a chiropractor, Jeremy Deichman, and Select Medical, an outpatient care/rehabilitation company.

Tryko Partners is described as a private equity real estate group that purchases "multifamily properties, healthcare facilities and tax liens throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, and in the greater Chicago market in the Midwest," according to the company's website. It has more than 100 employees, but it is not clear how many of those work at the Brick Township location.

There was no public hearing on the ordinance at the Sept. 6 meeting because it was a first reading and introduction, but during public comment, Isaac Sassoon, attorney for Tryko Partners, said the proposed ordinance was punishing the business for growing.

Sassoon also said there were a number of inflammatory comments made about the people coming to conduct business at Tryko, and labeled the parking ban "discriminatory."

Residents of Duquesne Boulevard recounted issues of blocked mailboxes, trash cans being moved, and in one case, cones that were put in place to save room for a landscaping company that was coming to do work at a home being removed so someone could park, causing a conflict with the landscaper.

The council meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the courtroom at the municipal building.

Patch will provide live updates from the meeting.

No parking sign, by Ken Hawkins, via Flickr, under Creative Commons license