Brick Zoning Board To Hear Camp Osborn Proposal

BRICK, NJ — The Brick Township Board of Adjustment has scheduled a special meeting later this month to on an application to rebuild part of Camp Osborn, the beachfront community that was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy.

The proposal by RTS IV, the developer of a portion of the area, is scheduled to be heard at a Feb. 28 special session, according to a notice on the zoning board webpage. The hearing is set for 7 p.m. at the municipal building.

The proposal is for seven homes to be built on the parcel on Cummins Avenue, the Asbury Park Press reported. Five 2-1/2-story homes would have six bedroooms each. The sixth home would have seven bedrooms and the other would have nine bedrooms, the report said. The homes would be on a parcel that once had 32 homes.

Plans to redevelop Camp Osborn have been mired virtually since the moment Superstorm Sandy sent a wall of water washing through the development and fires burned homes to the ground on Oct. 29, 2012. The strip of land between the northbound and southbound lanes of Route 35 remains untouched, along with another parcel on the ocean side; the homeowners associations for those parcels have yet to reach agreements on how to proceed.

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The Camp Osborn oceanfront parcel, seen in October 2014 (top of article) has changed little compared with the 2017 Google Maps photo. October 2014 photo by Karen Wall, Patch staff