Hotel/Retail Complex On Brick Planning Board Agenda; Get Live Updates

The Brick Township Planning Board is scheduled to continue hearing testimony on the hotel and retail complex proposed for the triangle of land not far from Ocean Medical Center Wednesday night.

The Planning Board meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the courtroom/meeting room in the Municipal Building.

Residents packed the Brick Township Council meeting last Tuesday to complain to Mayor John Ducey and the council about the Ocean Pointe project, which includes a 103-room extended stay hotel, two strip malls with 66 apartments total above the retail spaces, and an additional retail space.

The complex would be built on land bounded by Route 88, Jack Martin Boulevard and Burrsville Road and was carried from the Oct. 14 meeting.

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7:05 p.m.: Meeting has been called to order.

7:30 p.m.: Correspondence with the board. The attorney for one person opposing the application has filed a lawsuit challenging the Planning Board’s jurisdiction over the Ocean Pointe application.

Planning Board attorney Harold Hensel said the lawsuit, filed Wednesday by attorney Ron Gasiorowski, is seeking a determination from a state Superior Court judge on the matter. The lawsuit contends that the variances being sought by Kamson Corporation, the developer, mean the project should be heard by the Board of Adjustment, Hensel said.

The parcel is in a hospital support zone, with a mixed-use overlay that permits other uses but imposes bulk requirements..

The Planning Board, under Hensel’s advice, postponed any further action on the project until there is a determination by a Superior Court judge.