The developer’s plans call for 59 single-family houses on the Jersey Shore site that residents say is some of the last open space in the area.
is slated to sell acres of woods in South Jersey to a developer, but plans to build dozens of homes on the site have yet to be approved by local officials as some community members are speaking out against the deal.
D.R. Horton, a national homebuilder with offices in Mount Laurel, did not respond to a request for comment. A rendering of the proposed development from D.R. Horton, as shown during a May 2022 planning board meeting.Members of the public also raised concerns about additional traffic congestion and issues with coastal flooding due to increased development. Township planner Tara Paxton, who has been reviewing the plans, cited stormwater management as the township’s biggest concern.
In the 1980s, the parish planned to put a cemetery on the site, said Rev. Edward Blanchett of the Church of the Visitation. But, a motion to rezone the land for cemetery use was defeated decades later in 2013, he said.
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