{"id":15007,"date":"2019-07-30T04:38:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T08:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=15007"},"modified":"2019-07-30T04:38:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T08:38:36","slug":"religious-group-seeks-approval-for-assembly-counseling-center-in-brick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/07\/religious-group-seeks-approval-for-assembly-counseling-center-in-brick\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Group Seeks Approval for Assembly, Counseling Center in Brick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A religious nonprofit has applied for permission before the Brick Township Board of Adjustment to operate in a vacant office building on Brick Boulevard.<\/p>\n

Religious houses of worship are not allowed in the B2 zone, where True Colors Ministry International is looking to open a counseling and assembly center at 74-80 Brick Boulevard, just north of Molly Lane on the southbound side of the roadway.<\/p>\n

According to plans filed before board, the organization is seeking a use variance to allow for a 2,900 square foot area to be utilized for their purposes. There are no physical changes proposed to the exterior of the building or any of its outside improvements.<\/p>\n

A use variance requires that the applicant meet certain criteria and receives a supermajority favorable vote by board members. A previous board denied an application for a church to operate in a storefront further north in Brick Boulevard due to a lack of parking and complaints from some neighboring residents, leading to years of federal litigation that eventually resulted in Brick allowing the church to operate<\/a> and paying its legal expenses.<\/p>\n

A hearing on the application will be held at the board\u2019s Aug. 21 meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. at the township municipal complex.<\/p>\n

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A religious nonprofit has applied for permission before the Brick Township Board of Adjustment to operate in a vacant office building on Brick Boulevard. Religious houses of worship are not allowed in the B2 zone, where True Colors Ministry International is looking to open a counseling and assembly center at 74-80 Brick Boulevard, just north […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[1417,372,24,3761,1976],"class_list":["post-15007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","category-government","tag-board-of-adjustment","tag-brick-boulevard","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-true-colors-ministry-international","tag-zoning-board"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-4.33.58-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3U3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}