{"id":21878,"date":"2023-03-29T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=21878"},"modified":"2023-03-29T03:03:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T07:03:09","slug":"brick-council-approves-ordinance-setting-height-limits-for-sheds-accessory-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2023\/03\/brick-council-approves-ordinance-setting-height-limits-for-sheds-accessory-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Council Approves Ordinance Setting Height Limits for Sheds, Accessory Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A shed outside a home. (Credit: Bill Wilson\/Flickr Creative Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Brick Township council on Tuesday night unanimously adopted an ordinance that sets height and setback limits for accessory structure \u2013 secondary buildings on residential property that usually represent a shed, detached garage, pole barn or similar building.<\/p>\n

Building trends have changed in recent years, especially in Brick\u2019s residential areas, where homes are often taller and larger to comply with new flood codes and regulations. While the height of homes in the township have been regulated for decades depending on the zone in which one\u2019s property is located, accessory structures had no specific guidelines.<\/p>\n

The height and setback regulations, as adopted in feet, are shown in the chart below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Accessory building height and setback regulations adopt March 2023, Brick Township, N.J.<\/p><\/div>\n

An accessory structure, according to Brick Township\u2019s zoning code, \u201cis subordinate to, and serves any principal building or use\u201d on a property, and is any structure that \u201ccontributes to the comfort, convenience or needs of occupants of the principal building or principal use served.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Brick Township council on Tuesday night unanimously adopted an ordinance that sets height and setback limits for accessory structure \u2013 secondary buildings on residential property that usually represent a shed, detached garage, pole barn or similar building. Building trends have changed in recent years, especially in Brick\u2019s residential areas, where homes are often taller […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21880,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#Brick #NJ Council Approves #Ordinance Setting #Height Limits for #Sheds, Accessory #Buildings | #LandUse #Zoning #Planning","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":[2],"tags":[4916,24,4484,4918,4917,951],"class_list":["post-21878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-accessory-structure","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-featured","tag-garage","tag-shed","tag-zoning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52388311015_85afefc511_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-5GS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21878","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=21878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}