{"id":22465,"date":"2023-07-13T05:28:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T09:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=22465"},"modified":"2023-07-13T05:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T09:28:16","slug":"brick-receives-1-2m-commitment-from-state-for-breton-woods-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2023\/07\/brick-receives-1-2m-commitment-from-state-for-breton-woods-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Receives $1.2M Commitment From State for Breton Woods Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Breton Woods property where 59 homes have been proposed as part of a new development, Dec. 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brick Township has received confirmation that the state will fund $1.2 million toward the purchase of the Breton Woods property<\/a> that was preserved by the county and municipal governments after a proposal to build 59 homes there drew significant anger from residents and environmentalists.<\/p>\n

The funding is good news for Brick taxpayers, who would have been responsible for $1,710,000 of the $8,550,000 purchase of the 31-acre parcel, which had been owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton by way of Visitation Parish. Mayor Lisa Crate said this week that the state would contribute $1.2 million, paring the township\u2019s obligation toward the purchase price to just $510,000.<\/p>\n

The wooded property, located off Laurel Avenue and Drum Point Road, will remain in its natural state, except for a small six-acre portion carved out by the township where a playground will be built<\/a>. The playground will be located near Osbornville Elementary School, but will be a public playground operated by the township.<\/p>\n

A closing on the property between the township, county and D.R. Horton, the Texas-based developer that was the contract purchaser of the land from the diocese, was set to be finalized this month.<\/p>\n

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Brick Township has received confirmation that the state will fund $1.2 million toward the purchase of the Breton Woods property that was preserved by the county and municipal governments after a proposal to build 59 homes there drew significant anger from residents and environmentalists. The funding is good news for Brick taxpayers, who would have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21233,"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":[2,20],"tags":[4668,24,418,4445,943,4484],"class_list":["post-22465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-shore-environment","tag-breton-woods","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-church-of-the-visitation","tag-d-r-horton","tag-diocese-of-trenton","tag-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/breton_woods_59_homes_property_lot_754-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-5Ql","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465","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=22465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}