{"id":5722,"date":"2015-08-08T00:09:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T04:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2015-08-08T00:09:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T04:09:31","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-township-should-help-residents-receiving-elevation-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/08\/letter-to-the-editor-township-should-help-residents-receiving-elevation-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Township Should Help Residents Receiving &#8216;Elevation&#8217; Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1760\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0439.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1760\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0439-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"A house being raised following Superstorm Sandy damage. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0439-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0439-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0439-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0439-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house being raised following Superstorm Sandy damage. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The following is a letter to the editor submitted by Dan Toth, former Brick councilman and current Republican council candidate:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To the editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Receiving a phone call last week was a reminder that our residents are still fighting City Hall in trying to be able to move back into their homes, almost 3 years after Sandy.\u00a0 Threatening letters were recently sent out to hundreds of residents, demanding that they pay tens of thousands of dollars to elevate their homes or face massive fines and the prospect of the town yanking their ability to live there.<br \/>\nNo alternative remedies were mentioned in the letters, and simple ones do exist.\u00a0 That is just plain wrong.\u00a0 Don\u2019t kick our residents when they are down.\u00a0 Instead of threats, offer solutions.\u00a0 At least that\u2019s how I did it as a councilman in this town.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Toth<br \/>\nFormer Councilman<br \/>\nBrick Township<br \/>\n2006-2013<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/08\/letter-to-the-editor-township-should-help-residents-receiving-elevation-letters\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a letter to the editor submitted by Dan Toth, former Brick councilman and current Republican council candidate: To the editor: Receiving a phone call last week was a reminder that our residents are still fighting City Hall in trying to be able to move back into their homes, almost 3 years after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1760,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[24,1153,1572,1563],"class_list":["post-5722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-superstorm-hurricane-sandy","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-dan-toth","tag-elevation","tag-house-raising"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0439.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1ui","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722","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=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}