{"id":938,"date":"2014-09-16T05:27:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T09:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=938"},"modified":"2014-09-15T23:37:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T03:37:59","slug":"brick-to-target-derelict-docks-bulkheads-under-ordinance-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/09\/brick-to-target-derelict-docks-bulkheads-under-ordinance-revision\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick to Target Derelict Docks, Bulkheads Under Revised Ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_939\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/docks_bulkheads.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-939\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/docks_bulkheads-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A damaged bulkhead in the Mantoloking Shores section of Brick Township. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/docks_bulkheads-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/docks_bulkheads-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/docks_bulkheads-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A damaged bulkhead in the Mantoloking Shores section of Brick Township. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Docks and bulkheads in poor condition in Brick can be dangerous and detrimental to neighborhoods, and township officials will be taking steps to better enforce its code pertaining to dock maintenance under an ordinance revision.<\/p>\n<p>The township council last week introduced a revised ordinance that would give the township engineer, construction code official or a designee power to enforce the chapter of the township code that requires docks and bulkheads to be kept in safe condition. Right now, only police officers can enforce the code.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing against our police department, but our engineer or construction code official might be better suited to check on this and explain to the homeowner what might be wrong,\u201d said Council President Susan Lydecker.<\/p>\n<p>The language of the ordinance will otherwise stay the same, said Lydecker. The code calls for docks and bulkheads that \u201cbecome unsafe, constitute a hazard to human life or the public welfare\u201d to be declared a nuisance. After that declaration, a homeowner is to be notified of what repairs need to be made and plans must be made to either make the repairs or remove the dock, bulkhead or the affected portion of it.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance will need to be approved on second reading after a public hearing before it is enacted into law. That hearing and vote will take place at the Sept. 23 council meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/09\/brick-to-target-derelict-docks-bulkheads-under-ordinance-revision\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Docks and bulkheads in poor condition in Brick can be dangerous and detrimental to neighborhoods, and township officials will be taking steps to better enforce its code pertaining to dock maintenance under an ordinance revision. The township council last week introduced a revised ordinance that would give the township engineer, construction code official or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":939,"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":[2],"tags":[24,284,285,283],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-bulkheads","tag-code-enforcement","tag-docks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/docks_bulkheads.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-f8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}