{"id":10305,"date":"2025-12-05T07:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=10305"},"modified":"2025-12-05T07:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:12:41","slug":"toms-river-planning-board-to-consider-150-apartments-offices-retail-along-route-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2025\/12\/toms-river-planning-board-to-consider-150-apartments-offices-retail-along-route-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Planning Board to Consider 150 Apartments, Offices, Retail Along Route 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10306\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/clayton_rt9_app.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"The parcel at 1515 -1533 Lakewood Road. (Credit: Google Earth)\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"The parcel at 1515 -1533 Lakewood Road. (Credit: Google Earth)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10306\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10306\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/clayton_rt9_app-1024x706.jpg\" alt=\"The parcel at 1515 -1533 Lakewood Road. (Credit: Google Earth)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/clayton_rt9_app-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/clayton_rt9_app-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/clayton_rt9_app-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/clayton_rt9_app-1536x1059.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/clayton_rt9_app.jpg 1592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The parcel at 1515 -1533 Lakewood Road. (Credit: Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Toms River planning board is set to hear an application by a developer to construct 150 apartments along with retail space along Lakewood Road (Route 9) and Clayton Avenue at a meeting later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal by Promenade Toms River LLC, of Lakewood, which purchased the property for $4.5 million in 2021, calls for the construction of 150 dwelling units, a 4,500 square foot clubhouse, an 11,200 square foot two-story office building, a 16,000 square foot two-story office and a separate retail building on the site, which carries the address of 1515 -1533 Lakewood Road.<\/p>\n<p>Business records show Promenade Toms River is owned by Marcel Gestetner, a developer whose company, Mobile Arch Homes, has previously developed properties in Brick, Jackson, Bayville, Manchester and Howell, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The applicant is requesting numerous pieces of variance relief for the project, including minimum lot width of 95 feet where 150 feet is required; minimum lot dept of 174 feet where 200 feet is required, building coverage of 22 percent where 20 percent is required; no residential buffer where 50 feet is normally required for a newly-created lot; and no screening width where 20 feet is normally required for another newly-created lot.<\/p>\n<p>The board is scheduled to consider the application at its Dec. 17, 2025 meeting, which begins at 6 p.m. at the township municipal complex on Washington Street.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2025\/12\/toms-river-planning-board-to-consider-150-apartments-offices-retail-along-route-9\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toms River planning board is set to hear an application by a developer to construct 150 apartments along with retail space along Lakewood Road (Route 9) and Clayton Avenue at a meeting later this month. The proposal by Promenade Toms River LLC, of Lakewood, which purchased the property for $4.5 million in 2021, calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2078,1080,378,356,2077,36,11],"class_list":["post-10305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-clayton-avenue","tag-featured","tag-lakewood-road","tag-planning-board","tag-promenade-of-toms-river","tag-route-9","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/clayton_rt9_app.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10309,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions\/10309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}