{"id":1877,"date":"2018-04-16T02:54:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T06:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2018-04-16T02:54:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T06:54:04","slug":"toms-river-ordinance-would-ban-multi-family-housing-along-route-9-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/04\/toms-river-ordinance-would-ban-multi-family-housing-along-route-9-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Ordinance Would Ban Multi-Family Housing Along Route 9 Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1878\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1878\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1878\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Route-9.jpg\" alt=\"Route 9, Toms River, N.J. (Credit: Micromedia Publications\/ Toms River Times)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Route-9.jpg 800w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Route-9-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Route-9-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Route-9-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Route-9-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Route-9-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Route-9-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Route-9-238x178.jpg 238w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Route-9-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Route-9-681x511.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Route 9, Toms River, N.J. (Credit: Micromedia Publications\/ Toms River Times)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As concerns revolving around overdevelopment in the northern and western reaches of Toms River, a suggestion by a township council member has garnered unanimous support from the governing body in the form of an ordinance introduced last week.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance would ban multi-family dwellings in numerous zones along the Route 9\/Route 11 corridor in the northern portion of the township, said Councilman Daniel Rodrick, who first suggested the idea of zoning changes earlier this year. The council&#8217;s land use committee followed up with a proposed ordinance.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed ordinance, which requires a public hearing and second vote before being enacted into law, would ban multi-family housing development in the Rural Highway Business Zone \u2013 the zone that is adjacent to much of the Route 9 corridor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you had 20 acres, you were able to do multi-family development,&#8221; said Rodrick.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-proposed ordinance would remove that conditional use, while also changing zoning to allow for more open spaces in that portion of town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not everything I wanted, but it\u2019s a start,&#8221; said Rodrick, who campaigned heavily on curbing what many see as overdevelopment in the township.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/04\/toms-river-ordinance-would-ban-multi-family-housing-along-route-9-corridor\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As concerns revolving around overdevelopment in the northern and western reaches of Toms River, a suggestion by a township council member has garnered unanimous support from the governing body in the form of an ordinance introduced last week. The ordinance would ban multi-family dwellings in numerous zones along the Route 9\/Route 11 corridor in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[36,11,597],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","tag-route-9","tag-toms-river-nj-news","tag-zoning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Route-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","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=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}