The "aesthetically challenged" duplex at 8901 Landis Avenue will be torn down and replaced with a new one. (Courtesy of Google images)
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI
The modest two-story duplex that sits at the corner of 89th Street and Landis Avenue dates to the 1960s and is showing its age.
“It is aesthetically challenged,” Donald Wilkinson, the attorney for the duplex’s three owners, told Sea Isle City’s Zoning Board on Monday night.
Bernadette Kearney, Kathleen O’Brien and Robert Rauck have owned the duplex at 8901 Landis Avenue for the last 15 years, but now they want to demolish it and build a larger and more attractive duplex in its place.
At the conclusion of an hour-long meeting held online and by teleconference, the zoning board voted 5-0 to approve the project.
“It’s a well-designed project for the lot. It looks good,” zoning board member Bill Keller said, echoing the comments of the other members.
Four zoning variances were approved, mainly for lot size and setbacks. One variance will allow the owners to build on an undersized lot. Another gives them permission for a slightly smaller front yard setback from the street to accommodate some architectural features on the new duplex known as “bump-outs.”
