BERKELEY — Add Berkeley to a growing chorus of official voices asking the state to roll back new Coastal A zone requirements that local officials say could be a burden to homeowners attempting to rebuild or elevate their houses.
The Township Council voted Monday night to adopt a resolution asking the state to rescind the new Coastal A zone regulations, which went into effect last month under the state’s newly adopted Uniform Construction Code.
“These regulations are now going to put several of our homeowners in a precarious position,” Mayor Carmen F. Amato Jr. said. “To impose these harsh restrictions is unfair.”
Councilman James Byrnes agreed, saying the new regulations are “a hardship on people who have already rebuilt.”
About 400 homes in Berkeley fall in the new Coastal A zone. Last week, Toms River’s Township Council adopted a similar resolution asking the state to repeal the Coastal A zone requirements.