Politics & Government

Board Moves To Approve New Home, Balks On Big Sign

Sea Girt Square owners will have to try harder to convince Planning Board

Dominick Leggerio will get a new house built on his father’s property at 2600 Brighton Ave. but the Sea Girt Square shopping plaza on Route 35 will have to try harder to convince the board they need a bigger sign.

on Monday, in just its 10th meeting this year, approved a minor subdivision of a 5.7-acre Brighton Avenue lot owned by Antonio Leggerio, who has plans to erect a second home on the buildable portion of the lot for his son, Dominick.

The land is bounded by Route 18 and Marconi Road, and is mostly unbuildable wetlands. The elder Leggerio already has constructed a house on a portion of the land and pitched the division of the land to allow the second home.

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After some debate among board members about whether the application should be considered a minor or a major subdivision, based on the number of times the land had previously been divided by former owners, the board approved the application. The vote was unanimous.

But a second meeting was scheduled for November 28 to hear continuing testimony from representatives of the Sea Girt Center, the company that owns Sea Girt Square -- the newly renovated shopping center at Route 35 and Ocean Road.

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The shopping center, represented by attorney Jennifer Krimko, wants to put up a taller and larger sign main than the board has already approved, citing decreased visibility because of the sign’s distance – some 60 feet – from the main highway, as well as a desire to gain exposure for the center’s 15 or so prospective tenants. The center also wants additional interior signs.

The board had previously approved a main sign of 15 feet tall. The center proposes a 21.5-foot-tall sign.

“It’s the intensity, the sheer height that gives me pause,’’ said Committeeman Todd Luttman, who also sits on the board.

Board members said they were willing to work with the center, however, but scheduled another meeting asking the center’s representatives to come back with computer images to scale showing how the sign would appear if approved.


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