EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — The township Planning Board is expected Monday to discuss a proposal that could lead to an offshore wind farm developing a substation on four acres along Hingston Avenue.
The board was originally supposed to discuss including the proposed substation in the Cardiff Center Area Redevelopment Area during its June meeting, but those talks were delayed after opponents of Atlantic Shore’s offshore wind project spoke out against the project.
The agenda for Monday's Planning Board includes a motion that the board direct its engineering firm of Polistina and Associates to “conduct a preliminary investigation to determine whether or not Block 2203 Lots 26 and 27 qualifies as a non-condemnation Area in Need of Redevelopment and to be included as an amendment to the Cardiff Center Area Redevelopment Area pursuant to the New Jersey Local Redevelopment and Housing Law.”
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Township officials have said that if the parcel is included in the redevelopment area, site-specific plans would still require further approval. The two undeveloped lots had been valued at $311,000 combined. Atlantic Shores purchased them in January 2023 for more than $4.3 million, according to county property records.
Offshore wind farm opponents have said the company’s intentions are to erect an electrical substation there to receive the power generated offshore.
New Jersey’s Local Redevelopment and Housing Law sets the criteria for whether a piece of property can be considered an area in need of redevelopment. One of the criteria is that the land not be likely to be developed through private capital.
“Given the location of the parcels and lack of investment in the area, the parcels are not expected to be developed through the instrumentality of private capital,” an engineering report states.
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