PUBLIC NOTICE
Please take notice that 450-452 Cooper Street LLC ("Applicant") has filed an application for development with the City of Beverly Joint Land Use Board ("Board") regarding real property located at 450 Cooper Street and designated as block 1168, lot 6 on the municipal tax map. The Applicant seeks minor site plan approval, a D(1) use variance and bulk variances to convert the existing building into four residential apartments. The Applicant also proposes to construct a rear, two-story addition and expand the rear parking area.
The Applicant seeks approval of the following bulk variances under the municipal land use ordinance:
1. 600 Attachment 1 – minimum lot width: 50 feet required; 42.33 feet proposed (existing nonconformity; no change proposed);
2. 600 Attachment 1 – minimum side yard setback (south side): 5 feet required; 1.82 feet existing and proposed (existing nonconformity; no change proposed);
3. Section 600-14(A)(3) – all parking areas must be paved and curbed; gravel parking spaces existing and proposed;
4. Section 600-12(B) – accessory structures shall not be permitted in the front yard; refuse enclosure proposed in front yard along Elizabeth Street; and
5. Section 600-15(D)– minimum landscape buffer area: 3 feet required in rear yards; 0 feet existing; 2.16 feet proposed.
The Applicant also requests any additional variances, submission waivers, additional exceptions, design waivers, de minimis exceptions, interpretations, modifications of conditions of prior approvals, continuation of any preexisting non-conforming conditions, conditional use approval, other approvals reflected on the plans (as same may be further amended or revised from time to time without further notice) as may be determined to be necessary during the review and processing of the application by the Board and its professional staff, and permits requested or required by the Board at the public hearing.
This application shall be considered by the Board on October 22, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. in-person at the City of Beverly, Frank R. Costello Municipal Building, Council Chambers, 446 Broad Street, Beverly, New Jersey, at which time you may appear either in person or through an attorney and present any objection that you may have to the granting of this application. A copy of the application and supporting documentation is on file in the Board's office in the City of Beverly, Frank R. Costello Municipal Building, 446 Broad Street, Beverly, New Jersey, and is available for public inspection during regular business hours. You may contact Natalie Lewis, the Land Use Board Secretary by phone at (609) 387-1881 or by email at land_use@thecityofbeverly.com for definitive information on consideration of the application. The application may be adjourned to another date without further notice to you and you are advised to contact the Board in order to confirm the date and time of the hearing.
Del Duca Lewis & Berr, LLC
Attorneys for Applicant
21 E. Euclid Avenue, Suite 100
Haddonfield, New Jersey 08033
(856) 427-4200
October 8 2025
LSOM0383350
$43.40