Thursday, June 7, 2012
The Czekaj family is submitting plans for restoration of the house.
The township currently has no plans to move foward with tearing down a dilapidated house on Sycamore Avenue since the owner has begun working on plans for restoration. According to township administrator James Naples, the Czekaj family, which owns the property at 64 Sycamore Avenue, has been working with the code department, verified the funding for the restoration and has selected a builder. The family, Naples said, will be working with Micorp Builders for the work. "The builder has unofficially put plans in," he said. "We are waiting for the architectural drawings to be put in." Naples said the township is giving the family until the end of the week for those drawings, and they are expected to come in by Thursday. Thomas and Kethryn …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
No applications have been filed yet for remediation of the uninhabitable house.
With the 45-day deadline approaching to make renovations on a dilapidated house on Sycamore Avenue, the township is currently in a "wait-and-see" mode, according to township administrator James Naples. "They haven't filed any applications as of yet," he said. Thomas and Kethryn Czekaj were before the township council April 12 as the council was preparing to decide whether to authorize a demolition of the house that has been boarded up for years, and deemed uninhabitable. At that time, the council chose to allow for 45 more days for the family to hire a contractor and get the permits to remediate the house, or it will be demolished immediately. Those 45 days will be up around the end of May. Naples said that if the family has not filed any …
Friday, April 13, 2012
Many believe the property is a blight on the neighborhood.
For the residents of Sycamore Avenue, they have only one desire with regard to the house at 64 Sycamore Avenue—tear it down. The owners of the house, Thomas and Kethryn Czekaj, came before the township council Thursday as the council was to decide whether to authorize the demolition of the building that is boarded up and has been deemed uninhabitable. The council chose to allow 45 more days for the Czekaj family to hire a contractor and begin to get the permits to remediate the house, or it will be demolished immediately. But for many surrounding residents, they believe that enough is enough. Although they preferred to remain anonymous so as to not draw any ill feeling in the neighborhood, nearby Sycamore Avenue residents all said the …
Ann, Bridgewater, NJ
6:23 am on Monday, April 16, 2012
Shame on you Bridgewater Patch Editors! Isn’t there something more newsworthy than this? Do you consider this an acceptable standard of journalism? Do you realize that this family has lost a child? If you lost a child you would have a hard time getting up in the morning, much less rebuilding an entire house. What kind of “Kick them While They’re Down” culture is going on in Bridgewater Township? … more ›