The City Suggeste that "Residents are encouraged to speak to their contractor, builder or architect and other professionals before seeking information from township staff, the statement said." So if the "contractor, builder or architect and other professionals" you ask advice from as far as what you can & Can not do on your property gives the Wrong Permit Advice, will the code enforcer make you change it to comply with the Township Ordanance since they want you to "NOT BOTHER THE TOWNSHIP STAFF?

Who is Scott Pezzaras to tell you what to do with your property and how to live your life ?????

Anarcho-Capitalism

Everu government office passes REGULATIONS because they either want money or think they are doing it for the good of the public. When a disaster like this strikes those REGULATIONs become a hindrance and its easy to see how unnecessary some ot them really are

God bless our township employees who have to put up with people like the above 3 idiots.

I am sure that this is the same problem facing all the affected shore towns, maybe the town could put on temps from other towns where the permit dept. is not over run, like from Jackson! This problem is what it is and it is no one persons fault or group, as some town whiners would have you think!

Thought for today."It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to get permission"

nmss4, I have spent hours in the building department over the past 13 years for 3 different residences. It is all about attitude and the way you treat people. I witnessed people coming in demanding, friendly, obnoxious, etc. It's called people skills and apparently you have none.

Just DO IT!!!! To hell with the building dept. Fix your homes and get it done. Deal with the bureaucracy if you get caught. Dealing with the code officials and all of the red tape is like dealing with FEMA or SBA; too many forms and red tape. It shouldn't be as difficult as the township makes it.....

PROTEST RALLY TODAY 12 noon to 2 PM at Brick Municipal Complex.

Answers to your questions about correcting flood zone maps, moderating the extravagant home elevation requirements, alleviating the exorbitant annual insurance costs, and amending the 2012 Biggert-Waters Act that empowers FEMA to bail out its Katrina debt with NJ property owners' money.

Mayor Steven Acropolis, Stop FEMA Now founder George Kasimos and others will speak, but will also listen to your concerns about the obstacles and hardships in restoring the Shore.

Bring a friend. Our voices will be heard from Trenton to Washington! Info at StopFemaNow.com and Facebook.com/StopFemaNow

glenn,brick bldg dept was let go years ago!

The good old days....Hand Scarpelli an envelope full of cash, Scarpelli tells his friends on the various boards to approve any plans and variances, then tell the inspectors to overlook any deliberate building code violatuons during construction.

if you think most building department workers or inspectors know very much about building you believe the Easter bunny is coming next week.

Public employees are takers. They do not produce. They only cost taxpayers and that's at the threat of force. Why do you need/want other people to live off your hard earned money , to tell you what to do with your property ?

I had a rough electrical inspection done a month or so ago.The inspector came in and looked at the electrical panel that was in the bedroom. He looked at it from the hallway.Handed me my approved sticker and left.I don't know what he inspected.

Scott, did you know that Kristy-Shay and several other builders and property owners in Brick were building and doing construction without proper approvals and permits? all over town and in the industrial park on rt 70? Did you know that there was an illegal privately owned landscaping business being run on the township owned Havens homestead farm? Did you know that contracors were illegaly dumping construction material at the town public works? Did you know that the Mayor Scarpelli, the public works director and some others were all in on it while it was going on? Yes or no? Because I sure did and I don't even work for the town. If you say that didn't know then you are either lying or you are very ingnorant and naive.

I had an electrical inspection done years ago on an outside line for a pool. Well, here comes the inspector gets out of his truck in a suit and dress shoes. Now mind you it was raining for a few days so the hole for the electrical line was covered with a sheet of plywood to try and keep water out of the hole. The inspector walks up to the hole and says it has water in it, how am I going to inspect that. All I can say is what a fu$$ing joke. God forbid they really show up to work.

Slippery Slope very good point, I also remember that like it was yesterday.

Seriously - I'm tapped out of dealing with the bureaucracy. I can't even get my flood claim filled for crissake. SOOOO sick of all this. I'm doing what I can on my own. Fine me later. I dealt with the building department 13 years ago when I was renovating myself. Got ALL the permits. Waited for them ALL day to come. They'd approve my drawings, then come out for the rough and tell me to redo a bunch of stuff differently. This happened for EVERY inspection except demo and insulation (really? insulation inspection?!). By the end I was like, "Really guys, just tell me who I gotta grease cuz I'm OVER this bs!" It was a circle jerk. No thanks. These are the same types of people telling us to put our houses 10 feet in the air. Power tripping morons. The only person looking out for you is YOU. And frankly Chief Wahoo is starting to make a helluva lot of sense.

Nautigal
The reason you were told you had to redo a bunch of things is because what was done was not done to code. Yes insulation inspections because if the proper r-factor is not utilzed it will not be sufficient for our climate region. If you do things without permits and inspections, and something happens such as fire, deck collapse, foof truss issues, etc, your insurance will not cover you. The first place they look is a municipalities records. That is why bldg records are permanent.

Sorry Scott, that's just not the case. Not to mention they had the chance to tell me that at my pre-approval - ya know, BEFORE I did it and paid for it? I know straight-up job justification when I see it. I'll worry about my insurance - thanks. 5 months later, still waiting on my flood. I want nothing to do with THAT scam ever again! And Scott, the building department cares how cold I am about as much as you do. I can read an r-factor, thanks.

Nautigal
If it was done to code they wouldn't have failed the job, and if they did, you could've appealed it to the board in the county. It is not that people can't read the r-factor they don't know what the code calls for in our region for exterior walls,ceilings and floors. If your plans on plan review were signed off upon by the appropriate sub code official and the job was done according to the plans, there shouldn't have been a problem. I am just making people aware of what will happen if they don't build to code and take out the proper permits. I truly wish you the best of luck and hope you don't have any problems in the future

Anyone not happy with the Brick Twp Building Department and any and all code officials can file a complaint with The New Jersey State code Enforcement agency.
Complaints can be faxed to Mr Carmine Giangeruso, Fax # 609-984-7718. Mr Giangeruso is no stranger to Brick Twp and has helped many. Simply type your complaint in letter form adressed to Mr Giangeruo and fax it to the above fax number. Trust me you won't regret it.......

Scott, with all due respect, I think the township needs to take some responsibility for acting as the authority on building and permitting some of these properties to be developed. Clearly, some of these properties should never have been developed at all. Just look at Circle Dodge. Stand by the Rainbow Diner and look to Chambersbridge Rd. You can see the valley that should have been raised before developing any land in it. Why is the Pilot House so high? Yet the township takes no responsibility. WOW building on Brick Blvd, same issue. Someone authorized building these lots when its is obvious they should have remained swamp lands. Since the township authorized this development, they need to be on the taxpayer's side to get these properties rebuilt. Maybe we need to be less budget conscious and hire who we need to get these people back in their homes quickly. This may mean sending out field agents to provide positive feedback on what needs to be done instead of just providing negative feedback on plans submitted and construction already done. Just my $.02.

Circle Dodge was built over 60 years ago. The pilot house was built in the last 20 years. The real question should be to Scott Pezzaras....." Why does the town allow Circle Dodge to illegaly park their cars on State property without issuing them a summons? Hundreds of cars parked on a GRASS highway medium and no summons issued? My neibor was threatened by the town for parking his 1 car on the side of his house on his own lot. What gives Scott? I am sure these are important zoning laws. Why does the town pick and choose which ones to enforce? .

How can anyone have respect for any of our public officials if they CANNOT lead by example. They are nothing but an insult to the taxpayers intelligence.

Brick township government would make tony soprano blush. its 2013 and this town is run like it's 1920 still with everyone w/ a hand in a pocket and others looking the other way. The economic model of this township is so upside down to be unbelievable with no solution in sight, and Sandy just covered a lot of tracks w/ new Fed money that will flow in and majority not reach the people.

People in town vote for cuts to a budget? Mayors reply... not a balanced one of trimming throughout town hall - that's be logical. Let's threaten senior citizens w/ no garbage collection & huge reduction of police force as the only possible solution and make it a political football to crush dems. Unfortunately no one in Brick actually cares about Brick, Everyone just seems to be passing thru, taking their piece and moving on....