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Mayor To Meet With Mobile Home Park Residents
By Catherine Galioto
Laurelton Mobile Home Park still have complaints.
Residents of the mobile home park are meeting with Mayor Dan Kelly at the park, which its residents say is in dire need of improvement.
Residents once again came before the township council to complain to officials about the condition of the mobile home park. They asked whether ordinances the council passed to protect mobile home residents were being enforced.
Laurelton residents regularly attend township council meetings and often raise issues they see with the park's conditions, citing failing structures, unavailable management and unpaved streets and possible crime.
In late November, the Brick Township Council approved a law forcing mobile home parks to keep an on-site resident manager or office staffed 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. If the park was required to have an onsite manager during scheduled business hours, then residents could have an avenue through which to immediately address some of the problems they described instead of trying to track down park management.
The park is overseen by Jack Morris of Edgewood Properties.
Kelly said he is arranging meetings with residents at the park itself.
The residents thanked Kelly for arranging the visit, as they feared the new manager was not on site and was accessible only through a long distance number.
However, a relative of the new manager said the manager is, in fact, a resident of the park. They would look into why the number to call him was a 609 area code. The unnamed relative said although the manager has no on-site office, residents could instead go to the manager's home.
Others asked Kelly if the meeting could be open to more residents, not just those who are on the tenants association. He took all names and numbers of those wanting to attend.
Residents also asked for an ordinance to help them further. Township officials are investigating rent control at mobile home parks. Although the council had the ordinance on the agenda in the spring, Township Attorney Jean Cipriani is still reviewing it.
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