A critic of the state’s controversial resiliency rule that was paused earlier this month by New Jersey’s top environmental chief, Long Beach Township Mayor Joseph Mancini is using a two-month comment period to push state and local officials to overhaul it while warning homeowners the measure is unworkable and unfunded as written.

“The extension does not address the fundamental problem,” Mancini said June 22. “Homeowners must still bear thousands of dollars in upfront costs and months of…