An ordinance introduced by the Barnegat Township Committee recently will allow rental developments and landlords to negotiate rent increases by agreement rather than go to the rent leveling board. The ordinance would mostly affect thetwo mobile home communitiesBrighton at Barnegat and Pinewood Estates. Such an agreement is being negotiated at Brighton.

Lori Greenberg, an attorney representing Hometown America, owners of Brighton at Barnegat, had requested that she and tenants be permitted to…