In the immediate future, the borough of Barnegat Light will amend its building height ordinance to compensate for the state Department of Environmental Protection’s new 4-feet-higher base flood elevations. The discussion arose during the caucus portion of the Jan. 14 regular council meeting.
Under the new Resilient Environments and Landscapes rules, each property’s BFE, or the required height to the bottom of the ground floor according to the most restrictive map, gets 1 additional foot for…
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