The Atlantic City Zoning Board of Adjustment recently voted to approve a proposal to redevelop 2.25 acres across nine city-owned parcels into six affordable single-family homes.
Members of the zoning board voted on September 24 to approve a subdivision plan for the parcels at 109-119 North Maryland and 835-837 Arctic Avenues in the city’s Midtown neighborhood. The site is located one block from the Showboat Casino Resort Atlantic City parking lot and the city’s main commercial corridor on Atlantic Avenue between MLK Jr. Boulevard and Virginia Avenue.
The six subdivided lots will span approximately 3,800 square feet, 38 feet wide and 101 feet deep.
Application documents filed with the city state that subdivision approval and requested use variances will allow the city to transfer ownership of the newly subdivided parcels to a private developer, who will build six affordable single-family detached homes.
The zoning board voted to approve a variance for use, known as a D variance, for half of the six new lots, located in the city’s commercial district, where current zoning does not allow single-family detached homes.
A report prepared by Tinton Falls-based engineering and consulting firm ARH Associates about the subdivision states that the six single-family homes will likely require additional variances for minimum lot width, yard setbacks, maximum floor area ratio, and maximum fence height.
Although the city has not made public disclosures about the private developer who will handle the development of the subdivided lots, Mayor Marty Smalls’ administration has been actively working to develop new housing throughout the city.
Jersey Digs reported in September that the city council approved a resolution to grant $203,000 to Irvington-based Adenah Bayoh to fund the development of six single-family homes at 303 North South Carolina Avenue for a project that broke ground in June 2025.
Jersey Digs reported in April that the city council also voted to approve a tax break for a proposal that is slated to bring 152 townhouses to an assemblage of parcels near Ocean Casino Resort. That proposal included several parcels owned by the city, private investors and the Casino Reinvestment Authority, the latter of which approved the application for the proposal.
