Climate Change
Sea Level Rise and Sunny-Day Flooding Can’t Stop a Building Boom on the Jersey Shore
Developers and politicians are looking to the state’s Democratic governor, legislation or the courts for relief from stringent new state regulations limiting construction along the coast.
ASBURY PARK, N.J.—Million-dollar condos are rising just off the legendary boardwalk here in what used to be a blue-collar shore town where Bruce Springsteen played as a young musician.
Sea Level Rise and Sunny-Day Flooding Can’t Stop a Building Boom on the Jersey Shore