OPINION | This article contains opinion. This site is licensed to publish this content.
Fox News reported on the ongoing dispute between Hollywood tough guy Joe Pesci and his neighbors on the Jersey Shore over the length of their docks.
Pesci penned a letter in opposition to the construction of docks longer than his and is now asking the local government to step in and deny “the pending applications before it is too late.”
“More than doubling the length of these docks undoubtedly would block views of the Bay currently enjoyed by other area homeowners,” Pesci warned the bureaucrats.
Pesci added; “More importantly, these extensions would force boaters, kayakers and paddlers in this area — which include children in addition to adults — to operate in waters far from land, and accordingly in the wakes of large watercraft,”
He finished with a plea to his local board: “As a 30-year resident of West Point Island, I respectfully ask the department to take this opportunity to stop this trend now by denying the pending applications before it is too late,”
More from Fox News:
Pesci’s Oct. 2, 2019, letter was one of more than 30 homeowner opposition letters collected by attorney Philip Mylod, who reps one of the families who are also fighting the pair of dock expansions.
“If it’s approved, they’ll have docks going out 300 feet to reach the four-foot-deep water,” Mylod said of the planned expansions and any future copycats.
The state DEP The Tidelands council is currently waiting for a ruling from the state Attorney General’s office clarifying “who gets what when it comes to riparian rights,” he said.
Meanwhile, Pesci’s neighbor three houses down– a waterfront home owned by the LLC P.T. Jibsail — already has a double-length, 315-foot dock, Mylod noted.
Approval for that dock was granted in 2018. But the opposing homeowners also believe that this double-length dock was improperly permitted by the state.
“My client’s well within his rights” to have that dock, the LLC’s lawyer, Neil Yoskin, told The Post, adding that the dock has all the proper permits and approvals, including from the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Reps for Pesci and for the two homeowners seeking to build new, 315-foot docks could not immediately be reached for comment.
