Irving T. Faustin
builder, Ocean City · active 1940
Applied to the Mayor and City Council of Ocean City on 30 September 1940 for leave to move a bungalow off the Boardwalk on to Ninth Street next to the alley, and to build a one-storey store building ninety feet by seventy-five on two lots of the Crook property. The council put the application through its full hearing procedure, notifying every property owner in the two blocks, and heard four objecting households on 14 October - Mr. and Mrs. Benson, Della K. Powell, and Phil. C. Dennis and his wife. Sam Faustin appeared in support. The permit was granted at the hearing and signed out on 24 October 1940 by E. R. Bounds as President of the Council. It is the only contested permit of 1940 that went to a hearing under the town's 250-foot notice rule and the only one the campaign can price the objection to: four households against a building of 6,750 square feet.
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1940 · 1940-10-14
Four objecting households turned out against a ninety-by-seventy-five-foot store building at Ninth Street, and the council granted the permit anyway
The 250-foot notice machinery ran once in 1940 and it ran for Irving T. Faustin. On 2 October the council considered his application to move a bungalow off the Boardwalk on to Ninth Street next to the alley and to build 'a one Story building 90x75 ft on the 2 lots' of the Crook property, and instructed the secretary to notify all property owners in the two blocks of a hearing. Two typed notices dated 3 October went out over the clerk's name: 'There will be a hearing on the application for building permit of Irving Faustin for permit to build on cor. 9th street and Atlantic Ave. on the Crooks property a building 90x75 ft. for stores. Hearing will be held Monday Evening October 14th 1940 at 7 P.M. at the City Council Office.' At the hearing 'objectors present were Mr. & Mrs. Benson, Della K. Powell, Phil. C. Dennis & wife, and Mr. Sam Faustin was present in interest of permit. After hearing the objections, motion by Harold Rayne, seconded by R. Bounds, permit was granted.' The permit application itself, dated 30 September with the year corrected from 1939 to 1940, survives in the file, marked 'Granted Oct 24 1940' over the signature of E. R. Bounds as President of the Council: a one-storey building for stores, ninety feet by seventy-five, piers under it and a built-up roof.
Ocean City's permit rule let the neighbours be heard and then let the council decide, and in 1940 it decided for the applicant over four households. That is the control the campaign needs for 1938: the same machinery that refused a Colored Recreation Hall on the objection of six white neighbours granted a white applicant a building four times its size on the objection of four. The rule was never the rule. Who was asking was the rule.
Harold J. RayneE. Raymond Bounds
Source · checked 2026-08-11