Quick Chek Hearing Postponed To July
Proposal, unpopular with neighbors, rescheduled Wednesday
A hearing on a proposal to build a Quick Chek convenience store and gas station on the site of the former State Police barracks on Allenwood Road is has been put off until July.
The plan, which proposes to build a 16-pump gas station and 5,496-square-foot store at 2101 Allenwood Road and Route 138 East, was scheduled to be heared by the Board of Adjustment on Wednesday, but the hearing was rescheduled to July 11. No reason was given Wednesday.
The application has not been heard since February, when representatives from Quick Chek proposed an alteration to their original plan to get people into and out of the site from Allenwood Road.
Instead of putting traffic onto Allenwood Road near the existing jug handle, the new plan calls for extending access beyond Allenwood Road about 150 feet before meeting up with the jug handle, according to Charles Olivo, a traffic engineer for Quick Chek.
The plan would require state Department of Transportation approval, Olivo said.
The majority of traffic, up to 80 percent, would be entering and leaving from Route 138, Olivo said. The configuration they propose for Allenwood Road would be sufficient to handle any proposed traffic from the site, Olivo said.
Neighboring residents were unimpressed.
“This methodology doesn’t bear up the what we experience every day in Wall Township,’’ said Michael Ferrell, of Parkwood Drive.
Michael Ferrell
10:27 am on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Can you please get the facts right. The new plan still requires ALL traffic exiting to either go onto Allenwood road, or cross it within a few car lengths of the intersection to cross into the jughandle to get to route 138. Your articles make it appear as this isn't so, and are in error. That new plan calls for the only exit from the proposed site to cross Allenwood road to enter the jughandle, which is not going to solve the traffic problem.
Keith Brown
12:03 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
There are no factual errors in the story. And everything said about the plan is attributed to the person who said it. If you would like to discuss this further, please do call (732) 292-4484, which is the office number available to you, or anyone else, at any time. I'll pick up.
Bob Adams
5:55 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Keith: was this discussed at the July committee meeting? I can't find any information
on the web. Thanks.