QuickChek Opponents Out in Force

The meeting room of the Board of Adjustment was again stuffed to the gills with residents opposed to a plan to build a new convenience store on the former State Police Barracks property on Allenwood Road.

QuickChek has an active application before the board to build a 5,496-square-foot store and 16-pump gas station at 2101 Allenwood Road, near Route 138. The store would be open 24-hours.

Time ran out on the application Wednesday, with a long que of residents lined up to ask questions of the QuickChek traffic engineer. Another session is scheduled for Feb. 1.

More than 30 residents, many of whom opposed the application, . Signs declaring opposition to the plan have sprouted in neighbors’ yards in the area.

Company representatives met with their prospective neighbors on Sleepy Hollow Court roughly two weeks before the first board meeting in September, and the residents were not receptive to the idea, Frank Marciano, a QuickChek real estate manager, has said.  

“I was at the (Sept. 7) meeting and the QuickChek meeting before,” Ken Clark, of Sleepy Hollow Court, has said. “Everybody was against it.”

Residents opposed to the plan have also packed subsequent meetings and peppered QuickChek representatives with questions and criticism.

is scheduled to meet again to hear the application at 7:30 p.m. at town hall, 2700 Allaire Rd. on Feb. 1.