Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Application to build 200 homes on Route 34 nixed for Wednesday's meeting
An application to build nearly 200 homes on Route 34 at Allaire Road has been scuttled at the last minute, according to the planning office. A division of K. Hovnanian Builders was scheduled to begin its pitch to the Board of Adjustment at Wednesday night's meeting, but the application was scrubbed from the agenda, the planning office said early afternoon Wednesday. The application has been re-scheduled for Feb. 20. No reason was given for the delay. Red Bank-based K. Hovnanian wants to build 199 townhouses on a 37-acre vacant plot at the state highway and Allaire Road. Twenty percent, or about 40 homes, would be reserved as affordable housing units, according to the proposal. The property is not zoned for residential development, so K. …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Board of Adjustment on Wednesday denies application to build convenience store and gas station on former State Police barracks property
Quick Chek has been sent packing. The Board of Adjustment on Wednesday voted unanimously to deny an application by the convenience store chain to build on the site of the former State Police barracks at Allenwood Road and Route 138, ending a hearing that spanned more than a year. There was no discussion among board members before member Wilma Morrissey offered a motion to deny the application, following more than an hour of presentation, cross-examination and public comment. Morrissey’s motion was seconded by member Mary Burne. In succession, each member voted to deny the application. Board Chair Mary DeSarno was last. “I have a problem mainly because it goes against the Master Plan,’’ DeSarno said. “I don’t think it’s particularly suited…
Thursday, May 17, 2012
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 …
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Board of Adjustment to hear testimony Feb. 22
The Board of Adjustment on Wednesday postponed a scheduled hearing of an application to build a Wawa convenience store with gas station and a separate solar farm on property at Route 34 and Hurleys Pond Road. Board Chair Wilma Morrissey announced at the meeting that the application, brough by CJS Investments of Wall, would not be heard. No reason was given. The application is scheduled to be heard again on Feb. 22, Morrissey said. The Board of Adjustment on Wednesday declined to vote on a minor subdivision that would create space for a Wawa convenience store and gas station and a nearly 3,000 panel solar farm on Hurley Pond Road and Route 34. CJS wants to combine portions of two adjoining parcels at the intersection to create enough space …
Store proposal changes entrance/exit onto Allenwood Road; residents still pan the plan
In an apparent effort to appease its critics, representatives from Quick Chek redrew its plans to provide access from Allenwood Road on a proposed site near Route 138. The convenience store chain wants to construct a 5,496-square-foot store and 16-pump gas station at 2101 Allenwood Road, near Route 138 east. It is the site of the former State Police barracks. The plan has been vigorously opposed by neighboring residents. But Wednesday, Quick Chek representatives proposed a new 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, …
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Zoning board to hear two convenience store applications; Township Committee also to meet
The Board of Adjustment has a full agenda for its regular meeting Wednesday. The board will continue to hear testimony on an application to build a and a solar farm on property at Hurley Pond Road and Route 34, according to the agenda. The board last heard this application in January. The agenda also calls for the board to hear a pitch to build a just miles away on Route 138 and Allenwood road, the site of the former State Police barracks. That application, ongoing for months, has neighboring residents lined up against it. The board last heard testimony on this application in December. The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at . The Township Committee also is slated to meet Wednesday at town hall for an executive, or workshop, meeting. No …
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Board of Adjustment approves application for former Budget Rental car facility
The former Budget Rental car facility on the Allaire Circle of Route 34 is slated to become a high-end kitchen appliance retail store. The facility, at 2025 Route 34, will become the newest outlet of the Top Line Appliance Center chain following an approval of an application before the Board of Adjustment. The board on Wednesday voted unanimously to approve a pitch from TopLine, which sells high-end kitchen appliances from its headquarters in Westfield, along with stores in Roselle and Manasquan. The vote came after a short hearing during which there were no objections from members of the public, none of whom present spoke about the plan. “I think its an ideal solution,’’ said board chair Wilma Morrissey following the vote. Top Line’s …
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Board of Adjustment declines to vote before whole project pitched
The Board of Adjustment on Wednesday declined to vote on a minor subdivision that would create space for a Wawa convenience store and gas station and a nearly 3,000 panel solar farm on Hurley Pond Road and Route 34. The applicant, township-based CJS Investments, wants to combine portions of two adjoining parcels at the intersection to create enough space on each to build a Wawa convenience store with gas station with a separate, unmanned, 2,968-panel solar electricity farm behind it. Stuart Challoner, of Toms River-based Challoner & Associates, touted the benefits of moving the lot lines between the two parcels, taking some from one and adding to the other, saying that the new parcels would be of more benefit for the improvement of both, …
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Board approves gate, pool, renovation
The Board of Adjustment elected its officers from among its members and appointed professionals for the next year at its organization meeting Wednesday. Mary DeSarno and Wilma Morrissey were elected Chair and vice chair, respectively, by unanimous votes before the panel took another series of unanimous votes re-appointing the same professionals to another year in service. The board also unanimously approved a gate on a home on Schoolhouse Road, a pool on Arnold Avenue and a renovation of a commercial property on Route 35 and Marietta Road. John Catanio, of 1422 Schoolhouse Road, asked the board to approve a 6-foot arched, wrought iron gate at the foot of his driveway. Cantanio said his driveway is on a hill and his children often ride …
Friday, June 17, 2011
State agency says tower could be airplane hazard
The State Department of Transportation is not keen on a proposal to build a 150-foot cell tower on Belmar Boulevard. Jack Taylor, manager of the Monmouth Executive Airport on Route 34, presented a DOT letter to the Board of Adjustment at its regular meeting Wednesday that may threaten to derail plans that T-Mobile has to build the tower at 5100 Belmar Boulevard. No decision was made on the application Wendnesday. The next hearing is scheduled for September 2. The letter, from the DOT’s Division of Aeronautics, says that if built the tower would pose a safety threat to banner planes and helicopters that use the nearby airport. It also takes issue with an earlier determination by the Federal Aviation Administration that the tower would pose …
W E Lang
5:21 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
This plan is something that defies sound logic. K Hov is saying that they wish to build 200 homes which means a minimum of 400 vehicles wh owill be seeking egress and ingress on two roads that are major commuter highways at high speed and they think this is not a public safety issue. Doubtless the presentation will be full of data saying that this is to be no problem. But data does not translate … more ›