Planning Board

An artist’s rendering of a proposed warehouse on Cottontail Lane. The township Planning Board on May 5 approved several applications, including one for a warehouse on Cottontail Lane and a property subdivision for a proposed township library branch. The 100,125-square-foot warehouse targeted for current vacant land could hold one or two tenants, the Planning Board was told. Situate don a …

Applications to install solar panel arrays on and around a private school and to build a large warehouse were approved April 21 by the Planning Board. The application by EZNergy was to install solar panels on the roof and in the parking lot around the Center School on Riverview Drive. The Board was told that in addition to solar panels …

An application for a more than 200,000-square-foot warehouse on Schoolhouse Road was approved April 7 by the Planning Board. The building at 17 Schoolhouse Road currently houses the New Jersey Chinese Community Center, and is the former home of the Central Jersey College Prep Charter School. The plan is to demolish the existing 90,000-square-foot structure and construct a 204,772-square-foot warehouse. …

A Schoolhouse Road engineering firm received Planning Board approval April 7 to build an office building on its property. The Board approved a 6,095-square-ffot building that will be situated in front of the existing 6,000-square-foot building. Philip Prisco, the company owner, told the Board that the company’s office is operating out of a Summit location, and he wanted to condense …

The Planning Board on February 17 approved an application for a Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant targeted for Veronica Plaza. The decision was a follow-up on a 2019 approval granted by the board for a generic 3,000-square-foot restaurant with a drive-through window. It was anticipated at that time that when a client was found for the space, the developer would return to …

An architect’s rendering of the proposed warehouse at 490 Elizabeth Avenue. Two new warehouse projects were approved February 3 by the Planning Board. And they’re both targeted for Elizabeth Avenue. The first, proposed by Executive Drive Investments, is for a 48,037-square-foot warehouse/office space at 490 Elizabeth Avenue. The office will take up about 2,000 square feet of that space, the …

Developer Paul Brown talks about his proposed self-storage facility and fast-food restaurant targeted for the Frank’s Building Supply site on Route 27. A four-story self-storage facility targeted for the Route 27 location of Frank’s Building Supply was approved February 19 by the township Planning Board. The board also gave preliminary approval for a proposed fast-food restaurant on the site. The …

Project engineer Vajira Gunawardana speaks to the Planning Board about a planned John F. Kennedy memorial on JFK Boulevard. A 792-square-foort memorial to Pres. John F. Kennedy at a strip shopping plaza on John F. Kennedy Boulevard was approved January 15 by the Planning Board. The memorial will feature a 9-foot-tall statue of Kennedy and his son, John, Jr. – …

A pad for a future fast-food drive-through restaurant and an ATM kiosk in Veronica Plaza were given various stages of approval at the April 17 Planning Board meeting. The 3,000-square-foot fast-food pad was given preliminary approval because the applicant, 3 Ronson LLC, did not yet have a tenant, the board was told. The ATM kiosk, which will be branded by …

The Planning Board on March 20 got an advance look at what the Board of Education plans to do with buildings it has acquired on the former Consolata property along Route 27. The school district and township are swapping properties; in the deal, the township gets the current BOE administration building on Amwell Road, and the school district gets three …