Zoning Board

A township charter school will have to wait until after the new year to find out if it will be able to relocate. Central Jersey College Prep Charter School, which now occupies part of a building on Schoolhouse Road, wants to move into space in a Mettlers Road building. The school plans to take up two, two-storey wings of the …

Verizon Wireless received approval Nov. 2 to erect a 118-foot-tall communications tower near the Cedar Hill Swim Club on Cedar Grove Lane. The tower – which company representatives called a “monopine” – will be disguised to blend in with surrounding trees. The approval for the tower was given by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. Company representatives told zoning board members …

A plan to build 34 townhomes on two Cedar Grove Lane lots will probably come before the Zoning Board of Adjustment sometime this fall, not that the board will have much choice in the matter. That’s because the board must approve the project’s site plan and grant whatever variance waivers it needs as the result of a 2013 lawsuit settlement. The …

The Zoning Board of Adjustment had a busy night July 7, approving all four applications brought before it. Township residents Ed Potosnak and Jeremy Pike – Potosnak is the Board of Education president – received permission from the board to renovate and temporarily live in a barn at the rear of a Canal Road property they recently bought. The two want …

Two separate applications for gas stations and convenience stores were approved by township boards on Dec. 16 and 17. On Dec. 16, the Planning Board approved an application for a WaWa market and gas station on Route 27, and on Dec. 17, the Zoning Board of Adjustment approved plans for a 7-11 store, gas station and small retail center on …

One of the township’s two charter schools has received approval to move into a Pierce Street building. The Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School, now located at 92 Cortylous Lane, will next year move into about 60,000 square feet in a building at 150 Pierce Street, at the intersection of Worlds Fair Drive. The school received Zoning Board of Adjustment approval …

A Connecticut-based vocational school hopes to have a township campus in May, now that it has received approval from the Zoning Board. American Institute of West Hartford, Ct., will open a branch in DiSaronno Plaza at 80 Cottontail Lane. The school plans to turn a 6,358-square-foot space in the office building into classrooms and office space. The school’s offerings will include …

Several members weren’t happy about doing it, but the Board of Adjustment Oct. 1 approved a developer’s application to build a house on an undersized lot on Hollywood Avenue. The target lot, at the corner of Hollywood and 12th Street, will hold a 1,700-square-foot three bedroom colonial. What irked some board members is that the lot is about one-fifth the …

The stars were in alignment July 16 for the Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting, which saw the board swiftly approve three applications for variances. The board approved a Kingston couple’s request to build a covered porch on the front of their home, a Somerset man’s application for an addition on his home, and a new businesses’ application to install a …

The Zoning Board of Adjustment on April 16 denied an application by an owner of a Kingston yoga studio to move her business from the Kingston Mall to a residential area. Following a four-hour hearing – the last of four on the matter since January – board members voted 5-2 to deny the application of Nagisa Manabe of Bay Head, co-owner of Simply …