Zoning Board

Applications to build a single-family home on Battle Place and for a “financial” subdivision off DeMott Lane were approved December 7 by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. Venkateswar and Padmaja Vakkalagadda applied to the Board to build a single-family home on a corner vacant lot at 76 Battle Place. The lot is undersized, so the couple also had to apply …

MEETING SET – Township Manager Robert Vornlocker said he and several other officials will brainstorm on the best way to ask Somerset County to decertify some County roads for truck traffic. Township officials plan to put their heads together this week and strategize on how to ask Somerset County to decertify some County roads for truck traffic. The idea is …

NO MORE WAREHOUSES – Environmental Commissioner Robin Suydam said at the meeting that too many trees have already been sacrificed for development. The Environmental Commission on October 16 decided to recommend that the Township Zoning Board of Adjustment not approve an application for a warehouse at Weston Canal and Cottontail roads. The application, submitted by Somerset Properties Realty, calls for …

MAKING HIS CASE – Howard Fischer prepares to testify at the September 21 Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing on his application to run a landscaping business from a Bennetts Lane property. A landscaper was given permission September 21 to run his business from a Bennetts Lane property. Fischer Contracting, co-owned by Howard Fischer, received unanimous Zoning Board of Adjustment approval …

MAKING A POINT – Bob Smith, attorney for Parker at Somerset, speaks to the Zoning Board during the September 7 hearing. The Parker at Somerset rehabilitation center won Zoning Board of Adjustment approval for its plan to re-stripe its parking lot and create an outpatient rehabilitation facility at the September 7 Board meeting. Meanwhile, a township couple wishing to build a …

SIGNS APPROVED – Bank of America won Zoning Board approval for three new signs for its Easton Avenue branch, but the approval didn’t come easily. Bank of America won Zoning Board of Adjustment approval for new signs for its Easton Avenue branch on July 20, but the road to that point was a bit bumpy. The bank applied for three …

The Park at Franklin apartment complex on John F. Kennedy Boulevard won Zoning Board of Adjustment approval May 18 to install 10 banners or flags along its main entrance. The flags, which will be about 13 feet high, are intended to add some color to the 63-year-olds complex’s environs, the Board was told. Franklin Greens Fieldstone, the complex’s owner, needed …

TOWNHOUSE APARTMENTS – An artist’s rendering of the 12-unit apartment complex approved May 18 by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. A Newark-based developer walked in to the May 18 Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting with an application for a 12-unit for-purchase townhouse development and left with an approval for a 12-unit apartment complex. And the changeover occurred in a matter …

A township couple’s quest to legitimize a home addition built in 2018 moved along May 4 with a variance approval from the Zoning Board of Adjustment. Board members approved the three bulk variance applications – for sideyard setback, total area coverage and percentage of impervious surface – but they made it clear they weren’t happy about it. The Drake Street …

TESTIFYING – Engineer Richard Adelsohn testifies before the Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing on April 20. The developer of a proposed 12-unit townhouse project on Norma Avenue will have to wait until at least May to hear if the project is a “go.” That’s because the project’s hearing before the Zoning Board of Adjustment on April 20 had to be …