Zoning Board

Brett Skapinetz, the project’s engineer, said he has no fear that the billboard will topple over. A plan to erect a v-shaped, double billboard on Elizabeth Avenue, near Route 287, was approved February 2 by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. In granting the approval, the Board required the applicant, American Outdoor Advertising, to locate the billboard about 40 feet away …

Zoning Board of Adjustment attorney Francis Regan reads off the list of conditions attached to the approval of the Saharose bus company’s application. The Zoning Board of Adjustment was forced on January 19 to approve a bus company’s application to park 15 buses in the rear lot at JFK Plaza on John F. Kennedy Boulevard. The application for a Use …

Levin vice president Sidney Singer talks to the Planning Board at. the special October 12 meeting. Township residents packed the Council chambers on October 12 for the chance to give the Levin Management Company their thoughts on the plan to turn the former Kmart building in Rutgers Plaza into a four-story apartment building. Those thoughts were not positive. Levin wants …

Rendering of two proposed warehouses at Schoolhouse and Mettlers roads. (Graphic: Link Logistics Real Estate). The developer of two proposed warehouses at Schoolhouse and Mettlers roads will have to redesign the project to conform to the township’s Scenic Corridor zoning regulations, township officials said. That’s because Mettlers Road has been designated a Scenic Corridor, a zoning overlay which imposes a …

An artist’s rendering of Cosmopolitan at Somerset Town Center, the building with which Levin Properties is proposing to replace the former K-Mart building. The owner of Rutgers Plaza on Easton Avenue will have an “informal” discussion before the Planning Board to discuss its plan to convert the former K-Mart building into a 200-unit apartment complex. Among the topics of discussion …

Mark Healey, the township’s director of planning, points out various development zones in the township during the Somerset Run Civics Club meeting. Residents of Somerset Run received a primer on the township’s warehouse situation on September 8. The venue was the 55-plus community’s clubhouse, and the setting was a meeting of the Somerset Run Civics Club. Featured were township representatives …

Architect W. Michael Campbell displays an artist’s rendering of the proposed new St. Sharbel’s Church, targeted for Easton Avenue and Franklin Boulevard. Update: The Zoning Board of Adjustment approved St. Sharbel’s application at its August 4 meeting. In a brief hearing, the Board was told that any concerns held by the Township’s professional staff had been alleviated. The project’s planner …

Architect Michael Testa describes the proposed three-story apartment building targeted for Hamilton Street. A three-story apartment building targeted for the “gateway” to Hamilton Street from New Brunswick was approved July 7 by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. The 15-unit building will be constructed at the corner of Hamilton Street and Hawthorne Drive. The building will consist of 10 1-bedroom apartments …

Engineer Jayesh Patel speaks to the Zoning Board at the June 2 hearing. An application for a 29,000-square-foot Hindu temple on South MIddlebush Road was approved June 2 by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. The approval for Sai Datta Mandir is the second one for a temple in that area within the last year. In October 2021, the Dada Bhagwan …

Former Township Councilman Upendra Chivukula, right, answers questions posed by temple attorney Peter Lanfrit at the May 5 Zoning Board meeting. A proposed Hindu temple on a 25-acre South Middlebush Road parcel could draw between 80 to 250 people on weekdays and as many as 200 a day on weekends, the Zoning Board of Adjustment was told during the temple’s …