Zoning Board

The former Crowne Plaza hotel on Davidson Avenue will be getting a hotel neighbor, thanks to an Oct. 18 Zoning Board of Adjustment approval. The board approved an application for a 128-room, extended-stay hotel which will be owned by Somerset Hotel LLC, the same group which owns the hotel that began as a Marriott and was operated under a number …

An application to raze two apartment buildings and construct one in their place won Zoning Board of Adjustment approval Sept. 6. The new building, planned to hold eight 1-bedroom apartments, will go up at Norma Avenue and Franklin Boulevard. The current buildings hold five apartments with a total of nine bedrooms, the board was told. The project’s developer, Meridian Developers, …

A discount retailer planning to move into the Franklin Towne Center plaza was given Zoning Board of Adjustment permission Sept. 6 to erect two large signs on its facade. Ocean State Job Lot is taking over about 31,000 square feet of space at the shopping plaza, located at South Middlebush Road and Route 27. The store will be located between …

An application to build a one-story connector between the sanctuary and rectory at the Korean Baptist Church of America on Livingston Avenue was approved June 7 by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. The addition was needed, church officials said, to more efficiently use the church buildings. A number of neighbors showed up to the hearing, and while some expressed concerns …

Applications for a new temple on Elizabeth Avenue and a major expansion of a Dellwood Lane nursing home were approved April 5 by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. The largest of the two applications was submitted by Francis E. Parker Memorial Home, Inc., – formerly known as the Margaret McLaughlin McCarrick Care Center – which needed permission to build a new, …

The BP station at Hamilton Street and Shevchenko Avenue will get a spruce-up and a new neighbor, all due to a March 1 Zoning Board of Adjustment approval. The board approved a plan submitted by Gill Petroleum to add two more fuel pumping stations to the gas station, and build a 5,000-square-foot building on a currently adjoining vacant lot. A …

The Zoning Board of Adjustment on Oct. 5 heard details of two more mixed-use developments targeted for the Hamilton Street Business District zone. No action was taken on either application because both needed what planners and the attorney called tweaking of the architectural plans. Both applications are expected to be voted upon at the board’s Oct. 19 meeting. One applicati0n …

Zoning Board of Adjustment members got their first peek Sept. 21 at plans for a 32,000-square-foot school proposed by officials of the Masjid-e-Ali mosque on Cedar Grove Lane. Board members heard from only one witness, architect Yogesh Mistry, because a prior application received a long hearing. Mistry told the board that the proposed Pre-K through 8th Grade school would be …

It was a bumpy ride, but representatives of the Anana Mandir finally did get the OK to expand their Cedar Grove Lane temple on Sept. 21. Members of the Zoning Board of Adjustment didn’t make it easy, questioning the temple’s representatives on several aspects of the application, and noting that there have been problems at the site in years’ past. …

Application approvals for two houses of worship were among the actions taken Aug. 3 by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. The board approved an application submitted by the Masjid-e-Ali mosque on Cedar Grove Lane to allow temporary parking for special events in an area behind the mosque and approved a free-standing sign for the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church on …