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Zoning Board Chairman Floats Parking Reduction As Mosque Hearing Grows Heated

October 23, 2026 Development, Featured, Zoning Board

MOUNTING AN OPPOSITION – Martina Bailie, attorney for the project objectors, questions her traffic engineer, Lee Klein, during the October 22 Zoning Board hearing.

A proposal to sharply reduce the number of parking spaces at a planned South Middlebush Road mosque emerged during a sometimes-contentious, more than three-hour Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing Oct. 22, as Board Chairman Robert Thomas expressed concerns about the intensity of the proposed use in what he called a “very sensitive area.”

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