Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Township Committee next will consider whether to go along with Planning Board's partial endorsement of plan.
Eighteen months of hearings on Millington Quarry's plan for "rehabilitating" its property on Stonehouse Road to become usable residential property after quarrying ceases ended on Tuesday night with the Planning Board's partial endorsement for the proposal. The plan calls for the creation of a 50-acre lake and a meadow area that someday could be turned into a residential neighborhood. The next step is for the quarry plan to go before the Bernards Township Committee, where the governing body can go along with the Planning Board's recommendation, reject the plan or set its own conditions. Township Mayor Carolyn Gaziano, who also has sat on the Planning Board since the hearings began in November 2011, said she wasn't sure when the plan would …
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Number of suitable parking spots and traffic planning still up for discussion regarding proposed mosque in Liberty Corner.
In a continuing back and forth over how many parking spaces would be needed at a proposed mosque at the edge of Church Street in Liberty Corner Village, an expert hired by the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge put the number at 60, a steep reduction from the 110 recommended by township professionals. The Bernards Township Planning Board, which has been considering the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge's application to build the 4,200-square-foot house of worship since last summer, had asked Henry Ney to return with more information at the most recent hearing, on Thursday night. Now, Ney has been asked to return again at the next board discussion on the proposal, scheduled for June 4. Among other requests, the traffic expert has been asked to…
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Meanwhile, resolution to memorialize Planning Board's recommendations regarding Millington Quarry due on May 7.
A proposal to build at 4,200-square-foot mosque to serve the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge is on the agenda to be back before the Bernards Township Planning Board for the first time since February. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday night in the courtroom at the municipal building at 1 Collyer Lane in Basking Ridge. The number of parking spaces that should be required at the proposed location on Church Street in Liberty Corner Village was the topic of the past two meetings, and was expected to continue at this meeting. A traffic expert told the Planning Board in early February that his count of how many vehicles actually were parked during the main Friday service at two other mosques in New Jersey indicates that …
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Millington Quarry has given the Planning Board an extension until May 7 meeting to approve recommendation.
A special Planning Board meeting that had been scheduled for Tuesday night with one item on the agenda — passage of a resolution outlining the board's recommendation on the Millington Quarry's plans to rehabilitate the facility after closure — has been cancelled. The next scheduled Planning Board meeting is at 7:30 p.m. next Thursday, April 25. A major item on the agenda that night is the return of the discussion regarding the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge application for a mosque in Liberty Corner, said Planning Board secretary Fran Florio. However, Florio said that the quarry resolution is not expected to be brought before the board next week. The Planning Board, after discussing the application, is expecting to pass along a …
Monday, March 25, 2013
April 2 meeting canceled, but meetings still on for this Thursday, March 28, and April 25.
The Bernards Township Planning Board's busy schedule faced upcoming revisions as of Monday, with this Thursday's meeting still on with a set agenda, and another firm meeting date set for April 25, when the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge is due to return. However, the Planning Board's regularly scheduled meeting that would have been held next Tuesday, April 2, has been canceled, board secretary Fran Florio said on Monday afternoon. At the last hearing on the proposed mosque in Liberty Corner, the discussion continued to focus on what would be the appropriate number of parking spaces for the 4,200 structure that is planned on Church Street. Meanwhile, the Planning Board's deliberations on the Millington Quarry application for …
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Planning board members spend more than three hours outlining 'deficiencies' in Millington Quarry's application for post-closure plan.
Almost a year and a half of expert testimony, questions and many exhibits led the Bernards Planning Board members to a point on Tuesday night where those members eligible to vote agreed 5-0 to recommend approval of a part of the Millington Quarry's plan for "reclamation" of the 179-acre property after all quarrying stops. The board does not actually vote to accept the plan, but passes its recommendations along to the Bernards Township Committee, which retains the right to make a final decision. The boards also attached conditions to some of the parts of the plan that it will recommend that the governing body approve, such as specifying a schedule of water quality testing for a proposed 50-acre lake on the quarry property off Stonehouse …
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Fifteen months of presentations, testimony and questions before the Bernards Twp. Planning Board now rest on final deliberations.
Following 15 months of hearings, the Bernards Township Planning Board — with a reduced number of members eligible to vote — must decide whether to recommend that the Bernards Township Committee should approve the Millington Quarry's application for a closure plan as presented. The Millington Quarry's plan for how 180 acres or so on Bernards' eastern border would be rehabilitated for future use after quarrying stops received a first look before the Planning Board in November 2011. The case before the Planning Board finally rested on Jan. 31, following many long evenings filled with detailed testimony, expert witnesses, detailed reports and questions — lots of questions — from the Planning Board and also the public. The board is scheduled to…
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Expert's report counting parked cars during services at other mosques in New Jersey doesn't satisfy Bernards Planning Board.
A traffic expert told the Planning Board on Tuesday that his count of how many vehicles actually were parked during the main Friday service at two other mosques in New Jersey indicates that the proposed mosque in Liberty Corner would need a maximum of 70 spots — not the 110 advised by board professional last month. The board's members did not seem convinced and scheduled the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge's traffic engineer to return on April 25 with further information, additional details on certain points in the report and an additional vehicle count for a mosque in South Brunswick. The applicant's original number of parking spaces was 50 for the proposed 4,200-square-foot mosque at 124 Church St. in the Liberty Corner section of …
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Kevin Orr and Carol Bianchi seek endorsement of Republican Municipal Committee.
It's been barely a week since Republican Township Committeeman Scott Spitzer announced he has decided against seeking re-election to his seat on the governing body, and since then two members of the Bernards Township Planning each have said they would like to fill that spot next year. Carol Bianchi, this year's chair of the Planning Board, and Kevin Orr, chairman of the township Board of Adjustment and a member of the township Planning Board, both said they are seeking the Republican municipal committee's endorsement for this year's official Republican candidate for Township Committee. Although Republican candidates for Township Committee have faced competition from Democratic challengers in recent years, the Republicans have managed to …
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Four-hour hearing on application to build mosque in Liberty Corner begins with disagreement over necessary parking.
A four-hour continued hearing on a proposal for a 4,252-square-foot mosque in Liberty Corner Village began Tuesday with the applicant's attorney saying he had learned the board's professionals now are asking that 110 parking spaces be provided for the house of worship if it is built, rather than the 50 spaces in the application. The board's attorney, Jonathan Drill, said that he and David Banisch, planner for the township had concluded that number was appropriate as guided by 2010 International Traffic Engineers standards for mosques, as compared with churches and synagogues. That brought a quick objection from Vincent Bisogno, attorney for the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge. Bisogno said more than doubling the required parking spaces …
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Lawyer1
9:34 am on Tuesday, April 30, 2013
I remember attending the town meetings in Bridgewater held by the Mayor before the Mosque was completed on Rt. 206. There were many issue I remember between the people attending the mosque and local residents.....now from memory. -There were attendees actually parking on neighbors lawns as there wasn't enough parking for the Temple which had the BWPD on sight almost daily. -There were attendee … more ›