FIRST REPORT: JACKSON PLANNING BOARD SET TO CONSIDER CHEDER BOYS SCHOOL APPLICATION WITH 60 CLASSROOMS NEAR FLAIR NEIGHBORHOOD

FIRST REPORT:

Jackson Township's Planning Board is set this coming Monday, May 1, to consider the application of Jackson Cheder Boys School on a 12 acres site off Brewers Bridge Road, near the Flair neighborhood.

Per the Site Plan submitted to the Board, the 2-story elementary boys school building (with no basement) will contain a total floor area of 129,425 sq feet.

The architectural plans a total of 54 classrooms, 6 self contained classrooms, 36 tutor rooms, over 20 offices, a large warming kitchen, dining room, gym, davening room, and library.

The application documents indicate that the school capacity will be 1,350 students. Per Jackson Township's ordinance requirement of 1 parking space per 8 elementary school students, 169 parking spaces are required and 195 will be provided.

The application for Preliminary and Final Major Site Plan Approval conforms to the bulk requirements of the R-3 zoning district, and seeks design waivers only with respect to: (i) minimum number of off-street loading areas; (ii) minimum curbed return radii dimensions in the parking areas; (iii) maximum number of proposed two-way access drives along Brewers Bridge Road; and (iv) minimum length of proposed sidewalk along Brewers Bridge Road frontage.

As the news was first broken here on FAA News, the Lakewood Cheder recently obtained a $2.1 million mortgage to purchase this 12 acre site. The contract sale remains pending closing.

The Planning Board will hold a public hearing on this application on Monday May 1, 2023 at 7:00pm in the Main Meeting Room at the Jackson Township Municipal Building, located at 95 West Veterans Highway, at which time you may appear in person or by an attorney and speak in support or in opposition to the application and the relief sought.

The Board will likely ask the applicant and its professionals questions regarding the number of buses which will drop off and pick up students, if arrivals and dismissals will be staggered, how food and other deliveries will work, and if utilities will be extended to the site.

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