As previously reported here on FAA News, back in March 30, 2022, Yehuda Dachs on behalf of Lennox Group, LLC purchased the vacant, nearly ten acres parcel on the east side of Massachusetts Avenue, about 700 feet south of Prospect Street behind High Point for $9.9 million.
Using the corporation of Keypoint Equity LLC, Mr. Dachs is now seeking approval from the Lakewood Township Planning Board to construct 37 duplex structures (74 homes plus 74 basement apartments), a shul and playground on the site which contains a paved and curbed turnaround from the adjoining High Point project.
However, the neighbors have retained Attorney Ron Gasiorowski to say "no way."
The proposal, submitted as Application # SD-2585, seeks to construct a new public cul-de-sac bulb indicated as Adirondack Way which would be accessed off Massachusetts Avenue.
A secondary access is to be provided through connecting a 24 foot wide driveway to the existing High Point driveway on Prospect Street.
The use is permitted within the R-M Multi-Family Residential Zone District. However, the application is seeking variances and design waivers.
Key issues include:
• RSIS requires a second means of ingress and egress for cul-de-sacs with over 24 homes. The proposed access through High Point is not to a public street.
• Moreover, the connector driveway to High Point will be only 24 feet wide.
• The Township's ordinances require 5% open space for more than 25 units (basement apartments count as separate units). The proposed playground only provides 1% noncontiguous open space.
• Sidewalk is missing on the top of the cul-de-sac bulb. Pertinently this means that all residents will have a sidewalk only to the shul or the playground, but not both.
• The shul is deficient in minimum Side Yard Setback and Buffer Relief. Furthermore, insufficient fencing and/or landscaping is proposed.
• A design waiver is required for proposing street trees.
• Streetlighting for the road has not been addressed
Neighbors of the project have retained Attorney Ron Gasiorowski to say "no way."
Seeing the substantial opposition, the Board on Tuesday night adjourned the application to a future hearing.
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3 comments:
Dachs has yet to complete the synagogue he promised to build in Sunset Grove!
If he splits it up into 3 applications, he can do 25 at a time and have no culdesac issue. The neighbors are going to lose.
or in Prospect Heights
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