Content about Zoning

On Thursday evening, the South Brunswick Zoning Board began hearing testimony on the engineering plans and traffic study for the new zoning application of the Princeton International Academy Charter School (PIACS). PIACS withdrew a previous application and is applying again, now that the property on 12 Perrine Road in Monmouth Junction will reportedly no longer be shared with the YingHua International private school.

Princeton University attorneys threatened legal action against the Borough, if the Council were to pass an ordinance that specifies that the area around the Dinky train station - known as Lot 39 - can only be developed for transit purposes or retail related to transit. 

Borough Administrator Bob Bruschi is preparing to present a modified Arts and Transit Zoning Ordinance at tomorrow evening's Borough Council meeting.  In a letter to the Mayor and Council, Bruschi says he will "strongly urge the Council to introduce this ordinance or a version that is substantially similar to it.  While it might not be the final document I think it is important to formally start the process."

Princeton’s Borough Council and Township Committee plan to introduce the new zoning ordinance for Princeton University’s Arts and Transit project on May 3, with a final decision possible sometime in June. This was decided at a joint Borough-Township meeting last evening, although no formal action was taken. The meeting also sought to clarify questions from concerned residents and debate the process by which zoning ordinances and negotiation committees would be presented and approved.

Emotions ran high at a packed Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing last night on the proposed location of a Chinese immersion charter school on Perrine Road in South Brunswick.