This proposed 16,350 square foot house of worship would require
65% more land than owned to meet the legal requirements.
The structure would be too big, too high, too wide, too close to neighbors,
and without a major variance, would not be legal.
Contributions can be made to:
Connell Foley LLP
Attorney Trust Account
Please mail check to:
Connell Foley LLP
85 Livingston Avenue
Roseland NJ 07068,
Attn: Kevin J. Coakley
(Funds only distributed with consent
of the Association's trustees)
- Millburn zoning allows a house of worship to be built in a residential area but requires it to be on a minimum of three 3 acres.
- The Chai Center group has only 1.815 acres of the required 3 acres even after combining their properties at number 1 and 7 Jefferson Avenue (corner lot facing Old Short Hills Road).
- The Chai Center is asking that the height of the structure be allowed to go above town approved height of 32 feet.
- The Chai Center proposes many of the 48 car parking spaces be allowed to be closer to neighbors properties than the required 50-foot buffer.
- The Chai Center proposes that entrances/exits be added on Old Short Hills Road which is already heavy with traffic and is the main thoroughfare for ambulances to and from St. Barnabas Hospital.
- The Chai Center proposes large signage or identification on Old Short Hills Road.
- The Chai Center wants to have a screened dumpster enclosure, an underground storage facility for storm water, fences, walkways and extensive landscaping.
- The Chai Center, in deference to local area, will build the large structure to look like existing Dutch Colonial homes in the area.
- The Chai Center is currently conducting services and holding classes with many cars parking on the front yard, back yard and on neighboring streets.
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Save Millburn is the name for the local, registered, non-profit group,
The Concerned Neighborhood Association of Millburn Township, Inc. - Email Help@SaveMillburn.com
