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Board of Adjustment Rules That Stop & Shop Needs Use Variances Ad Populos, Non Aditus, Pervenimus Published Every Thursday Since September 3, 1890 (908) 232-4407 USPS 680020 Thursday, July 15, 2010 OUR 120th YEAR – ISSUE NO. 28-2010 Periodical – Postage Paid at Rahway, N.J. www.goleader.com [email protected] SIXTY CENTS Board of Adjustment Rules That Stop & Shop Needs Use Variances By THOMAS FORTUNATO Howard Geneslaw of Newark law Representing opposition to Stop & Specially Written for The Westfield Leader firm Gibbons P.C., appeared before Shop’s expansion plans was attorney WESTFIELD – The town’s Board the board to appeal a decision by Ms. John H. Schmidt, Jr. Mr. Schmidt has of Adjustment ruled last Thursday Neville that they needed D variances been hired by Westfield resident Janis that Stop & Shop supermarket needs to expand the parking lot to include Weinstein, a former town council- a D variance for a change of use in parking between the back of the store woman. On Wednesday’s meeting, order to proceed with the bulk of its and Cowperwaithe Place, for modi- Mr. Schmidt was seen conversing improvement plans for its Elm Street fying the store’s basement to handle with William Sumas, executive vice- supermarket. food preparation and to display sea- president of Village Super Market, The supermarket had appealed zon- sonal merchandise outside the front Inc., the Springfield-based company ing officer Kathleen Neville’s deci- of the store. that owns and operates 26 ShopRite sion, believing it only needed a C Ms. Neville approved Stop & supermarkets in New Jersey and variance, which include site plans for Shop’s request to have shopping-cart Pennsylvania, including one in the development of a site, including corrals in the parking lot. The board, Garwood. Mr. Sumas declined to lighting and traffic studies. C vari- however, decided that a free-stand- comment when approached by The ances, where a D variance is not ing six-foot by six-foot monument Westfield Leader. required, are heard by the planning sign in the front of the property, as Before rendering its decision, the board, with the zoning board hearing requested by the applicant, needs a C board heard public comments on Stop cases involving changes of use. variance and not a D variance, as & Shop’s appeal. Stop & Shop, represented by determined by Ms. Neville. “I think it (the Stop & Shop im- provement plan) would be really great for a store like Stop & Shop to be able to develop in Westfield,” commented Westfield resident Jennifer Burma of Warren Street. “I’m also a little con- cerned [about] everything I’ve read in the public record, just that it seems that this has been going on for a very Thomas Fortunato for The Westfield Leader long time, and it seems that ShopRite MAKING AN APPEAL…Attorney Howard Geneslaw, representing Stop & Shop, appears before the Westfield Zoning has kind of stalled this whole pro- Board on Thursday to appeal a decision by Zoning Officer Kathleen Neville that the supermarket needs use variances for ceeding. I don’t really feel like it’s multiple planned improvements to its Westfield store. about the people of Westfield any- more. I feel like it’s about these two companies at war with each other.” Union County to Join Mr. Schmidt requested the board disregard Ms. Burma’s comments, stating that they were “inappropriate at this point in time.” Bergen’s Wellness Program Saul Drittel, a Westfield resident By PAUL J. PEYTON Essex County joined the program to program staff will attend the Free- whose Prospect Street home backs Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times help uninsured persons but noted that holders’ Thursday, July 29, meeting David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader onto Stop & Shop’s property, stated ELIZABETH – The Union County the program can also be used to gain to answer board questions regarding CAL RIPKEN CHAMPS…The Westfield White 12-year-old baseball team cel- that the store “has been very coopera- Freeholders are expected to vote at discounts on prescriptions not cov- the program. ebrates after edging South Orange-Maplewood, 6-5, in seven innings to claim the tive” in maintaining relations with its their Thursday, July 29, meeting on ered by insurance plans. In other business, the board con- Cal Ripken District 12 Championship at Gumbert Field in Westfield on July 6. neighbors, taking care of fences and whether to join the Bergen County According to its website, United sidered a $25,000, two-year con- relocating air-conditioning units to Wellness Program, a program that Networks has more than a quarter- tract to American Cadastre of Rick reduce noise pollution. would provide county residents with million providers and 72.4-million Island, Ill., to provide microfilming UCEDC Looks for Clients Following the public comment, Mr. discounts on prescriptions. members. The Bergen program of- services for county documents, in- Geneslaw, followed by Mr. Schmidt, Frank Guzzo, director of Human fers prescription-drug discounts of cluding deeds, mortgages and other gave their closing comments. Services for Union County, said the between 10 and 50 percent, in addi- land records in the County Clerk’s For Small-Business Loans In Mr. Schmidt’s closing comment, program would allow Union County tion to discounts on eye care – includ- office. By PAUL J. PEYTON be used as part of a loan package with he drew back to “New Jersey Zoning residents to participate “regardless ing vision exams and eyeglasses – as The board questioned why this anti- Specially Written for The Westfield Leader other lenders. and Land Use Administration” by of age or income.” He said Essex and well as on hearing aids and dental quated technology was still being uti- ELIZABETH – Since 1977, the Among those that have received William Cox and Donald Ross, “the Hudson Counties have joined the care. Users are provided with dis- lized. Freeholder Clerk Nicole DiRado UCEDC has given out more than 400 UCEDC loans are Breadsmith in leading treatise on land use” and re- Bergen program, which is operated count cards that can be used at most said the use of maintaining records in loans, totaling some $10 million, to Cranford, Xocolatz in Westfield, a minded the board that “an accessory by United Networks of America, Inc. major pharmacies, including CVS, microfilm form remains a “statutory small businesses and entrepreneurs few restaurants in Rahway, use that is not permitted by ordinance According to Mr. Guzzo, the county Rite-Aid and Walgreen’s. requirement” in New Jersey. with plans either to expand an exist- laundromats, landscapers and retail can only be allowed by a D variance.” is looking to join the program “due to Mr. Guzzo said there would be no Also discussed was a one-year, ing business or start a new one. service businesses. He said Westfield’s ordnances “ex- the high cost of drugs.” cost to consumers or the county to $563,049 contract with Aramark Business executives, labor leaders Most loans are for five years and CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Northjersey.com has reported that administer the program, although Correctional Services, LLC of and government officials began the range from 6 to 7 percent, for existing there would a $1 registration cost for Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., to provide organization in 1977 in response to businesses, to 10 percent for start- Union County residents. Bergen resi- food services and food-management the county’s eroding economic base. ups. Citizens, Town and BOE dents are charged 50 cents to register. services at the county’s juvenile de- While focusing mostly on financing “Eighty-five percent of our fund- “I think it is a good program, over- tention center in Linden. The con- business ventures at the start, the ing is [from the] government,” said all,” Mr. Guzzo told the freeholders tract is $175,000 lower than the pre- UCEDC has expanded its reach to UCEDC President Maureen Tinen, a Look to Save D.A.R.E. at last Thursday’s agenda meeting. vious contract, Mr. Guzzo said. provide technical assistance as well Westfield resident. “We borrow By CHARLOTTE MURTISHAW as a liaison to students seemed to be According to Karen Dinsmore, as- The board also considered extend- as procurement services. Also, busi- money from banks. We borrow money Specially Written for The Westfield Leader on the minds of many. Margaret sistant director of Human Services, ing contracts to the end of the year with nesses are offered mentoring through- from the SBA (Small Business Ad- WESTFIELD — Drug Abuse Re- Dolan, superintendent of schools, the program is “intended to be used Access Systems of Manilus, N.Y., and out the length of their loans. ministration), and we re-lend it to sistance Education (D.A.R.E.), a who praised the program as “a good as a substitute when other insurance Continuum Voice and Data Services of Businesses can apply for every- businesses. It’s our loan. We are on program that has served the school program at both the elementary- doesn’t cover a prescription.” Syracuse, N.Y. for providing services thing from micro loans – which pro- the hook for it.” system of Westfield at all levels and middle-school levels,” said that Following Thursday’s agenda for the Union County Tax Board E- vide a maximum of $35,000, for start- UCEDC also runs a six-class train- since the mid-1990s, has been cut it was “helpful to have a police meeting, in executive session, the Share Project, including providing ad- ups and existing businesses, to be ing program, the Entrepreneurial from the budget by the town coun- officer” present when teaching board discussed a contract agreement ditional software and expanding it to used on supplies and inventory – to Training Initiative, which assesses a cil for the 2010-2011 school year.
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