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Board Set to Discuss Aquatics Center Zoning

Resident challenges application's approved zoning use.

Warren's zoning board will hear arguments that could affect the outcome of an application by Berkeley Aquatics Center, currently before the Planning Board.

The application has been on hold at the board since April, when Emerson Lane resident Jonathan Wishnia challenged the determination by township Zoning Officer John Chadwick that the center's use as a swimming facility is a conditionally permitted use of the site.

Before considering the merits of Wishnia's appeal, however, the board will consider a technicality regarding the date the appeal was filed—at the April Planning Board meeting, board attorney Allen Siegel said there was a question regarding the date Wishnia's appeal was filed.

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“The appeal requires that it be filed within 20 days of the time that the appellant becomes aware of the decision of the zoning officer,”  Siegel said. “There is some dispute as to whether that appeal was filed within that 20 days.” 

Wishnia filed the appeal on April 5, within the 20 days, but didn't included a required $5,000 escow deposit. He refiled with the deposit April 6.

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“We have a long way to go," Wishnia said in April, after learning the zoning board would be reviewing the zoning approval. "Let’s see what the zoning board says.”

He may see tonight, after the board convenes in the municipal complex meeting room at 7 p.m.

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