Zoners to review self-storage plan

The Zoning Board of Adjustment meets at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

   Three newly appointed members are expected to be sworn into office and new officers elected at the Zoning Board of Adjustment’s annual reorganization meeting next week.
By: Lea Kahn
   The Zoning Board of Adjustment will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The meeting will be held in the Lower Level Conference Room at the municipal building.
   Jane Thompson and Mark Sebastian will be sworn into office for four-year terms as regular members. Their terms will expire in December 2004. Lisa Hosfield will be sworn into office for a two-year term as Alternate No. 1. Her term will expire in December 2002.
   Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Hosfield were reappointed by Township Council at its conference meeting Tuesday night. Mr. Sebastian also is a veteran member of the zoning board. He served from 1996 to 1999.
   The zoning board also will appoint its attorney, in-house secretary, recording secretary and planning consultant. The board’s engineer also will be named. The zoning board also will name its representative to the Growth and Redevelopment Committee.
   In other business, the zoning board expects to consider an application from Devon-Lawrenceville, LLC, which operates the self-storage facility on Brunswick Pike at Carnegie Road.
   Devon-Lawrenceville, LLC wants to expand the existing 110,119-square-foot storage facility, known as Devon Self-Storage, by an additional 43,500 square feet. The company wants to construct a 4,250-square-foot addition to the main building and add 10 one-story structures, totaling 39,250 square feet.
   The zoning board granted a use variance to Devon-Lawrenceville to convert the former Grossman’s building supply store into a self-storage facility in 1997 because the property is located in the Highway Commercial zone, which does not permit self-storage facilities. Self-storage facilities are allowed in the Industrial-1 zone.