The zoning board will meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the municipal building
By: Lea Kahn
A self-service storage company’s request to expand a non-conforming use will be considered by the Zoning Board of Adjustment at its regular meeting Wednesday.
Devon-Lawrenceville LLC will outline its application at the zoning board meeting, which begins at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Lower Level Conference Room at the municipal building.
The applicant was granted a use variance to convert the former Grossman’s building supply company warehouse into a self-service storage facility in 1997. The 11.6-acre property is located on Route 1 at Carnegie Road.
Now, Devon-Lawrenceville LLC wants to add to the existing 110,190 square feet of storage space that it has established. The applicant wants to construct ten one-story buildings totaling 39,250 square feet, plus a 4,250-square-foot addition to the Grossman’s building.
In other business, the zoning board will consider a request from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 269’s request for permission to erect two solar walls, containing photovoltaic solar panels, in front of four existing buildings on its property on Whitehead Road.
A front yard setback is required. The applicant is proposing a 52-foot, 10-inch setback for the solar wall, but 100 feet is required in the office zone. The solar panels are proposed to be 21 feet 6 inches tall. They are proposed to be placed in front of the four existing buildings.
In another matter, the zoning board will continue a public hearing on a use variance application filed by David Crane and Isabella Delahoussaye for construction of an accessory apartment in a new building that would be located behind their home on Lawrenceville Road.
A use variance is needed because the proposed accessory building does not meet the definition for one in the Land Use Ordinance. The application calls the building an accessory apartment, but the Land Use Ordinance says an accessory apartment is one "created within an existing residence or by an addition to an existing residence or accessory building."

