By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer
MILLSTONE The Planning Board hearing on the 20-megawatt solar energy farm, which as been proposed for a section of a 132-acre tract of property behind the Moto Business & Industrial Park, has been rescheduled for Feb. 9.
The solar farm application, filed by Key Investments LLC, was originally supposed to be heard by the Planning Board on Jan. 12, but the snowstorm last week prompted the cancellation of the meeting. The application will now be heard at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9 in the municipal meeting room at 215 Millstone Road.
The entrance to the proposed North Park Solar Energy Farm would be located on a 4-acre parcel on Rike Drive in the industrial park. The lot adjoins a 128-acre property to the north where the approximately 60,000 solar panels would be installed on racks in a 50-acre section of cleared farmland. The rest of the property is woods and wetlands that would not be disturbed, the applicant says.
The Planning Board spent more than three hours on the application during its Dec. 22 meeting without reaching a decision.
Also scheduled for the Feb. 9 meeting is an application filed by Millstone Property Investments LLC seeking to turn a proposed cul-de-sac off Prodelin Way into a through street that would connect to the back of a planned 32,000-square-foot shopping center on Route 33 in Monroe Township.
The board previously approved the cul-de-sac in 2007 as part of a project to build a 9,900-square-foot daycare center and 6,000-square-foot office/warehouse building, which has yet to be constructed, on a 10-acre property off Prodelin Way in Millstone near the Monroe Township border. The developer is now asking for approval to amend its site plan to change the unnamed cul-de-sac into a 700-foot-long connector road linking the back of the shopping center to Prodelin Way.
The proposal received a chilly reception at the Dec. 8 meeting with most board members expressing concerns that the connector road would dump too much traffic onto Prodelin Way. The applicant agreed to pay for a new study by the Planning Board’s traffic consultant on making the proposed connector road a one-way street that would bring the traffic toward Monroe only.
The application, which had been continued to the Jan. 12 meeting, will now be carried over to the Feb. 9 meeting as well due to the snowstorm.

