MARLBORO – Planning Board members have granted preliminary and final approval to an applicant who proposed the construction of a three-story medical office building on Willow Lane.
Representatives of the applicant, 55 Willow Lane Associates, LLC, appeared before the board on Sept. 18. Attorney Salvatore Alfieri, of the firm Cleary Giacobbe Alfieri Jacobs, represented the applicant.
The 2.1-acre property where the applicant sought municipal approve to construct the building is at 55 Willow Lane. The property is zoned for commercial use and has 248 feet of frontage on the south side of Willow Lane. The parcel is 433 feet east of Willow Lane’s intersection with Route 9 north.
The property currently contains a one-story dwelling, a detached garage and an in-ground pool. The remainder of the property is heavily wooded and a tributary to Barclay Brook is offsite near the southeast corner of the tract.
The applicant proposed to remove all of the existing site improvements and to construct a three-story, 25,650-square-foot medical office building with parking for 118 vehicles.
Steven Blitzer, who is the principal of the applicant and contract purchaser of the site, spoke before the board.
Blitzer said the building would primarily be used for medical offices, but he testified he would consider providing space for other office uses. Blitzer said no tenants have been signed, but he told board members there has been interest in the facility from medical practices.
He said the building’s hours of operations would be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. on weekdays. Blitzer said offices may have hours on Saturday morning.
Engineer Joshua Sewald, principal, Dynamic Engineering Consultants, testified that access to and from the site would be provided by an ingress-only driveway near the west property line and an egress-only driveway near the east property line.
Lighting, landscape improvements, a refuse enclosure and a monument identification sign were also part of the application as approved by the board.
A motion was made to approve the application of 55 Willow Lane Associates and board members Rohit Gupta, David Gagliano, Andrew Pargament, Lynn Franco, Michael Adler, Andrew Kessler, Steven Kansky and Township Councilwoman Carol Mazzola, who sits on the board, voted “yes.”