Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Residents say that as taxpayers, the pay enough to park within the borough.
Several Broad Street and Park Avenue residents spoke out at the Oct. 18 Matawan Borough Council meeting, unhappy that their local government would even consider requiring certain residents to purchase parking permits for the Little Street municipal lot. Kevin Mendes, a Broad Street resident and a former council member, agreed that excessive use of the lot by commercial vehicles harms local businesses. He disagreed, however, that certain residential vehicles should require a parking permit. "It would be nice to see this parking lot for municipal use not be used by businesses and hold them to a higher accountablity, wherever they are parking their vehicles or doing repairs or whatever the case may be," he said. "But at the same time, to deny…
Sunday, October 21, 2012
The Historic Sites Commission is charged with creating an inventory of structures that are 100 years old or older.
A quick walk through Matawan highlights the historic nature of the over 325-year-old borough. Granite carriage steps still grace the sidewalks, homes from the 1700s, 1800s and 1900s still linger and the original train station building still greets vistors. Over the last eight months, Al Savolaine, the vice chair of the Historic Sites Commission, has identified 171 sites for borough inventory of all structures over 100 years old. He presented a draft of the document to the council at their Oct. 18 meeting. Right now, the living document is split into three categories, he explained. The first category is composed of structures that have been cross referenced and positively confirmed as being over 100 years old through property records, …
Friday, October 19, 2012
The building was built in 1922 but is no longer in use.
The Matawan Aberdeen Board of Education is working toward demolishing the old Cliffwood School, which was built on Cliffwood Avenue in Aberdeen Township in 1922. In Spring 2012, the board authorized the administration to solicit a report on the building that would outline the approximate cost and scope of demolition. "The environmental study found that there are PCBs in light fixtures, there’s asbestos on the roof, the floor, the wall, and the ceilings, and that there is lead-base paint throughout the building," said Business Administrator James Strimple at the board's Oct. 8 meeting. "To raise the building, all of that would have to be remediated before they could implode it." PCB, or polychlorinated biphenyl, is a manmade chemical that …
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
The borough council voted to approve the ordinance at their Oct. 2 meeting.
Two pieces of property at the intersection of Route 34 and Broad Street were rezoned for mixed use development at the Matawan Borough Council meeting Tuesday night. The council voted to approve the mixed use development ordinance, which amended the zoning of Lots 6 and 7 on Block 40 from highway improvement (HI) and industrial (IND) to mixed use development (MUD). Lots 6 and 7 include the field behind the Walgreens on Route 34 and Broad Street and stretches to the Matawan Municipal Community Center. The ordinance was reviewed and prepared over several months by the Unified Planning/Zoning Board before being passed to the council. The council held two public hearings on the ordinance during their meetings on Sept. 24 and on Oct. 2. No one …
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
A section of Route 34 in Matawan near Walgreens may soon be zoned for a mixed use development. A public hearing will be held for the proposed ordinance at the council's Oct. 2 meeting.
The Matawan Borough Council will hold a public hearing on an ordinance that would re-zone two pieces of property at the intersection of Route 34 and Broad Street behind Walgreens for a mixed use development. The ordinance was reviewed and prepared over several months by the Unified Planning/Zoning Board. The four page document is specific, governing every detail from permitted commercial uses to how a building constructed on the site should look. Mayor Paul Buccellato explained that the council wants to ensure that a builder creates a mixed use development that is not only intelligently designed but also aesthetically fits in with the character of the borough. "I wanted [the ordinance] very specific so whatever comes before the planning …
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
A section of Route 34 in Matawan near Walgreens may soon be zoned for a mixed use development. A public hearing will be held for the proposed ordinance at the council's Oct. 2 meeting.
The Matawan Borough Council is considering an ordinance that would re-zone two pieces of property at the intersection of Route 34 and Broad Street behind Walgreens for a mixed use development. The ordinance was reviewed and prepared over several months by the Unified Planning/Zoning Board. The four page document is specific, governing every detail from permitted commercial uses to how a building constructed on the site should look. Mayor Paul Buccellato explained that the council wants to ensure that a builder creates a mixed use development that is not only intelligently designed but also aesthetically fits in with the character of the borough. "I wanted [the ordinance] very specific so whatever comes before the planning board will have …
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Construction is expected to start by the beginning of October, if not the end of September, library director says.
The Matawan Aberdeen Public Library is preparing to begin basement and office renovations, according to Library Director Kimberly Paone. A storage Pod in the parking lot is packed and construction may begin as early as the end of September. The board initially approved Architect Christine Balint to design plans for an expanded meeting space in the basement and a renovation of office space on the main floor in February. The board then issued a bid for the construction phase of the project, noting that they did not want to spend more than $200,000. The successful bidder was Four Star Developers of Neptune, Paone said, and the project is expected to cost $185,300. "There's always a possibility that once the construction starts that changes …
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Work includes widening shoulders from mile markers 83 to 99.
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority's Board of Commissioners has approved construction contracts worth $330.3 million for a project that will restore full-width shoulders and make other safety improvements of a 16-mile stretch roadway in Monmouth and Ocean counties. The project will start at mile marker 83.5 in Toms River and will run to mile marker 99.5. Construction will begin this fall and is scheduled to be completed in 2014. “There is no better use for our capital dollars than projects like this one that make our roads safer,” Transportation Commissioner James Simpson said in a prepared statement. “When the project is complete, a section of the Parkway with narrow shoulders, narrow travel lanes and a history of accidents will…
Monday, August 6, 2012
Several other sections in Monmouth and Middlesex counties will be resurfaced by the NJ Department of Transportation
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Monday, August 6, 2012
The NJ Department of Transportation (NJDOT) will conduct resurfacing and roadway repair on several sections of pavement on Route 35 between South Amboy in Middlesex County and Middletown in Monmouth County, according to a press release. On the southbound side, the project includes the area south of Route 36 interchange in Keyport to Hazlet Avenue in Hazlet and the area north of Prospect Avenue in Aberdeen to the Matawan Creek bridge at the Keyport/Aberdeen border. On both the southbound and northbound sides, the project will include the area between the Cheesequake Creek bridge and Birchwood Drive/Raritan Avenue in Old Bridge. NJDOT's contractor, Joseph DeFino Trucking Co., is scheduled to start preliminary construction activities …
Friday, July 13, 2012
Contractors were seen continuing their work in front of Aberdeen Townsquare Shopping Center Thursday afternoon
Pedestrians on Route 34 in Aberdeen will soon have a new half-mile stretch of sidewalk connecting the existing sidewalks near Broad Street in Matawan and near the Dollar Tree in Aberdeen, according to Public Works Director Bob Brady. Construction of the new sidewalk began in early June and the contractor, MNC General Contracting Inc. of Old Bridge, is currently working on the entrance ramps at the Aberdeen Townsquare Shopping Center. The $177,000 project was approved by the council in 2011. It is being partially funded by a $160,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Transportation. The township will pay the remaining $17,000, which will be extracted from Aberdeen's infrastructure account, according to township manager Holly Reycraft…
Greg
10:20 am on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
It's a "free" lot so far, and as I live (relatively) across the street from it and see commuters walking from their homes to and from the station, as it is, I have never noticed one single individual get out of a car and walk toward the train station or come from it and get into a car and leave. I highly doubt anyone would pay "alot of money" to a resident to park their car almost one mile away … more ›