Honors, Public Hearings, But No New Ordinances On Committee Agenda

Honors for township resident Thuy Ahn Le and for the Hillsborough Dukes cheerleading squad top the agenda at this week’s Township Committee meeting.

Both Le and the youth group will receive proclamations honor their achievements as an Outstanding Women in Somerset County and as winners at the National Cheer Championships.

While the meeting includes no new business from the committee, committee liaisons will report on various businesses occurring in town before going on to public hearings on several ordinances.

The first ordinance that is up for approval includes changing the zone designation for an area bordered by Homestead Road, Willow Road and Township Line Road and by the Conrail Railroad tracks.  The area, which is currently zoned as Corporate Development Zone, would change to an Agricultural Zone.

According to Township Planner Bob Rangeley, 17 of the 33 properties in the area are already preserved farmland.  The change has been questioned by at least one business owner in the town.

The second ordinance, ordinance 2011-08 creates a Transitional Economic Development district in section 188-107. 2. The ordinance will also amend sign regulations to include the new district. 

The third ordinance, 2011-09, changes zoning designations for other properties currently in the Corporate Development Zone to Residential/Agricultural.

There are no new ordinances up for consideration.

The meeting’s considerations agenda includes re-appointing part-time temporary substitute Municipal Court assistants Judith Norris and Nancy Horvath, at an hourly rate of $14.50, for a period ending Sept. 30.

A vote on issuing a Plenary Retail Distribution Liquor License to NEC Liquors is on the agenda as well.

In addition, the transfer of a person-to-person liquor license from North Country BBQ Ventures, LLC, owners of the now closed Famous Dave’s restaurant on Route 206, to DH Hillsborough, LLC is on the agenda.

The considerations agenda includes accepting the resignation of Assistant Planner/Zoning Officer Rebecca Marshall, effective March 25, appointing Township Planner Rangeley as interim Zoning Officer, approving a request from Vision General Construction, Inc., for work on the Kohl’s on Route 206 from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. March 28 through May 6 and a resolution authorizing a $1,902.35 refund for overpayment of municipal taxes.