Pompton Lakes planning board finds downtown redevelopment amendment consistent, urges larger studio units

The Pompton Lakes Planning Board on Feb. 18, 2025 recommended that Borough Council adopt Ordinance 25-11, an amendment to the downtown redevelopment plan affecting Block 7000, Lot 4 (the former gas station at 61 Of Q Avenue). The board found the ordinance “consistent with the borough’s master plan” and added a comment asking the governing body to consider a minimum size of 625 square feet for the smallest residential units.

Planner Kristen, who presented the draft amendments, told the board the changes would allow ground-floor residential uses where the redevelopment zoning currently requires ground-floor commercial, set a maximum height of four stories (50 feet), permit front-yard parking on the unique lot, and adjust unit-size minimums to allow studio/efficiency units of about 500 square feet, one-bedroom units at 625 square feet and two-bedroom units at about 940 square feet. Kristen said the applicant and the redevelopment agency jointly drafted the bulk and dimensional changes and that the planning board’s role at this stage is to determine whether the…