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Knoll Gardens owner seeks formal approval for reorganized maintenance yard; board continues case to March 3
Summary
Knoll Manor Associates presented revised plans to reorganize a long-running maintenance yard serving a 1,108-unit apartment complex. The board and professionals pressed for clearer limits on stockpiles, dumpsters and materials storage; the applicant agreed to revise plans and the board continued the application to March 3.
Knoll Manor Associates asked the Parsippany-Troy Hills Planning Board on Jan. 13 to approve a revised layout and cleanup plan for a maintenance yard that has served the Knoll Gardens apartment complex for about 40 years.
Attorney Mark Rothberg, representing Knoll Manor Associates, described plans that would reorganize the yard into distinct zones for dumpsters, masonry storage, material stockpiles and a temporary staging area for appliances and similar items. The applicant also proposed compacted gravel surfacing, a low segmental retaining wall and new plantings and a wooden “shadow-box” fence to screen the yard from nearby homes.
The board’s planner and engineer said the applicant’s revisions are an improvement but left multiple implementation questions. Andrew Pangiano, the board engineer, asked the applicant to quantify and physically delineate storage areas so code…
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