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Plan commission liaison reports police headquarters approval, Jersey 32 hearing; city introduces new assistant attorney
Summary
The Plan Commission liaison reported approval of a new police headquarters site in Wheeler Landing and discussed a public hearing on the Jersey 32 building in Westfield. City staff introduced Nicole Buskill as the new assistant city attorney who will support community development, planning and zoning matters.
The Plan Commission liaison told the Board of Zoning Appeals that the Plan Commission approved a site for the city’s new police headquarters in Wheeler Landing and that the commission held a public hearing on the Jersey 32 project, a proposed building to serve as headquarters for a local architecture firm in Westfield.
Those developments matter for local planning and development: the police headquarters site approval advances a major municipal facility project, and Jersey 32 — proposed near the 30–31 intersection at the former Marathon gas station, across from the hospital and adjacent to the ongoing Old Town project — would create a prominent entrance to Westfield with green space and a headquarters building for a local architecture firm.
The liaison summarized the Plan Commission’s action: “We now have approved the location for the new police headquarters in, Wheeler Landing.” On Jersey 32 the liaison said the project sits just on the other side of the roundabout as you come off of 31 on under 32, across from the hospital, and that the developer envisions green space that will tie the new building to nearby Old Town and Old Town Park. The liaison said the commission held a public hearing and that there is “some work to do” on the plan before final approval.
During the meeting staff introduced Nicole Buskill as the city’s new assistant city attorney who will support community development, planning and zoning work. Buskill told the board she started in April and said she has worked as a municipal attorney and will be working “primarily kind of community development, planning, and zoning.” She said she will be observing meetings before taking on the attorney role for the board and invited members to contact her with questions.
The transcript does not record final zoning approvals or specific votes by the Board of Zoning Appeals on the police headquarters or Jersey 32; these items were reported by the Plan Commission liaison as actions or hearings taken before the BZA meeting. The liaison did not provide a timetable for next steps or construction schedules in the transcript.
