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Bayonne Planning Board backs zoning change to allow indoor recreational sports facilities in industrial zones

City of Bayonne Planning Board · December 12, 2025
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Summary

The planning board voted to recommend a council ordinance that would permit indoor recreational sports facilities (gyms, indoor soccer, pickleball, batting cages) as a principal use in specified industrial zones, citing master-plan objectives and the city's interest in new community facilities.

Director Skillender presented a proposed ordinance to add indoor recreational sports facilities as a permitted principal use in the IL‑a and IL‑b (light industrial) districts and, by bootstrap, to parts of heavy industrial zoning. Skillender said the change implements objectives in Bayonne’s 2017 master‑plan reexamination to expand community facilities and recreational opportunities and noted the city is pursuing a public recreational…

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