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West Windsor Parking Authority proposes 41-space lot and pocket park at former bus garage
Summary
The West Windsor Parking Authority presented a courtesy plan to convert a former bus garage into 41 commuter parking spaces and a pocket park with seating and landscaping to screen an adjacent electrical substation; the project is pursuing NJDOT transit and safe-streets grants and requires no variances, but the board requested clarifications on bike facilities, EV charging and lighting.
The West Windsor Parking Authority on Feb. 19 presented plans to turn the former municipal bus garage on Wallace Road into a 41-space commuter parking lot and an adjacent pocket park featuring covered seating, picnic benches and landscaping to screen a nearby electrical substation.
Jeffrey Hall, conflict counsel for the authority, said the property (Block 59, Lots 1 and 2) is about nine-tenths of an acre and will be leased from the township. "The parking authority is proposing a project that will construct 41 parking spaces, and also a pocket park at the corner of Wallace Road and Princeton Heights Road," Hall said during the planning board courtesy review.
Andy Lupo, chair of the Parking Authority, framed the project as part of the authority’s ongoing work to add parking near the train station and to remediate contamination on the site in cooperation with Amtrak and township administration. "From our point of view ... we were able to move forward with the plan, to try to work with Amtrak and remediate the contamination…
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