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Planning board approves Towns at West Windsor group home with lighting waiver and access-easement condition
Summary
On Jan. 7, 2025 the West Windsor Planning Board approved Resolution PB25-09, the final major site plan for the Towns at West Windsor group home, a four-bedroom residence for medically disabled, very-low-income residents. The board granted a waiver to the parking-lot lighting standard and required an access easement and survey verification.
The West Windsor Planning Board voted to approve Resolution PB25-09 on Jan. 7, 2025, authorizing the final major site plan for the Towns at West Windsor group home, a four-bedroom residence intended to serve medically disabled, very-low-income persons.
Jerry, the project presenter, said the development evolved from an earlier project known as American Properties/Heritage Village and is now a Hovnanian project. "This is part of what was originally American properties, Heritage Village, and it's become Towns At West Windsor, which is now a, Hovnanian project," he told the board, and described the group home as part of the site’s affordable-housing program.
Board members discussed and granted a waiver to the board’s parking-lot lighting standard. Jerry described the discrepancy, saying the regulation averaged "0.6 foot candles" while the proposed lighting measured "1.1"; the board concluded the waiver was acceptable given the site's 24-hour staffing and nighttime activity, including nurses and staff entering and leaving.
The board also required that an access easement be recorded from the main development to the group home via the existing access road off Princeton–Hightstown Road (referred to in the presentation as Thompson Place). Staff noted the access easement had been delivered to the township the night of the hearing and advised the board to obtain survey "meets and bounds" verification before finalizing the file.
Simon moved to approve the resolution with the amendments as noted; Curtis seconded. The board conducted a roll-call vote: Mister Pankov, Miss Applegate, Councilman Whitfield, Mayor Marte, Vice chairman Hoberman, and Chairman Karp all answered in the affirmative. The motion carried and Resolution PB25-09 was approved.
The approval followed earlier preliminary approvals dating to approximately February 2000, when the overall master plan and preliminary approvals for the development were granted; the group home had previously received only preliminary approval and returned for final site-plan signoff. The board closed the public hearing on the item before moving to other business.
Next steps recorded during the meeting included finalizing the access easement paperwork and completing the requested survey verification before administrative closing of the application.
