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Green Township Land Use Board approves subdivision at 53 Creek Road with conditions
Summary
The Land Use Board approved Application LU#2504 to subdivide the severable-exception portion of 53 Creek Road (Block 19 Lot 7) on April 10, 2025, voting unanimously to approve the application with conditions including reconciling lot square footage and adding existing site features to the final plan.
The Green Township Land Use Board approved Application LU#2504 on April 10, 2025, allowing the severable-exception portion of the parcel at 53 Creek Road (Block 19, Lot 7) to be subdivided. The vote was unanimous at the April meeting; six members voted yes and the motion carried.
Board Engineer Cory Stoner told the board he initially reviewed an older 2019 concept plan because the applicant's earlier submission contained the wrong set of plans. Stoner recommended the application be deemed complete but said several items should be conditions of approval, including re-adding all existing on-site features and showing setbacks that appear on the 2019 concept plan but were absent from the 2025 plan. Stoner also flagged a transposed acreage figure in his report and in the submitted materials: the existing lot's acreage should read 747,973 square feet rather than 474,973 square feet.
Chair Scott Holzhauer swore in applicant Louis Tommaso, who agreed to have his engineer add the required information to the final plans. Planner Jessica Caldwell advised the board that no new variances were needed and that the subdivision would result in two conforming lots once the final plans are corrected.
After hearing the conditions, Kate Douglass moved to approve the application; Joseph Cercone seconded. The board recorded yes votes from Cercone, Jim DeYoung, Douglass, Jenny Kobilinski, John Lynch and Chair Holzhauer; there were no abstentions. No members of the public spoke during the application's public portion.
Board Attorney David Brady rejoined the meeting after the vote and read the conditions of approval that will be incorporated into the resolution: reconcile the lots' actual square footage; add all pre-existing non-conforming structures and existing location features to the final plans; and state that the new resolution supersedes any prior resolutions affecting the parcel. Deeds for both resulting parcels must be prepared, reviewed and filed with the Sussex County Clerk's Office as part of the approval process.
The board recorded the approval at 7:27 p.m. and moved on to other business.
