A chamber featuring a large group of nuns looked on as board members debated lighting and speeders.
At its regular meeting Monday night, the Parsippany Planning Board approved an application by the Franciscan Sisters of St. Elizabeth to build a new parking lot at St. Elizabeth School, 499 Park Road. The project also includes making temporary classroom structures permanent. Attorney William Strasser represented the nuns--and there was a large contingent of Franciscan sisters in the audience--and reminded the board that their request to upgrade the school's parking lot is about maximizing safety. Traffic engineer Judd Rocciola testified about his meeting with board planner Gordon Meth to assess the potential traffic impact of the move. They determined that the construction of a new lot and the move from 238 to the school's current …
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St. Elizabeth's School wants to build a new parking lot and make temporary classrooms permanent.
The Parsipanny Board of Planning began hearing testimony at its Monday meeting for a two-phase application by the Franciscan Sisters of St. Elizabeth to begin construction at St. Elizabeth School on Park Road. While the Franciscan Sisters came to the board with a number of requests, Chairman Kaushik Parikh adjourned the hearing just after 9:40 p.m. and scheduled it to resume at the Sept. 12 meeting. Residents will have a chance to voice concerns about the proposed lot at the conclusion of that meeting. Attorney Bill Strasser approached the board with applications to build a new parking lot, as well as to convert the current temporary classrooms at the school, which were installed in 2000, into permanent structures. The classrooms have all …
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John M
2:04 pm on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
It's business as usual. The Planning has no concern for the people who live on Park Road or the surrounding streets. The school started out as a daycare center with 160 children. They put on a large addition but claim it's not to increase enrollment. But then they increase enrollment to 208 children, and then again to 273. They were only allowed 208 maximum for a daycare center. So now they are … more ›