Pennington Council to discuss proposed Brookside Redevelopment Area

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A Pennington Council work session meeting will take place early next week. On the agenda, the discussion to designate five adjacent properties in the borough as an area in need of redevelopment.

The meeting on July 29 at 7 p.m. through Zoom will feature Borough Planner Jim Kyle of Kyle McManus Associates, which conducted the preliminary investigation of the proposed Brookside Redevelopment Area bounded by Green Street, the southside of Brookside Avenue, and North Main Street.

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The Pennington Council will discuss a resolution for the Aug. 5 council meeting designating the five properties – 79 Green Street, 20 Brookside Avenue, 6 Brookside Avenue, N. Main (Pennington Furnace) and 74 North Main – as an area in need of redevelopment.

The five properties account for four acres and currently have existing structures on each lot – a two-story single-family home; a two-story and a half wood framed garage; a one-story masonry and wood frame garage; a two-story single-family home and detached one-story garage; and a single-story shed and garage, one-story single-family home, two story frame barn and garage, a one-story masonry garage, and a one-story frame garage, according to the preliminary investigation documents.

The properties fall in the MU-2 Mixed Use Zone and permitted primary uses include attached
dwelling units and one-family dwellings, professional offices and business offices, retail business and
personal service establishments and municipal parks, playgrounds, buildings and/or structures.

A portion of the Lewis Brook does flow through one of the properties within a concrete spillway beneath a driveway and there are no known contaminated areas that have been documented by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) on the properties, the report added.

Kyle McManus Associates has recommended in its preliminary investigation report that the five properties in the study area do meet the criteria for an area in need of redevelopment.

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