The planned Concord Township Zoning Board hearing for Retail Sites, aka Concord Acquisitions, scheduled for Feb. 18, has been continued. Concord Township announced that the hearing will resume on March 18.
The township published a letter from the applicant’s attorney — Leonard B. Altieri, III — requesting the change. He said in the letter that Concord’s solicitor, Hugh Donaghue, as well as other attorneys J. Adam Matlawski and Jonathan Long, have said they don’t oppose the continuance.
Retail Sites is looking to build a shopping center in the empty lot at Ridge Road and Route 202. The applicant is appealing the township zoning officer’s decision that a gas station is not permitted as an accessory use for a supermarket — a Giant — at the site. It is also appealing a decision that three pads, separated only by firewalls, constitute one building, something the applicant thinks is wrong, that they should be considered separate buildings.
If the pads are considered one building, the applicant would need to get conditional use approval because that one building is more than 62,000 square feet.
In the interim, Retail Sites is going to have a conditional use hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. to get approval for an intermunicipal transfer of a liquor license so the proposed Giant supermarket can sell alcoholic beverages.
Neither the shopping center nor the Giant has received any township approval as yet.
