Main Street in Sayreville targeted for redevelopment. Here’s what we know
SAYREVILLE – The borough Planning Board is scheduled to hold a public hearing Wednesday on a proposal to build three one story-warehouse buildings totaling 1.78 million square feet in the Fulton's Landing Redevelopment Area south of Main Street.
Main Street South I & Main Street South II of Jersey City is seeking approval to construct an 852,650-square-foot building in the first phase, a 687,940 square-foot facility in the second phase and a 240,000-square-foot warehouse in the final phase. Each building in the Crossman Development would contain office space.
The plan also calls for improvements to Main Street, car parking, truck parking, landscaping, lighting and stormwater drainage.
The 156.92 acres of vacant land is on the property of the former Linden Sand Mining Site.
The redevelopment area is south of Main Street and north of the Conrail Railroad Raritan River Main Line in the central portion of the borough. Across Main Street to the north are single-family houses and townhomes. More townhomes and single-family houses are to the west separated from the site by powerlines, and to the south across the railroad are an apartment complex and John F. Kennedy Park. East of the site is an abandoned industrial site and vacant land.
The Fulton's Landing Redevelopment Plan was adopted by the borough in June 2019 to resolve litigation over the zoning of the property, according to an engineering report by CME Associates.
The three proposed buildings conform with the Fulton’s Landing Redevelopment Plan.
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According to CME Associates, several applications have been submitted over the years for the development of the property. In 2007 and 2008, applications were denied for plans to build 207 single-family homes on a 99.54-acre portion of the property, and in 2013 an application was approved for the development of 610,496 square feet of office and warehouse space in three buildings on a 57.43-acre portion of the property.
Residents, including former Councilman Art Rittenhouse, who lives in Main Street Townhouses across the street from the proposed development, have voiced concerns about the plan, citing potential contamination on the site, the impact that the warehouses may have on traffic and other safety and quality-of-life issues.
Rittenhouse said residents also are worried that additional runoff from the construction would cause additional flooding from Burt's Creek in the neighborhood.
As chairman of the Sayreville Shade Tree Commission, Rittenhouse said he plans to ask at the meeting if the developer would be contributing to the borough's tree bank because the proposal calls for removing about 700 trees on the property.
In 2020, the Borough Council instructed the code enforcement manager to issue a violation to Fulton’s Landing for taking down trees without a permit, Rittenhouse said. The original fine was about $95,000 which the judge reduced to $25,000, he said.
The public hearing on the application is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and will be held in-person in the third floor Council Chambers at 167 Main St. and will be streamed via Zoom.
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