Montclair Planning Board

The Montclair Planning Board has yet to decide if the biking elements of the SAFE Streets plan should be incorporated into the township’s master plan.

Developer to come up with new plan after planning board voices concers with denstity with Orange Road develoipment.

The owners of a mixed-use property on Glenridge Avenue plan to create an arts and entertainment venue that will provide free space to Montclair residents.

The developer is proposing that on top of providing parking for the MC Hotel, Valley and Bloom, the BOE and general public, they can add the MC Residences to mix at the Orange Road parking deck.

Planning board members are again voicing their concerns with the creation of bike paths in Montclair, this time even with a temporary measure.

Planning board member Martin Schwartz, who had spoken out against how the town handled a question over density for a proposed multi-family redevelopment, will still be part of the decision making for that development — the 46-unit MC Residences currently being heard before the planning board.

The planning board approved upgrades to the museum’s grounds including an outdoor sculpture garden, a public space with a water wall and a reflecting pond with a newly commissioned work of art.  

Two property owners seeking approvals to subdivide their lots — one on Upper Mountain and the other on High Street — were told to come back to the planning board on Aug. 12.

By JAIMIE JULIA WINTERS & KELLY NICHOLAIDES It’s final. The Lackawanna redevelopment application was memorialized on May 6, but not without some conditions — a supermarket must be provided, a mandatory restriction be placed on preserving historic features into perpetuity and that future changes to the valet parking plan would require approval. “The board’...

A Montclair law, around since 1980, creates another housing option for seniors to age in place.