MARLBORO – An application to construct an 80-unit age-restricted adult condominium development on Texas Road is scheduled to be heard by the Marlboro Zoning Board of Adjustment.
The application was scheduled to be heard at the board’s May 8 meeting, but was carried to July 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall. The applicant, ShantiNiketan, owns locations in Florida, Dallas, Houston and Malaysia. The applicant is represented by attorney Salvatore Alfieri.
The application includes two properties adjacent to each other that combine to total 13.8 acres in a Senior Citizen Residential and Single-Family District. There is 303 feet of frontage along the south side of Texas Road and about 814 feet northeast of the Mountain Laurel Road intersection.
According to the application, one property contains a two-story home, walkways, two sheds and a storage container unit, with access from Texas Road. The second property is vacant and predominately wooded.
The applicant is seeking a use variance to remove the existing site improvements and construct an 80-unit age-restricted condominium development in 12 interconnected two-story buildings. The adult community would include a two-story, 6,700-square-foot clubhouse.
The application states there would be 21 one-bedroom units, 41 two-bedroom units and 18 three-bedroom units and that 20 percent of the units (16 condominiums) would be designated as affordable housing to be sold at below market rates to people whose income meets certain criteria.
Access to the adult community would be from a boulevard style drive on Texas Road, with perimeter, two-way looped circulation around the proposed buildings. Parking for 210 vehicles throughout the site would consist of 170 on-street spaces, 20 garage spaces and 20 driveway spaces. Four refuse/recycling enclosures are provided along the perimeter circulation drive.
