3-Story, 710-Unit Self Storage Facility Proposed On Route 206 In Hillsborough

HILLSBOROUGH, NJ — A three-story self-storage facility is being proposed to be built off Route 206 in Hillsborough.

Nan Realty Holdings, LLC shared its application at the May 6 Township Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting to demolish businesses and a home next to the Quick Chek gas station at 269 and 271 Route 206 North in Hillsborough.

Paul D. Mutch Jr., P.E., of Stonefield Engineering & Design, the applicant’s engineer, described the property as "a hodgepodge of businesses." The current sites include a firewood business and a residential home.

The application calls for demolition of the existing structures, gravel and asphalt on the combined 2.97-acre site and construction of a 103,560-square-foot self-storage facility with 710 units.

The building would include office space and a loading area on the first floor, along with climate-controlled and non-climate-controlled drive-up units, in the HS/Highway Service zone.

Mutch said the plan intended to shift activity toward Route 206 and away from nearby homes to the north and east.

He said the proposal would also expand the buffer near residential properties.

The applicant is seeking “d” and “c” variances, preliminary and final major site plan approvals and waivers for the project

Mutch said a consultant inspected the wooded area near the homes after wetlands appeared as a potential mapped feature on the DEP website.

The DEP "confirmed that there are no wetlands on or in the vicinity of our project site," said Mutch.

The plan includes eight customer parking spaces near the entrance, a gated access drive, three covered loading bays and 44 exterior drive-up units around three sides of the building.

Mutch said no loading operations would face Route 206 and that landscaping would be added along the frontage and in the rear buffer.

He also said the applicant was willing to accept a recommendation for a permanent conservation easement in the residential buffer area.

Matthew Seckler of Stonefield Engineering & Design testified about traffic and parking.

He said his firm’s May 6, 2025, traffic and parking assessment used Institute of Transportation Engineers data projecting 21 trips during weekday morning and evening peak hours and 32 trips on a Saturday midday period.

He said self-storage is "one of the three lowest trip-generating uses per square foot" in the trip generation manual.

Seckler also testified that recent trip counts at a nearby storage facility north of the site showed lower activity than the trip generation manual projections.

He said the applicant's New Jersey Department of Transportation access permit application for a right-in, right-out driveway on Route 206 is still pending.

The hearing was carried to July 15.

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