Howell Planning Board Postpones Hearing On Randolph Road Plan

HOWELL, NJ — Residents who intended to go to the April 4 Howell Township Planning Board meeting to speak up about a proposed retail center on Randolph Road have had their Thursday evening freed up.

The township posted a notice Thursday that the meeting has been canceled, and the hearing on the Monmouth Commerce Center has been rescheduled for May 9.

According to the agenda, Monmouth Commerce Center, LLC, owned by Lawrence Katz and Felix Pflaster, is seeking preliminary and final major site plan approval to construct an

office/warehouse complex consisting of a two-story, 85,600-square-foot office building, eight
warehouse/industrial buildings of 123,600 square feet to 150,000 square feet each (total 1,156,602 square feet), five full-movement access drives along Randolph Road, parking for 738 vehicles and 142 trailer parking spaces, 266 loading spaces along the warehouse/industrial buildings, and six
monument-style site identification signs (five along the site access drives and one at the Oak Glen
Road and Lakewood Allenwood Road intersection.

The property is just down the road from the site proposed for a solid waste transfer facility that has been highly controversial and hotly contested in Howell. Read more: Howell Holds $54K Lien Against Proposed Waste Transfer Site

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