Navesink Country Club Gets OK for New Building

The received the green light from the Middletown Zoning Board to replace their existing maintenance building with a new facility.

A new two-story, 18,590 sq. ft. maintenance facility will house both country club equipment and student interns upon its completion next year, said Dan Dougherty, an associate at Dynamic Engineering Consultants, the company that drafted plans for the Navesink Country Club’s new building. 

The building and employee parking lot adjacent to the building caused some concern amongst the board. 

The parking lot has 16-stacked spaces, with one parking stall designated as a handicap spot, alloted for employee parking, Dougherty said. This equates to be about half a stall for employee.

The country club has 28 full-time employees on a daily basis during peak times and most of those employees carpool, Dougherty said. There is no purposed expansion of the employee base expected because of the building of this structure.

These 28 employees do not include the country club’s multiple interns but these interns park primarily at the main clubhouse.

In the evening, interns that would be living in the second floor of the maintenance facility could either walk or take a golf cart from the clubhouse to the maintenance building, he said.

“If I were an intern, I would be taking the golf cart,” said board Chairwoman Chantal Bouw. “That way they wouldn’t have to use their own gas.”

The parking lot would be empty at night when regular employees leave so there is a possibility of interns parking their cars there overnight. .

A student intern will live there for at most six months at a time but the usual internship lasts about 10 weeks. Internships occur on a rotating basis year round allowing for students to come in during all seasons.

The board’s approved a waiver to the d3 variance allowing for parking within 500 feet of the road and allowed for design waivers with living restrictions limiting the housing to interns that are attending some sort of academic institution, said Gregory Vella, attorney for the Middletown Zoning Board of Adjustment.

Additional modifications including a fence on the south side of the stacked parking spaces, additional outdoor lighting and draining easements also must occur.

This resolution was among the three proposals passed during the regular meeting. Two other proposals were resolutions for two residential pools.

The hearing for the expansion of the was postponed until August 27 upon applicant’s request. The resolution would allow for the construction of a 10,179 square foot addition including a multipurpose room and five additional classrooms.

This addition would accommodate 90 additional students from grades first through fifth.

The decision for this renovation was due by August 21 but that has been pushed back until after the August 27 hearing.

One person was present on behalf of this hearing.

The Elite Trampoline Academy, LLC. Resolution hearing to utilize three existing apartments was postponed until August 27 upon applicant’s request. A decision for this project is due by October 25, 2012. 

No one was present on behalf of this hearing.

The application to rebuild and expand an existing garage at 551 Locust Point Road was dismissed without prejudice after the board received a letter from the attorney representing the applicant, Vella said.  

No one was present for this resolution’s hearing.