Hundreds of people, most of them Jewish families, flooded a Linden City Council meeting Tuesday to stop the second reading of a zoning ordinance designed to limit the size and scope of homes on small lots.
A statement from Linden on Thursday said people started arriving in buses about an hour before the council meeting was scheduled to begin and quickly filled the chamber past its 181-person capacity.
The crowd turned out to oppose the adoption of a zoning ordinance that would impose new conditions on expanding homes in the city, according to officials…