PATERSON — The city planning board has rejected a Brooklyn company’s application to build 122 new apartments on Totowa Avenue in Paterson’s 1st Ward, three blocks from Hinchliffe Stadium and School 5.
“That area is already saturated with traffic, after school, before school, whenever the stadium is being used,” said Mark Fischer, one of the planning board members who voted against the proposal.
Plan rejected in 5-2 vote
Officials said the vote against the plan was 5-2 during a special meeting of the planning board on Monday night.
Paterson Press erroneously reported in a story published on northjersey.com on Feb. 14 that the special meeting had been canceled.
Fischer said the proposal may have had a better chance of getting approved if the plan included fewer apartments. He said one of the planning board members had made that suggestion during Monday night’s meeting, but that the developer didn’t offer to revise the project.
Representatives of the Chars Group, which is based in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, did not respond to a message seeking comment for this story.