Builder's Application For Variance Denied

By Christopher Mumma, Special to The Inquirer
Posted: June 24, 1990

The Gloucester Township Zoning Board, tired of waiting for developer Donald Paparone to show up to support an application for a use variance for a small shopping center he had planned, has denied the application without prejudice.

The application, which was denied June 14, had been postponed at least four times since it was originally filed about nine months ago, said Dolores Fimi, the board secretary. It was filed with one for another center just across the street on New Brooklyn Road at the southern end of the township. The variance for the second center, requesting a commercial use in a residential zone, was approved in January.

Fimi said the developer gave no reasons for the repeated postponements. Several may have been the township's doing, she said. Paparone could not be reached for comment last week. Neither he nor representatives from his company have attended any of the previous meetings, said Harry Landis, board chairman.

Neighbors opposed to the project have attended the meetings, only to find out the application had been postponed again, Landis said.

"After several times the public keeps coming out and (Paparone) keeps messing up our agenda," Landis said. "I have no idea why it keeps getting postponed."

If Paparone still wants to build the shopping center, he will have to reapply for the variance, Fimi said.

The two centers would have a combined total space of 40,000 square feet.

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