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| Atty. Collins, Mayor Flannery & Chmn. Fross, huddle before meeting |
In the words of Raymond’s brother, Robert, in the sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond,
“It was not meant to be.”
The Bridgewater Township Planning Board meeting which was scheduled to begin this evening at 7:00 PM in the meeting room of the new Bridgewater Township Municipal Building was cancelled and tentatively rescheduled to Monday, February 28th, pending arrangements for another venue that would hold more people.
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| Overflow audience begins to assemble before meeting. |
An unexpectedly large group of Bridgewater residents showed up at the meeting to participate in a hearing at which a land development application for the building of a mosque was on the agenda and was to be discussed.
The application for the mosque was filed on behalf of the Chughtai Foundation and is for the change of use of a property located at 1475 Mountaintop Road, the former site of the Redwood Inn. The application calls for the construction of a 14,570-square foot mosque, on the 7.6-acre site on Mountaintop Road.
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| Planning Board Chariman Alan Fross opens proceedings. |
According to the website of the al Falah Center, the new masjid project’s priorities include “A house of worship; a weekend school; daycare; a full-time school; and a community center.”
The gathering of people at the Municipal Building this evening was the largest that I have experienced. People were wall-to-wall in the room, another meeting room with closed-circuit TV covering the event was filled to capacity, and others overflowed into the hallways, according to Planning Board attorney, Thomas Collins.
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| Atty. Thomas Collins, citing overcapacity audience, closes short-lived meeting. (Name plates are not lined up properly!) |
The tentative February 28th rescheduling is contingent on holding the meeting at the Bridgewater-Raritan High School Auditorium, or at the Somerset County’s Vocational & Technical School in Bridgewater.
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