The Township Council will hear testimony regarding the appeal of a use variance granted to the school in July. The variance allows the school to renovate a warehouse into a school building.
A challenge to a variance granted to the Hatikvah International Academy Charter School could be heard by the Township Council on Nov. 19, according to Township Administrator James white. In July, the Zoning Board of Adjustment unanimously approved a variance that will allow Hatikvah to renovate the warehouse into a school. The building, 7 Lexington Ave., is located in a planned industrial zone and a variance is needed to open a school in the zone. The warehouse is surrounded by similar warehouses, including Vending Trucks Inc. On Aug. 20, two residents filed an appeal of the variance, stating, among other reasons, that the variance should not have been granted because “there was a conflict of interest,” and that “the board did not permit a…
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The township Department of Planning and Engineering has notified the school that it is in violation of rules set by a use variance granted in 2011.
The Hatikvah International Academy Charter School may have another issue to deal with. On Tuesday, Sept. 11, Gregory Potkulski, director of the township Department of Planning and Engineering, sent the school a letter stating that its enrollment currently exceeds the limit set in a use variance granted the school on July 7, 2011. “Testimony presented at the hearing indicated that total school enrollment would be limited to no more than 152 students,” state the letter. “Therefore, because total enrollment now exceeds that number, the applicant and property owner are in violation of the terms of the approval, and as a result, are in violation of the Township's land-use ordinance," said the letter. “If the violation is not cured within 20 …
Freddy
1:44 pm on Sunday, September 30, 2012
The fact that Michael Hill Goldstein was a founding board member of the school says it all. Stop denying that this school does not have a political agenda. Why else would the Hebrew Charter School Network and the Areivim Group put so much money into starting these schools up? I believe you when you say that the school itself does not teach religion. That is why a portion of the students leave … more ›