Marlboro board will hear plan for office building BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO - The Planning Board will consider an application that proposes the construction of an office/warehouse building at the intersection of Amboy and Tennent roads. The plan filed by Ambten Road Associates is expected to be heard at the board's meeting on Aug. 1 at 8 p.m. Represented by the legal firm of Giordano, Halleran and Ciesla, of Middletown, the application seeks preliminary and final major site plan approval and variance relief to permit the construction of a 23,000-square-foot, two-story office/warehouse building of which approximately 7,800 square feet is proposed to be warehouse space and approximately 15,200 square feet is proposed to be office space, along with parking, storm water management and other associated site improvements on the property. The property is in Marlboro's Industrial-Office-Research (IOR) zone and consists of approximately 3.8 acres. According to a legal notice published in a daily newspaper, the applicant will seek certain variances, waivers and/or exceptions from local ordinances, including the following: • Lot area: Relief from an ordinance which requires a minimum lot area of 5 acres where a lot area of approximately 3.8 acres is existing. • Lot frontage: Relief from an ordinance which requires minimum lot frontage of 300 feet where a lot frontage of approximately 228 feet is existing. • Lot width: Relief from an ordinance which requires a minimum lot width of 300 feet where a lot width of approximately 291 feet is existing. • Front yard setback: Relief from an ordinance which requires minimum front yard setback of 80 feet where a front yard setback of approximately 64 feet is proposed. • Residential building setback: Relief from a township ordinance which requires a 150-foot setback from any front, side or rear lot line that abuts or is the near street line opposite a residential zone where a setback of approximately 83 feet from a residential zone is proposed. • Front yard parking setback: Relief from an ordinance which requires a minimum front yard parking setback of 80 feet where a front yard parking setback of approximately 10 feet is proposed. • Parking setback from residential zone: Relief from a township ordinance that requires a parking area or driveway not be located within 150 feet of any front, side or rear lot line that abuts or is near the street line opposite a residential zone where a parking setback of approximately 10 feet from a residential zone is proposed. • Parking setback from structure: Relief from an ordinance that prohibits parking within 30 feet of the outer walls of any structure where a parking setback of approximately 6 feet from the proposed building is proposed. • Buffer: Relief from an ordinance that requires a minimum landscaped buffer of 50 feet along any front, side or rear lot line that abuts a residential zone or use where an approximate 10-foot buffer is proposed. • Fence: Relief from an ordinance that requires a permanent 6-foot-high fence be constructed along the entire length of any front, side or rear lot line that abuts a residential zone or use where no fence is proposed. • Design waiver: Relief from an ordinance which requires that an infiltration basin be located at least 25 feet from the property line where the applicant's proposed infiltration basin is approximately 10 feet form the property line. Anyone wishing to comment on the application will be permitted to do so during the public hearing to be conducted by the Planning Board.