EMERSON—Liberty Subaru, a longtime local car dealership offering sales and service on Kinderkamack Road, has requested preliminary and final minor site plan approval, including a use variance, to use vacant space currently near the dealership for the addition of parking and car storage.
A hearing is set for Thursday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. before the Land Use Board, which meets at Borough Hall, 146 Linwood Avenue. The vacant property resides in Emerson’s Central Business District (CBD-15) zone.
“The proposed use variance is for the expansion of the pre-existing non-conforming use of the automobile sales and services location on 55 Kinderkamack Rd. by way of the addition of parking and car storage. The application requests a use variance from zoning ordinance Section 290-68C(d) which now prohibits automobile and motorcycle sales and service businesses,” states the public notice published Nov. 15.
The public notice states that a portion of the property at 55 Kinderkamack Road (Block 610, Lot 7) “is currently utilized as a place of business for Liberty Subaru for sales and service. The remaining portion of the property is vacant land,” states the notice. It notes the documents related to Liberty Subaru’s proposal can be viewed between 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Land Use Board secretary’s office.
No application documents are available online. The applicant attorney is Beattie Padovano LLC, Montvale.