OAKLAND — Really should Lukoil/Tire Tech be permitted to broaden its company at 357 Ramapo Valley Road to the lengthy-vacant Oakland Medication house next door?

The Borough Council will consider that problem Monday when it addresses an attractiveness challenging the zoning board’s July approval of a use variance that would permit Lukoil lessee Ellahi Gas Inc. use the Oakland Drugs making for its tire, auto maintenance and towing company.

The enchantment was filed in September by resident Jean Brennan of 422 W. Oakland Ave., 2 miles south of the fuel station. Brennan verified that this is also the deal with of her partner Timothy Kelso’s Patriot Towing company, but denied that reduced opposition was the purpose of her charm.

“The Lukoil property seems to be awful,” Brennan said in a phone interview Wednesday. “There are tires all in excess of, cars all in excess of. If they are allowed to use the drugstore, it will be 10 moments worse. It will generate an eyesore in the center of city.”

The zoning board held 5 hearings on the proposed use variance. Applicant Sam Ellahi has been leasing the Lukoil station for “several years,” in accordance to his legal professional, Ben Cascio. 

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The drugstore’s conversion to a garage/storage facility would enable Ellahi to “clean up up the exterior things,” Cascio mentioned.

“The function is to clean up up the Lukoil web-site,” Cascio explained in a telephone interview Tuesday. “Identical entry, similar parking. There may well really be significantly less site visitors than when the drugstore was open up.”

The two qualities had been component of a master prepare rezoning in 2012, in which gas stations went from a permitted to a conditional use in an try to encourage a more interesting retail region along Ramapo Valley Road. A conditional use calls for fulfillment of a lot more requirements.

By Tara