A plan to build six townhouses and two affordable-rent apartments on a dead-end street in Cherry Hill adjacent to P.J. Whelihan’s Pub and Restaurant off Route 70 has been advanced by the Township zoning board.
Board members on March 7 unanimously granted the developer a use variance to build multi-family residential units in an office zone where residential is not permitted.
But board members and the public expressed concerns that the development may be too large for the lots and also result in parking problems on Pointview Avenue. Those issues would be addressed when the developer returns to the Zoning Board of Adjustment for site-plan approval.
The developer’s lawyer, Kevin Sheehan of the Parker McCay law firm in Mount Laurel, said the team designing the project would consider those concerns before returning with a site plan.