A rendering of the proposed car wash on Haddonfield Road.
A proposal to rebuild a car wash on busy Haddonfield Road across from Garden State Park goes before the Cherry Hill Planning Board next Monday.
Preliminary and final major site plans for 1000 Haddonfield Road, at the corner of Severn Avenue, from Wash King Cherry Hill Prop. Co. LLC of Vineland are on the board's agenda for the meeting, which begins with a caucus at 7 p.m. remotely on Zoom.
Wash King Cherry Hill purchased the property in December and plans a Wash King Express Car Wash to replace the now-vacant Pristine Hand Carwash, Lube and Detail Center, according to the developer's application. The owner or officer of Wash King Cherry Hill is listed as Sree Bhavya Muppala on the application.
A previous owner of the property, which is in the Highway Business Zone, in November 2022 received Planning Board permission to rebuild the car wash. The approvals expired in November 2024 without the project moving forward, according to a Township review.
The new Wash King car wash would include an automated express car wash, eight vacuum stations and two queuing lanes, the Township review notes.
Plans for the proposed car wash, with entrance and exit on Haddonfield Road and another exit on Severn Avenue.
In a review of the current application, Planning Board engineer Stacey Arcari of Environmental Resolutions Inc. of Mount Laurel challenged traffic projections from the applicant's traffic engineer, Shropshire Associates LLC of Atco.
Arcari compared traffic generated by the previous use, traffic estimated in the 2022 application and Shropshire's latest traffic report.
"The traffic engineer should discuss the significant difference in trips, which will result in different impacts on the site circulation and operations," she told the Planning Board in her letter.
The existing use of the former Pristine Carwash showed 92 trips in the morning peak hour, 99 in the afternoon peak hour and 81 in the Saturday peak hour, according to Arcari's report.
In the 2022 application, the proposed one-lane car wash would have generated 78 morning peak hour, 78 afternoon peak hour and 41 Saturday peak hour trips, according to that application.
In the application before the board next week, the proposed two-lane car wash is projected by Shropshire to generate 49 peak morning and afternoon peak hour trips and 104 on Saturday.
Arcari also questioned the developer's noise evaluation report, provided by Russell Acoustics LLC of Forked River.
"The study considered the wash bay operations but did not seem to take the vacuum spaces into account. This should be clarified," she wrote in her letter.
Russell Acoustics' noise evaluation "states that the 'no touch' bay could be operated at night without exceeding the noise levels at the property line. The applicant should discuss if they are proposing to have this type of operation available. If so, they should discuss how this will affect site lighting during the evening, vacuum operations, buffering of headlights and site security," Arcari wrote.
The sound engineering firm projected that the new car wash noise level would not exceed the New Jersey daytime sound limit of 65 dBA, a measure of loudness heard by the human ear.Â
"The 'no touch' car wash can operate at night (10 p.m. to 7 a.m.) and meet the nighttime 50 dBAÂ limit with the addition of an automatic door on the entrance side," Russell Acoustics wrote.
