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Senior citizens, many of whom live in the Holiday Village East 55-and-over community, in November packed the meeting room at Mount Laurel municipal offices to oppose Mavis Discount Tire's application to open a store next to their neighborhood.
The yellow circle shows the bank property near Union Mill Road and Morning Glory Drive in Mount Laurel where Mavis Discount Tire wants to build a store. The Holiday Village East development is to the right.
Senior citizens, many of whom live in the Holiday Village East 55-and-over community, in November packed the meeting room at Mount Laurel municipal offices to oppose Mavis Discount Tire's application to open a store next to their neighborhood.
Representatives of Mavis Discount Tire, who at November's Mount Laurel zoning board meeting acknowledged unanswered questions about a planned store near Holiday Village East, have pulled their application from the agenda for a zoning meeting on Wednesday.
Mavis Tire Supply LLC will file a new public notice when the national tire company is ready to continue its hearing before the Zoning Board of Adjustment, according to the Township.
Nearly every seat in the courtroom in the Township Municipal Center was filled on November 5 when the company presented details of its proposal to demolish a vacant bank building at Morning Glory Drive and Union Mill Road and build a Mavis Tire store.
The room full of senior citizens who live in neighborhoods around the Towne Square Shopping Center showed up in strong opposition to the Mavis plan and its request for a use variance, which is required because the auto shop is not permitted under Township zoning law.
"Our position is not simply a NIMBY (not in my backyard) position," Rocco Palmieri, president of the Holiday Village East Board of Directors, told the zoning board at the meeting. The proposed Mavis use does not fit the zoning plan for the area, Palmieri said.
Palmieri's board hired land-use lawyer Henry Chou, a partner in the Hill Wallack LLP Princeton office, to be a formal intervenor in the zoning application process. While members of the public can testify about applications at the public hearing, a lawyer as intervenor can question applicants during their presentation to the board.
Denise Lee, a 45-year Mount Laurel resident who now lives in Holiday Village East, said residents would have a difficult time tolerating noise from 8 a.m. into the early evening hours.Â
"This business will be an eyesore to the adjoining neighborhood," she told the board.
Previous coverage of the Mavis Tire proposal on 70and73.com:
The yellow circle shows the bank property near Union Mill Road and Morning Glory Drive in Mount Laurel where Mavis Discount Tire wants to build a store. The Holiday Village East development is to the right.
