PB-23-09 Essex County Country Club Block: 156 Lot: 1

It was represented by the Applicant that it is the oldest golf course in New Jersey and one of the oldest in the country. The area of the Property is 176.83 acres and it is occupied by a golf course, a clubhouse building, tennis courts, a pool house, two (2) swimming pools, a golf cart barn/pro shop, several maintenance building and a number of other accessory structures. Surrounding the Property are single family residential properties, institutional, office and public buildings, and the Francis J. Byrne golf course, owned by Essex County. The parking lot area near the clubhouse is proposed to be repaved and restriped. The lower portion of the parking area although paved is parked on but not presently striped. The Applicant proposes to stripe the area to create 33 additional parking spaces . The total number of parking spaces within the parking area will result in a total of 236 parking spaces whereas 658 spaces are required based on the gross floor area of the clubhouse measuring 29,589 square feet (one space required per 45 square feet of gross floor area). The proposal therefore resulted in an increase of 33 parking spaces above the existing conditions and a previous parking variance granted by the Board in 2014. In 2014 the Applicant applied for site plan approval to among other things expand the clubhouse and in connection with that application, the Applicant requested, and the Board granted, a parking variance to permit 203 parking spaces within the subject parking area whereas 699 parking spaces were required at the time of the application. The details of the approval and the granting of the parking variance are set forth in Planning Board Resolution PB-14-04. Additionally, the Applicant proposes new lighting fixtures within the parking area nearest to the clubhouse and along the site entrance driveway. Thirty-three (33) fixtures