PB-24-07 Essex County Country Club B: 156; L: 1; Z: R-2

{00458572} by the Applicant (with liquor licenses,) including another country club also located in West Orange. The Board also notes that the Board’s professional planners Mr. Paul Grygiel and Mr. Gerard Haizel provided their professional expert planning testimony that the proposed halfway house is a customary accessory use/structure to the golf course. The Board was not persuaded by Objector Planner” (Peter Steck) position that information on all golf courses within the State were required to be explored. The Board also does not accept the logic of Mr. Steck’s testimony related to the accessory nature of the proposed halfway house. Mr. Steck believed the halfway house was not a permitted accessory structure/use to the golf course due to the potential sale of alcohol from the structure and its proposed location on the Property but at the same time opined that the halfway house may be a permitted accessory/use structure if it was relocated to a different location on the Property where his client Ms. Bennett requested it be relocated to. The Property is located on the southwestern corner of the intersection of Mt. Pleasant Avenue and Prospect Avenue and has been developed with a golf course since 1887. 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. 4882-2653-9704.v1