The Gloucester County Planning Commission has recommended that proffers be changed to make it easier for developers to pay for a new mixed-use project at Hayes.
The existing proffers require that the developer pay the entire surety for the project at the beginning. But after discussing the applicant’s request during a meeting on May 5 in the colonial courthouse, the commission decided that requiring all of the surety up front would make it hard for the developer to pay for the project.
At issue was Zandler’s Crossing, a project that a spokesman said might ultimately have more than 80 townhouse units as well as some businesses and professional offices.
Charlie Records, a spokesman for Zandler’s Crossing, said that he expects the project to be completed within about five years, with several phases of residential units and one or more commercial phases.
Planning director Ann Ducey-Ortiz said some that the initial entry will be off Crewe Road, with a second entr...
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