Paramus Zoning Board Swears in Two Members to New Terms

Paramus Zoning Board of Adjustment began business for the new year by swearing in two of its members to new terms.

Board attorney Thomas Randall swore in James Huffman and Anthony Feorenzo at the start of the Thursday night reorganization meeting.

Huffman was sworn into his ninth term.  Steve Sullivan, chairman, commended Huffman for serving on the Zoning Board for nearly three decades.

Sullivan also thanked Henry Wake for previously serving on the board.

Board members re-elected Sullivan as chairman and Gerald Rickelmann has vice chairman of the board.

The Zoning Board also set a new hearing date of Feb. 28 for the continued hearing on the Muslim Cultural Center’s proposal which originally was planned to be heard Thursday night but was postponed due to the reorganization meeting.

The Muslim Cultural Center seeks approval to occupy a previously approved but not yet constructed office building at a Paramus Road location as a mosque and Muslim cultural center. The hearing will continue from this past November when testimony was heard from the project’s architect, engineer and traffic expert.