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Senior: Continued From Page 1 familiar faces with many of our regulars coming out today. Many are starting off outside the building with our senior exercise program. We have 40 people out there exercising before they come.”

“We normally have exercise four days a week here and we offer seven classes. We started to have exercise classes during Covid and people are enjoying it and today they are coming inside afterward for the expo,” Slisky said.

“We have granola, coffee cake, bread, muffins, yogurt, fresh fruit plus juice, coffee that was provided through one of vendors,” she added.

The food area was conveniently set up in a back area of the center that is always used for costume changes during the center’s big holiday event, Toy Land, each December.

Slisky said, “we haven’t held a senior expo since I’ve been here and I came to the building in 2017. We had planned one for March 2020 to be held just days before we shut down for Covid and so this is our first attempt at it and it was quite a scramble. A lot of our vendors have switched and changed over these last three years and a few of the facilities have combined or have bought each other out so we had to start from scratch.”

“CenterState is here, Monmouth Medical is here, Care One, the County Clerk’s Office, the Ocean County Health Department, the township fire department is here, police and a law firm. We have a little bit of everything here,” Slisky added.

“Most of these vendors do come to the center regularly for bingo, luncheons and things like that. The hospitals and rehabilitation centers come and they provide us food for our seniors,” she added.

The expo also featured blood pressure, hearing and glucose screening.

Worship: Continued From Page 1 homes in residentially zoned areas that were being used as houses of worship or “prayer homes.”

Such homes were noted to have received violation notices for not having received the proper permits for construction to modify the residence for prayer house use. Residents also complained that they experienced noise and weekend parking issues within those neighborhoods.

Reaction to its initial introduction ranged from numerous members of the township’s Orthodox Jewish community voicing their strong support of it to some residents asking what the ordinance would mean.

Township Attorney Gregory McGuckin stated this ordinance would regulate such uses.

“Ordinance 14-23 has been tabled indefinitely. It takes two readings to pass anything. It had its first reading. We are not going to give it a second reading at this time,” Flemming said during the April 25 council meeting.

“Tabled means we are not going to go further with the ordinance. It never had a public hearing,” he repeated to the question of another resident.

Township Attorney Gregory McGuckin told the resident there had been no change to the existing ordinance. “Whatever the ordinance provides for currently remains in place. The current zoning is not changing at this point.”

Resident Brain Herbsman “you said ordinance 14-23 is tabled at this time. If it becomes un-tabled it would have to be re-noticed?”

“Yes,” Flemming replied. No explanation was given as to why the ordinance had been tabled.

A resident of Four Seasons, a senior community located in the township said, “we are grateful for you tabling that.”

She added, “we are a retirement community and we are aware that schools are in the works to overpopulate our area and there would be traffic and noise pollution and unacceptable change to the property we thought we were buying and the retirees have no will or finances to pick up and move.”

Flemming prefaced that the ordinance was only tabled. “It will sit there but sometime in the future it will come back and you will be noticed.”

McGuckin noted previously that building standards had been included within the proposed ordinance such as bulk standards and design criteria for houses of worship. It includes text for primary frontage on a local road or a road of a higher order, as defined by the Residential Site Improvement Standards. Houses of worship shall not be located mid-block and shall be situated on a corner lot.

A number of residents came forward to express support of the ordinance when it was first introduced saying it “moved the township forward and set a different tone from a past Council meeting.”

Resident Raymond Cattonar expressed a different saying that by allowing houses of worship throughout Jackson they would be tax exempt “which could cost Jackson taxpayers millions of dollars in lost tax revenue.”

He noted the ordinance would also “add commercial parking lots and commercial buildings in any residential neighborhoods at the end of the blocks with no limitation to how many can be built. Homes on corners can be knocked down or additions can be added and the adjoining lot homes can be destroyed and made a commercial parking lot.”