http://njjewishnews.com/justASC/2010/01/29/the-shul-around-the-corner/ A multilog with NJJN Editor-in-Chief Andrew Silow-Carroll Wed, 23 May 2012 21:25:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://njjewishnews.com/justASC/2010/01/29/the-shul-around-the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-21339 Andrew Silow-Carroll Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:04:17 +0000 http://njjewishnews.com/justASC/?p=1932#comment-21339 As I wrote, "I’m far enough down the block that it doesn’t really affect me, although I don’t blame the people who live in a residential neighborhood who don’t want a weekly block party right next door." As I wrote, “I’m far enough down the block that it doesn’t really affect me, although I don’t blame the people who live in a residential neighborhood who don’t want a weekly block party right next door.”

]]> http://njjewishnews.com/justASC/2010/01/29/the-shul-around-the-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-21298 anonymousinTeaneck Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:29:59 +0000 http://njjewishnews.com/justASC/?p=1932#comment-21298 Andy, A non-profit corporation bought 554 Queen Anne Road and rented it to a rabbi; it then paid $150,000 to add a 1600-square-foot "family room" onto the house, and now has 80 attendees weekly at what they will not call a congregation. By building the family room as a single-family-residence, not a house of worship, the requirements regarding setbacks, buffers, lighting, etc. were not consistent with what would be required for a house of worship. Therefore, the family room, which is used for services, is much closer to the property line than if it had been built as a house of worship. You bought your house with the awareness that it was on a (fairly) main road with a shul nearby. The neighbors by Etz Chaim bought their houses in a residential neighborhood, not expecting that 80 people would show up every Saturday and that there would be dozens of kids running around all morning every Saturday morning. Andy,
A non-profit corporation bought 554 Queen Anne Road and rented it to a rabbi; it then paid $150,000 to add a 1600-square-foot “family room” onto the house, and now has 80 attendees weekly at what they will not call a congregation.
By building the family room as a single-family-residence, not a house of worship, the requirements regarding setbacks, buffers, lighting, etc. were not consistent with what would be required for a house of worship. Therefore, the family room, which is used for services, is much closer to the property line than if it had been built as a house of worship.
You bought your house with the awareness that it was on a (fairly) main road with a shul nearby. The neighbors by Etz Chaim bought their houses in a residential neighborhood, not expecting that 80 people would show up every Saturday and that there would be dozens of kids running around all morning every Saturday morning.

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