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Backers of mosque expansion pack hearing

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Karen Keller

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More than 100 members of a Piscataway mosque attended a standing-room-only zoning board meeting Thursday night to support the mosque's plan to add parking, a community center and a school on the Hoes Lane tract.

The zoning board did not make a decision on the application, filed by the Muslim Center of Middlesex County, and the board will next hear testimony about the proposal on Dec. 10. The application was first filed in the spring.

About a dozen opponents of the proposal were also in attendance Thursday, and their complaints centered mainly on parking.

Worshippers currently park on streets near the mosque because there isn't enough parking in the mosque's lot. Mosque members argue the additional parking is needed for traffic safety reasons.

The Muslim Center of Middlesex County opened in 1996 and its membership has since doubled. On a typical Friday, from 450 to 600 worshippers attend the mosque, Safiullah Faizullah, center president, said at the meeting.

Center officials proposed to increase the number of parking spaces to 292, compared with 76 today, and to build a second two-story, 38,115-square-foot building to house a kindergarten-through-ninth-grade school.

-- Karen Keller