{"id":7175,"date":"2024-10-16T18:33:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2024-10-16T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:33:13","slug":"change-in-use-hearing-city-of-rahway-union-county-wheatena-park-dog-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/change-in-use-hearing-city-of-rahway-union-county-wheatena-park-dog-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in Use Hearing&#8211;City of Rahway, Union County&#8211;Wheatena Park Dog Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/plc-public-notices\/notice-2024-union-rahway-ciu-november-6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here for Full Public Hearing Notice<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Park Owner:<\/strong>\u00a0 Union County<\/p>\n<p><strong>Park Name:\u00a0 <\/strong>Wheatena\u00a0Park<\/p>\n<p><strong>Park Location:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">1850 Elizabeth Avenue, Rahway, Union County<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">Block 224, Lot 34 and Block 227, Lot 6<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proposed Action:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Union County is proposing to convert 0.41 acre of open space\/parkland within Wheatena Park, a County park, to a dog park in response to a request from the City of Rahway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">The 18,000-square-foot park is proposed to have two separated areas: one for large dogs (11,000 square feet) and one for small dogs, (7,000 square feet).\u00a0 Construction of the park will be funded with a $500,000 grant to the City of Rahway from the Department of Community Affairs.\u00a0 The City is proposing to use the grant to install fencing around the perimeter of the dog park along with other dog park amenities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">A concept plan for the proposed dog park may be found here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/plc-public-notices\/wheatena-dog-park-concept-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wheatena Park Dog Park Concept Plan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Hearing Date\/Time:\u00a0 <\/strong>Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 6:00\u00a0PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hearing Location:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Rahway City Hall<br \/>\n1 City Hall Plaza<br \/>\nRahway, New Jersey 07065<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Public Comments Accepted Through:\u00a0 <\/strong>Wednesday, November 20, 2024<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Please click the link above for the full Public Hearing Notice, including addresses where written comments should be sent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click Here for Full Public Hearing Notice Park Owner:\u00a0 Union County Park Name:\u00a0 Wheatena\u00a0Park Park Location: 1850 Elizabeth Avenue, Rahway, Union County Block 224, Lot 34 and Block 227, Lot 6 Proposed Action:\u00a0 Union County is proposing to convert 0.41 acre of open space\/parkland within Wheatena Park, a County park, to a dog park in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change-in-use","category-plc-public-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}