Expansion Plans For Montclair Kimberly Academy Move Forward

MONTCLAIR, NJ — The Montclair Zoning Board of Adjustment approved a preliminary site plan for Montclair Kimberly Academy’s (MKA) expansion project at 12-36 Lloyd Road at their meeting last week.

See supporting documents for the project online here.

The school plans to renovate its STEM center and construct an addition onto the existing building, adding about 8,850 square feet of space. The center contains classrooms, meeting rooms, offices, labs and other facilities that serve the Upper School’s science, technology, engineering and math programs.

According to a Nov. 28 memo sent to the board, the property has frontage on Lloyd Road and Parkhurst Place. Access is provided to the school via three one-way driveways on Lloyd Road which provide access to the building entrance and the 78-space parking lot at the rear of the building. The addition, which includes three floor levels, will connect the building that fronts Lloyd Road with the building in the rear. The property is steeply sloped, rising approximately 80 feet from Lloyd Road to the western property line.

The property is located within the Afterglow/Lloyd/Parkhurst potential historic district in the Historic Preservation Element of the town’s master plan. This area includes four historic homes that were surveyed by “Preservation Montclair.”

The property is in the R-O Mountainside Residential Zone district, where it is a conditional use pursuant to Montclair Code §347-12. As a result, the application requires a D(3) use variance.

Watch footage from the Dec. 6 meeting below (video is cued to the discussion on the MKA proposal).

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