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Gloucester County Town Hall: Week of Nov. 2 — Pitman Picks a Redeveloper as a Studio Plan Lands for the Sony Site, Woodbury's Mantua Avenue Sewer Break
Monroe's Planning Board weighs a church for a former VFW hall on the Black Horse Pike. Behind us: Pitman's conditional redeveloper and the $450 million Americana Studios plan, Woodbury's emergency sewer repair and Route 45 bridge work, and Franklin's township land sales.
Good morning, Gloucester County. The week ahead is quiet on the town calendar: Tuesday is Election Day, and Monroe's Planning Board is the only posted meeting, with a church proposed for a former VFW hall on the Black Horse Pike. The week behind was busier. Pitman named a conditional redeveloper the same night it unveiled a $450 million movie studio plan for the old Sony site, Woodbury hired an emergency crew for a sewer break on Mantua Avenue and lined up road and bridge work, and Franklin moved to sell off township lots. Each item links to its County Brief meeting page, which has the posted agenda and a link to the official documents.
Meetings ahead
Monday, Nov. 2
Monroe Township Planning Board, 6:30 p.m. The headline application is #568-SP from the First Haitian Baptist Church of Williamstown, seeking minor site plan approval to turn the existing 9,539-square-foot VFW building at 1940 North Black Horse Pike into a church, in the Commercial zoning district. Also on the agenda: Lydia Security Monitoring Inc.'s request (WSP-06-26) for a site plan waiver to add a walkway and steps to its parking area at 1041 Glassboro Road, and a request from Morgan Development Group (#1723, Morgan Landing, also known as Morgan Run) to amend the conservation easement inside its subdivision. The board will also memorialize Gail Stadtler's minor site plan approval (PB-43-26). The meeting streams live on the township's YouTube channel. Agenda
Tuesday, Nov. 3
Election Day. Polls are open 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. NJ Division of Elections
Looking ahead: Pitman holds its public hearing on a new consolidated fee schedule (Ordinance No. 16, 2026) on Monday, Nov. 9; Franklin's Township Committee hears two land-sale ordinances on Tuesday, Nov. 10; Woodbury's Planning and Zoning Board takes up the 263 Park Ave. application on Thursday, Nov. 12; and Washington Township's Planning Board hears the 55 Trade Center warehouse and Cross Keys retail applications on Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Decisions behind
Pitman: a conditional redeveloper, and a studio plan for the Sony site. The Borough Council's Oct. 26 agenda included Resolution No. 181, 2026, appointing a conditional redeveloper and authorizing a memorandum of understanding. The agenda doesn't name the developer or the property, but the same night the borough, SORA Development and Americana Studios announced the Americana Studios District: a proposed $450 million film, television and recording campus on the 76-acre former Sony property at 400 North Woodbury-Glassboro Road, with housing, a hotel and commercial space. Mayor Michael Razze says eminent domain won't be needed because the owner and the development team have a binding agreement for the sale. Also on the agenda: the public hearing on Ordinance No. 15, which amends the vehicles and traffic chapter; the introduction of Ordinance No. 16, a consolidated schedule of borough fees, with a hearing Nov. 9; a contract with Landberg Construction for Glenmere Avenue reconstruction and storm sewer replacement (Res. No. 178); and two 100% disabled veteran tax exemptions (Res. Nos. 175 and 176). Council also took up permits for two Environmental Commission events: an Alcyon Stewardship Weekend on Nov. 14 and 15 at Alcyon Park and Holly Dell, and a community hike Dec. 5 from Holly Dell into Ceres Park. Minutes, with the votes, have not been posted yet. Meeting page · Borough announcement
Woodbury: a sewer break, new paving and the Route 45 bridge. City Council's Oct. 28 agenda included an emergency repair contract with Pioneer Pipe Contractors, LLC for a ruptured sewer main on Mantua Avenue between Carpenter Street and Nelson Avenue (Res. No. 26-180), along with an emergency appropriation (26-183). It also awarded the FY2026 local roads project to Paving Plus, LLC, covering Deptford Avenue, Lippincott Street and parts of Watkins Avenue and Prince Street (26-181), with engineering by Bryson & Yates (26-182), and approved a right-of-entry agreement and a temporary construction easement with NJDOT for the Route 45 bridge over Woodbury Creek (26-184 and 26-185). On ordinances: the second reading of No. 2462-26, changing no-parking, one-way and turn rules in the traffic code, and first readings of No. 2463-26, replacing the city's development fee rules, and No. 2464-26, amending police department guidelines. Other items: a five-year tax abatement for 116 Cooper St. (26-178), certification of the 2025 audit (26-176), and the hiring of Jose Marinero as a full-time patrol officer (26-175). Meeting page
Franklin: selling off township lots. The Township Committee on Oct. 27 took up adoption of Ordinance O-17-26, authorizing the sale of undersized lots the township no longer needs, and introduced O-18-26 and O-19-26 for more land sales, with a public hearing Nov. 10. Resolutions R-164-26 and R-165-26 set minimum prices for the lots and lands to be sold at public auction. Meeting page
Westville: a lot on Edgewater Avenue goes up for sale. The Borough Council on Oct. 26 took up the sale of a vacant lot at 235 Edgewater Ave. (Block 59, Lot 16), sold as-is. It also approved a state grant agreement (Res. No. 134-2026) and opened the fair-and-open process for 2027 professional appointments, with submissions due to the borough clerk by 10 a.m. Dec. 3 (135-2026). Council heard a request from the Parkview Panthers robotics team to put a bat house in Thomas West Park and accepted crossing guard Darlene Powell's resignation. Meeting page
Wenonah: cameras for Cedar Field. The Borough Council on Oct. 22 approved Resolution 2026-81, a grant-funded $20,887.65 purchase and installation of security cameras for Cedar Field from Gridless Power Corporation, and heard a Public Works update on the Well 5 replacement project. Meeting page On Oct. 26, the Combined Planning Board's agenda listed resolutions for a fence at 311 N. Princeton Ave., a pool at 107 N. Synnott Ave. and a second residential unit at 106 E. Willow St., plus changes to the 2026 Master Plan reexamination report. Meeting page
Clayton: ordinances adopted, a welding shop on Cenco Boulevard. The Mayor and Council on Oct. 22 held final readings on ordinances covering personnel policies, raffles, municipal salaries and the fire suppression code, and introduced a 2026 employee compensation ordinance. The consent agenda included buying recycling carts and adopting an affordable housing trust fund spending plan. Meeting page The Planning and Zoning Board on Oct. 26 heard McAlister Welding & Fabricating's preliminary and final minor site plan for 200 and 400 Cenco Blvd. and granted extensions of earlier approvals to Cenco Properties, LLC (Res. #21-2026) and Alexa Robinson (#22-2026). Its next meeting is Nov. 23. Meeting page
Monroe: no word yet on the cannabis greenhouses. The Zoning Board of Adjustment's Oct. 26 agenda included Renegade LLC's application for 14 cannabis greenhouses on North Tuckahoe Road, previewed here last week. The result hasn't been posted; we'll report it when the minutes or the board's resolution come out. Meeting page
Where's my town?
County Brief posts agendas and recaps wherever towns publish them online. We don't yet have council meeting records for Deptford, East Greenwich, Elk, Glassboro, Greenwich, Harrison, Logan, National Park, Newfield, Paulsboro, South Harrison, Swedesboro, Woodbury Heights or Woolwich. More are added as they come online; the full list is on the government meetings page.