{"id":4059,"date":"2004-03-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/18\/2004-03-18-zoning-board-unanimously-votes-down-hindu-temple\/"},"modified":"2004-03-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T12:00:00","slug":"2004-03-18-zoning-board-unanimously-votes-down-hindu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/18\/2004-03-18-zoning-board-unanimously-votes-down-hindu-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoning Board Unanimously Votes Down Hindu Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.c-n.com\/news\/c-n\/story\/0,2111,924439,00.html\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>SOUTH PLAINFIELD, U.S.A. March 13, 2004: The borough Zoning Board has voted unanimously to block the proposed construction of a Hindu temple in New Jersey. The International Swaminarayan Satsang Organization wanted to build a one-story, 14,000-square-foot temple on a 6.7-acre tract zoned for light-industrial use. &#8220;The congestion and traffic would be a detriment to the safety and welfare of the residents,&#8221; Zoning Board Chairman Bill Thomas said when the board voted 7-0 Thursday night to deny the application. Dhruval Shah, director of the Swaminarayan Satsang&#8217;s Central New Jersey chapter said &#8220;I am extremely disappointed. I am shocked with how the board voted.&#8221; Shah said his organization is prepared to appeal the board&#8217;s decision. But in order to file an appeal, the Swaminarayans have to wait for the Zoning Board to adopt a resolution regarding the denial. The resolution should be drafted by mid-April, a borough official said. <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceSOUTH PLAINFIELD, U.S.A. March 13, 2004: The borough Zoning Board has voted unanimously to block the proposed construction of a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}