Parsippany board weighs converting a vacant office campus to housing
An office park emptied by remote-work shifts could become several hundred residential units if the zoning board grants a use variance.
The Parsippany zoning board is set to hear a use-variance application that would convert a vacant corporate campus into residential housing, the latest in a regional wave of office-to-housing proposals.
The site, a multi-building office park along the Route 287 corridor, has carried high vacancy since its primary tenant consolidated operations elsewhere. The application seeks permission for residential use on land currently zoned for offices.
Use variances carry a higher legal burden than dimensional ones: the applicant must show both that the site is particularly suited to the proposed use and that the deviation can be granted without substantial detriment to the zoning plan. Board testimony will likely turn on those two questions.
Based on the published zoning board agenda and application materials on file with the township.