A new 12,000-square-foot restaurant and bar is slated for the corner of Route 539 and Frog Pond Road in Little Egg Harbor, after the planning board approved the proposal at its June 4 meeting.

The Oaks Restaurant and Bar will be located at 1001 North Green St., which is currently an undeveloped 8-acre tract of land. The once-controversial project, owned by real estate developer and Long Beach Township Mayor Joseph Mancini under the LLC Chindo Enterprises, was originally approved on a much larger…