all right meeting called to order council member bz Anderson is absent council member Chapman here council member Clayton here Deputy Mayor Quinn here mayor Moore here please stand for a silent prayer moment of reflection we will now salute the flag I pledge ALG to the flag of the United
States of America stands one nation under God indivisible withy and justice for [Applause] all as comply with the open public meetings app chapter 231 pl1 1975 adequate notice of this meeting has been
provided in the following manner Daniel notice was forward to the Asbury Park Press the coaster and the Star Ledger on January 16th 2025 and post on the bulletin board the same day all notices are on file with the city clerk we are now onto a proclamation for prevention of child abuse month
okay let's go is she here she here oh she's this is a proclamation um whereas children are our nation's most members as well as our nation's most valuable resources helping to shape the
future of Asbury Park and whereas positive postive experiences Like Loving caregivers and safe stable and nurturing relationships can help mitigate trauma and the negative impact of adverse childhood experiences to promote the
social emotional and developmental well-being of children and whereas childhood trauma can have long-term psychological emotional and physical effects through an individual's Lifetime and impact future generations of their
family whereas childhood trauma including abuse and neglect is a serious problem affecting every community in the United States and finding Solutions requires input and action from everyone and whereas children who live in
families with access to concrete econom IC and social supports are less likely to experience abuse and neglect and whereas prevention is possible because of the Partnerships created between prevent child abuse New Jersey families
prevention Advocates child welfare professionals Education Health Community and faith-based organizations businesses law enforcement agencies and local state and National governments and whereas we acknowledge
that in order to solve the public health issue of abuse and neglect we must work together to change hearts and mindsets through storytelling and Sharing Center the needs of families break down bias and barriers and Inspire action from
expected and unexpected Partners in prevention and whereas we are committed to advancing Equitable responsive and effective systems that ensure all children of families are healthy and thriving and whereas we recognize the
need to prioritize kids and invest in more prevention initiatives like home visiting and family string policies economic supports and community-based Child Abuse Prevention programs at the national state and local levels note
therefore be it resolved mayor Mo and the Asbury Park City Council to hereby proclaimed April as National Child Abuse Prevention month in the city of Asbury Park and urge all citizens to recognize this month by Building A Narrative of
Hope For Children and Families through collaboration and the creation of an ecosystem of primary prevention thank you Alex and I are here from the Kanas Club of Asbury Park and we're non- denominational non-political
organization of if anyone wants to join we're meeting tonight at the as Park we're very open to anyone that wants to join us we are here to promote the health the wealth the promotion of the children of Asbury Park um our booklets
are for sale on our website um we have 5 58 restaurants for sale uh that the coupon booklet promotes they $30 for one booklet $50 for two every single dollar that we raise
goes back into the community of only Asbury Park and supports just the children of Asbury Park we have scholarships we have the beach box on Second Avenue we do uh community events we do the uh Pine Street play on Friday
Night play on Pine on Friday nights lots of other things but uh go on to our website and see what we do for the children of ASB Park so thank you for this can you pleas take a picture of us that would be great yeah come on in the middle thank you so much thank you
everybody thank you thank you we are now on special event applications from Recreation director Alicia Floyd is that follow no okay why is all those colors I just like the standby screen yeah just the
screen good evening May and Council um there are eight applications before you this evening two of them are new um that would be the sols to safety and wellness paddle as well as a request for the motorcycle safety awareness month to do their press conference on Fifth Avenue
Boardwalk are there any questions no thank you okay thanks thank you Alicia we are now on to uh sorry we are now on to Matters from the city council uh council member chap I have nothing thank you thank you council
member Clayton uh yes on Sunday what is Sunday's day Sunday March 31st the Springwood Avenue Heritage walk is going to be launching and everyone is invited to come to to 12:01 Springwood Avenue for an afternoon
with music door prizes and Raffles and also the initial tour so please come out it's from 2: to 4: thank you thank you Deputy Mayor
Quinn um so just a reminder Garden sa Film Festival takes place this weekend so go on their website and check out what films and um the Sylvia asked me to just mention the
UE is putting well the city is putting on a Outreach for local businesses so if anyone here is a local business we are looking for feedback for our Five-Year Plan for uee spending the reason why this is really important is um the city propo makes proposals to the uee board
run by the state and the state says yes or no and so if we have an idea of what businesses need to continue to function or survive maybe during hard months like the winter it would be helpful so if you could reach out to Sylvia syvia if you are a local business in the audience
thank you may Mo nothing thank you thank you I'm now going to hand it over to the city's Waterfront Redevelopment attorney Joe maraziti regarding the boardwalk preservation fund Grant yes just so everybody knows uh Mr maraz is the lawyer for the city as far as the
beachfront uh Redevelopment and everybody knows last year the city got $7 million and uh Master Market got $13 million total of $20 million and since then we've been
trying to negotiate a fair and equable deal where the first priority of ours and was in theou we put out with Massa Marquette was to try to get the Paramount open it as soon as possible so we made some great Headway in the last
two weeks so I'm going to turn over Mr maraziti now thank you mayor members of the council I'll stand here so everybody can hear me I don't think I need the microphone but if you can hear me raise your hand and I'll get it uh I have good news uh thanks to the uh pronouncement
by the mayor that we had to get this done by April 1st we made it and because of that I think we we got where we needed to get so what we have on the agenda tonight is a resolution authorizing the mayor to sign an
agreement with Madison Asbury retail which will begin the process of bringing the car theater to a structurally sound and water type condition that will happen in two phases using the funding
from the boardwalk preservation of fund that has been set up by legislation about a year ago the city got an award of $20 million 7 of that has been allocated by the city for the boardwalk improvements 13 million
for the work on Paramount Theater we've spent uh a good deal of time at the negotiating table with Madison Hasbury retail for M to specify exactly what's going to be done with that money so the
way the agreement Works in Phase One there will be a 90-day period for two highly reputable firms to undertake an examination of the building the exterior of the building one of them is Michael Graves it's a firm from Princeton with a
global reputation in architecture and histor preservation the other firm is from Wayne New Jersey march Consulting and Contracting and together they will be examining the building uh March will
will be pulling apart some of the bricks to look at the undersurface they will be examining the leaks in the building to determine what needs to be done to make it watertight and structur sound as a result of that process construction documents will be
prepared which will become the elements of phase two of the of the arrangement uh this is a historic site uh there is a uh an easement site easement with the State Office of Hisar preservation so
there will be coordination throughout this process over the 90-day period with shipo as it's called Uh and the work will be done uh and reimbursed uh to Madison asur retail
retail on the basis of inspections after the work is done the reimbursement contract uh there will be as I said a 90-day period to finish we will then uh negotiate an amendment to this agreement to describe phase two
the all of the work under this grant must be completed not later than be sooner not later than December 2026 because the money has come from the federal government under the American Rescue plan that was adopted in the
prior Administration to deal with the after effects of Co so the strictly limits on on the time period to use this funding and the insurances that we've had are that we can get it done uh I uh there are a lot of details in the uh in
the agreement there will be a project labor agreement as part of this PR bailing wages as part of the uh requirements of the program and the details of the March and the graves proposals which are attached to the
document have been thoroughly negoti worked out with the uh incredible help of Jan harzold and Fran Mullen of tnm Engineers and so we present to you tonight a document that we feel is very
tight solent and get the first phase going so that we can get into the second phase and get everything done on the exterior by the end of next thank you we now have a present ation by APW
redeveloper LLC and Asbury Partners LLC for proposed Redevelopment at block 3801 lot 1.02 320 Asbury Avenue good evening everyone for the record my name is Jennifer Philips Smith I'm an attorney
with Gibbons PC and I am here tonight on behalf of APW redeveloper uh which is an affiliate of the master developer ASB Partners we are here tonight to present a proposed development for Block
3801 uh which is the large triangular piece of property at the intersection of Asbury AV and cookman Avenue we were here about two years ago with a proposal for this site uh at that time we had a proposal for a six-story building with
156 rental residential units the redeveloper has reevaluated what's best for this lot and ultimately is putting forth a proposal that is less dense and has fewer overall stories and is taken one larger building and broken
it down into three smaller buildings uh you'll hear tonight that the three buildings proposed include a five-story building on Asbury a which will be condo units a four-story townhouse string on cookman and then a building that tapers down to three stories and even further
at the corner right at the tip of the triangle we have four presenters this evening uh we will start with our planner who will Orient everyone to the location here and and the zoning requirements we'll then move on to our engineer who will talk a bit about some of the constraints we had here
particularly as to um meeting flood Hazard requirements and then we have two different Architects we have an architect that will talk about the condo building and town hall building and then one that will talk about the mixed use building for opposed were the tip of the triangle so we'll start with uh John Barry our planner to just give us an
overview of the location of the property and the zoning requirements good evening everyone good evening mayor and Council nice to see you uh John Barry with the firm hire gr and Associates I'm a professional planner in New Jersey and uh been before
everyone here on several projects in the past and happy to be back again just go through it Go ah all right so um just to orient everyone uh we set this area up so that it mirrors how the Redevelopment plan orients the
Waterfront so obviously the beach and the ocean are at the bottom of the screen the property that we're looking at this evening is a triangle at the um intersection of cookman and Asbury Avenues so you can see it there block 3801 lot
1.02 and um we have some of the development that's taken place recently around the property that you can see in the aerial image here with the the cove and Wesley Grove and some of the other projects that we'll take a closer look at in a
moment so the um location of the property now oriented so that North is up the ocean is on our right um and Wesley Lake uh at our at our south bottom of the screen location we have um some images of the surroundings of the
property we have cookman Avenue at the bottom Asbury Avenue at the top forming that triangle point the uh C viw senior Tower is across Asbury Avenue to the north of the property we have the Vive development at the corner of Kingsley and Asbury Avenues then we have Wesley
Grove the uh four-story buildings and then behind them the the townhouse uh part of the project across cookman Avenue to the South and then the more recently constructed Cove townhouse development to the West buting the the property
next and here are some some uh images of those developments as I described you can see the the scale and we'll we'll talk a little bit more about the the relative size of the project on the next slide you can see the four stories at Wesley Grove and at the Vive and Cove
buildings they're all a similar height and then the little bit older set back a little further Philip C view tow is a 12-story buildings so to get into what we're proposing the project will consist of three separate buildings that'll be in two phases on on
two separate Lots that'll then be inter interconnected the um design professionals will get into more details about the specifics but overlaid here on the aerial image you can see the relative orientation of the buildings the top left part of the site along
Asbury Avenue will have a five-story multif family building that's roughly across from the C viw Tower and the Redevelopment plan permits up to eight stories of height in that area and moving to the right at the pencil point this would be actually the
second phase of the project is a a three-story mixed use building that tapers toward the point of the intersection and you'll see how the architecture is intended to work with the shape of the lot here so that's relatively opposite the Vive um again
eight stories would be permitted up to that that corner part of the lot we're proposing a three-story building there that's less than the height of the the Vive across the street and then moving down cookman we have a block of tow houses that are the three and a half or
four story Model that are similar in scale to The Cove buildings that are right next door and uh no taller than the uh Wesley Grove building that's across the street so that gives a sense of the scale the project will include a proposed subdivision that'll have have
two conforming Lots in the Redevelopment plan standards all the height conforms and is well below what's permitted for most of the block and the uses with the the various different residential types some some uh condos some tow houses and
also a commercial component on the ground floor of the building at the the point that's mostly oriented toward cookman Avenue uh are all permitted under the Redevelopment plan um we also will have compliant parking as you'll hear more about and
variety of other improvements that are um generally consistent in all important ways with the Redevelopment plan so I think that covers my part anything else it does all right so we'll move on to our civil engineering just get an overall
description of the layout of the buildings and then also what constraints we had that led to this design good evening my name is Lena borda Baron I'm a senior project manager with French and parello Associates and I'm the uh project engineer for this
project so just to um Orient you again you see cookman Avenue on the bottom of the page um Asbury Avenue up on top um this is uh one of our plans that was submitted to the council and you see
building one which is the building on the top left hand side that would be the fivestory condominium building containing 50 res residential units building two to the right of it is the mixed use building which is a three-story building with commercial on
the first floor and eight residential units above in building three is a string of nine town home buildings those are four-story buildings and again they're just individual Town Homes um we put a lot of thought in the
site design because of the unique shape of the Triangular shape and the nature of this development um this took some creativity we also had to address the unique challenges of this particular site being that it's so close to Wesley
Lake this site is partially located in a flood plane or a flood Hazard area um the flood Hazard elevation is the NDP considers that one foot above the FEMA elevation so the elevation we had to
address is elevation 11 one of the reasons that we propose the top leftand entrance to the north west at that location is because that is the highest elevation of the site and allows us to
meet the NDP dry access rule meaning that the driveway is at the highest elevation and even in a flood condition there would be no more than 12 in of water in that driveway um another reason that we lined up the
driveways where we have them is to allow for the intersections um for vehicular and driver safety as well as to not have any headlights facing residential buildings in this layout we had also
considered the massing of the buildings and the proximity to adjacent developments so we saw to maximize view sheds and openness to adjacent developments this layout also maintains all of the existing on street parking so there will
be no loss of parking spaces we are providing um the required parking for this development in fact 101 parking spaces are required this project will provide
125 parking spaces within the site the project will be constructed in uh two phases buildings one and three will be constructed first and then building two which is part of the
subdivided lot and that will allow the developer to actually stage at the points rather than staging in the street or surrounding areas correct that's correct um within the site we are proposing um EV parking spaces as you
can see those are on the Westerly portion there will be 14 surface parking spaces with Eevee uh that are Eevee make ready and then um the buildings will also have EV ready or Chargers within
the buildings which I will let the Architects address as they do their presentation we uh presented this project to the TRC and we had gotten some comments which we saw to address and have uh
created the updated plans that you see in front of you um one of the requests was to flip the retail entrances that we originally proposed on Asbury Avenue we now flipped them to cookman and created
a series of stairs and ramps to provide um Ada accessible access to those doors we were also task to look for opportunities to provide rain Gardens instead of only porous payment um as you
can see on the bottom corner there on the bottom left we are now proposing a rain Garden in addition to the porest pavement and infiltration basins throughout the site there was also a request to delineate where each one of the
driveways um starts and stops for the town home buildings so we are showing the delineation that will be on the concrete we will be providing a garage maneuverability plan uh as the designs
get further developed that will be part of our um application packet to the planning board um and I talked about the EV parking spaces and to address the cross access easement so we are going to propose
cross uh utility easements as well as access easements for the two LW and we have also added the location of the mailbox for the town home building which is right near the intersection of St James and cookman right about
there and uh we will be working with we clarified that the Landscaping is mostly native but we will be working very closely with your landscape architect to ensure that it is to their satisfaction great thank you so I'd like to move now to get into the
architecture and we'll start with the two buildings that are entirely residential so I'd ask Michael to introduce himself and walk us through good evening everyone my name is Michael Lawson I am a principal at man Wasco Architects and planners and I'm here uh
to present to you two of the buildings that are on the site um so as our attorney just stated these are two residential buildings one being a uh multif family building five stories and the other one being a four story townhouse
product this is again the site plan um as I said we'll be uh presenting to this building here that's on Asbury Avenue and then the townhouse Building located on cookman to take us right into uh the building floor plans here this building
is a 50 unit building uh it it it has a series of ones and two bedroom units condo units um it is four stories of wood frame construction over one story of podium in the podium is located the
parking garage as we have stated and as our civil engineer has stated the uh Podium level and the parking is located above flood elevation um and that requires us to have storm events um on the base of the building um those thing
can be seen on the elevations as we get to them as well in the garage uh portion of the building we have a series of parking spaces some being tandem um and we have Lobby utility and bike storage as you get to the upper levels of the
building um we have uh a range of different units um that do have Den units um as well as balconies in every single unit um focus on the views uh towards the ocean and towards the lake as we go up to the fourth and fifth
Story um these stack um but they do have more two bedrooms on these we do have Den units in these in these in this product as well um which we be believe will be very marketable on the roof uh here we have a rooftop amenity that
faces towards the ocean um that rooftop amenity has areas for barbecue grilling outdoor lounging a lawn area one of the uh comments that we got in the TRC was where we are uh proposing to locate the mechanical units we are proposing to
locate them at the center of the building so they will be screened from view um by the parit walls as well as screened and buffered from the amenity deck that we're proposing on the roof um that will uh be a um layer of either
landscaping or screening around those mechanical units this is an elevation um from Asbury Avenue as you can see we have a uh a temporary Shore type of
architecture that we believe is very um in line with the neighborhood and in massing with uh the overall asbery Park uh downtown area um along uh Asbury Avenue we have our main entrance um that
you can see here on the uh on the elevation that has a ramp and stairs leading to it um as well as a portico that we believe uh accentuates um with where the entry is located in terms of the materials on the building we have uh
a beige a style brick um on the base um with grills into the parking garage um and then we transition to a series of um board and batten uh fiber cement as well as shingle fiber cement on the upper
stories with large windows and balconies um the aesthetic and the and the colors are compatible um and they work very well uh with the other adjacent uh properties as well now we'll take you to the tow houses that are located on
cookman town houses here are uh front loaded with the parking garages uh located in the rear of them so you do not have any uh garages actually fronting onto any rways um on the uh cookman Avenue side we do have Stoops uh
leading to the front doors um on the ground floor we have the parking garage in the rear as I just stated and then a flex space and then the main living area is actually located on the uh second floor um this includes a kitchen a living room and a dining
room on the next floor we have the third floor which is our main bedroom uh layer uh level it has three bedrooms we have updated the plans to show the connection to The Loft that is located on the fourth floor The Loft um includes a outdoor area um that will have very
pictures views uh towards the ocean and towards the lake the mechanical units are located on the rear of that side away from the right way um so that it's it's to be hidden from from view from from the street this is a uh image uh and
perspective from uh cookman Avenue showing uh how we are stepping the building as well um we have three stories and then we step back for that four story um which we believe creates a really uh fantastic massing we are compatible with the materials that we proposed in the
five-story condominium building um again we have a Light Beige brick um at the base um we have then a fiber cement uh panel as well as fiber cement uh lap siding uh in a range of Blues and we have um some wood paneling as well to
add some softness um and be Vibe uh to the uh overall aesthetic so I'll take you back to um this image really quickly um in terms of overall height of this building uh we are proposing that uh the five-story
building uh be 59 ft from grade to roof structure um that's about 66 ft if you include the uh apperences and rooftop uh amenity uh bulkheads that are required to access the rooftop deck for the uh townhouse development that will be 43 ft
um in total from grade to ro structure and that is very compatible to the Vive across the street almost identical actually um there were just a few other points uh that we wanted to illustrate um for the EV spaces um we will have all
the EV required spaces of 15% as the civil engineer said exterior of the building um however there will be um infrastructure and conduit um within the buildings in both the tow houses and the multif family building uh to have further um expansion of the EV if the
tenant so wishes to have them um there was a few comments from the TRC that I'll just highlight um we are providing dark sky compliant lights on the roof deck um they will be shining down not up um we uh did consider
flipping the locations of the dining room and living room however we we felt that the overall product was good as it was um and offered the benefit of providing a uh flexibility for the future homeowners we did correct the stairs that was a common as well um we
will providing uh for the lights in the garages so for the garage lights we will be shielding them um from the upper and lower level brick bands um cross providing the mesh uh within the um within the window frames uh to dull the
lights coming from the inside for Public Safety um um I think that that was the main items that the TRC uh had looked at with here and we we did uh provide uh testimony to them as well and just to clarify all of the units both the town
homes and the multif family building they're all being offered for sale correct correct right so with that I would like to ask our final architect to come up and talk about the mixed use building that's proposed for the point of the triangle Frank if you would rece
yourself Frank minini principal at mvmk architecture part of my voice tonight uh we are responsible for the design of the eastern most portion of of the site the what we're calling the mixed use building so this first image is a view
looking West um from Asbury Avenue very near to the intersection of of cookman Avenue the ground floor you can see a main stair entering it the ground floor has 5,100 ft of retail space and the other two floors meaning floors two and
three both have residential uses for a total of eight residential units of those eight units there's a range between 2,000 square fet and 3,200 squ fet in terms of their size um very important here I think and this something I think was well received from
at the TRC the shape of the site really drove the architecture meaning there's nothing orthogonal about our portion of the site we're left where the point is so that lent itself better to a more contemporary building than you would
more typically see and as I go through the images you'll understand that a bit more also very important to remember that at this portion of the site we are permitted as per the Redevelopment plan eight stories and we're proposing three stories at 39 ft above approximate
sidewalk so Michael next one our floor plans starting on the bottom left we've got at the left portion of the plan we've got 16 parking spaces for those eight units um two of them will be have charging stations EV
charging stations the remaining 14 te will be Make Ready meaning they've got the infrastructure for any of the residents to um provide their own if they wanted to point about with that same plan you can see the configuration of the retail space and back to what I
mentioned before the some of the constraints we had with the triangle but I think we resolved it very well um the retail space is accessed from either side but uh we have main entries off of cookman um possible entries depending on how the actual planning board looks at
it um along Asbury but it is all raised on what is in effect a a sidewalk platform because we are now as you've heard already within the uh flood plane flood Hazard area that the entries have to be raised approximately 3 fet in this case so we've got the municipal sidewalk
and vny race platform which some of my renderings will do a better job telling um the other two pausing on the commercial for just for one moment so that could be one tenant or that could be multiple tenants correct correct it it's designed for some flexibility we've got multiple door entry so it could be
one large tenant it could be two or three and I know we're labeling as retail but it could be any commercial any commercial use as approved within the Redevelopment plan a restaurant for example okay continue no fine um floors two and three
which is the top left and bottom right show our residential unit layouts um there there was I won't say it's difficult but certainly challenging to design apartments on on a site that's got this um this point but I think they all worked out very well mixture of
combination of three to four bedroom units given the sizes each of the units have outdoor space they'll be more um understandable as they get further into the renderings and we're not proposing at this point for the roof to have any um use other than for Mechanicals so there's no roof
decks at this point all the apartments have their own balconies off of the actual unit units themselves um next one Michael so these are views from both Asbury Avenue and cookman Avenue um again showing the the long linear nature
of the building and from some perspective it's almost nautical but that is a result of of the dimensions of the building and the dimensions of the site so along Asberry it's the actual building is 200 feet in length next one
please just some of the other views again because we're on that triangle there are multiple facades A6 next one Michael this is our material board material pallet of you looking um at the Asbury Avenue elevation it's a very simple
pallet given the the style of architecture so we using a brick at the ground floor brick is often um connected to a retail space so that's what we've done here the base of the building which I mentioned is raised is also brick so in in in essence the building's out a
brick plint and then there are horizontal see three horizontal bands that are made from will be made from and designed to be used with um fiber cement panels in white all of the infill is also fiber cement panel but it's a
simulated wood product so all of these products we think work well with the kind of contemporary nature of the building and they're also long lasting and and durable given the conditions we've got here in Asbury Park and these are just some other views
um top left is as I mentioned where the intersection of Asberry Avenue and cookman Avenue is so that's the main entry to the retail space there are of course ada8 required um ramps on both sides and both cooking end on asbery as
well as additional stairs and then there's some other views to try and give you a flavor of the architecture and that's really it and the nature of the stairs there that step up to the entrances that's dictated by the flood Hazard requirments correct yeah so that height you see is
because the building has to be raised up given our location within the flood Hazard area as described by lar civil engineer in that case in particular in that rendering number one it's more of a monumental there so you can of course access the retail space from there but
you can access it also along either Asbury or cooking okay so that concludes the direct presentation that we have tonight but everyone of course is here to answer questions should you or the public have any I have some
questions so looking at this slide here this is a lot of impervious cover on this lot where's the Landscaping other than the trees along the curve line where's the Landscaping the building is set back
from the from the property line but that's the what that space is used for is the rais platform let's call it for Access into the retail space so Landscaping we've got Landscaping as you mentioned along the street we could certainly add more Landscaping at that
small plaza where the Monumental stair enters the retail space we could add some Landscaping there to soften it up if that's something I would love to see more landcap cap aping and the rain Garden that you showed on the rendering looks very small for again for this
coverage on this is that your building Michael that would Bea oh Lena yeah so this I can have Lena address the rain Garden that's better would you is there any other questions you'd like for the Mixed use building while I'm sitting here happy to answer um Landscaping
thank you for the lead silver by the way um just I'm really concerned about it's a lot of C it's a lot of non- landscaping and I'm not a fan of that um I think that's it do you have bicycle storage in any of these unit yes so on
on the mixed use building we've got quite a bit of area for bicycle storage we've got spaces within the um actual garage itself and access off the main lobby there's also bicycle storage room so on that particular building which of
course I'm more familiar with there's quite a quite a bit so I'm concern about the um the size of the rain garden and the lack of landscaping and a lot of cement so the ringard is just one of the
components for storm water management um it only addresses a portion of it there will be porest pavement basically the surface parking that you see would be made of porest pavement with storage underneath it and there would also be a
basin under building two as well so we have a series of um storm water management basins to address storm water management and of course actually we did make a submission to njd for their review um we are proposing
86 roughly 86% of impervious where we are permitted 90% so we're slightly below the maximum and as you see on our landscape plan um we are obviously we're going to be providing Street trees and
wherever we have this um so on West Side we are providing additional landscaping for further buffering and surrounding uh building three and building one we do have maybe if you can zoom in Michael a little bit more so if you see the uh
vegetation near the building and we also have a portion of building three before we get to that system of ramps and stairs we do have some additional Landscaping there so wherever we have the opportunities we
are providing Landscaping on roughly 14% of the site okay I would like to see more landscaping that's that's I think we can certainly work incorporate some PL are some additional as far as surface Landscaping
you would have to start eliminating parking in order to create more atg grade Landscaping correct corre so it it would be a tradeoff um the access in egress from cookman
Avenue going on to this it's a very as cookman Avenue is one a very narrow Street two it's one of our most traveled streets and you have access from Asbury
Avenue why don't you have everything coming in from Asbury it's much water so but we thought that having the flexibility of two access points would be more desirable um to give that option to go
to either Street okay I don't think the access from cookman is desirable but that's my opinion so we we had originally proposed the main retail access to be on Asbury and the TRC asked us to move the retail
access to cookman so we had we had originally proposed the the main access points on Asbury have but what what's the width of the two driveways In and Out 24 ft 24 ft and is there going to be
a mechanical arm or no there's nothing mechanical correct and both entrances and exits the one on Asbury and one on cookman will be available when the first phase is done
or yes okay thank you and the vegetation those trees that are on the corner they they they'll all come down on the points by cookman and um aser there's a lot of trees and vegetation there that
that's okay that's all the questions from Council but I'm sure there's going to be some from the public so if you guys want to stay right there sure all right do I have a motion to open the meeting to the public move it second all in favor all right public participation
portion of the meeting is now open any member of the public who wish to speak please use the microphone state your name and address for the record and there will be a 3-minute time limit for each speaker hey Mike Sedano uh 4th Avenue I have a two questions about this
development has there been a traffic study done for this area or is it too early to do a traffic study I I don't know um because if you've got entrances on Cook
cman cookman's pretty busy um the second question I have is is there any public art planned for this development murals sculpture beautification because all I've seen is
uh gray buildings thanks do you want us to answer one by one go ahead okay all right traffic study so under the Waterfront Redevelopment plan we are not required to do traffic sorry I can't hear a word
anybody has said at all well then you should raised your hand sooner so as far as a traffic study under the Waterfront Redevelopment plan uh at the outset when it was designed there had been traffic studies done uh we are not required to submit updated
traffic studies with it with each project the initial Waterfront read development plan had uh approved and assumed that there would be 3,124 units that is not going to happen as far as that many so there no new
traffic studies are required with each block when was the study wait wait wait a second you're going to have to get up to the microphone and state your name and answer your questions you have plenty of time and public art or at at the moment
there's no public art opposed but it's certainly a comment we can discuss and consider thank you uh Nancy Sedano 4th Avenue um in keeping with Eileen's statement have
you ever considered especially on retail which is only Mechanicals on the roof surface to do a green roof or perhaps do trees on roofs or off sides of buildings there's many examples I could refer you
to in both Vancouver and Portland and other places we visited that show creativity and originality when it comes to utilizing green on top of buildings with buildings trees so there's all sorts of things you could do you have
nothing but Sunshine down there and it would help blanket some of that area that's just going to get hit with sun all summer long and there's many different ways of doing that I would just suggest you look into that because it could help a lot in creating
something other than another cement block and we have a lot of those now we do understand that on on the multif family building that we are proposing we are proposing an amenity rooftop deck that will have some Landscaping uh lowlevel Landscaping to
buffer from some of the other areas of the roof as well as on the townhouse building we are proposing private Terraces uh that the tenants might be able to have potted plants or or those kinds of things in those outdoor areas thank you uh Constantine georgiadis 301
cookman Avenue Unit 13 I have a question on the sidewalk width and the setback on the cookman's side um currently where the Cove starts there's about 54 in between the curb and the
Where the Sidewalk starts and then there's 13 feet of sidewalk they're they're extra large sidewalks so there's about 17 and 1 12 ft of setback and it goes into they they um they feed into a much smaller sidewalk and it's you know
not particularly good for walking and it gets there for strollers wheelchairs so my question is are you going to match yes the current sidewalk that's on cookman that's 17 and A2 ft will be widened to that because that is one of the master plan requirements okay thank
you you can see that on the plan thank you hi I'm Lorie Myers um 301 cookman um I have a question on the EV spots that you have outside on the outside first of all um are those going to be only for
residences the residents because how are you going to prevent other people from coming and using the spots for the public is there any proposal for that so that's one of my questions the second is um as people pull in I'm the development across as people pull in I'm going to
get the headlights from all the cars pulling in what are you um anticipating as a buffer there's also a walkway that runs along there so you could literally be pulling in and knock people off the walkway if there's not something solid or something I mean you are talking
Asbury Park you are talking you know I don't trust every driver so what what are you going to do to prevent those cars from hitting the people walking the headlights and all of that as well as the um use of it by the public because
there's just a bunch of spots in in Asbury um and um what El uh was i g to ask um also just in terms of the parking I know that you said you're overp parked but you have um Den units and we all know
that in Asbury Park a den unit means a bedroom so I don't think that this project is overp parked I think it's actually underp parked because you have Den units and what consideration has been done for the fact that a den unit is no different than a bedroom and you
need parking so those are all my questions maybe I'll start answering backwards yes with the parking um so the Redevelopment plan and also as part of the C requirement that was approved requires one and a half parking spaces per unit the number of bedrooms actually
does not matter so we're providing more than that already um based on bedrooms but not based on a den there's no way that it's not going to be used as a bedroom just to clarify the whether it's a four bedroom unit or a one-bedroom unit we're required to have 1.5 spaces
okay here we're providing more than 1.5 but whether it's a den or a bedroom doesn't change the requirement so the between EV parking spaces and the property line is 10 ft and in there
we're proposing maybe if you want to zoom in Michael we're proposing extensive um vegetation and Landscaping and I'll make a note here to make sure that we are providing appropriate Shrubbery to block the headlights um there's also going to be a curve so that
Vehicles can pull up um and just continue so there will be definitely a a be of landscape buffer so you're going to have a walkway and then just landscaping and then a car there's going to be a walkway 10 ft curve and then a
car any thoughts of something more solid this we could consider something more protective than just a bunch of bushes and how high is the Shrubbery going to be it varies we have some trees we have some shrubs and we can look at that detail but it's going to
be sufficient to to you know to prevent the car it's not just going to be something that's one foot tall because you again you have the walkway that runs along there yeah but the walkway is on the other side yes correct but I think there's actually two walkways there there is two walkways
right only one is public the other there's the public one and then the Cove one before you actually get to the residential right our our walkway is has a fence offence this one won't have one or doesn't appear to have one based on the um plan that you have
there so you're saying it's curbed 10 feet Shrubbery yes thank you oh the EV how are you proposing to restrict EV the question was whether the
EV uses would only be for residents or they open to the public right evening Mr my name is James Mullen and I'm a director of land land in with okay and we are the contract purges of the cond well that you answered my other
question then okay um which is who's purchasing it so what we do we have that will hire a special company that deals with the only the people who live there will get a f to use it so you will not be able
to okay that's what I was hoping you would say but I want to make sure so it's not so I mean it won't stop people from parking there obviously but they can't use the e but so only residents could actually
use the okay perfect thank you just just for clarity we talked about it being two phases um what's been submitted is that the two build purely residential buildings would be developed by a subsidiary of py the building at the point uh is intended to be developed by
the master redeveloper entity thank good evening my name is Tom Pacho and I live at The Cove 600 hex Street and my concern is the height of the building as it relates to the height of the Cove um I believe you're five 66 feet
tall when you're all said and done and how does that compare to the height of the cove so in terms of uh the overall building the building that's directly adjacent right across from cookman Avenue um is only four stories and 43 ft um the
five-story uh Condo building located off of Asbury that technically is only 59 ft to the roof structure the extra bit there is actually for the the rooftop of perance so anything in terms of stair elevator so that actual area that goes
up to 606 ft is actually very much small uh on the on the rooftop there so really the the building goes up to 59 and how does that compare to the height of the Cove I believe that the Cove is stories this building four stories I don't know
exactly how how tall that is um but I would say it's probably about a half a story um or slightly more than what uh The Cove is because we are proposing a five story so is there any consider ation to the blocking the Cove from
there's quite a few residents that are because we uh strategically located the height of that building on to Asbury we don't think that there's an issue there also based on the Redevelopment plan um in that area you're permitted to go eight stories so we're only uh proposing
five thank you thank you thank you and like to be heard about this or any other issue please now's the time I've seen nobody make motion to close close second all in
favor we know let's take a two-minute break so they can get all their stuff and we can go on with this thank you mayor thank you Council you good job Wonder here
we're all Wonder there we go have a great night yeah appreciate if everybody takes it outside so we can continue with our business all right time to go everybody to the chambers please we're now on to the minutes I
have the executive meeting and regular meeting minutes for the March 12th 2025 meeting do have a motion second Council mayor Chapman yes Council Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes we are now on to the consent agenda resolutions all matters
list on the consent agenda are presented collectively to the city council and be considered for approval with one vote these matters are considered to be routine in nature and there will be no individual discussion of these items a discussion desired by one or more council members as standing particular items than said I am shall be removed
from the consent agenda and considered separately on consent agenda tonight we have resolutions 2025 154 through 2025 158 do I have a motion move it second council member Chapman yes council member Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn
yes mayor Moore yes moving on to individual resolutions I have resolution 2025 159 resolution approving payment of bills move it second councilor Chapman yes councilor Clayton yes deputy mayor yes mayor Mor yes resolution 2025 160
resolution authorizing revisions to the statutory budget deadlines as per the local Finance board local Finance notice 202 2420 move it second Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Mo yes resolution 2025 161 resolu resolution
authorizing the disposition of surplus property move it second Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 162 resolution approving change order number seven for the new Fire Department headquarters move it
second Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 163 resolution authorizing the repairs to fire department ambulance number 8360 move it second Council mayor Chapman yes councilor Clayton yes Deputy
Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 164 resolution authorizing of security upgrades at City Hall move it second Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes may Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 165 resolution authorizing purchase
of 2025 seasonal Beach badges second Council mayor Chapman yes Council May Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 166 resolution authorizing the annual renewal of Civic plus software for recreation department and
palal move it s Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 167 resolution authorizing a contract for over the moon for the production of
First Friday's art and sound events for 2025 through community and cultural Affairs move it second Council mayor Chapman yes Council May Clayton yes depy mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 168 resolution of the mayor and City Council of Asbury Park
authorizing the city of Asbury Park Park to enter into the boardwalk preservation fund subgrant agreement with Madison Asbury retail LLC move it Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Mo yes
resolution 2025 169 resolution authorizing professional service contract to Hack and Sack Meridian team Health PC for employment exams and physicals movement second councilor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Mo yes resolution 2025 170 resolution
authorizing the acceptance of a grant from the state of New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety Division of Alcohol Beverage Control under the cops and Shop summer Shore initiative 2025 move it second Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor
Quinn yes mayor Mor yes resolution 2025 171 resolution authorizing the execution of a dment by the city to jcpnl for property known as block 608 Lot 1 for the installation of electrical facilities for the new Firehouse I don't
have move it I don't have that we talked about it an exec it's an add-on it's the add-on second Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes resolution 2025 172
resolution authorizing an appointment to the Housing Authority the appointment is to fill a vacancy with a term to expire of April 28th 2030 the appointy is Julie gillo move it second Council mayor Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes
we are now on to Second reading for ordinances I have ordinance 20258 ordinance of the city of Asbury Park amending and supplementing chapter 5 entitled beach boardwalk and beachfront regulations to establish fines for tents on the beach to have a motion to open the meeting for public comment on ordinance 20258 move it second all in
favor I I public comment on ordinance 20258 is now open a member of the public who wish to speak please use the microphone and state your name and address for the record your comments may only be about ordinance 2025 I don't know move to close move it all
all in favor all public comment is now closed do I have a motion to adopt ordinance 20258 move to adopt council member Chapman yes Council mayor Clayton yes Deputy Mayor Quinn yes mayor Moore yes if that's all for tonight do have a
motion to adjourn the meeting to all in favor thank you everyone have a good night a good vacation