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Mayor Jacobs, >> I am here. >> Mhickeyi >> here. >> Mr. Walter >> here. >> Mr. Oravana >> here. >> Mr. Leonard >> here. >> Mr. Rodilius >> here. >> Mr. Gini >> here. >> Mr. Buren's absent. Mr. Wild >> here. >> Chairwoman Dutch

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>> I'm here. Adequate notice of this meeting of the Bedminster Township Lane Board was filed with the township clerk sent to the Burnersville News and the Courier News and to all subscribers and posted at the Township Municipal Building One Miller Lane, Bedminster,

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New Jersey on January 9th, 2026. Please stand. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty, justice

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for all. Right. >> Gonna open it up to the public if anyone has anything that they would like to discuss that's not on the agenda >> online. There is no public. It is just

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Tim and our attorney Tom. >> That's it. So there's no public. We'll close. All right. Um, we have minutes from May 7th that need to be approved. If you have look at those

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>> I need a motion to approve. >> Is that George and Lou? >> No. Second >> Jensen. >> All in favor? >> I I >> Janine, I'm abstainating. >> I'm the same. I was not there.

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>> Mr. >> Right. >> Okay. Everyone else May 7th. Uh we have a correspondence for postponement of um

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the meeting from tonight. Um I know they're looking for July 9th. >> Yeah, Madam Chair, that's simply not realistic because we have the KRE signage coming back and we have fiddle elbow. >> That's what I >> assuming they're deemed complete in the next 10 minutes and they'll be on the

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agenda that night. I understand. So, uh, we want to pick a date now for them. >> Yeah, we h we have to because I think we have to carry the notice. >> Yeah. >> Um, but they're not available. So, we just pick one. >> We pick one and then if they if they're

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not available that night, then we at that night we can carry it to another time. >> So, the next meeting would be either August 6th or August 13th. >> Those are our two August. >> We talked about August 6, but 13th would be better.

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So I think we should put them and then that gives them enough time also get ready. It's >> fine by me. >> August 13th. >> August 13th. >> Tom, that that all good with you.

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>> Um I'd rather do it in September to tell you the truth. But uh who is this again? >> Lamington Farm Club. Uh the Trump National Golf Course. >> Oh, okay. Okay. We we can work it out. >> So So Tom, do you want to announce the

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carrying of >> Yes. So uh Lamington Farm Golf Club uh preliminary and final site plan application which was noticed for tonight will be carried without additional notices to August 13th at 700 p.m.

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No further notice. Uh we have a resolutions for bed one. We've had a chance to look at that. >> We're going to carry that. Madam Chairman, the applicant requested uh the opportunity to perhaps do some changes and they asked to carry it to July 9th,

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which is the same night that they're back for the signed variances. >> Okay. We need to do anything further. Uh no, we're all set just to carrying. We're really just postponing the resolution, but that doesn't require any special

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carry. >> Okay. Uh then we have a determination of completeness file. >> This is for Fiddler's Elbow doing some modifications to the uh recreational facilities particularly around the

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swimming pool area and some other minor items in that area. um wrote a letter dated um May 28th identifying a couple of waiverss that are relatively minor. So my recommendation that the application be deemed complete and as we

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said schedule it for July 9th. >> Okay. >> Thank you to a roll call on that. >> Yes. >> Mayor Jacobs. >> I committee. >> Hi.

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>> Mr. Mr. Walter. >> Hi, >> Mr. Orana. >> Hi, >> Mr. Leonard. >> Hi, >> Mr. Roelius. >> Hi, >> Mr. Gini. >> Hi, >> Mr. Wild. >> Hi, >> Chair Bachelaw. >> Hi. >> All right. So, we found Trump uh that's not on

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agenda any further. And uh any board members have anything that they would like to talk about or comments? >> I'll just uh you know from the township committee uh side there's a lot of activity going on um

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that township has undertaken that's underway. This has been under discussion for years. Uh let's start with River Road. speak just a little louder. >> Let's start with River Road Park. The um

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community garden is up and running. It is getting absolute fabulous reviews. Thank you, Paul. And thank you, the engineers at Boswell. Uh I understand um that our community garden is now going to be the template uh that Boswell will

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be using for other municipalities as they uh as they build out community gardens. Uh we've got presently about 70 180 um garden plots that are out there been assembled by DPW. Um about

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90% of them are fill. There's a wait list for people uh wanting to participate in the garden and we're just waiting on TPW to put some additional um soil and fill out those uh those little garden beds. Um but it's it's been terrific. Once again, it's another

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activation of um our municipal recreation facilities. At the same time, uh right next door to that is you've seen improvements over at the Jacobus Vanderver House. Uh the roof has been

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repaired. Uh the new cedar shakes um have been installed that had to go through a little bit of process because of the historic character of the JBH house and uh we got Chipo um approval to move forward with that

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project and uh it's done at this point right they they completed I think that was um end of last week putting the new roof on uh so there's going to be a lot of activities at the Jacob Vanbeer house has been activated um much more than it has in

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the prior years they are open one um weekend every month. Um and they're running monthly events. So, it's not just that. It's open for tours. Uh but they're actually running programming. I believe there's um was it Betsy Ross? Is

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that this weekend or is that next weekend? >> I forget there's a I think Betsy Ross this weekend next weekend. >> Yeah, I think that's right. Yeah. So, there's lot of um activity going there. Farmers market is is obviously going forward. Um, we had 1,700 people last

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week. >> Wow. >> That's that's a lot of people. Yeah. >> Um, >> yeah, Colin's thumb is got a little strange little strange pling everyone in. >> Um, going a little bit further uh south

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in town in Pluckman, the park that has long been those two dilapidated buildings. the township. Um we utilized our property maintenance ordinance and the property owner eventually tore down those buildings. Uh

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the mun and then after he tried to sell them, he couldn't really sell them at the price he was looking for. We made an offer. The township acquired the property and uh once again working with Paul. Uh Paul helped I don't want to say

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helped but Paul led the design team on what will be uh a pocket park for plotman. So it'll have some parking spaces. It's going to have some historic interpretation uh gazebo benches um

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shade and uh we think that it's just going to be a great attribute to um to that area. >> Certainly an improvement. >> Yeah, certainly an improvement. and um and then >> dog park is done.

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>> The dog park at Burnt Mills is complete. Um, but I'm also pleased to say that Fresh Pet um has made some significant um contributions um and they are donating a fair amount

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of money that will be deployed by uh Bedminster Wreck uh to provide uh shade structures, seating, and a gazebo. Um, did did Neil order that yet? >> I This is the first I'm hearing about

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hear about this. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. >> They're gonna place a gazebo uh on the property and Fresh Pet is >> paying for everything. >> Nice. >> So, that's So, >> that's cool. >> So, there's a lot going on. Uh there'll be ribbon cutings or whatever you want

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to call it, groundbreaking or letting the dogs out. Who let the dogs? It might have been might have been Neil. >> Yeah, probably >> with Paul. Um >> and don't forget about July 4th. >> And July 4th, um over at Riverwood Park

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by uh JBH, we're going to have a 250th uh municipal celebration. uh JBH uh the JBH committee um is lead on this event and it'll follow the farmers market on

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Saturday the 4th and we'll have food, we'll have um historic uh activities. Um we're going to have reenactors. Well, there's July 25th is the Knox birthday,

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>> which is just, >> you know, because he was and were you artillery? >> No, your friend was artillery. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Okay. U 25 years before West Point, there was the pluckman Kentoman. Um

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>> but but on on July 25th there's going to be a program here talking about that Henry Knox >> then u some reenactments over at the >> so there's a lot going on on the municipal side >> that

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farm uh is mostly Ben people or do we have a lot of out >> we definitely have folks from out of town um I would say if not the majority certainly the plurality are Bedminster

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residents and then uh a great number of people coming from Bask Ridge, Bridgewater, Tukesberry, uh Chester, uh PG for hills, >> but the majority is dead. >> Yeah, >> I would think the people on the hills would really be, you know, the candidates for the

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>> Yeah. one one of the um one I mean Colin and I had a meeting with uh Somerset County Economic Development about a year ago and Somerset County um has a license from a

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u an app called City Data which allows you to geoence an area and it will tell you um if you give them a time, a date, the location you want to geo offense. Uh where people

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are coming from to get to that location and where they go afterwards. >> What do you mean by for a cup of coffee? >> Yes. >> Yes. So you can find out that uh you know

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to figure that out, >> correct? Yeah. They can see that. So, and and by the way, that that um is available to uh the township and uh Colin and I put a request into uh the county to um run last week's data. So

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when we had 1,700 people on a Saturday uh that showed up, uh Paul and I were discussing that we we'd seen a lot of out of state plates that came in that day and it was like, yeah, let's let's run 17 let's run, 1700 people and see if uh we can get some information uh

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because that can then help farmers market committee um target certain areas where people are coming from and perhaps target those areas where we think they should be coming from and perhaps they're not. that is also available to um anyrset

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county businesses. So if you want to geoence any business or group of businesses or properties to see what people are coming from and where they go, one of the things you can look at to see is whether or not you run an event and are you actually

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facilitating economic development in that area. So you could be running something at JVH and are people then going to Delicious Heights? Are they going to the Plucky? Are they going to the coffee shop? Um that'll give you information that you then utilize that

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perhaps we should promote more events because it promotes the Bedminster commercial >> businesses feel like short with these things now. You've always been that way. You're just learning about it now.

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>> Just think about it. It's one of those things. >> You are traffic. That's how traffic got run out, >> you know. >> Yep. >> Yep. >> Pretty much everybody, right? I don't even need a device. >> Anybody else have anything

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>> interesting? I just have one comment question >> um for the property up on um Pisville Road that the house was knocked down and it wasn't supposed to be knocked down, >> right? >> I just want to ask Paul if if maybe someone could stop by because

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that property right now is in it's just a mess and they just left it the way it was the day they knocked the house down and pulled off. >> I I I can give you an update on the status on that. They've actually submitted resubmitted for permits to build the house in a conforming location. So, they need don't need to come back to the board. Those permits

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were literally uh just signed off by the zoning officer and I last week. So, okay. >> I think you're going to see some action out there pretty soon. >> Okay, good. Because if it was going to stay that way for another 6 months or something, >> it's going to start moving pretty quick. >> Good. Thank you. >> What about the one right uh at the

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crossroads up here that is the shutters falling off and >> you know the the property owner did not show up for court last Oops. Last week again. J is >> Isn't there something the township can

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do to tidy it up and then build the owner? No. >> No. >> No. Can we make an ordinance like that? Some municipalities have that. >> Yes, we could. >> There's like a maintenance >> Yeah. property maintenance ordinance. >> Isn't that why we're bringing him work

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to begin with? >> Yeah. >> So, he's just not showing up actively pursuing him. Okay. Anybody else? >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> Second. Second.

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>> All right. >> And we'll see you all in July. >> July 9th. >> Have a good >> Happy 4th everybody. Happy 250th. >> There you go. >> Thank you to you too. Enjoy the festivities.

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out to the fourth. It's 12 to three at B Road Park right in front of JBH. Okay.