Mr crust they've also made available on the screens for you as well as any member of the public they've put up on the screens on the side here for you or any member of the public that's can't locate the Redevelopment plan this is the township website loaded right now
and they and it shows where the plan was posted on March 19th if I can just add to that the uh the the um uh revisions that Mr kersch spoke about Mr Mr Kut were
uh provided by Mr Sullivan uh and he provided those and that was posted on the website at 12:13 p.m. today I understand that's what you said and and and then I'm looking at Google The Google Drive that basically
has planning board documents currently listed this is live and I'm looking at the at the uh uh the subdirectory that's labeled areas in need of Redevelopment projects and there are three documents listed there none of those documents
they all are prefaced by the word the letters a i n r and it concerns the three sites that uh the the council has I don't know all of them have been approved for further Redevelopment uh um
authorization for a new plan but that's all that's there right this very moment president what what we're seeing on this screen is live and that is the the document that we're referencing and that's the document that I handed you a copy of it could be stuffed somewhere on
your website but if it's not visible in the places that people are accustomed to looking then it might as well not be posted I'm sorry okay well we've we've not had any issues called so many times today and there was absolutely no effort to clarify where that's not true Mr
trout um Miss bueno from my office called you back and told you it was on the website I didn't speak to myself but you were you were given that information and tonight I gave you a copy the original version was posted on the website on March the 10th I emailed you
a copy of it you you received that and that is the only copy that I received well and I gave you one tonight I have no idea it was on the and I gave you one tonight never posted in the area of the website called plan that's not the cas that's not the case really this is this is a consistent problem Mr K you guys
need to do a much better job making sure that the public at least has access to this stuff Mr kuss thank you for your input is there anyone else who wishes to address the council please come forward I I would still like to get an
answer on on this 50 foot thing I really would I think Mr Sullivan will making a presentation later uh in the agenda and he'll likely address it then and there will be a public Hearing in a future meeting I just want uh if I could just I
want to thank you sir for always being an active member of our community you know I was on the zoning board over 13 years ago and I served 10 years and M is it Mr Krauss is it Krauss how do you say your last name how do you say his last name huh yes Mr crout yes yeah uh he
always used to come to the zoning board meeting and always provided respectable comment I don't know if I don't remember if I always agreed with you or not but I know you've always been an active member of our community and I always care deeply about our quality of life and I want to thank you for coming here tonight and expressing your comments and also uh being in act you know being
active with the planning board and zoning board meetings thank you yes ma'am would you know like to have it more interacting proceed please good evening um three quick points I wanted to add my congratulations to officer um Noah name
and address I've heard different pronunciations of his last name so I hope I it right um alwat Al allet allet okay thank you Noah no well Noah yes officer Noah um you know
obviously his professional training and experience showed on on that event but um it's his character that clearly from his the family that surrounded him uh tonight it was from and and it's great to see um uh somebody who's really
living up to his character and the training and the experience so that that's uh Point number one point number two in um in the reports your name and address please oh I wrote it down andyan 654 stangle Road Martinsville New
Jersey proud resident over 30 years um my second point was that um during the reports there were a couple of um comments made about the most recent Board of Education meeting and a particular policy I've certainly attended my share of Board of Ed
meetings and um certain policies or activities can certainly bring out the emotions of everyone involved um but I would be cautious about
disparaging another public entities's um actions and um work on a policy that I understand is largely mandated by state guidance and um therefore limits the the
ability of the board of of Ed or its staff to run counter to that um jurisdictionally and uh in particular it's disappointing to hear that kind of disparagement especially when it brings me to my third point which is the house
needs to be in order I think before criticism of another public entity is made and there's a draft resolution in the documents but it's not appearing on the agenda so I'm not sure if I'm allowed to comment on it what your 12d
so um if I'm reading this correct it's a procedural resolution that acknowledges the um modification of the due dates for the annual Municipal budget um if I'm reading it correctly we've out of the four deadlines we've missed
too maybe the budget will be introduced before March Mar 31st but I'm not aware of it um and this the actual dates as specified in the package because uh for um introduction would be the 31st
because it's the meeting after whatever and adoption would be four would be the 30th of of uh right right exactly and so okay I'm not aware of another a meeting between tonight and the 31st a council so I'm assuming we're going to not be
able to meet the Third deadline and [Music] um this would be the fifth year in a war in a row that a municipal budget has not been presented to the public on time and I'm I can't express enough my disappointment in that and not quite
understand ma'am you have made that very clear not only tonight but last time and the time before that so we we understand your comments um and I'm also concerned that there are there are ramifications for that on on the body the the local Finance board notes that there's a
personal penny for individuals but I think it's also an issue that affects um our rating potentially uh together with the Audits and other other documents and it's frustrating to have to pay our property taxes and Sewer
utility taxes on time but not really be able to participate as as mandated in the process so that was my third Point thank you very much thank you Mr President just for clarification the rating would not be affected by this nor would any
audit proceeding anyone else wishing to address the council come forward please David classic 25 Wood Sid Lane and I know Mr kers and uh Mr papis was at the
meeting on Tuesday night as well as Mr Sullivan I would just like to I'm sorry I regret it not asking some question questions are making some points but I'm bringing up about the culdesac with the three additional building launch there
um about emergency access or any direct type of access to that there was a point about no access from Adamsville Road I just want to make sure that there is no type of permanent access I don't care
about emergency vehicles whatever goes forward that should be incorporated into the thought of the process also too is in all the previous applications from the graymark properties The Office Buildings the
hotels some were approved some were not and there was never mention about building any extra three homes uh within that property so I think it should be eliminated or at least uh
decreased uh I did bring an old newspaper up to me um because I've lived on the street since 1986 and I've been resident a Bridgewater since 1955 um originally it was zoned
R20 and much to our sh grin it was voted to change it to r10 in like '92 or '93 uh at first it was voted down within the year Council had uh re
addressed it and then it was approved for the developers in the area to change the uh zoning of that and part of the zoning of R20 is to keep the area more
uh rural looking yes there are subsize lots on wood Sid Lane but as I said though is I'm going to make the emphasis in is all the previous applications from the greymark properties including the warehouse there has been no
residential mention on adding lots to Woodside Lane and one final thought is when we were rezoned I remember is the planner then I think was Michael sarian and somebody
from the council or planning board had said is how many additional homes have we changed uh the zoning and the reply by Michael kesian was one additional lot to be developed
and now you're talking about another three I could see one I could see two not three okay thank you thank you anyone else let's wait till everybody's had a first chance C I think it's the longest Street
Washington Valley Road so I'm here to actually we were remissed when we did not invite oop sorry friends of bridgeworth history that's the Roman tonight uh we didn't invite you to the journey through the past so we are having a talk on Camp
Cromwell formerly known as North over and we'd like to formally invite a member of the council to come um the mayor is either coming himself give them to the clerk please what is that Jane I'm sorry
what's the date April 29th so um the mayor or a member of his staff is going to give an update from what's happening with promo from your perspective and this is just a lot of the history of it with pictures and explanations so you're all cordially
invited and we hope to see someone that was it thank you what time on the 29th s thank you anyone besides Mr Krauss [Music] this is open to the public
correct the events open to the public I should just get a stamp to hi Kathy Franco we ma Road um so I'm going to try and do this in agenda order um item number five was the councilman
reports and tonight um one of the councilmen chose to read a statement which he had already read at a Board of Education meeting I was glad to see that that councilman went to a Board of Education meeting and shared his opinion there um I was not sure when he
presented that opinion if it was as a parent or as a town council member because he introduced himself as both however it is my opinion that chairing those concerns in this forum because it has to do with the policy of the board of education is
inappropriate um especially when the issue of gender neutral bathrooms has not been addressed within our Township municipal buildings um nor are we addressing the
issues of gender when it comes to recreation in our Township's warts so I would ask that um if somebody is going to speak on issues related to the Board of Education
they do it at the Board of Education um and that also goes for item number six when it relates to the mayor um if he has things to say about something with Board of Education I would hope that he would go to the Board of Education as a parent and share his concerns in that
form um item number seven um I want to thank officer Noah a lot I hope I pronounced that right um as well as all of the Bridgewater Police Department all of the volunteer First Responders who serve our Township 247
365 um I don't know what we would do without all of you every day item 11a um ordinance introduction um for the Redevelopment plan I think it lacks some transparency on the agenda tonight as it
only listed the lottin block numbers it did not list the street address or the commonly known address of greymark um so I think that just for the public information I think it would be helpful I know on the planning board it did at
least um include the street address but on tonight's Town Council Street address is on stre address is on the agenda I'm so okay I'm sorry maybe I I apologize um I don't I don't know if it always did but thank you I I appreciate you
pointing that out um I do know that the planning board spent a lot of time listening to the public comment um I did appreciate the fact that much of what was said during that public comment was listened to was incorporated and what I
hope would be uh the changes um but I do agree with Mr Curtis Kraut that uh the most recent changes cannot easily be found on the website um I know I looked the evening before I came to this meeting I don't know where it is um I
don't know if it's attached as part of the resolution I don't know is it you know it wasn't in the planning board section so um you know maybe it just needs to be more user friendly or something along those lines
uh and item 12d as far as the budget um you know so I think uh president nalis answered the fact that even though the resolution calls
for a budget to be introduced before 3:31 we do not expect a meeting to be held to introduce that budget right it's either that or the next meeting after that date okay thank you um there's a little there's a little foot note in the
the document that's okay okay thank you um and finally I would like to thank the staff as well as um the councilman and Mr papis and I believe uh Scott Stevens for providing
me with so much information on the sewer charges um over the past five years um I am overwhelmed with the amount of information that I have been provided both by you as well as this Somerset Regional Valley Sewer Authority who I also reached out to I'm still in the
process of digesting it all but I do appreciate um your responds to my requests on all that information thank you very much thank you if there's no one else Mr Krauss a second bite at the Apple sir M upout again sir if you've already stated
it in your prior one would you not simply recite it at this point we're looking for new input right item 11a on this agenda tonight is basically the introduction of ordinances and if I go
to the website for the council the uh shared Drive uh which is uh a dropbox location and look at 11a it basically has a two-page document currently and it basically uh indicates
whereas all of these conditions have been met and uh essentially uh gets to page two and shows that uh section uh different sections 1 2 3 4 five uh with
some verbiage there um it's not very extensive and the reference at the beginning of that session a section which talks about a reference to the RDP that we're
talking about for tonight that Mr Sullivan is updated um it it is not attached to this and when I look this morning okay there was um an 11a listed
there which had the um bulk of the resolution uh you know summary at the beginning and then 14 total pages of relevant information that seemed to be based on an earlier version of the the
draft RDP so it it mistakes happen things happen things changed during the course of the day but the bottom line is that the reference that's in the current
um introduction of ordinances 11a um it does not explicitly reference the document that somebody posted up on that that screen a while ago and it just doesn't reference refence the specific
document doesn't reference the revision of it and I I don't know how to link these things together from a from a legal perspective now to answer ask one question uh the question that was raised by Mr kersch regarding the uh uh whether
or not the effectiveness of the um the Redevelopment plan if it's adopted by the board uh through I guess this resolution um whether or not it will take precedence over an existing land use
application uh it's not it's not been resolved in my mind if Mr resolved I'm I'm sorry it was discussed extensively on Tuesday night and what was that the applicant has the right if it
chooses to pursue the hearing on Tuesday or if they choose not not to pursue the hearing on Tuesday that is also their option the planning board does not control that the council does not control that the mayor does not control that okay so the existence of a
Redevelopment plan for the same track that that application is on does not uh does not override the need of potentially for the applicant to continue the applicant will make its decision I I don't represent them I
can't speak for them that applicant will decide whether or not they want to proceed on Tuesday based upon Municipal land use law based on Municipal land use law now it is frequent occurrences I think that you've seen because you are in the 200 foot Zone that there is
precedent in this case and others for notice to occur if a hearing may happen so I I you know I think at this point it may or it may not it is the applicant's choice whether or not to proceed on
Tuesday at the zoning board that that no on Tuesday if not before I'm sorry if he decides if the applicant decides to pull the notice on Monday we'll know that but but by Tuesday we will know for sure
what the applicant intends to do there will not be two situations where the same piece of property has two developments going on at this two shovels in the ground at the the same time but on Tuesday there's also the
realistic possibility since only one of 14 or 13 meetings that have been scheduled to review that property at the zoning board only one has included professional testimony from the applicant's profession I have to see okay so it could continue on to the it
could yes it can continue on app will decide by Tuesday as to whether he wants to proceed at the zoning board or or suspend that application uh we can't prage what's going to happen we'll come back on
Tuesday okay next please all right thank you you're welcome my name is aresty baloma okay and following up with Kurt if uh Mr Sullivan's it's table two uh coverage of block requirements for
the track it says the height requirement is 50 feet did we just open the door for the warehouse to be built no no why it because may may I answer because this this was also discussed on Tuesday
night that table would be applicable in the event that the Redevelopment plan is adopted the Redevelopment plan sets the the development plan sets the rules for
that property a warehouse is not going to be permitted under the Redevelopment plan so it this is not a situation where you take one from column A and one from column B and one from column C and mix it into something that you want that is that that not you want that an applicant
wants that's not the way this process works there is an active case in front of the zoning board which we can't influence we don't can't speak to what we can speak to is the area in need of development that's what we're going to discuss shortly I just wanted to make sure I didn't understand that okay so
now I understand that uh this doesn't take presidence at next it's not going to be a 50 foot Warehouse that has a 60% coverage and a 40% no it it is if this is what takes precedent presuming that
we move forward and adopt this Redevelopment plan okay thank you thank you anyone else Miss Franco has a second bite at the Apple also um I just wanted to clarify why it
was that I said that the address was not stated on the agenda because the agenda that was mailed out on March 18th the PDF document did not include the street address or gray mark it only included
the lot and block number um I I pulled up the email that I have from that date um and in that introduction it did not include um the street address so I'll take responsibility for that I proof read to make sure that every
document has the street address as well as block and lot I don't like block and lot because people don't know what they are where they are including me so I like street address okay the other I will take it as my mission to make sure that from now for the rest of this year my tenure that we will have a street
address or Street in intersection thank thank you my my other concern about that was I received this around 12:30 in the afternoon before the planning board meeting had even heard the Redevelopment plan and yet this was on the agenda for Thursday night so it was kind of it just
felt to the public like it was a done deal um and that's just a point of information um I don't and I don't know if the planning board is required to do a resolution before you can go that's the planning board did a resolution on Tuesday night so you you can approve it
and do the resolution all in one we did it that night yes okay cuz generally I see it like approved and then the next meeting a resolution we have the option to approve it that night and that's what occurred okay thank you very much for that Mr President M Mr Mr President yes
may I I just want to clarify at Miss Franco maybe you weren't here but the last council meeting when uh as part of my report spoke about the uh the anticipated uh planning board hearing or presentation by Mr uh Sullivan I had
said that we would then propose the administration proposed that Mr Sullivan be asked to come to this meeting and that the draft ordinance would at least be placed on the agenda for council's consideration so that was discussed to weeks ago here no no I I do appreciate
that I mean there's a lot of balls in the air right now we were very transparent so okay thank you very much all right we have one this is the last speaker and the last bite of the Apple come up Sir put the followup to you I gotta ask you all
right wait a minute please direct your questions to me uh okay the question would be if the if the owner of that property backs out of this Warehouse okay I don't want to do it we go ahead and put in his plan and he comes back
and he wants to install the warehouse there he he would not have the opportunity to come back at a future time because the existing code does not permit Warehouse he managed to slip in at a time when it was legitimate for him to be able to apply for a warehouse he
can on a going forward basis he cannot do that okay thank you you're welcome okay could I have a motion to close public motion to close second all those in favor I I thank for those members of the public who spoken thank thank you very much for com for for coming okay uh
under item 10 public hearing and Mr council president Mr yeah just very brief comment just for the record uh Miss Frank uh Miss Franco stated that I had the today oh please wait wait wait a minute do you want me to speak go there
if if a person has come up here and spoken we owe it to them to speak at that point not wait for them to go home or go out and then and then start responding I just want to clear the records if I 10 seconds um Miss Franco
said that I had basically read the my statement from the Board of Education meeting here this morning I did not uh that statement is factually inaccurate my my actual statement from the Board of Education meeting is available on my Facebook on my Facebook page that anyone
can see and it is different from the from my synopsis here this morning this this afternoon thank you okay item 10 public hearing and final action there are none moving to item number 11 introduction of ordinance an ordinance of the township of Bridgewater creating
section 12632 1.8 of the township of Bridgewater code entitled uh Route 22 special development District to establish a set of permitted principal uses development standards and related Provisions for the
Redevelopment area designated on Lots 1.2 1.3 1.4 2 and 2.1 in Block 22 1 on the Township map of uh Township Township tax map that is also known as 1200
route22 uh Mr Sullivan uh would you like to uh come up or where you're comfortable and this is okay as long as you have the microphone as long as you're heard is the green lightly enough to the microphone golden please so I've got a few documents so thank you good
evening um uh I'm going to give you a brief uh introduction to what this please announce yourself name and firm please Michael Sullivan uh Township Redevelopment planner Clark Kon hint Trent New Jersey um I'll give you a brief
introduction overview of what this plan is is intended to do um this is the the greymark office track devel Redevelopment uh plan um and it's a draft this is draft number three um it's I know you don't like block and lots block 221 Lots 1.02 1.03 and 1.04 at 12
00 route uh 22 East um it's got an existing office building uh and it was designated by this Township Council as a non-c condemnation Redevelopment area in December uh 2024 December 5th um and it
really is is meant to uh Revitalize and underutilize property there although there's an office building there's been many failed development attempts here uh it remains that and one of the primary findings of our Redevelopment study the preliminary investigation found that
there's dilapidated unfinished construction on the site that is contributing to storm water runoff flooding and uh sedimentation and uh surface water quality uh degradation so that's really the purpose of the plan um
and uh the plan uh permits uh several permitted uh uses principal uses including medical uses office uses and research uh within the existing office building and in that area it allows for a data center uh it allows for indoor
recreational facilities and it also allows uh these are all Alternatives um the data center indoor Recreation and the um uh age restricted housing uh up to 250 units of multif family age restricted housing it also permits and
requires the development of three single family uh residential lots along Woodside Lane uh and also requires the develop M of a culdesac uh to create a safe and uh compliant Terminus to that
street um in addition to uh those principal uses there are um mandatory components of this plan it does require conservation easements for the stream carer and Associated Wetlands uh it requires uh buffering to the new single
family homes along Woodside um uh Lane uh it requires acoustic controls and uh mechanisms for all equipment including HVAC uh it requires uh studies to ensure that uh any of those um uh impacts
potential impacts are modeled and uh also post construction remediation of any negative impacts that uh were not anticipated uh after construction um that's the the general overview um this
was discussed uh at length at the planning board during a consistency review on Tuesday night March 18th um and uh the planning board among other things found that this
plan is consistent with the master plan which is a is the required finding uh for any ordinance or in this case a Redevelopment plan um saying that uh I did indicate that there was extensive discussion uh public uh public questions
public comments uh discussion back and forth with the public very robust and then that followed after the public session was closed uh with a robust discussion of the issues and although there were several hours of public discussion uh really boiled down to four
key items the first item that was uh identified uh and resolved and recommended by the planning board for inclusion uh