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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: GHu9An2BKDc):
- 00:00:05: Pledge of Allegiance, Adequate Notice, and Roll Call
- 00:01:12: Approval of Minutes: April 9th and April 16th
- 00:02:17: Public Comments (None) and Resolution PB 409-25
- 00:04:50: Resolution PB412-25 Approval and Roll Call
- 00:05:39: Ordinance 04-25-10: Historic District Modifications Consistency Review
- 00:08:51: Ordinance 04-26-1: Commercial and Home Agriculture Discussion
- 00:15:41: Ordinance 04-26-1: Consistency Review Approval
- 00:16:35: PB 407-25: Bath Properties LLC Extension Request
- 00:20:21: Canceled Item, Zoning Subcommittee, and Adjournment


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Good evening everyone. I'd like to uh ask everybody to stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands, one nation under

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God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. >> Statement of adequate notice. Under the Sunshine Law, adequate notice in accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act was provided on January 5th, 2026. Um, this meeting's date, time, and

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location. The agenda was mailed to the Cranberry Press and Home News Tribune, posted on the Township Bulletin board, mailed to those requesting personal notice, and filed with the municipal clerk. Roll call, please. Miss Anderson, >> here. >> Miss Albadawi, >> here. >> Mr. Giddings, >> here. >> Miss Conram,

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>> here. Mr. Mildenberg and Mr. Mucelli are out. Mr. Folk >> here. >> Mr. Stewart >> here. >> And Mr. Whitman >> here. >> Okay. Thank you. We have a quorum. >> Next item on the agenda is the approval of our minutes from April 9th.

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>> Does anybody have any corrections or comments to those? >> Okay. Hearing none. >> Motion and second. >> Yes. Can I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. Can I have a second, please? >> Second. >> All right. Roll call for the April 9th minutes. Miss Anderson,

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>> yes. >> Miss Elbadawi, >> yes. >> Mr. Giddings, >> yes. >> Miss Conram, >> yes. >> Mr. Pulk, >> yes. >> And Mr. Whitman, >> yes. >> Okay, thank you. Motion passed. >> Next item on the agenda is approval of minutes from April 16th, our special

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meeting. Are there any corrections or comments to those minutes? All right, hearing none. Can I have a motion to approve? >> It's a move. >> Can I have a second, please? >> Second.

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>> All right. Roll call for the April 16th special meeting minutes. Miss Elbadawi, >> yes. >> Mr. Giddings, >> yes. >> Miss Conram, >> yes. >> And Mr. Whitman, >> yes. >> Thank you. Motion passed. >> Next on the agenda is public comments for items not on the agenda.

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Opening up the public or comments not on the agenda. All right. Hearing no comments from the public, I'm going to close that public portion of the meeting. Now, we have two uh resolutions to approve tonight.

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We'll go through them one we'll do it as a blanket. We'll go through them one by one. Uh first item uh resolution for approval is PB 409-25 Cranberry Senior Apartments LLC.

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Does anybody have any corrections or comments? >> Oh, it disconnected there. Yep. One goes out, they all go out. >> There we go. >> Yes, Mr. Chair, I have one um change to the conditions required which is on page

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eight of the resolution uh under landscaping um condition two about uh the applicant shall augment the landscaping in the rear buffer in a manner satisfactory to Mr. Hoder. This uh condition was later

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amended and the final conditions are better reflected in in the other conditions that are listed and this condition really uh does not apply anymore. >> Okay. >> So the suggestion is just to strike >> just strike it >> strike it out.

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>> Any other questions or comments changes? Okay. Hearing none. Can I have a motion to approve PB 409-25? >> So moved. >> I have a second, please. >> Second.

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>> Roll call for PB 409-25 resolution. Miss Anderson, >> yes. >> Miss Albadawi, >> yes. >> Mr. Giddings, >> yes. >> Miss Conram, >> yes. >> Mr. Pulk, >> yes. >> And Mr. Whitman, >> yes. >> Thank you. Motion passed. Next item is

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uh resolution PB412-25 for approval 1250 South River Road LLC. Are there any corrections or comments by anybody for that one? Okay, hearing none. Can I have a motion

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to approve PB412-25? >> So moved. >> Can I have a second, please? >> Second. >> All right. Roll call for PB412-25 resolution. Uh, Miss Eldawi, >> yes. >> Mr. Giddings, >> yes. >> Miss Conram,

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>> yes. >> And Mr. Whitman, >> yes. >> Okay, thank you. Motion passed. >> Next item on the agenda, we have two consistent consistency review items. First item is Cranberry Township Ordinance number 4-25-10.

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I'm not going to read all this stuff. >> Historic district. historic and district modifications. So >> Liz, I'm gonna turn it over to you. >> Sure. Um this ordinance before you is again it um been referred by the governing body to this board to

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determine that the um ordinance is not inconsistent with the master plan. This ordinance is the historic uh preservation or sorry the historic district um reconfiguration of the boundaries, the removal of the 200 foot

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buffer area uh and um changes to the design guidelines that are in chapter 93 of the code. All of these uh changes that are reflected in the ordinance were recommended in the historic preservation

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plan amendment you know historic preservation plan element of the master plans amendment that this board adopted now I can't remember sometime in the last year right uh and this is uh entirely consistent with that um plan

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amendment so it is not only Is it not inconsistent with the master plan? It's it's actually substantially consistent with the master plan. >> So what we have to do then is just improve the consistency this so then it can go back to the township committee.

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Okay. >> Correct. >> Does anybody have any questions or comments from the board? Were there any changes from the detailed discussion that we had previously that would be

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worthy of drawing attention? >> No, >> it's the simple answer. Yes, we did have substantial questions about boundaries and things. >> Yeah. And and HPC absolutely the the initial conversations that we had HBC went back to the drawing board made

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significant changes to what they had originally offered. Then they came back and I I believe that they had addressed everything the board was concerned about. >> Y any other question? >> Okay. All right. Um, can I have a motion

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to approve the consistency of Primary Township Ordinance 0426-10? >> I have a second, please. >> Roll call for consistency review for ordinance 042610. Uh, Miss Anderson, >> yes.

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>> Miss Albadawi, >> yes. >> Mr. Giddings, >> yes. >> Miss Conram, >> yes. >> Mr. Pulk, >> yes. >> Mr. Stewart, >> yes. >> And Mr. Mr. Whitman. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. Motion pass. >> Next item on the agenda is

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Grambury Township Ordinance 0426-1. An ordinance amending the revised code of the township land entitlement. I'm not going to read all that because it'll be here forever. Um so I'm going to turn that over to Liz to explain this one now. >> Okay. Sure. All right. So this is

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another one that we've discussed. Um this has to do with the fact that there were recommendations made regarding where um commercial and home agriculture are permitted should be permitted in the

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township in the TW sorry there were recommendations made in the 2010 master plan. The recommendation was to remove those two uses uh sorry let me just step back one second. They were and have been for a long time permitted in all zones

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in the township. There was a recommendation in the 2010 master plan to no longer make them permitted in the VC village commercial zone, which is really the heart of downtown, the historic district.

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when there were uh zoning amendments and ordinances to uh implement the 2010 master plan which these ordinances were adopted in 2011. The uses were removed from the VC and

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the VHR and that actually at the time was not consistent with the 2010 master plan. there there are meeting minutes from the 2011 TC meetings where the TC acknowledged, you know, we're cons we're we're concerned about this. This isn't

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what we had in the master plan. So, in a way, we are in 2026 correcting something that is a 15year-old mistake. um and so are or error and so now it we are adding back in the VHR

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zone uh as having the commercial and home agriculture to be permitted. One concern I know that has been raised is oh no you know commercial agriculture and the VHR are we sure we want that? One thing I will say is that commercial

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agriculture, there are a lot of standards in the ordinance uh with minimum lot size setbacks that really only apply to practically no lots within the VHR. certainly know

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you know there may be two lots uh and one of them is a long-standing historic site and and one is unlikely to be redeveloped for commercial agriculture. So, you know, just to rest uh assured that

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this really only commercial agriculture is really only permitted in in very limited instance on five acres or more >> and it's still not allowed in the BC zone. That's correct. >> Nor is home act, you know, neither home or commercial.

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>> Okay. >> Is there any potential liability to the township by a party who because we're now on the record of saying this is basically a mistake that should have been fixed 15 years ago. Um is there any party who

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could take issue with that in terms of having impacted their commercial viability or activities in that time? I guess >> hopefully not. I'm discovering the basis. >> I don't think so. I'm I haven't studied that. >> So, you're talking about a grandfathering situation.

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>> Well, I'm saying that what we're basically saying again on the record is, you know, this was acknowledged as this should not have been consistent with the master plan, was called out 15 years ago as inconsistent with the master plan, but for whatever reason, no action was taken on it. So, therefore, it's been

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prohibited for 15 years un unnecessarily. Well, I think if someone had an objection to the ordinance back then, they had the, you know, normal 45 days to uh file an objection to it at this point. So, I mean, I don't think this

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statement now is going to affect that. >> Okay. >> Yeah, it it was adopted in all of the right legal ways. Um and and so I I'm saying it's a mistake because that's not what the master plan had intended, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't adopted. So they discussed it and still

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without modification decided to adopt it. >> Right. >> Where they would have had the opportunity to make that correction at the time, >> right? >> Okay. >> Can you um because I did ask um Mayor Coner, can you just clarify with regards

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to agriculture, what practices of agriculture fall under that? >> Oh, fall under commercial and >> Yeah. You remember how we were discussing the issues of animals and chickens versus tomatoes and cucumbers and what is being restricted and what is

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not? >> Well, commercial agriculture is actually it's there's it's not in this ordinance but is in the existing ordinance a very long detailed definition of what that entails. Um I'd have to look it up exactly. Um home agriculture will allow

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people to h keep chickens in their in their yards. Um, but also certainly they can have uh fruits and vegetables and flowers and so forth. Yes. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> So, we're not talking about having 12 heads of steer in your backyard when

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you're doing the met. >> No, not unless you're cruel. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Go ahead. >> Yeah. I I agree with Liz that commercial

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agriculture could not go into the VHR. Um and I just think this is important that for the record even though that's what this ordinance says and it's and it's to match the master plan. the wording just to match. Um, you know,

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there's no lots that are five acre and you know, by any means we're not looking for production, all the commercial type um, you know, things that are defined in the commercial agriculture to go in the

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VHR. It it's more of a wording based on matching the master plan. and it's consistent but the intent is not any type of of you know all the things that are listed in commercial architecture agricultural is not is not intended to

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go into the VHR >> so my recommendation is this is not inconsistent with the 2010 master plan >> so making the change back to what it should be should actually makes a good >> we may be correcting something that was I shouldn't have called it an error. An

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oversight. An oversight. >> I'm just still hung up on the bad grammar of the entire process. So, not not inconsistent. >> Okay. Any other questions or comments? Okay. I'm going to move this um

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Cranberry Township Ordinance 0426-11. Can I have a motion to approve the corrections as stated? >> So moved. >> I have a second, please. >> Second. >> All right. Roll call for ordinance

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number 042611, consistency review. Miss Anderson, >> yes. >> Miss Elbadawi, >> yes. >> Mr. Giddings, >> yes. >> Miss Conram, >> yes. >> Mr. Pulk, >> yes. >> Mr. Stewart, >> yes. >> And Mr. Whitman? >> Yes.

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>> Okay. Thank you. Motion passed. Next item on the agenda is an extension of approval request PB 407-25 Bath Properties LLC. >> Now you're on. >> Good evening. >> Just please please introduce yourself and and your name and address.

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>> Sure. >> Good evening, Mr. Chairman, members of the board and board's professionals. Kenneth Pape of the firm Hyelurn Pap. And this is, as read into the record, a request for an extension of the minor subdivision approval that was granted by the board in October. There was a

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condition number nine that said the applicant must secure an NJ DOT driveway permit. Almost immediately after this board acted, we made the application to the DOT. And to our initial disappointment, they said no. They said there's no driveways permitted. We

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pointed out that it was a two-way street, not a traditional ramp. and that there were driveways. And as recently as last week, and I shared this with the board, the NJ DOT wrote a letter that said, "We changed our mind. We'll take your application for that permit." And

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the reason that we're requesting the extension of the permission, the protection of the minor subdivision is so we can complete that NJOT permit. In all other respects, the applicant and the applicant's professionals have addressed the the conditions of approval and will perfect the the subdivision in

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accordance with your ordinances. But we do ask for that one extension of time so we can finish the DOT permit. >> Um just a clarification. So the way I worked out the numbers for this, it was um 90 days per the statute to file for

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this because this is a subdivision. So subdivision maps have to be filed within 190 days of the resolution date which was October 9th. And then um you've made that that date would have expired 418 the 18th of April. So, um, basically the

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extension would you've requested a 180day extension and you requested it. The applicant can make that request before or after, but you made it within time. So, the um extension for 180 days would go to October 14th, 2026. Sound

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about right? >> That sounds fine. >> Okay. So, then >> so it's from April. The extension would be 180 days from April then. >> Yeah. From April 18th. And so that this would be important for the board to mark. You know, um someone would make a motion here to extend the, you know, the

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request and then um uh Gina could write a letter back and say, you know, it's approved or whatever you say and and the new date is going to be the 14th of October 2026. >> Okay. Right. >> And that's and it's from April, what's

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the date? April 18th. >> April 18th. >> Yeah. That would have been the 190th day according to me checking the calendar. I hope it was right. >> So, what I'm going to do is uh I have no

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problem with that. Does anybody from the board I mean you're making every effort. It's not your problem that not >> it's it was out of your cons out of your control and it looks like you're moving forward. So, that's good. >> Um so, I will make a motion that we grant the 180day.

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>> You going to make the motion? Who >> ask for one? >> I'm gonna ask for a motion. >> I'll make a motion to that effect. >> I make a motion that we grant the extension >> as stated. >> Second. >> All right. Roll call for PB 40. What was

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it? 7-25 extension. Miss. Anderson. >> Yes. >> Miss Albadawi? >> Yes. >> Mr. Giddings? >> Yes. >> Miss Conram? >> Yes. >> Mr. Pulk? >> Yes. >> Mr. Stewart? >> Yes. >> And Mr. Whitman? >> Yes. >> Thank you. motion pass. >> And again, that's for 41826.

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That's what I was trying to spit out, not a not a motion, but to to say that uh that that sun the next. So, if you have to come in for another extension, which we hope you don't have to, then it would be >> October >> October October 14th, 26.

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>> Okay. >> Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. >> Good night all. >> Next item on the agenda is canled because they are not here. >> Well, they didn't pay. Oh, they didn't pay. Well, they're not here and they didn't pay. So, there you go. Um, all

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the new business zoning subcommittee. Anything on that? >> We don't have any um we have nothing on it right now. So, we are um kind of shutting down the subcommittee right now until we have something to resurrect it on. That's usually how it works. So,

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>> we don't need it we don't need to have it on the agenda. If there's something that you want it created for again, then we'll we'll do that. But nothing to report. >> Okay. Um, we don't have anything to go in close session. So, can I have a motion to adjurnn?

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>> Second. All those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Immediate close. I didn't I didn't break your record, mayor, but uh that's about as quick