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okay good evening and welcome to the township of how planning board Thursday February 20th 2025 I an opening statement please I hear that by declare this meeting of the how Township planning board to be open adequate notice have been given pursu to the New Jersey open public meeting act
in the following manner first on January 3rd 2025 a copy of said notice was emailed to the Asbury Park Press in the store Ledger second on January 3rd 2025 a copy of said notice was hand delivered to the clerk of the township of Howell
third on January 3rd 2025 said notice was posted in the office of the planning board and on the bulletin board in the Howell Township Municipal Building 4567 Route 9 Howell Township New Jersey in accordance with the fire prevention code and for your safety please be advised
that this facility is designed with two emergency exits at the front and rear of the meeting room furthermore smoking is not permitted in the municipal building please take note that this meeting is being videotaped for possible future broadcasts on how Township TV 77 thank
you thank you roll call please Mr Cristiano absent Mr Greenfield here Mr Carbonic here Mr Mercer yes Mr ton house here Mr
rubel yes here councilman nadell here mayor leio here Mr beo here Mr Withers is absent and chairman huster here you have a quorum thank you uh at this time would
everybody please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and following a moment of silence for those men and women serving here and abroad to the flag of the United States of America and to the it stands Nation God
indivisible justice for all thank you okay uh first we have an approval of minutes from the regular meeting of December 19th 2024 eligible voters Mr Greenfield Mr Mercer Mr Bell and Mr Carbonic do I have
a motion I'll make a Mr Greenfield with a motion do I have a second second Mr Mercer Mr Greenfield yes Mr Carbonic yes Mr Mercer yes Mr rubel yes minutes
approved thank you and approval of minutes for the reorganization regular meeting January 2nd 20125 eligible voters Mr Carbonic Mr Mercer Mr tanhouse Mr Rebel councilman nadell mayor leio Mr beo and myself do I
have a motion I'll make a motion Mr tanan House do I have a second I'll second Mr Rebel Mr konic yes Mr Mercer yes Mr tannin house yes Mr rubal yes councilman
nadell yes mayor leio yes Mr B yes and chairman huster yes min approved thank you Eileen is there any correspondence I have a few things for correspondence um first I have an email from Michael Herbert attorney for badar
LLC asking to carry their application to April 24th 2025 with no further notice and he granted the board an extension of time through May 1st 2025 all right I'll make the foral announcement uh the application of SD
3013 badar l l c will be carried to the boards regularly scheduled April 24th 2025 meeting without further notice all documents are still available in town hall during normal business hours for review thank
you and then I'm sorry um the second thing is the Board needs to discuss the ordinance for consistency okay has everybody had a chance on their email to review the proposed ordinance at this time
I haven't but okay quum Jen do you want to sure so this um ordinance 257 is an ordinance creating an affordable housing overlay Zone known as ml15 uh it is site specific and as you
may or may not know through affordable housing the affordable housing process the town is obligated to Zone specific properties for affordable housing projects so it's the only time that you can actually like legally spot Zone a piece of property um but looking into
looking back on all of our planning documentation I mean we have consistently participated in the affordable housing process going back to the first round which started in the late 80s um we have gotten our third round Judgment of repose this is going
into the fourth round but all of our planning documents all of our master plan documentation our land use element the housing elements of the past have spefic specific goals and objectives which basically state that the town is committed to complying with the
affordable housing obligations as part of our constitutional obligation and and the Fair Housing Act there are multiple references throughout the uh planning documents that state that this furthers that and kind
of um and so there's absolutely no inconsistency whatsoever it is 100% consistent with our master plan I will just add and I Mr reel if if you don't mind I know he had emailed to us some questions which he and I went through but there was one recommendation which I
think Austin should be added which is um I don't want to miss State this but the there should be an inclusion there's an ex there is a provision in the ordinance that allows for water to overtop a retaining wall I will tell you
there's one on the property just so you know um and as such has the potential to cause scour and erosion and then Mr Rebel had recommended that we include a recommendation that counter SC scour counter measures
be incorporated such as Rip wrap or or some kind of gravel or what have you um to mitigate for any potential erosion issue that that may cause I think that's a great recommendation and I think it would be perfectly fine for us to make that recommendation back to the Maring
Council to include that um the other items that were in his comments he and I went through most of which I addressed um so I would respectfully submit that you um
make a motion to state that this ordinance is substantially consistent with our master plan okay thank you board members any questions all right seeing none I will ENT main a motion
motion mayor leio with a motion do I have a second Mr merer with the second Mr Greenfield yes Mr Carbonic yes Mr Mercer yes Mr tanhouse going to
sustain Mr rubal yes councilman nadell yes mayor leio yes Mr yes and chairman huster yes approved thank
you anything else ien yes um the master plan subcommittee meetings will not be held on Zoom anymore the committee needs to decide if they want to meet the hour before the second meeting of the month or if they still want to do the four Thursday of the month and if so what
time um I believe the board planner suggested the hour before but we're not going to need to have a meeting anytime soon just to let you know because the next portion of the master plan to be addressed as a housing element and we're not ready yet so that's going to be later in the month I would recommend the
hour before just get here a little bit early I agree rip through it and then go right into the meeting so people don't have to come out on a separate night if the master plan subcommittee is fine with that yeah who who's on it I am
Brian aren't you on it I took site uh oh who's the third person is it Jo it's Joe Cristiano I think you're right Joe yeah so Chris and mic refine with the hour be before so I don't think Joe will have a problem with it if it needs to
change we can always adjust it as some future point but I do think that number one we're it's not we're not going to have to meet for several months because we're not ready to get to that point so we can certainly coordinate with Joe between then and now and if there's a problem we can adjust at that point are
they still trying to figure out the balance and the numbers is that what they're kind of yeah I mean the bottom line is I'm expecting a challenge and so we're going to have to see how that plays itself out so but just so you guys know we are going to have to have a hearing on the housing element and fair
share plan at some point in June I would recommend Eileen identifying that for the first meeting in June in case we don't finish and then have to roll it over to the second meeting in June because we have to have an adopted housing element fair share plan by the end of June that's the legislation so we
can't if we miss that deadline we we run we run the risk of losing immunity which we definitely don't want to do can we do it for May if we can if if we don't get challenged and the number is solidified so the way this rolls is they have till the end of February to challenge our
numbers right we adjusted the number March is slated for a dispute resolution so I'm assuming it's going to take place in the month but I don't know and then in order to have the public hearings on the master plan here the document has to
be 100% finished and on file 10 days prior we also have to this is the only element of the master plan that has to go to the governing body because there's a spending plan in there that talks about the expenditure of money and they can only only the governing body can approve
that so there's an endorsement process that has to happen at a public Hearing in front of you at the governing body so we have to make sure we meet all those deadlines the document's got to be done by the end of May we're going to need June to like get through all the approval process if we can finish it faster 100% finish it faster okay I'm
just worried about summer months I understand that so I if if we wind up knock on wood yeah everything goes no one challenges our number and we don't have to go through dispute resolution then we can start on implementation okay right away got it so we'll just we have
to it's going to I don't know how it's going to go so that's why but the document has to be done by the end of May in order to get the notice requirements let's put it tentatively for the first week in or first meeting in June but and I wouldn't put anything else on that agenda okay and then um
here you know with the um potential it goes into a second meeting but it could also get moved up correct we'll assess as we go on I will keep you guys informed as the process rolls out cool thanks Jen um I have Mr Jackson here to talk
about SMC properties yes okay thank you Mr chairman Bo John Jackson on behalf of SMC Mr DeFalco could not uh make it tonight I was hopeful we could do it anyway but I had already said that uh we weren't going to go forward um so I believe your
secretary indicated March 6th uh would be available so we would ask for that date and we will uh give the appropriate time waiver I'll confirm that in writing tomorrow with the board's permission got it all right I'll make the formal announcement that uh the application of
sp123 SMC Properties LLC will be carried to the board's regularly scheduled meeting March 6th at 7 p.m. in this meeting room all documents will continue be un filed during normal business hours for review thank you very much thanks John have a good night you
too um we also have the attorney here for Diversified acquisition to make an announcement good evening board my name is Matthew pada I represent Diversified Acquisitions on behalf of the firm SS cus and gross at this juncture we still need a little bit more time to put
together our prep and testimony before this board so we've had an opportunity to speak to the board secretary and we believe that the next available hearing is April 3rd so we humbly request that this matter be carried to April 3rd with no further notices all right I make the formal announcement
the application of sp125 Diversified Acquisitions LLC will be carried to the board's regularly scheduled April 3rd meeting at 7 p.m in this meeting room all documents remain unfiled during normal business hours for a review I will also need an extension
of time through that date Absolutely I'll provide same to you tomorrow okay thank you absolutely thank you so much every thank [Applause] you okay anything else that's all my correspondents for tonight thanks e all right we have a bunch of resolutions to go
through uh we have to do these individually oh Austin do we have to do these individually uh yes yeah that's what I thought okay first one for planning board attorney resolution appointing Ron ciero of the weiner Law Group LLP for 2025 eligible voters Mr Carbonic Mr Mercer Mr tanhouse Mr Rebel
councilman nadell mayor leio Mr Boo and myself do I have a motion I'll make a motion councilman nadell with Mr Mercer as a second how's that Mr Carbonic yes
Mr Mercer yes Mr tannin housee yes Mr rubel yes councilman nadell yes mayor leio yes Mr beo yes and chairman huster yes resolution approved okay next is for the resolution appointing Laura Newman
of CME Associates for 2025 is the planning board engineer eligible voters Mr Carbonic Mr Mercer Mr tannin housee Mr Rebel councilman Adell mayor leio Mr beo and myself do I have a motion motion mayor leio
second second Mr reubel Mr Carbonic yes Mr Mercer yes Mr tanhouse yes Mr rubel yes councilman Adell yes mayor leio yes Mr beo yes and
chairman huster yes resolution approved thank you next is the resolution appointing Jennifer beam of Leon sakian for 2025 as our planning board planner eligible voters Mr Carbonic Mr Mercer Mr tannin housee Mr Rebel councilman nadell
mayor leio Mr beo and myself do I have a motion I'll make a motion Mr Mercer second second Mr Rebel Mr Carbonic yes Mr Mercer yes Mr Tannon house yes Mr rubel yes councilman
nadell yes mayor Leo yes Mr beo yes and chairman huster yes resolution approved thank you guys thank you Jennifer um next is resolution appointing Sher Sparrow of CME Associates for 2025 as our planning
board licensed tree expert eligible voters Mr Carbonic Mr Mercer Mr tannin house Mr Rebel councilman nadell mayor Lio Mr beo and myself do I have a motion Mo M or mayor legio do I have a
second councilman Adell Mr Carbonic yes Mr Mercer yes Mr tannin housee yes Mr rubel yes coun Ben nandell yes mayor leio yes Mr beo yes and chairman huster
yes resolution approved thank you next is case number sp131 Vander industrial partners LLC a resolution granting submission wavers eligible voters Mr Greenfield Mr Mercer Mr Rebel and Mr Carbonic do I have a
motion motion Mr Carbonic second second Mr Mercer Mr Greenfield yes Mr kaban yes Mr Mercer yes and Mr rubel yes resolution approved okay uh case number
sp130 Vander industrial Partners LLC it's a resolution granting submission waivers different address than the prior eligible voters Mr Greenfield Mr Mercer Mr Rebel and Mr Carbonic I'll make a motion Mr Mercer D
second second Mr Carbonic Mr Greenfield yes Mr Carbonic yes Mr Mercer yes and Mr rubal yes resolution approved okay for case number SP 1034a goodier Properties LLC a
resolution granting submission waivers eligible voters Mr Carbonic Mr Mercer Mr tanhouse Mr Rebel councilman Adell mayor leio Mr beo and myself do I have a motion motion Mr Carbonic second second mayor
Leo Mr Carbonic yes Mr Mercer yes Mr tanhouse yes Mr rubel yes councilman Nell yes mayor leio yes Mr beo yes and chairman sir yes labor granted thank you and the last
case number SP 11133 Arch Angel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church Corp resolution granting submission waivers eligible voters Mr Carbonic Mr Mercer Mr Tannon house Mr Rebel councilman nadell mayor leio Mr Boo and myself do I have a
motion motion Mr Carbonic second second councilman Adell Mr kaban yes Mr Merc sir yes Mr tanin House yes Mr rubal yes councilman adal yes mayor Leia yes Mr beo yes and
chairman huster yes submission waver granted thank you e any submission waivers not tonight all right uh Master Plan update I think we kind of already discussed that and executive session will not
happen this evening correct okay do I have a motion to adjourn at 724 make a motion to adjourn Brian second second Mr Rebel thank you go United States