Great. Calling this meeting of the Township of Ocean Planning Board to order. Nicole, can I have a roll call, please? >> Councilwoman Kaplan, >> Mr. Be Mr. Burkowitz, >> Mr. Goslin >> here, >> Mr. Manell here, >> Miss Volante >> here,
>> Mr. Bodnovich, Mr. >> here, >> Vice Chairman, and Chairman >> here. Salute to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> The notice requirements of the open public meeting law for this meeting have been satisfied. A copy of the notice having been sent to the Asbury Park Press and the Coaster and filed in the office of the township clerk. Emergency
notice. There is an emergency exit through the courtroom doors and two exits at the rear of the room. There is no smoking. That includes vaping and ecigarettes. Board policy, no new cases will be started after 10 p.m. and no new testimony taken after 10:30 p.m. In addition, the applicant will be limited
to 45 minutes of testimony. All meetings will be video and audio taped and shown on the Township of Oceanceans Community Cable channel 77 on Verizon FiOS and channel 77 on Cable Vision. All cell phones must be turned off or if you need to make a call, please make your call
outside the meeting room. All right, we're going to start off this evening. New cases, Township of Ocean, 2310 Logan Road, known as block 40.12, lot one and 2308 Logan Road, known as block 40.12, lot 2 in the R4 zone.
All right. And we have our reps from the township of ocean. Good evening, Mr. Chairman, members. Uh Kevin Starky um tment attorney representing the applicant tangible revolution. I have with me Greg Gl engineer uh as the sole
witness. Um this is essentially a it's a minor subdivision. It's a effectively a lot line adjustment. Um and if I could I just ask Mr. Blash to be sworn in and uh present. >> Absolutely. Mr. Blash, do you swear any testimony you're about to give would be the true self nothing but the true self you got? >> I do.
>> Thank you. And just state your name for the record. Gregory Blash. >> Thank you. And you're a licensed engineer state of New Jersey, correct? >> Yes, I am. >> Thank you. And I'm just going to mark in uh the Township of Ocean minor subdivision plan. We'll mark that in as exhibit A1. >> Yeah. I don't I don't know, Mark, if you
were given I I submitted another revised plan. >> Mine is dated 1219. No >> revision on it. >> The revision dated and I know this is the one that is Nicole literally just gave it to me. >> Uh minor revision date 1229. >> 122925 is the revision date. Yeah.
>> Then the only change to the map is is we just want to conform with the rightway dedication at the corner of Logan and Bloomfield. That was never ever done. Lot was originally approved. So we just want to clean that up so we don't have any future problems with any improvements in the rightway. And
generally what the town is looking to do is we own township owns lot one. The neighbor to just to the south of us um has a driveway encumbrance over our property line. The township has targeted this piece of property for a dedication to Green Acres because we have a we need
some land that we have to dedicate to Green Acres because of the bridge widening at Cord's Avenue and we needed we wanted to submit this piece of property but we kind of want to make it incumbrance free that driveway being on our property would require that the township anytime he did any improvement to that driveway to file an application
for him. So before we gave this to Green Acres, we wanted to clean up his driveway being off the property and then giving that piece of rightway so that in the future if I have to put a sidewalk through that I do not have to go to Green Acres to get a approval to put a sidewalk in the rightway. That's really the the long and short of it. It's
really just kind of came into convenience for the neighbor and us is to get the property off our property. Any of the board members have questions hearing on uh opening it up to the public. Do any of the members of the
public attendance have questions? Hearing none. Can I get a motion to close the public hearing? >> I'll move. >> Have a second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Does anyone have a a motion to accept this lot line movement?
>> I'll move for a positive resolution. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Nicole, can we have a roll call, please? >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> And chairman. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, gentlemen. >> Thank you.
>> All right. Next on the agenda, uh we did receive correspondence on the Ocean Township Ocean Glades. An NJ letter of interpretation line verification um was submitted. You should all have it in your packets. You can review it at
your leisure. We have minutes for approval. That correct, Nicole? June 12th. >> Yes. >> All right. Um, someone want to make a motion to approve our June 12th minutes? >> Make a motion. Do >> I have a second? >> I'll second. >> All right. Roll call, please.
question. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ley, >> yes. >> And Shannon, >> yes. All right. Our next matter of business, an extension of time request for Diane Gone, 608 Wildwood Road, block 61.07, lot 4, seeking a third extension of time
for subdivision originally granted on July 22nd, 2024. And who do we have for the applicant this evening? >> Good evening, chairman and board members. My name is Anthony Staro with the law firm of Ancelgrim and Aaron here tonight on behalf of the applicant. I'm going to try and make this long story as
short as possible because otherwise Jennifer would kill me if she knew I took longer than 5 minutes on this. Um, so as it stands, the current deadline to perfect this subdivision is January 28th of 2026. In condition number three of the original resolution, it was required
that the existing dwelling be demolished prior to having the subdivision recorded. The problem being that Diane Gredone, the applicant, and her husband Nick actually lived in that house at the time. It was their primary house. So, in an effort to have the house demolished
as required, Nick and Diane set out to find a new place to live. They originally signed a lease agreement to move into a house in Howell in February of this this year, but then Howell informed that landlord that the septic tank needed to be replaced before Nick and Diane could move in. Fast forward to
May and the septic tank at that Howell property still hadn't been replaced. Tired of waiting and with the subdivision clock ticking, Nick and Diane instead decided to move to Georgia to be closer to their daughter. This brings us to around the time that the board granted their most recent recent
extension, meaning that Nick and Diane were still living in that ocean house at that time. They were ultimately able to find a house in Georgia and moved out of the ocean dwelling just this past August. While all of this was happening, we received resolution compliance signoff from both the board's engineer
and planner and also received approval on the subdivision deed from the board's attorney, which we have in hand, signed by the applicant, ready to record once the house comes down. As you may imagine, Jennifer and I stayed on top of them to get the house demolished so we could record the subdivision deed, but
they kept running into issues with the utility companies while trying to disconnect the house's utilities. Nick and Diane were trying their best, but they were a little unfamiliar with the process and delays ensued. Then, and the reason why we're here today, just recently, Jen and I received
confirmation that Rushmore Construction Group was brought into the mix. In other words, a group that's highly familiar with the utilities disconnection and demolition processes have taken the reigns in aiding Nick and Diane, and everything is moving full steam ahead.
To highlight the movement since then, a sewer cut and cap construction permit was issued by the township on December 23rd. Town Township of Ocean Sewage Authority disconnection permit application was submitted and the inspection is pending. New Jersey Natural Gas disconnection application
was submitted and a site visit occurred on December 22nd. We're pending an estimate from New Jersey Natural Gas for the disconnection fee and fieldwork is going to be scheduled right after that. Demolition letters were sent via certified mail to neighboring property
owners on December 17th. JCPNL disconnection application was submitted and per correspondence from them. Disconnection is currently scheduled for the week of January 5th, weather permitting. New Jersey American water disconnection application was submitted and a field disconate disconnect date is
pending. Verizon disconnection application was submitted and per correspondence from them, the disconnection should be occurring this week, weather permitting. Freehold soil exemption application for demolition was submitted and a response is pending and a pest control certification was
completed on December 17th. In other words, now that Nick and Diane were able to move out of the existing dwelling this past August and brought on reinforcements, they are aggressively pursuing the demolition, which is a prerequisite to having the approved subdivision deed recorded by the current
January 28th, 2026 deadline. However, given the potential for delay from any one of those above reference utilities uh entities and out of an abundance of caution, we are respectfully requesting a an additional and final threemonth
extension of the subdivision approval to ensure that we can get this wrapped up properly. I thank you for your time and for your consideration. I I appreciate this being the final ask, but I do remember that the last ask was the final ask.
So, I understand things happen and things take time, but September, October, November, and I appreciate this is all moving, but every date on here was in the last two weeks. >> Yes. >> And that's totally totally understood
for the record. Um, and that's because the reinforcements were brought in. They finally got together a contractor that actually knows what they're doing and is really, really pushing to try and if they can get this done by January 28th.
There's a small chance that that happens, but it's a small chance, which is why we're here. They're doing everything that they can. They're pulling all the strings that they can, but we wanted to come here to ask you for the extension just because we know
that these utility companies aren't 100% on top of it all the time. And now that everything is in, it's really in their hands. So that that's why we're here today. >> All right. Anyone have any questions on this? Anyone have any feelings or
thoughts they want to share? Wow, you guys are very talkative tonight. Uh, Mr. Lexine, this third time extension, do we have any other issues with this other than it >> I I have it is in the board's discretion. You've heard the argument as
to why they would like the extension. Um, it's completely within the board's discretion. >> Someone want to make a motion one way or the other? A motion to approve. >> Do I have a second? >> I'll second.
>> Roll call. Nicole. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Miss Valente. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Chairman Deilia. >> Yes. But reluctantly. Thank you very much. I very much appreciate it. >> Tell Jen, you beat us up.
>> Yeah. I get to live another day. So, >> thank you guys. >> Could you imagine? >> All right. All right. Does anyone have anything else they wish to discuss this evening? If not, can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> Second. >> All in favor?