All right. I'd like to call this order this meeting of the Ocean Township Planning Board for March 2nd, 2026 to order. Can I have a roll call, please? >> Yes. Councilwoman Kaplan, >> here. >> Mr. Beal, >> here. >> Mr. Burkowitz,
Mr. Goslin, uh, Mr. Minnow, Miss Valente >> here, >> Mr. Bodnovich >> here, >> Mr. May, uh, Vice Chairman Pollutes >> here, >> and Chairman Defilia
>> here. Uh, salute to the flag. Um, no, we're not in a central location, so hopefully you all have a flag somewhere in your office space to look at. >> Oh, we have one right in front of us. All right. I pledge allegiance to the
flag of the United States United States of America and to the republic for which it stands for it stands one nation >> under God indivisible with liberty and justice >> justice for all. >> Okay. Chairman's statement. 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 notice. All meetings will be video and audio taped and shown on the Township of Oceans Community
Cable Channel 77 or on Verizon FiOS channel 77 and on cable vision. All right. Um, first order of business this evening is ordinance amending and supplementing chapter 21 of the comprehensive land development
ordinance. All right. Who do we have presenting for this? >> Uh, yeah. Go ahead, Mary Beth. >> Uh, good evening everyone and thank you very much for making yourselves available for this special meeting. Um, I'm Mary Beth Lergin. I'm a planner, a
licensed New Jersey planner. Um, I've been the, uh, Ocean Township affordable housing planner for potentially 20 years. Um, and tonight we are um addressing the very last
uh deadline of the amended fair housing act in order to address the March 15th statutory requirement to um adopt and for the planning board to do a
consistency review of the implementing ordinances. and that deadline coming up is March 15th. So, I truly do appreciate um all of you making yourselves available. So, to to dive into um the ordinance, uh there's two ordinances
before you tonight. Um the first is to amend your land use code um to adopt again the implementing overlay affordable housing zoning. Um you'll remember that the board that this board
um adopted your fourth round housing element in fair share plan back in June of last year. As part of that there were a number of um unmet need overlay zoning proposals and this we're at the stage
that this is the implementing ordinance. Um, the ordinance was prepared to enact uh the amended Fair Housing Act to uh be consistent with and address the uh regulations, the statewide
regulations governing affordable housing matters, including um the UN uniform housing affordability controls uh issued in December 2025 by the New Jersey Housing Mortgage Finance Agency.
as well as um new regulations issued by the Department of Community Affairs and those regulations were issued um also in December of 2025. Um I I do believe as and I I believe you
have a draft resolution um before you tonight for um this overlay zoning for u two different sites. one is we're referring to it as the
um let me just get the exact wording here the multifamily inclusionary overlay zone and also the English manner inclusionary overlay zone and both are
um amending your chapter 21 uh section uh let's see section 17 18 uh 32 and 32D and 32E.
So, uh with that, I'm happy to answer any questions if uh if you have anything or if you need any other um information about the overlay inclusionary zoning. >> Do any of my board members have
questions on this matter? hearing none. Um Mark, I don't see any members of the public have joined. Do we still need to open it for public comment? >> If there's no one here, I would just and I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, I don't see anyone. I would just note for the
record that there is no one. And if there was anyone, they would uh we encourage them to raise their hand, but there is no one. >> Okay. So, this is a master plan consistency hearing. Actually, I guess we didn't even need public comment then. Um,
>> you really don't, but it's nice to offer it. >> Okay. All right. So, then um do I have a motion to find the ordinance amending the first of the two ordinances um to be in uh alignment with our master plan?
>> Motion. Positive. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All right. Nicole, roll call, please. >> All right. Councilwoman Kaplan, >> yes. >> Mr. Beal, >> yes. >> Miss Valente, >> yes.
>> Mr. Bodnovich, >> yes. >> Vice Chairman Palutis, >> yes. >> And Chairman Defilia, >> yes. All right. Our second ordinance of the evening is ordinance to repeal and replace section 21-9A
affordable housing development fees and section 21-B affordable housing. We going right back to you, Mary Beth. >> Certainly. Uh thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um so again, this is the second of the
two ordinances to amend. Um uh as just noted um and and section it's uh 21-9A and 9B um to implement the updated affordable
housing regulations again in order to address the um the new UHAC uniform housing affordability controls as well as the new DCA department of community affairs regulations.
And um again to be clear, this ordinance um before you tonight for consistency review I believe is consistent with the master plan specifically um the housing element and fair share plan that this
board adopted last June. Um, this is specifically to address that. At the time back in, uh, back in June of last year, the regulations weren't yet available from the state. So, um, that's why it's,
you know, done um, quite a bit later, but still before that uh, March 15th deadline. So, I would recommend uh, that the board find that the ordinance is consistent with your master plan. Any questions from the board?
Seeing none, and again noting that no members of the public have joined since the last time I asked this question. Um, do I have a motion to find this ordinance to be consistent with our master plan? >> I make a motion to find it consistent. >> All right. Do I have a second?
>> Second. >> Second. >> Second. >> Oh, I think I think Mike just got it. Sorry, folks. His box lit up first on my screen. All right. Uh, roll call, please. Nicole. >> All right. Councilwoman Kaplan, >> yes. >> Mr. Beal,
>> yes. >> Miss Valente, >> yes. >> Mr. Bodnovich, >> yes. >> Uh, Vice Chairman Pollutes, >> yes. >> And Chairman Defilia, >> yes. >> All right. I believe that concludes our business for this evening. Is that
correct, Colleen? >> Are we memorializing the resolution? Yes, we're doing the resolutions. >> We just have to do a vote to memorialize the resolutions. >> I do not have that list in front of me. >> It's just you can just memorial it's the same resolutions of what you just did.
So, >> you can just take a single motion to memorialize both resolutions, Mr. Chairman. >> All right. Well, then will someone make a motion to memorialize both resolutions per our the actions that this board has just taken in reference to our
affordable housing ordinances? >> I'll make that motion. >> Do I have a second? >> A second. >> Second. >> Okay, that was Miss Valente. Roll call, please. Nicole. >> All right. Councilwoman Kaplan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Beal.
>> Yes. >> Miss Valente. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bodnovich. Yes. >> Vice Chairman Palutis. >> Yes. >> And Chairman Defilia. >> Yes. >> Okay, >> that's it. >> That's it. >> Okay. All right. Do I have a motion to
adjurnn? >> Motion. >> Moved by Miss Valente. Second. >> I second. >> Seconded by Mr. Beal. All in favor? I. >> Thank you everyone. Bye.
>> Sorry for logging on late. I apologize. Thank you. Looking good, Amir.