##VIDEO ID:M7yziuiTvBE## ground record all right the meeting of the township of precip Troy Hills planning board from Monday February 3rd 2025 at 7:30 p.m. uh announcement is made that adequate notice of this meeting has been given that is being conducted in accordance with njsi 10 col 4-6 at SEC of the New Jersey open public meetings act nor would you call the role Please Mr didich yeah Mr dipiero here councilwoman herandez here Mr mey here Mr math pres Mr napalitano here Miss Smith here Mr stanel here chairman Den Moore here we also have our board planner M winter our board engineer Mr kiano and our board attorney Miss steinley let's do the Pledge of Allegiance please I Al of the United States of America the rep for stands one nation under God indivisible and Justice all right our first item is to swear in two of our people who were reappointed this year Mr napalitano Y and uh who else was Miss Smith oh yes of course could you please stand up and you can repeat after me and raise your right hand I state your name I Jenifer Smith do solemnly swear doly swear that I will support the con Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the constition the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear and that I will bear true faith and Allegiance true faith and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments established the governments established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people so help me God so help me God I do further solemnly swear fur swear that I will impartially that I will impartially and justly perform and justly perform all of the duties of the office all the duties of the office of planning board class board class four board class three CL two for Miss Smith Oh two I'm sorry I my that's right according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations congratulations welcome back thank you very much all right uh this meeting is open to the general public is there any member of the public who wishes to speak to us tonight on a object of something that is not on our agenda tonight hearing and seeing none uh we move on into our agenda the first item on the agenda is a resolution uh has everybody had a chance to look at the resolution or act application number 20 4 colon 530 andand and Rupal Shaw 14 puddingstone road block 8 three Zone R1 major soil moving permit is anybody willing to move the resolution Mr Ney Mr chairman I would move that application as you read it secondo did yes DPO yes her excuse me Hernandez yes Nee yes M yes on here SEL yes Dore yes okay all right now we move on to our agenda we have application number 24 col 532 dador Mah mahayan uh 47 Detroit road block 733 spot o01 lot 15 spot O2 Zone R2 major soil moving hi good evening yes hello do you please raise your right hand do you swear or affirm that the testimony that you're about to give will be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth yes all right please state your name spell your last name and provide your address for the record dad Mahajan m a h a j a n my address is 53 Carlton Drive pran New Jersey thank you well tell us why you're here tonight okay good evening uh good evening uh members of the parcion planning board I uh the applicant proposed to move 542 cubic yards of soil as part of a proposed single family home on 470 Troy Road in Paran um I I actually as a bit of history back in May 7 May 17th of 2017 I went to the board of adjustments and received approval to build a similar home slightly larger uh which was approved and a resolution was entered um but here I am many years later finally uh excited to move forward with this with your permission um the township of parcion engineering office has no objection to my application per their memo to this board dated December 6th uh 2024 I will comply with all of the requests in their memo and um with respect to the um I could go ahead and uh get into the number of truck loads how many days and further details with your permission we would like to hear that okay excellent so with respect to the number of truck loads that we estimate and this is all based on consultation with my conversations with my engineer uh Adam kundil of dayel engineering located in Mountain Lakes New Jersey uh the number of truckloads is approximately 28 um so it's essentially 543 divided by roughly 20 or so of of soil that needs to be removed number one number two how many days um uh will the trucks move the soil approximately 2 days with a maximum of 15 truckloads per day where uh will the soil be taken from the soil will come from the excavation of the house foundation the house footprint is approximately 2800 square ft all material not used for back fill will be hauled offsite uh with respect to the route of the trucks um fortunately there are many major highways very close to the job site uh Route 80 and Route 46 are a a mile or less and Route 10 is about 2 to 3 miles away the shortest distance will be utilized and taken based on discussions with my site site work contractor uh what time uh will the trucks come and go um we want to be sensitive and aware of school buses and children and also uh of the morning and evening rush hour so we'll plan to to do this between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. as to be respectful and sensitive of those and those are uh kind of the main points that I have Andrew do you have any uh excellent presentation thank you sir kind of nervous but thank you um you H everything that I would have asked um and then you um you did comment on the township Engineers uh letter you will comply there is a tree removal permit that's required yes sir soil uh settlement control from the county that's required so I'm um it sounds like you're on top of these items and uh uh all those items will have to be shown to the township engineer before he'll give you his approval ABS absolutely sir I'll be sure to comply with all the items enumerated in the memo to the planning board from the engineering office that's all I have okay any members of the board have any questions on this testimony at this time hearing and seeing none and any members of the public have any questions of this witness on this testimony at this time hearing and seeing none do you have anything further to add no thank you very much for your valuable time any members have any thoughts or questions at the moment then this closes the evidentiary portion of tonight's hearing uh do I have somebody willing to make a resolution Mr chairman a motion to approve application number 24 colon 532 damoder Mahajan 470 Troy Road Block 73301 lot 15.2 Zone R2 major soil moving permit do I have a second secondo thank you Mr nalo uh Nora would you call a roll please did yeser yes Hernandez yes mey yes meth yes Nano yes Smith yes yes yes thank you very much very much appreciated thank you all right this moves us to the last item on tonight's agenda application number 24 col 528 B10 Hilton Court owner LLC to Hilton Court block 202 lot 3 spot 10 minor site plan to modify Building height removal of Drive ramp relocation of parking spaces and setback Improvement you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank St Tom on behalf of the AL B10 Hilton Court owner LLC this application should be quite familiar to the board the board has uh entertained uh site plan applications for this site um uh twice previously in the last 3 years most recently uh less than a year ago for an amendment uh we're here again this evening because the property is under new ownership onx equities sold the property um to the new owner and the new owner you know is in the process of constructing it if you've driven by the site you notice it's been completely demolished and Grading is under way but the new owner has certain preferences as to the style uh location of offices within the warehouse you're going to hear about that but it's just a little nips and Tuck uh purely preferential on behalf of the new owner um which they think is going to make it a better uh product for the for the warehouse market so we brought the whole team here tonight um because just in the you know Murphy's Law we didn't bring everybody we'd need them but tonight you're primally here from LS Reyes the professional engineer who you heard last time early I guess the spring of 2024 when this application was being amend once before uh we also have an owner's representative this year we have a traic engineer we have our architect we also have speci planner um in case any issues arise we have the Firepower knowledge here to address anything um but I do think it's just worthwhile for the board to hear from Mr leas uh exactly what's changing about this site oh and uh which is again why we're here today for site plan Amendment so yeah we'll just go through the there's a couple waivers that are Reed um we have on form 516 for the existing propos signs um the environmental assessment study uh submission of site photographs and the combined preliminary and final being separate sheets um and again for the signs um and that that's all and we don't have any objection I don't think and I'm sure the testimonial show that uh none of the changes proposed affect any of those conditions all right we have a motion to approve the waivers as outlined in the planner's memo motion math do I have a second second all in favor any oppos all right Mr please raise your right hand do you swear affirm that the testimony that you're about to give will be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth please state your name spell your last name name and provide your address for the record yeah my first name is Louis that's l u i s my last name is Reyes that's r e ye s is that microphone on no I don't think so it was on is the orange light lit up on it on the top look at the don't don't flick the thing okay press press the button at the bottom I I guess just speak closer to microphone please just that's yeah okay great no so just your address and then um provide the board with your qualifications which we've already heard but just as a reminder yeah I live in 78 gler New Jersey um I am the civil engineer for the project I've worked in civil engineering for about 10 years um I've worked on numerous projects across Jersey I have my Bachelor of Science and civil engineering from the New Jersey technology um I'm a licensed professional engineer in the state of New Jersey and I previously testified in New Jersey as an expert witness I'm also the civil engineer who testified for the last period for this application and your we ask that the board recognize it again as an exp anybody have any questions on this qualifications see can you grab the other microphones that you have on as well it's sitting right yes they're already all on is the orange light on sounds that's the orange light all right Mr re since you've been intimately involved with this project it's pretty much your design um can you give the board an overview of what this project is what what they approved previously twice and then what were nipping and tucking about it for the new owner's preferences so just to give a brief overvie overview of the property um the property where the project will take place is approximately 10.4 acres in size it's identified as block 42 lck 3.10 uh the address is to court I Griz is situated in the specialized Economic Development district 10 Zone the property is boarded by Hilton for to the north the highway rout 10 to the southwest of rout 10 access ramp and ding way to the South and Southeast and an adjacent commercial lab um you guys youve all received two versions of the site plan rendering at the bottom left corner you'll be able to tell which one is which and those if those weren let Mark that package ped out as A1 you want to mark them separately together I'll mark the previous application site plan rendering as A1 and I'll I'll mark the new application site plan rendering as A2 okay thank you um again the um the bottom left corner indicates which version of the SE plan Runing it is it notes previously approved application that was the one that was approved um there was a resolution that passed for this previous application in May 2024 and then on the one nearest to me is the new application so um I'm going to go through a list of site plan features that have changed or remain the same from the previous application the project entails the construction of 122,000 664 proposed Warehouse with a total office area of 12,300 Ft this is consistent with the previously approved application the proposed building will also REM remain in the same location in the approved application the warehouse the warehouse had two offices that were 6,150 ft each located in the South Center and in the Southeast Center where the main office entrances are located um they're noted as red on the S um in the new application we're maintaining the same total office area but we're merging the two offices um into a single office area with the main entrance now located at the corner of this reconfiguration slightly improve the front yard set back from d and way at the corner of the building at the copy the off copy in that area has been removed the building height has been reduced from 44.7 ft in the application to approximately 40.8 ft in the new application loading docks will remain in the north side the approved application included 25 loading docks and two driving ramps the new site plan maintains 25 Loading Docks but reduces the driving ramps to one this adjustment allows for a landscaped Island adjacent to the remaining creating a smoother transition from the finished floor elevation of the building to the loading dock area which is 4T low and eliminates the need for a transition wall between the ramp and the loading dock area the width of the loading dock Ding and driving ramp at minor revisions to match the latest architectural PRS the new application is keeping the same number of car parking spaces on the east and south side of the building with the same number of ADA and make ready EV spes as previous work group The Ada and make ready e spaces have been relocated in the new application to be near the new main office entrance in the northeast corner of the building the parking lot just so this may be a question that comes up the old one and just to um get in front of this question the old one shows um seven car parking spaces in this radius and then the the new one shows seven lbank spaces just to be clear um the seven the seven parking lot stations will be maintained at seven Land Bank car parking stations this was requested by the hand Highland Council and approved by the Township in the previous applications and resolution it's not new to this application um the required number of car parking and how the required number was calculated will remain the same as approved 11 trailer SCS on 11 trailer SCS on the west side of the building and the S circulation for cars trucks and emergency vehicles all remain unchanged from the previous application the fire department has approved the new application um there is a monument signed north of the property near the truck for entrance which remains consistent with the prior approval no new signage is being requested at this time the retaining walls for the project will remain in the same location in the maximum height as approv um jumping into grading in the major Sol moving Department uh Justin Lia Lisa the township engineer was okay with us using the approved major soil moving Curr perit for the new application as long as we provide a testimony on any new change in in the volume of sale to be mov the building's finish floor elevation and the four foot differential from the loading dock area to the Finish floor elevation um remain unchanged from the approved application the grading is nearly identical to the approved application with minor adjustments to ensure the new location of the proposed Ada scells comply with Ada standards these slight rating modifications will not affect the volume soil to be moved for the project and the new application will be covered in the approved major soil moving permit I'm going to jump into utilities the proposed will have two water connections at the Jason streets the existing Water Service connection to Dragon way remains unchanged from the previously approved application the applicants team held a meeting with the Township water water department in December 2024 to review the latest utility plan to discuss sizing the existing Water Service connection at ilton court for the proposed building we received positive feedback from the water department and SCSI has revised the plan based on the meeting and submitted it back to the water department um sanitary will continue connect to connect to the existing sanitary system at the North portion of the property which remains unchanged from the approved application the new application has been approved by the township Sewer Department proposed electric Telecom and gas will connect to the existing utility infrastructure at Hilton Court which remains a change from the approved application Landscaping lighting remain identical to the previously approved application the new application has been approved by the Township parks and Forestry Department storm water remains identical and will be collected treated and detained by proposed bio retention bases impious payment system which is consistent with the approved application the new application will have a 4ot high chain link fence with Gates that will be installed around the B attention Basin for safety reasons um and to finish off in conclusion I just want to let you guys know about outside agencies um as for Outside Agency approval that the this new application has been approved by the county Morris County Soil Conservation District the highlands and njd which have all been submitted recently to the township can you get the board to know to if they were to drive out to Hilton Court Now by driving what's at what's happening at the S right now and what's the plan going forward so at least the board has an idea what the what the sequence is yeah so as you know we've been previously approved under the old application so we um uh my client has proceeded forward to uh demo the building so right now the demo uh the building is demo the site is relatively leveled and S erosion um so erosion cement control measur have in place so right right now we are um we are starting construction so um getting into the boards uh you know there's a whole bunch of reports board planner report Bo engineer report is there anything in those memos reports that the applic cannot comply with will not comply with or is everything everything uh um everything should be squared away um we haven't received the u a latest letter from GPI but I'm sure we can work it out with GPI um their comments were relatively minor the last time and if Mr kiano or his associate has any requests to you work with him and comply with it that is correct uh again uh chairman we have a whole bunch of people in the architect traffic just because you know they're they're going full board on this so we wanted to make sure that if the board had any questions on any of the any of these specials we'd be able to answer them that pretty much that's it the one gu answer we asking for is a is less intense than the variance that was approved last time around uh we have Matt Flynn from John MC's office private planning test if requests I don't want to waste the's time need it well I'm going to start by turning to Mr kiano and ask him if yeah this application as they testified is an amended uh request amended approval from last year's application and if anyone has any questions on exactly what they're changing you went know over it but it it goes down it it whittles down to the the the slight slight adjustments to the Loading Docks and change in location of the office entry door um they submit it once in November uh we had a couple minor comments they submitted again in December we had a couple minor comments one was about setback at the driving way front yard um that wasn't calculated correctly you you just resubmitted uh last week or the week before we issued we uh issued a letter Friday on the 31st I don't know if you received that um and you uh they addressed our main comment which was the uh uh front yard setback distance and they recalculated it correctly and it's 210 greater than what was previously approved or or or a wider uh front yard setback so it's in compliance um with the requirement um we have no more comments I think you I think our last letter of Friday you'll like it that it was generally you addressed all our comments generally um I don't have the letter right uh but it was issued Friday the 31st and uh you just testified you'll uh address any remaining comments that sounds that's that's going to be fine any questions by members of the board just just one thank you for that uh just remind us about the uh emergency exits are they chained up I forgot I'm looking on on here but I it says balled with chain that's all all the time they're bed with chain same as approved that hasn't changed has changed Y and it's chained up all all day long yes it's only Unchained when a fire truck has come thank you Miss Smith you had a um yes I just wanted to know the in the permit that I issued there were two retaining walls uh maximum height 4.89 ft did that change or is that exactly the same maximum height still the same and still two retaining walls correct okay perfect thank you other members of the board have any questions on this testimony at this time yeah quick question any any reason for reducing the height I'm just curious is that big based on the usage or um honestly um my client team looked at it and they felt like from feasibility and maybe cost saving trans that they wanted to reduce the okay but not based on anything usage or the tenant or um I mean it it could have been a tenant requirement but um I to me it might have been a right thank you all right anybody else I had one question the the fencing around the retention basins are is that new that's new and that'll comply with the township height for fencing in a front yard technically yeah it's it's a maximum score it's um the answer is yes we will make it comply with the township and just to be clear for the record the front yard setback that Mr canano was referring to what what exactly is the front yard set back since it's the only variant or new variant change me it was 12092 now it's 12094 so 02 increase okay so it actually increased from the last one meaning we're set back for oh yeah yes got it we made it better understood it took a minute sorry any other questions by members or professionals hearing and seeing none any members of the public have any questions hearing and saying none uh since there is a variance we would love to have a little bit of planning testimony do you swear affirm that the testimony that you're about to give will be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth I do all right and please state your name spell your last name and provide your business address for the record yeah uh Flyn F lnn business address is 101 jalter Drive Mor claims the board has previously qualified you as has there anything changed since the last time you testified regarding your Li insure or any of your qualifications have not so we'd ask that Mr Fint be recognized as an expert professional plan anybody have any question questions on the qualifications hearing and seeing none what I'm passing out is Mr Flynn's planning package which Mar A3 andh A3 is be a fourage exhibit anal shot great thanks man you all the testimony from Mr re with the project you participated in the prior iterations can you give the board benefit of your plan sure so I will be brief um like uh was mentioned by our engineer here this is an amended site plan application we're not here starting from scratch we're here working with a previously approved uh application so having said that all the really foundational questions that come with zoning and planning applications in terms of safety Aesthetics uh functionality circulation all of that has really been addressed at this point and really has not changed uh except to the extent has that has already been testified to um so really here we're only seeking that one mod appied C Varian which is the the front setback variance which is like was mentioned an improvement over the existing conditions um I won't go through the Amendments again since our Engineers did a good job at going through those um but just for the record I do have this exhibit that was just passed out for the board's uh point of reference here I'll just go through it briefly page one is a simple aerial photograph showing the property highlighted in yellow here it's an existing vacant property the exist the previously the the most recent site improvements have been demolished at this point it's a pretty large property standing out of approximately 10 acres and we get a sense of what's around us here um obviously the Hilton um some uh offices and our best friends the IRS down the 10 then uh just flipping over to sheet two again now we have 10 in the front of the page here and like I said we have the vacant site conditions um this is a pretty visible property again and it so by upgrading this with a permitted use um that's already been approved um we think it's going to be to the benefit of not only the applicant of course but the the town and the streetcape of R 10 as well just going through uh sheet three is again just the same view just Network 10 you see on the left of the page there the the background and so that's that exhibit basically to tie all that into the stat story criteria again this is a c variant we're in the SC10 Zone we're talking about a permitted use um really the site plan was like I said already approved uh and really what we have here is something that I think satisfies the C2 balancing test the benefits of the application as a whole substantially outweigh any detriments all the project benefits that were put forth at the last hearing uh carry forth today really these are pretty minor amendments to the plan so all those benefits in terms of getting a permitted use here uh we talked about the footprint of the building we get adequate light air open space if you look on page one we can see that that off BR of Route 10 uh provides a buffer across uh across dried and way there we saw the highly aesthetic building last time again it's going to be actually decreased in terms of masing by decreasing that Building height um and again bringing an underutilized commercial land uh back is of functional use productive use that's going to keep being with the intent of the Zone um so all of that goes towards the purposes of zoning from the municipal landuse law again all of that was testified to at the last year um the flip side to that is the negative criteria in terms of Zone compliance this is a substantially compliant application uh in terms of lot size lot coverage Building height building coverage uh most of the uh the setbacks the parking um and I would say that really the intent behind that one variant we're seeking the setback is having adequate light air open space but again the footprint of the building is pretty much exactly where it was at the last application so I think that's been well vetted at this point um so really in conclusion I would say this is an appropriate Amendment it's in keeping with the prior approval and of course uh really keeping this uh this land uh back into functional use in keeping with the the demands and the needs of the of the current headed um so with that I promise to be brief so if there's any questions I'm happy to answer them Christine do you have no it it is truly a minor change to the variant even more minor than um had previously been figured out so you hit all the points you have any nope I have nothing any members of the board have questions on this testimony at this time just an observation you guys like that drone we got lots of drone pictures from you yep we're not the ones in the news I don't think I was about to ask you that you do during the day we're going out there during the day y any other members the board hearing and seeing none are there any members of the public who have any questions of this testimony at this time hearing and seeing none are there any other is there any other test testimony that any members of the board feel we should have on this case or if we heard enough out of curiosity so the each of the ranches 25 of them are reduced by one foot uh half I'm sorry half a foot that doesn't affect any of the trailers that are going in and out I should have asked that before Le is still here yeah sorry lisis um yeah so that was my one of my points um mhone yeah that was one of my points um we revised it to match the latest architectural FL plan so the trailer stalls are fine they're going to stay the same size um you are correct the um the loading dock striping width was reduced by half a foot so it used to be 13 and a half now it's 13 yeah it's a minor change thank you any other members of the board hearing and saying none are there any members of the public have any uh questions on this witness this testimony hearing seeing none do you have anything further no chair just to thank the planning board for all the time this I again this is the third time we've been looking at sure the iteration and uh the new owner is is eagerly proceeding with it and we thankful for for all the time and effort the board's consultants and measurement uh a lot of effort was put a lot of thought was put into this project so we hope that when it's done T will be really proud of it there any members of the public who have any questions or comments on this application hearing and seeing none this closes the evidentiary portion of tonight's hearing do I have a motion Mr chairman Mr D I move a motion to approve application number 24 coron 528 B10 Hilton Court owner LLC to Hilton Court block 22 L 3.10 minor site plan to modify Building height removal of Drive ramp relocation of parking cases and setback Improvement subject two any conditions uh the conditions were to comply with the township and board professional reports and work with the professionals to um achieve compliance to comply with the township ordinance regarding fence height around the basins and you're permitted to the revised front yard setback um of 12.94 second second me nor would you call the RO please yes yes Fernandez yes me yes math yeso yes Smith yes yes yes thank you is there any other anything else to come before the board tonight uh hearing and seeing none I have a motion to adjourn so move move second second all in favor anybody I hopes but I didn't dare say it Ru trying never we had one on the board of adjustment figed half hour doing our training ended up and then all of a sudden they I think