Well, please come to order. Adequate notice of this meeting was provided in the following ways. Notice published in the Courier News. Notice posted on the bulletin board in the municipal building. Notice made available to the township clerk. Notice sent to the Courier News and the Star-Ledger. Will the clerk please call the roll? Mr. Tillery here. Mr. O'Reggio All right. Oh, boy. He was right at home that I saw him.
Mr. Mitterando Mr. Ali. Yeah. Mr. Weisman. Here and Chairman Cahill. Here Well, everyone, please stand for a salute to the flag. I know I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which this nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Kinneally, Do we have any changes to t agenda? Yes, we do.
The application of Akshay Kumar Raj six Joyce Drive will not be heard tonight. It will be adjourned until May 14th, with no further notice the application of N.D.K. Realty. South Washington Avenue is not going to be heard tonight. It will be rescheduled for May 28th with no further notice. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you. Let's move on to item number six. 26 Dash ZB, Dash 12 V and Edniel Elimanco You're recording in progress. I need to swear you in what?
Could you raise your right hand? Do you swear the testimony you're about to give should be the truth? I do. Could you explain to the board why you're here? Please apply for variance in order to build an addition to my house. In order to have a growing family, I just need more room, more space. And Mr.. He has a report? Yes. Jonathan, would you jump in here? Yes. Have you. Mr. Elimanco have you read the report dated April 16th, 2026? Yes.
Have you made any consideration to reducing the size of that front porch to lessen the relief requested? Yes. What are what are you willing to do? Well, whatever. Whatever the amount that you're looking to get to reduce that. You say, John, six inches. Yeah, we can do it. We can discuss that. Okay. And you're open to you're open to the the porch remaining open if it's approved. Correct. Okay.
And the deck in the rear yard. What's the condition of the deck? It's. It's in good condition. The the as I told you yesterday, the deck was replaced from original wood to like a truck decking to like a plastic wood. So. Okay. Yeah. So we expect the are a couple many good years of that that deck in good condition.
Yes. Okay. And you are amenable to a five foot temporary easement along Salem Street if and when the town elects to do a road improvement, including a sidewalk construction. Yes. Okay. The staff is staff is open to the approval of the application. If the board wants to see a minor reduction in the porch, that's that. That would be fine. Really. It's just the covered the roof portion that's an issue here.
If there was no roof, this would be compliant. It's a four and a half foot deep covered area and it's encroaching. Three and a half feet into the front yard. Setback. So your recommendation is 31 and a half feet. 31 and a half feet is what's being proposed. If it remains if it remains open, it's it's not a big concern to me. Okay. Any other members have questions or comments about this hearing? None.
I'm going to open it to the public. Anyone in the public have any questions or comments about this application? No one, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Laura. Closed the public portion. I'd make a motion to approve this application. Can I get a second? I'll second it. Please call the roll. Mr.. Mr. Weisman? Yes. Yes. Tillary! Yes, Mr. O’Reggio. Oh, right. He's not here. Mr. Blount is here. Mr. Blount. Yes, Mr. Mitterando? Yes, Mr. Ali.
Yes. And Chairman Cahill. Yes. Your application has been approved. Will memorialize it in a written document at our next meeting, and we'll send that document to you. Good luck. Thank you. Board members. Goodnight, sir. Let's move on to item seven 26 dash Z.B. dash 09 V Michael and Aldora. Thompson, Michael and Aldora. Thompson, Present. Can you please? Yes. Yes. Okay. You were sworn in at the last meeting. You remain sworn in to tell the truth. Yes. Yes, yes.
I can discuss this with your contractor and Mr. Mizrahi. Yeah. Jonathan, why don't you jump in and see what you think we resolve this? Yes, we. We spoke with. I spoke with the applicant, their builder. They both provided documentation from the manufacturer of the wall system building system, showing that a wall mounted bracket is feasible. So we are in support of the applicant moving forward with moving the air condensers onto the wall
using such a bracket. Michael and Aldora, that's. It's good with you, right? Yes. Yes. And we're so we're still going to require the fence to be moved out of the right away, as well as a memorandum of restriction to be recorded with respect to accessing the easement areas that we discussed at the last meeting. Yes. And we already moved the fence. So we'll just just have to look at it at once. So you do have to get a permit after you get your resolution. We have the permit already.
You had to have a permit to be in the right location. You'd have to get just a zoning permit just for that fence. That was the issue. You didn't have a zoning permit for the fence. We can we can square. We could square it after the, okay. Yeah. No, we didn’t know we had to have a Okay, that's. That's fine. That's why we're here. Any other members have any questions or comments about this application? And I'm going to open this to the public. Anyone in the public have any questions or comments about this application? No one chairman. Okay. Closed the public portion. I'd make a motion to approve this application in a second.
I'll second. Please call the roll. Mr. Weisman. Yes, Mr. Tillery? Yes. Mr. Blount? Yes, Mr. Mitterando Yes. Mr. Ali. Yes. And Chairman Cahill. Yes. Our application as amended, has been approved. We'll memorialize this in a written document at our next meeting, and we'll send that document to you. Good luck. Okay? Thank you. Thank you. Michael. Feel better? Okay. Oh, thank you. I appreciate you. God bless,Thank you. Let's move on to item number nine, which is 26 Dash ZB.
Dash ten V, I want to say Acmy as it seems seem like I think it's Acmy. I think you're right to ask me. Well, we'll do Acmy. Hello. Good evening. Members of the board. Board professionals. My name is Tim Arch. I'm an attorney licensed in the state of New Jersey. I'm here representing Acmy, although it's actually called A C M Y. I just. You're going to go. But in any event, we're here for an extension of a six month temporary use permit. If you recall, this is a warehouse property. You granted us the ability to store or park
in 20 delineated spaces in the back of the warehouse trucks for a third party. And you would be able to do what you do. You would be able to do that normally if they were associated with the warehouse business. The only thing that was different was that these were third parties that were not associated with the primary warehouse business. So we're here, quite frankly, we haven't actually put a truck back there yet. We did the striping all of the all the lighting that was required
was put there, I believe, as part of the application of the extension. We provided pictures to show that the striping and the lighting is there. So we're just asking to extend that for another six months to have the option to utilize that. I will also tell the board that I believe that there is a interest in purchasing the property from a another individual. And so we're planning to meet with the township staff with a concept plan. So it might be that this never really comes to pass, that we have the trucks there,
but we want to keep our options open for another six months to have them there. So we would have understood and all the conditions obviously would stay stay the same. Yes. Okay. Thanks, Tim. I appreciate it. Members of the board of any questions about this extension hearing? None. I'm going to open it actually, without up to the public to by. Yes, we do. Okay. Anyone on the public portion have any questions or comments about this? No one Chairman they closed the public portion. Make a motion to extend this additional six months to six months.
I'll say seconded it. Thank you. Mr. Weisman. Yes. Mr. TILLERY. Yes. Mr. Blount. Yes. Mr. Mitterando Yes. Mr. Ali. Yes. And Chairman Cahill. Yes, but memorializes at our next meeting. Oh, I'm sorry. Roy was back. Mr. O’Reggio Yes, thank you. Sorry, Laura, back me up here because on my copy I have NDK as number ten, but I took it off your update this afternoon.
It's item number 10 26 Dash ZB Dash 07V Snack Innovations. That is correct, I believe. Hello again. Board professionals and board members. My name is Tim Arch attorney license in the State of New Jersey and I am here now in my capacity representing snack innovations. So Snack Innovations is a company. They're a snack manufacturing company, as their name might suggest it, back in 2016, they came into Piscataway and they started operating out of a location at Ethel Road.
So they've been here a decade. In that time that they've been operating there, they have grown substantially. They've been very popular. And quite frankly, they're busting at the seams at their Ethel Road location. So they've recently purchased a location at 1690 South Washington Avenue, which is a site where manufacturing is permitted. It's a site that has two warehouses already there. It's a it was previously the M&M site, M&M being the not the candies, but the the entity was called M&M.
But in any event, they they absolutely need to get into this new location to start operating because, again, they are at absolute full capacity at Ethel Road. They're going to continue to operate at the Ethel Road location as well. So they're staying in Piscataway. They're just having a secondary location in Piscataway as well. So basically what snack innovations does is they make healthy, delicious snacks. And actually the only product line that they will be making in this in the new South Washington facility is a product called Drizzle licious, if I can get it not to blur or maybe if I make it my face.
There you go. Drizzle licious is a it's a rice cake snack and immediately you hear rice cake and you think it's not good. This is the most addictive snack I have ever tried and that is absolutely honest and it is healthy for you. So I highly recommend everybody go get them. You can find them at Target, Walmart, Costco, pretty much any location. And the really cool thing is on the back of the of the package, it says that it was made in Piscataway, which I think is pretty cool because you don't see that every day. So basically we're asking for this temporary use variance
to be able to start operating right away because as I said, they're really over overpacked in their road location. So I do have I do have two witnesses tonight. I have Isaac Ben Zaken, who is the operations manager of Snack Innovations. And then I have Alison Coffin, who's our professional planner. So unless there's any preliminary stuff and by the way, I'll mention we agree and can comply with all the comments of the staff report. And I'll note just for the record that one of the comments refers to a traffic light
that is going to be constructed there based off of a prior application. I'll note for the record that we have already entered into a developer's agreement that is in the possession of the township to address that traffic light issue. So that is already that is already sort of a moot condition at this point that's on there. But we agree to everything in the staff report. So with that, I'm ready to proceed to my first witness, unless there's any questions. No, please proceed and start. Okay. I would ask Isaac, Ben Zaken, if you can I see you there if you can be sworn in, and then I'll ask you some questions.
Mr. Ben Zaken. Yes? Raise your right hand. You swear the testimony you're about to give should be the truth. Yes. Thank you. Your name and address, please. 944, 944 Avenue. R, Brooklyn, New York. One, one, two, two, three. Thank you. All right, so, Isaac was everything that I said in my introduction accurate? Yes. Okay. So like I said, snack innovations. You've been operating there in Piscataway since 2016. You've managed to grow a lot.
And it's true to say that that you require this new site to really operate and you need to get in there like yesterday. Is that accurate? Yes. Okay. And once you're up and running, it's going to be devoted solely to this to this product line, drizzle licious, which is, I think, your most popular product to date and goes to countless different retailers, correct? Correct. Yes. Okay. So we need to talk about a little bit about operational testimony. So creating this product doesn't doesn't cause any sort of noxious odors
or dust or any sort of nuisance, you know, sound, smells, toxic waste, anything, anything to that extent, correct? Correct. It does not. And Mr. Mizrahi actually had the had the chance to go visit your Ethyl road facility. And so he's going to hopefully back you up on that when we get to his testimony. But I don't believe there's anything offensive in the in the making of this product. So you have you you employ three shifts or you intend to employ three shifts,
75 employees, each building, each shift. So that's 150 employees per shift and three shifts. So that's 450 in total. And is that correct? First of all, is my math correct on that? Yes, Correct. Okay. And they're not all going to be on the site at the same time. But at most, when there's a shift change, there might be a half an hour where you have the 150 that are leaving and 150 that are coming in. So you might have maybe about 300 people assuming that every single employee drove themselves in a separate car, which they don't do.
But assuming worst case scenario, you would have about maybe 300 people onsite at any given time, correct? Yes, Correct. Okay. And the site has right now 300 and I believe, 38 parking spaces. So you're you're comfortable that you can that you can adequately accommodate all of your employees, even at the worst case scenario at a shift change, correct? Yes. Okay. And you also have in terms of loading spaces, I think the site has
I think you anticipate using about ten loading bays on each building, five for shipping, five for receiving, and each building has well over ten bays a piece, correct? Yes, I think 28 each. Okay. So so you don't see that there's going to be any issue with not having enough loading bays or loading spaces for your operation? No. Okay. No issues at all. Right. I don't believe I have any other operational questions for Mr. Ben Zaken, but if the board has any questions, he's happy to answer them, any members of the board or.
Jonathan, do you have anything overview that you could add to this? I just know there was a couple of conversations that were had between staff, the applicant and Tim with your your team. Maybe I wasn't fully in the loop or for the benefit of the board at least. Is there going to be any sort of transportation between the Ethel Road location and this location for employees since you're maintaining production of both facilities? I believe currently what they are doing is they're utilizing,
with the permission of the township, they're utilizing the South Washington parking right now to sort of accommodate that overflow parking at Ethel Road. I'll Isaac, I'll ask you when everything is up and running, when you have both sites, do you anticipate anticipate the need to have shuttling back and forth to the sites? No, we should not be shuttling because we're going to remove some of the a little bit of the production out of 41 and move it into this new building. So those workers that are being shuttled will not have to be shuttled.
They'll be working there. Yeah. So I think right now, temporarily we're doing that once everything is up and running, that won't be necessary anymore because it will have relieved all the pressure at the at the other site. Good brand, the sanitary sewer forced mean calculations. Is that something you're working on or ready to provide? Yeah. I spoke to I spoke to Alan Ben Zaken, who is who is one of the owners. He has reached out to the the engineering firm that did the original sewer calculations and
and hired them to to do an updated calculation based on the new use. I know Mr. Herrera said that it's as easy as plugging in some numbers. It turns out it's not as easy as just plugging in some numbers, but we will be able to get that get that to you well before the both buildings are fully operational, which is I think the the intent is that to make sure that it can handle the capacity, but it's going to take a little while to ramp up to that capacity. So we'll certainly get that as a condition of approval as quickly as we can. And the product is still not anticipated needing
water for the production of the product. It's just going to be popping and baking and the the coating of the product. There's not going to be water, water based elements of the preparation of the food. All right, everyone. But I believe. I believe that's correct. Correct. Yes. Okay. That's all I have, right now. And yes, I did visit that Ethel Rd. locati Bursting at the seams is an understatement. No outside sound and smell environmental impacts at that location. Okay.
Thank you, Jonathan and the other members of the board of any questions for this witness. Do I Just two quick questions, please. John. Retail sales are not permitted, correct. No, there's no retail. There's no retail that we are proposing, no contemplation, No, at this point. And this run, 24, seven or five days a week how does it operate five days, five days, 24 hours, five days a week. Okay.
Thanks for the questions. Okay. Any other members have any questions for this witness? Okay. Tim, put your other expert on. Thank you. Next would be Alison Coffin, a professional planner. Could you raise your right hand? Do you swear that the testimony you're about to give should be the truth? Yes, I do. I believe Mr. Coffin has been accepted as a planner before this board. Couple of times My license is still in good standing. That's good to hear. We please proceed, if you will.
And the property that we're looking at is at 1690 South Washington Avenue. It's just shy of 25 acres and it has site plan approval for a development with two warehouse buildings which have been constructed. The applicant's requesting that temporary use permit to use the buildings for food manufacturing. And it's located in the M2 industrial district, where food manufacturing is a permitted use. There is at this point no change from the prior approval that would trigger bulk variances for the site.
So not proposing any changes at this time in front of this board. So the essence of this application is to determine if the site which was approved for warehouse use can operate with the proposed food manufacturing use temporarily. It's my opinion that it can accommodate the use proposed. The primary concern here from a planning perspective, when both the approved and proposed uses are permitted in the zone, is the ability of the site as it was constructed to accommodate the potential differences in staffing. In this instance, the site was developed with 338 parking spaces
to support uses warehousing and the change to manufacturing use as it's proposed, which has 150 employees onsite, is the largest shift, with the 300 potentially present during shift change. If everybody drives themselves, can still be accommodated on the site with those 338 parking spaces. The other potential concern I had would have been loading, but the site can easily accommodate the needs of this use, which requires ten births per building and each building has 27 28 loading births available. So for those reasons it's my opinion
that the site can accommodate the proposed manufacturing use and the board would be justified in approving the temporary use permit pending full site plan application. Thank you, Alison. You're welcome. And important whatever. Any questions for the planner? Okay. Hearing none Mr. Arch You want your testimony? Yeah. Just to say that again. The standards part of the ordinance is it's a two pronged test, essentially.
Number one, is there going to be a substantial detriment upon the uses because this is a permitted use already in the zone. There is no detriment, obviously. And number two, is it going to contribute materially to the welfare of the township? You've heard that there is a real need for that Ethel Road location to alleviate some of the strain on that location. So approving this well will really be a help alleviate that. Overcrowding will be a benefit to the town. Thank you. Thank you. Are any of the members of the board have any questions about the certification you're in? I'm going to open it to the public.
Anyone in the public have any comments or questions about this application? No one. Chairman It closed the public portion. I'd make a motion to approve this. Can I get a second? I'll second it all the world. Mr. Weissman. Yes. Mr. TILLERY Yes. Mr. O’REGGIO Yes. Yes. Mr. Blount, yes Mr. Mitterando, Yes. Mr. ALI Yes. And Chairman Cahill. Yes, Mr. Arch We will memorialize this in a few moments. Thank you very much. Have a wonderful evening, everybody.
Can I thank you. Let's move on to item 11, which is the adoption of resolutions on the regular meeting of April 9th, 2026. First resolution is on switch. This was a resolution of withdrawal. I would need somebody to move that and second it in a voice vote or I would make a motion to withdraw it. I think for a second. I'll second it or Laura call the role Yes. Mr. Weisman Yes. Mr. TILLERY Yes.
Mr. O’REGGIO Yes, yes. Mr. Mitterando Yes. Mr. ALI Yes. And Chairman Cahill Yes. Next, as Wilfredo Pagan, which you voted to approve. Mr. Weisman. Yes. Mr. TILLERY Yes. Mr. O’REGGIO Yes. Mr. Blount Yes. Mr. Mitterando Yes. Mr. Ali, Yes, Chairman Cahill. Yes. Next is Jayana Terantino, which you voted to approve? Mr. Weisman Yes. Mr. TILLERY Yes.
Mr. O’REGGIO Yes. Mr. Blount Yes. Yep. Mr. Mitterando? Yes. Mr. Ali Yes, Chairman Cahill Yes. Finally, is snack innovations what you just voted to approve? Mr. Weisman Yes. Mr. TILLERY Yes. Mr. O’REGGIO Yes. Mr. Blount Yes. Mr. Ali Yes, Chairman. Cahill. Yes. Those are all the resolutions. I have this evening, I'm up then. Item 12, which is the adoption of minutes, huh? Is that item 12 next?
Because I have something that says water adjustment, regulatory health, whatever. Number 12 adopts the minutes from the regular meeting and number 13 is adoption of minutes 14 adjournment. Okay. Adoption of minutes from the regular meeting of April 9th, 2026. All in favor. I item number 14 is a adjournment, all in favor. I, thanks for coming out, guys everybody. say happy birthday to , Courtney she’s working through her bithday. Happy birthday. Thank you. Oh, happy.