okay the following is the agenda for the regular meeting of the Pont Lakes Redevelopment Agency the meeting is to be held at the municipal building at 25 Lennox Avenue on Tuesday March 20th 2025 beginning at 7:30 p.m for more written advanced notice as required by NJSA
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outside the offices of the municipal clerk reserved for this notice from announcements two provided to the suburban trans designated by the bur council to receive such notices and three filed with the clerk of the borrow clerk please stand for pledge
allegiance i pledg 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 thank
you um okay uh before we begin uh just uh want to make two quick announcements glenn is not going to be here tonight glenn is our executive director of course his daughter was playing lacrosse and blew out her knee and they're on their way to the hospital and very sadly
uh you all heard just now that u Andy is not going to be here cuz his mom had passed away so uh I believe the funeral the wake is tomorrow at Scanland's at uh 48 48 and then the funeral is at St mary's on Saturday 11:30ish
all right sorry to hear that it's a tough thing when you lose a parent yes may we have a roll call please yes uh Mr kriley here miss Novak here mr ross here mr kimberlin
uh uh Mr sinki here uh Mr lava Lavasi here is that how you pronounce it lavasi lavasi and welcome thank you and Mr uh Oh my god okay and we will not have any uh the
engineer of the plant will also not be here tonight pretty easy night yes well thanks for coming out we appreciate y'all i'm sorry uh now have a motion to approve the minutes of the reorganization meeting of
February 6 please did we get those we were those minutes i didn't print them i left them there's a copyright i'll make a motion okay thank you Matt a second please second ken thank you very
much all in favor i opposed abstain okay have a motion to accept the regular meeting minutes from February 6 motion ken second i'll second all in favor i opposed abstain
so moved one present right mr oh Mr do you know how that works with the president stuff like that okay great um thank you okay something new which this sounds
I don't know who brilliant idea this was but they want to vote on the bills we're submitting and no offense Joe it's for the lawyer and for the professional services we have copies of the bills we don't know if they're accurate or not but um we vote on them and then the
council then authorizes payment for something the council will not it would be um once it's uh the PL will be issued we vote if approve or not to approve and then um the department head will sign off on
them the department head's the building inspector s so if you're not comfortable voting yes you don't have to it's gone i don't know i'm going to take a vote and we're going to see where it goes and I'll say that if there's any questions about our statement I'll be happy to answer them if I can don't hesitate to
ask them uh and if I can't answer him uh Andrew will when he when he starts so for now eating so I just that's there in life how does S app prove it but he has no idea what we do here so I it's a flawed system
from the getgo i can't believe they put it through anyhow but that's what happens so um you have any suggestions for us on this that Joe have you ever heard of language well not
exactly but uh with uh another entity we represent that is under the eegis of the board of commissioners they have the right to veto the minutes of the Morris County MUA so bills are approved at the meeting but then they have to we have to
wait for the for the board of commissions to decide whether they're going to veto or not it's a little bit different but is the issue here that you haven't seen the bills well we just don't know how to reconcile oh yeah we just now came through they came through on
the email they came You should see the bills before you approve them yeah they came through I think in the in the second email right because this was just just recently so you want to So I'd say they may want
us they may want us to approve these because ultimately these are going to be built against escros right right ultimately got charged to the developers so we may have to be approving them because charged to the escrow you're not you don't control the escrow that's
controlled by the or the burrow is that is that the issue i can Yeah I can control so there's two couple there's a couple wishes here when you need to see the bills before you vote on them you have right to do that if there are any questions for after looking at
them they're open opportunity so the bills for Mayiti there is four bills and if they start the T that's coming from their escrow so those are are um ones that came to the board already for
instance 2011 a QF that's a POS snip project and the next page you'll see details of why what the charges are correspondence um agreements um all to do uh redevelopment
plan with uh Kristen Russell um I guess these are all correspondence and that's how the bill came for that particular account for pumpkin Smith yes we we itemize on our bills uh the time it takes to do those functions you just mentioned
so I will say that my experience in generally reviewing attorney bills is there's no way to like you're you're taking them on their word death validate deaths it's a trust situation you're you're kind of giving them a reasonable smell test
um and you know me personally looking at them I think they're reasonable you know customary and reasonable for what they're looking to do um they'd be built against the escrow I think except for the first one which is the regular the admin yeah the like administrative
overhead right um so I would personally be okay with these but certainly if Well thank you for that appreciate that that's helpful that is helpful all right a motion to approve Marazi Falcon LLP bill uh invoice for
[Music] $2,467.30 i'll make that motion m second please i I'll second it abby thank you very much all in favor i opposed abstained okay uh motion to approve
Cay's Engineering and Design Professional Services in the amount of $928.75 okay so let's just look at $928.75 and what and uh so I see the invoice but what is it does it tell us
what it's for so these two um you I sent you the the first cover and then I sent you what the in detail of what the the bill is so these are for two escros one is for um escrow 4201 if you lab again
from Collier's engineering uh it's uh coordinates with the bureau prepare uh comments um and I guess from the meeting uh preparation for the master plan for 2011 Monikue and then the second one was 60
Wik um hold on let me check this backwards no that's right it's 2011 is $92 right 60 is like 61 or you have is $836 all coming out of their escrow um
and then 61 AQ in detail is uh coordination with the burrow prepare the master plan consistency that's the one that we had um right the the red redevelopment and went to the council council went to planning planning but factory
redevelopment okay so so that so this is all coming out their their correct okay motion to approve I'll make that motion Abby a second I'll Matt all in favor i I
opposed and abstain abstain okay thank you very much roll call please i just had all voted so that was the roll call i said this was the first time so I I was just following
Yeah follow me yeah yeah okay uh as far as correspondence is concerned there's a memo from uh Liz Brand as the mun clerk uh letting us know that Riverdale has a uh redevelopment plan for um North Park by
the Riverdale School oh so that's exciting for them we know what it is or not no I I think it's just a plan no we don't have any there's no right no plan i think it's the old public service yard across you know
where you know where the public service yard is yeah yes yeah it's it's that lot okay in front of like there's a power substation and then it kind of goes deep next to it oh the back lot and it I looked at it today
it's it's for allowing like a apartment campus almost like multiple buildings in an apartment style with walkways between them um yeah so they're looking to get some affordable housing
units on that in that area so all right it actually was a pretty good plan like and Collers did it so it was a pretty good whole encompassing plan for that site so it was a plan that was okay yeah it was a draft plan it's in the
Riverdale it's on the Riverdale website yeah it's in their minutes or it's in their packet for their board okay from their 20 from their latest meeting the PSDG order is coming down uh I don't know what's coming down but it's it's that's what they're okay
probably like Longburg building I think is is probably coming down so all right uh moving along the next memo from uh Elizabeth Brandis deport uh regarding uh land development in Wayne
um I didn't read this does anybody have to read this one uh these are just correspondence for you to get familiarized with the surrounding towns and what's in the happenings yeah and so I think a lot of it was
about um they were lowering the maximum height restrictions i do remember that somewhat to what do you know it was all based on different zoning one of them I remember was like from 25 uh stories down to three stories oh so they really
made some of them some were from four to three and a half from four to 2.5 from 50 ft to 35 ft yeah i do that accessory structures 15 ft max um are we supposed to discuss this
stuff or just be aware of that major information correct so we certainly can discuss well I think it's interesting that they're lowering their their maximum well we're not addressing that i think we ought to be addressing that on this board i mean
overall we don't have a design plan and we arbitrarily in my opinion uh give out um variances and we're doing that over there on 61Q Avenue on this particular we're going from I think two stories to four stories and we're eliminating
retail so I mean we need a design plan i keep on saying that after 10 years yeah well I think the design plan I think two things we do have a plan we have a master plan we are also like if you look at the um I think we readressed in 2017
or 18 the overall 17 the the um the overall plan and it did warn us not to do this willy-nilly to have design concepts and to not not give variances out you know just from like shooting from the hip we should have a plan we
should stick to it and if we're going to uh make a change to the plan it should be for um we should methodically think it out and have a logic reason why we're doing it putting a four-story building over on 60 um Q Avenue when there's only
twotory buildings there right now having no you know it it doesn't there's no tree line or anything it's fitting of this big building on this small little lot i'm just pointing that one out there's other areas who are doing the same thing and we need to be aware that like it looks like Wayne I've seen Wayne
a lot of people talking on different uh social media that um their their constituents their residents are pushing back on the the um over over um development the high density units that
are being put in Wayne and uh Pmpton Lakes is a smaller town you should be sensitive to the fact that a lot of people are not thrilled And so just keep that in mind and I think we should have a plan so this can be talked about and and um in a public
forum um it used to be back in the like 19 um late 1990s early 2000s when we were going to put in high density housing in the flood plane of uh Joe Field we would get this whole area packed and then out you know all the way
out to the Lennox Avenue people would be out there um wanting to voice their opinion it seems that since social media and uh co have uh transpired that we have uh constituents that are not
comfortable um voicing their opinion in in a in a setting like this but if you read the social media in for Pmpton Lakes you can see that there's an overall lack of enthusiasm for some of the highdensity housing that we're doing
and so I think if we're going to do it which we are doing it um we should have a really good reason why we're we're having um we're we're making changes to our or our plans that exist already and without a design plan and a concept um I
think that it's hard to explain i will say this regarding social media that you mentioned I stopped reading it because it seemed always negative never positive and quite honestly I recognized six or seven names on the last one that moved out decades ago right
so feedback here look at look at here's another meeting and there's nobody here so but unfortunately when there's when there's nobody here that is an affirmative it's an affirmative we take it that way well we have to take it that way right we do have to take it that way well what I'm saying is since we're not getting like we're not getting the input
that we used to get like a couple decades or a decade ago I think that planning is really even more important than it ever was that's my thought that's good thought okay anything else on that moving along memo number three is about Jason welcome
aboard Jason thank you glad to have you here uh memo number four from Liz is about um what's this about 612 oh 61 yes it is indeed uh amending the uh downtown redevelopment plan uh that was in your
packet and the last memo is regarding um authorizing the uh payment of taxes this is also for 61 Avenue so the pilot plan that we don't authorize the the mayor and council does
there'll be no executive records report tonight because as I mentioned Glenn is not here no presentations no applications no resolutions any new business maybe this is new business i see oath of office to be administered well that that would be Jason the new guy but he got
sworn in last night oh you did i was going to volunteer to appreciate that thank you thanks good catch uh we have no executive session i'll open up to the public i will close it to the public motion to Well that was fast
and Matt and In and out go in and out how we do things here