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Part 1 (Video ID: vY6oDpltIAg):
- 00:00:01: Meeting Commencement, Pledge, Roll Call, Bills, Correspondence
- 00:02:51: Discussion on Animal Feeding Ordinance and Enforcement
- 00:06:37: Black Bears, Bats, and Other Animal Concerns
- 00:08:32: Applications, Resolutions, Open Space Updates and Projects
- 00:15:19: Redevelopment Update, Teen Center, Public Discussion
- 00:17:35: Closing Remarks and Adjournment Motion


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Testing. One, two, three. Testing. >> Okay. Am >> I alive? >> Okay. Please turn off all cell phones. The agenda of the Pumpkin Lake Zoning Board of Adjustments, May 26, 2026. The following is the agenda of the regular meeting of the Pumpkin Lake Zoning Board

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of Adjustments. The meeting is to be held in the municipal building, 25 Lennox Avenue on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, beginning at 8:00 p.m. A written advance notice as required by NJSA 10 semicolon

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4-1 EDSET has been provided of this meeting at least 48 hours in advance of today. given the date, time and location and to the extent known the time of the agenda of this meeting. Uh such notice uh stated that formal action may or may

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not be taken. The this meeting will be video recorded and will be broadcast later for later viewing for the public. The notice was posted on the bulletin board outside the offices of the municipal clerk reserved for this and sim other similar announcements provided

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to the record. uh the paper newspaper designated by the council and zoning board to receive such notices and filed with the burough clerk. We stand for the pledge of >> allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it

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stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. We have no oath of office. Can I get a roll call, please? >> Mr. Hunt >> here. >> Mr. A >> here. >> Mr. Claus >> here.

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>> Miss Berntock >> here. >> Mr. Rowan >> here. >> Mr. Bula >> here. >> Mr. Bonte >> here. >> Mr. Claus >> here. >> Miss Hazelman >> here. >> Mayor Sarah >> here.

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>> And Mr. for >> here. Okay. Uh, we have no minutes to go over, so we're bypassed that. Um, can I get a motion to approve the bills? >> I'll make a motion we pay the bills.

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>> It's seconded. >> It's Morin. >> Uh, roll call, please. >> Mr. Hunt. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Miss Bernste. Yes, >> Mr. Rowan. >> Yes,

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>> Mr. >> Yes, >> Mr. Devonte. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, correspondence. There's a couple ordinances that um came out. Anybody have any

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questions on those ordinances or statements about the ordinances? >> I have a statement on the uh animal feeding. I just find it'll be interesting to see how that goes within our town. >> When you say that >> I think it's I think it's it's

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necessary, but I just as far as the enforcement, I'm not clear on exactly how that >> talk about we do not want to find that's not the goal of this is this is to educate people. So, we're going to do a big educational push. They'll get a couple warnings, but if you have, you

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know, we have some people putting 50 lb bags in deer feed on their property, right? you know, and you know, it's not fair to the neighbors around them that they're doing that. Uh, so you know, we'll tell them you're not supposed to do this, you know, don't take it or not, but if they keep doing it, unfortunately, it's going to end up.

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>> No, I I support that. I just curious about how the enforcement action would like as a neighbor, how how do I can I kind of go on the slide or is my name going to be like recorded? >> The FBI. >> I have to I have to give my name. No,

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the uh the animal uh group animal control officer she was able to write tickets. So she'll be the one of course. >> So we it will be in other words you will not know who the person is that um made the complaint.

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>> Okay. In that case we got it. >> Except you just did it on record. >> So >> can I add to that? My neighbor feeds birds and they poop all over our cars. That's going to be allowed if you read the stuff you have a

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>> for a curve feeder of x amount of inches or something. >> I mean, this guy actually takes a big bag and just throws the stuff. >> One of the things we we addressed which we you know we addressed this a couple years ago asking about chickens and roosters and then with some research we

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realized you don't need a rooster to have eggs which >> know a few things about that. So, we said no more roosters cuz that was part of the issue. But people who have these animals already will be grabbed in. They just can't buy another one. Um, and we

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reduce the number of chickens you can have. Um, you know, we understand people want to do this, but it also has to fit into the property they have. You know, that's where the real problem is. You can't put a whole chicken coop on your neighbor's line and and have issues with your neighborhood.

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>> What's the number of chickens you put down? >> 40. That's what >> on an acre or? >> No, it's on a case by case basis. So, if the uh building department goes there and says, "Look, you're putting it in the middle of your property, best place it can be," then we'll probably say,

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"Okay, to that." If you're putting it in your back corner and you have a neighbor right there, he's probably say, "No, it's not." But there's no set uh diameter. >> No, I meant how if there was a set number of chickens per >> No roosters. Don't worry, my chickens aren't coming

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to Pompus. >> My chickens will stay where they're at. >> But it's more about the deer, too. We have a big concern residents not understanding that even though you want the deer all over your property, your neighbors probably knows and they're coming through the neighbors properties

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and hanging out on the neighbor's house. No longer hanging out on your property. We get a lot of complaint to you. Cause of bad blood. >> I just find that the deer, they don't even move now. They they actually they actually come towards you >> and and when you're walking your dog or something like that, deer don't move.

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>> We have we have an issue where I'm at where there's a black bear that comes and takes garbage all the time. A black bear, it's big and and a bunch of the neighbors just put their garbage out in bags instead of putting cans. But I'm in an HOA. I guess I would discuss that with the HOA, right? That's more >> Yeah.

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>> But that's something that your board should reach out to the animal control to do education. >> Yeah. to say, you know, because a black person may resemble this. Um, you know, it's just so they can educate that hope by saying, "Look, maybe not you should not be doing this while there's very little rumor."

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>> Yeah, it's enormous. It was in my driveway when I came home the other night. It was like a small car size. I couldn't believe it. >> And where is that? >> Highlands. >> Okay. >> No, I scared the hell out of me. I have my little baby with me. >> Yeah. >> What about bats? Anybody else have any problem with bats?

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>> No. >> No. just in group homes. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Most people don't realize we have bat nesting boxes down in near the MUA. Houses used to be if you

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see those big poles, there's a house back nesting box. >> You can try to bring back anybody's house >> because they're a good actually. >> Yeah. Well, I can attest that the police are

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very good at bat control. >> Yes, >> I'd like to see. >> Our cat had caught one, >> brought it into the house. >> Oh my god. >> And I was able to sweep it out the front door and I thought that was the end of

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it. Next morning, it was still alive and the cat wanted out to get it. Um, and I called the police. I said, "I don't know who to call, you know, and I've never had a bath bomb before." So, they said to me when the shift changed, they'd

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send someone over and they did. And the man uh the poor showman said to me, "Show me your shed." So, I brought him back to the shed. He chose his weapon and then he took care of that. I was very grateful for that.

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>> Really cool. Then also we share our own shared service. We have the father. So it's a full-time position. >> Okay. Uh so we'll move on. Uh applications. We have none. Um we have a resolution.

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Uh BOA26-01. Everyone had the opportunity to read the resolution. Anybody have any statements? >> Sorry. a pretty uh easy meeting for her to >> if none. Can I get a motion to accept

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the resolution? >> So moved. >> We'll get a second. >> Second. >> Mr. Bait. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Hunt. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. C. >> Yes. >> Miss Bernoff.

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>> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Yes. >> Okay. Uh, new unfinished business. We looked at Mr. Cost. Anything going on with open space?

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>> Um, well, there's no environmental meeting which precedes the open space. >> Okay. >> Um, and we have a we got a special guest speaker tell you about in a minute. But, um, it was just a couple things. Now, the

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Hersfield Park bridge is the walkway finished now. It's open. Okay. And it looks very nice down there. Uh the Willow Field um the lightning

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detector is in down there, which works off of um it's from Lakeside, right? But it's connected to >> Yeah, it's connected to Riverdale Lake. >> Okay. That was a donation by uh the Rotary >> Rotary, right?

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>> Um also down at Hersfield, the fieldhouse is done completely now. Correct. So, and so the only thing was finishing the u the actual road inside. Correct.

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>> Right. So stage three of that project in first field is it's not going to happen till late in the spring I mean fall maybe spring next year is to redo all the pathways down there. So uh we're trying to go back to what we had which was the pavement. In fact remember we

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used to have pavement there and then 10 years ago we decided let's try this breathable wall which just cracked and broke but the problem is the DP won't let us go backwards. They said you have you have to keep that. So, we're fighting to get them out

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that soon. >> Okay. >> So, the special guest we had was state county commissioner Michael Remaglia who is a town resident also for Bonakes and he took people's questions and he's

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him and Mr. Mayor spoke and uh he had a lot of information. Um he mentioned that Pton Lakes was one of the top five or six towns that asked for money and used it and they like that

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instead of taking it and putting it away and wanted it for another project. They like how we used it and that looks good for the future. >> Some towns take the money and then never use it and then have to give it back because all that trouble is asking for money.

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>> Yeah. So they were that looks good for the future any projects cuz they'd be quick to give us money again. And Mike being a town resident is uh got a little oomph out of him for uh pushing up for

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>> great know. So that's great. >> That's great. >> So uh that was about it really. It was quick quick meeting cuz he spoke him and his assistant spoke. >> Mhm. >> Most of the time. The willow field is completely done in that way down there. Great. It really came out nice. Trying

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to grow the grass and uh keep people off the grass for the next month so the grass can grow in around the field and everything else. Um and then once the season gets through, we've got new sprinklers and for anybody who's, you know, we're all older years and we all know that you used to be able to park against the fence. When you came down,

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you no longer park against the fence anymore. They plant the trees there. So, um you're not allowed to park there. They've closed off the road at the snack stand, so you can't drive past the snack stand anymore. >> So, this is the help of the kids running all over the place down there. You know, they used to run across, especially the

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young ones used to run across that road all the time. So, we're trying to then the next thing we're going to try to do with the help of the DP hopefully is maybe try to make a U-turn within the property and come out through where the houses were and back out. They'll let us do that. So, you don't have double

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traffic going. >> So, you know what? The only issue we have right now down there is and we discussed it as the open space and put a brand new beautiful sign of open space paid for for Joe Grill. The problem is we have Willow Field complex down there too. And when out of town people are

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coming in, they don't know Willow Field is there cuz they see the Joe Grill sign and they say I must be at the wrong place. Well, you got to drive in order to see the Willowfield. So, we're going to put another sign out that basically says this Joe and Willowfield complex together. Um, and that that'll help with

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that. Is that sign going to be on the more on this when you first enter? >> Yeah, we're going to we're going to at least put an arrow and then have a better sign with the open space committee members and things down further, but at least let people know you're in the right spot. So, people getting Joe around.

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>> And um Maria Kent was saying she wanted to get names put on it also for let people know who did it. >> Yeah. like the current mayor and council. >> Yeah. Yeah.

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>> And uh that was it. Really? >> Anything else, Mary? Like that? >> No, I mean I think we covered it well. You know, if you haven't been down to Hersfield compliments about that next year bridge at West, same thing, same bridge. Um and then we

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take ownership of that bridge. agenda. There's a lot of noise on social media now about what we're going to do, what we're going to call. We own the bridge. The town owns the bridge. We can make the decisions of what we want to county. Uh so we'll see where that goes forward

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with that. Um and the uh new fieldhouse looks great down at uh at Hersfield. It's great for the rec department now. You know, they put great summer camp out of there with loudspeaker systems and everything out of that. So moving on, you know, with the help of the space, we get real money.

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We use that. >> The balance is >> 338,934. >> That's Joel Grill and Hurstfield and everything paid for too. That's the actual 50,000 last year. >> Yeah. For the bird's nest as I call it.

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>> Uh so yeah, we're trying to help with this. uh redevelopment wise and the paved pavement here center had the first meeting in there just half hour members are here that's our first meeting we will be renting out

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that building to the public for parties um on Saturdays and Sundays as long as it's small 60 or 70 parties um so that that's a new thing for that um and that building was all donated by Meridian that was built by them we bring tax dollars into that uh and Meridian is

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ready to open you know hopefully September. Uh >> and the um CGM building is moving along slowly, but it's moving. And uh we had a couple plans come to the last couple board meetings for um the exit station

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in the corner there. They're looking at remodeling that redoing that. There's still some conversation on that. It's still got to go through the process, but they had they listened to what the board had said. and they bought into they thought the garage was too big for that corner and they took a whole floor off

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of their plans and uh got rid of a whole bunch of garage. We told them that we're not getting rid of retail. The idea to do this was to keep the retail. So they had initially gotten rid of all the retail um retail back. >> Any movement in the teen center or

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somewhere the kids can go? But that's a tough one because we had cancer for many many years and then it died and sold our kids weren't showing up to it. Um when my kids were young probably they went to St. Mary's kids. Um and then we had our own here at the

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theater. The theater got condemned. Can't use the building anymore. Uh there hasn't been a big ask on the board. Big push from public they should bring up >> things I'm good at. >> Okay.

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Okay. Um public discussion. Uh I open up the meeting for the public and since I see no one I will close that session. Can I get a motion for adjournment? >> I make a motion. >> Second. >> Hold on. First

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>> Rich Dante. >> Rich Dante. >> Second >> Mark. >> Mark. >> All in favor? >> I oppose. Nay. >> Thank you all for coming. >> Just Mr. >> Chairman.

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See you next month. See you next month. See you next week. >> All right.