good evening this is a regular meeting of the Princeton planning board on Thursday March 6th 20125 pursuant to section 13 of the open public meetings act adequate notice of the time and place of this meeting has been given by prominently posting the resolution of regularly scheduled
meetings of the Princeton planning board for February 2025 through January 2026 a copy was filed with the clerk of Princeton on January 8th 2024 legal notice on the adoption of said resolutions was published in the January
17 2025 edition of the Princeton packet notice of this meeting was also published was also posted to the municipal website www.princeton nj.gov calendar notice that all regular and special meetings of the Princeton planning board will be held
electronically via Zoom was transmitted to the Princeton packet and the times and was filed with the clerk of Princeton on Tuesday January 17 2023 please note that this meeting is being recorded during hearings on applications
for the development members of the public will have an opportunity to comment and ask questions questions may be asked after an applicants Witnesses have testified public comment is heard by the board after an applicant's Representatives have finished their presentations and have been questioned
by the planning board members and staff those wishing to comment orally should virtually raise your hand by clicking on the reactions or rais hand icon at the bottom of your Zoom screen or if participating by phone by pressing star
n oral comments will be taken in the order in which hands were raised we ask with respect that members of the public express your views in three minutes or less we will have a countdown clock to help speakers keep track of time please note that speakers who exceed 3 minutes
will be interrupted inappropriate public comment containing obscenity speech or relating to matters not before the board will be muted Miss philli will you call the role please certainly Mr bimer miss
capoli here Mr Cohen here mayor Freda here Mr McGowan Miss Nuka here miss pearlmutter here Mr Taylor Miss Wilson Anderson
here Miss Wilson Mr odonnell here we have a quorum thank you uh for the record I note that there are six members of the public in attendance tonight uh and Curry one of those people is Dante alfery
Alfieri uh who I believe is the applicant's lawyer yes he's being moved over now thank you thank you very much for that um are there any announcements to be made uh Justin Jerry any of the staff
members no no okay thank you um have we do we have any subcommittee reports this week no moving right along uh we do have minutes uh to be
uh uh voted to be uh approved these were the minutes of the April 11th 2024 special meeting and I want to thank Curry for all the work that she did on these minutes they were quite extensive uh so thank you for that krie uh do we have any questions or comments
on the minutes from the from the board no not see not seeing any uh do I have a motion to approve the board the minutes for this meeting I'll move to approve Julie Julie Julie capoli
approves do I have a second I'll second David Cohen seconds thank you very much uh all those in favor please say I I I any opposed or abstaining okay thank you very much we
also have on the docket a resolution and findings of fact uh this was for 21 Wiggins LLC it's a minor site plan and this is a modification to an approved site plan located at 21 wigin Street
file number p242 4- 523 p.m. uh were there any comments or suggested edits to the res resolution no not not seeing any uh I believe Curry we need a roll call Vote for This that is correct okay if you uh
David I'll move it oh thank you very much thank you for that uh do I have a second second Claud thank you Claudia Claudia you were not present at that meeting or or you were you were present
but oh okay jar she didn't vote on it because we had more than enough members we had 11 members so she's not on the roll call but she can minutes okay yes I'm sorry we accept your your second okay okay moved by David Cohen and
seconded by Claudia Wilson Anderson thank you both very much uh Curry will you go ahead with the roll call please thank you Miss capoli yes Mr Cohen yes mayor Freda
yes Mr Nuka yes Miss pearlmutter yes and Mr odonnell yes motion carried thank you very much uh which brings us to the the I'm Sorry Miss Wilson
Anderson yes I'm sorry is that a yes I'm sorry all right yes it is thank thank you thank you all very much uh brings us to our uh single application on the on the schedule for tonight this is the Stony Brook Regional
sewage Authority it's a minor site plan with conditional use located at 290 River Road Block number 1503 lot 11 file number p242 4-53
CP with the ml de deadline of February 17 2025 extended to March 7th 2025 Jerry do are we in order application and service and Order and the board has jurisdiction thank you very much uh we're going to swear in the
staff who will uh comment on this we have uh Justin Lesco Ian Henderson Derk Bridger and Dan Weissman here tonight if you could all raise your right hand do you swear or affirm that testimony to give be the truth I do so so s
ref thank you and I believe Ian's going to take the lead on this absolutely thank you Mr Sher so good evening everybody um I'm going to just set my screen to share should pop up okay and you can see my cursor um
that's actually located the that's where the the trailer itself is located um so tonight we have before us applicants of Stony Brook Regional sew Authority uh by the way Jerry will mark this I guess p one yeah exactly and if you could just
describe what it is um that' be great sure so uh currently on my screen we have the parcel Explorer this is Rowan University's publicly accessible um partial Explorer program and um we within the blue Highlight we have uh the
the entirety of the Stony book Regional storage Authority with the um subject trailer in the Southeast corner and um so this is in the 290 River Road and so I'll just zoom out just slightly um you can see we have
River Road itself in the millstone River um and uh in in short they're looking to replace the trailer that is actually that's been there for 28 years already um the site is within the former
Township R2 Zone uh it is not located in a locally locally designated historic district um even looking at New Jersey historic preservations Lucy 2.0 website the parcel is not located in a state or nationally designated District or site
or Historic Site um finding it you know in the edge of Princeton's Northeastern border uh next to the river as I mentioned the the treatment center itself serves prinston South Brunswick West Windsor Hopewell um and Pennington and uh so
that the tanks in the facilities uh are separated from the housing in the area through naturally wooded areas and we have a l quite a large solar array um to the south of it you have The gulc Preserve not terribly far away and again wooded buffers surrounding yeah and I
think it's actually serves both hopel the burrow and the township oh it does yes um it's an existing 60 by12 pre-fabricated office trailer um and just in general that they're looking to the applicant is looking to demolish the
current trailer construct a new one and incorporate some Ada walkway improvements um uh within our master plan in the utility element uh it actually specifically lists that at the sbsa has a rated capacity currently of of 13.06
millions of gallons per day um but they're looking to potentially expand the capacity up to 20 millions of gallons per day of treatment so the increase office Bas the doubling of the trailer um seems certainly reasonable for that uh growth um no there's no
additional existing parking um was proposed so uh if we were just asking the applicant to provide any details about additional office staffing or office based needs um and if there were any additional staff members how they
would uh if there was any for foreseen parking or circulation concerns with that um the reason it's before the board tonight is because you have conditional use auth authorization um as wanted to bring before the board that that the
conditions uh or the the planning board uh thought process for the uh for the for these conditions are located within section 10B 320 um and there's there's three principles that are uh considered by the board when
determining the the conditional use so uh first the local need of the proposed facility and whether or not it's adequately served by existing facilities uh two two the existence of nuisance factors and whether there or not there's adequate shielding um and three the effect of the
amount of traffic so so I mean from my own opinion we as far as the local need we see that it serves you know a large number of of neighboring towns um you know an essential facility with wastewater treatment as far as the existence of nuisance factors it's the
the trailer as you can see it with my cursor located just in the corner we have uh adequate natural buffer around it um you know far from from neighboring communities and and um the amount of traffic uh we we can have the applicant
speak to anything but but certainly if there's no parking or increase number of uh workers it doesn't seem like there would be any significant amount of traffic um so at this point I'll I'll hand it off to the applicant to um or
you know to fill in for any additional details great um Mr Alfieri welcome welcome thank you thank you good evening chairman members of the board uh Dante alfir on behalf of the applicant um thank you Mr Henderson
for providing a very detailed uh uh rundown of what this application is um as Mr Henderson stated this is an existing site we are looking to um replace an existing structure with a slightly larger structure I do have um
our engineer who will provide some testimony with relation to the proposal itself I also do have uh Mr Doling here in the event there's some questions with relation to the sewage Authority directly um so without further Ado I'll have Mr Nexon come on and provide some
testimony what I'll do um Mr alfier what we always do is I'll swear in your Witnesses upfront and then to the extent they have to be qualified you do that when it's when you call them um so the uh Witnesses Mr dexon and Dolan do next
and Doling yep if both of you could Raise Your Right hands activate your camera please Mr Doling we go you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give be the truth I do so swor or affirm each of you
state your full name and spell your last name Chris dling d o e l i n g okay Michael Nexon NE ex n thank you thank you Mr Nexon can you please provide your
qualifications for the board sure um my educational background is uh I have a bachelor's in science and civil engineering from the University of Hartford um and a Masters of Science um in environmental engineering from uh
Worcester Polytech Institute in Massachusetts um I've been a licensed professional engineer in the state of New Jersey for 14 plus years now and um a active member of the American Water
Works Association and the New Jersey water environmental Association thank you accept your qualifications thank you chairman uh so Mr Nexon as you heard Mr Henderson State that uh we are here seeking the board's approval with relation to
the demolition of an existing building and then construction of a new building so if you could just Orient the board to the site itself and then just describe what the proposal um entails sure and I I thank everyone for the descri detailed
description before that pretty much gave a a pretty good description so uh not much to add to that but um am I able to share the screen because I can bring up a plan that's maybe easier to as a visual or yes
okay um Mr dexon now yeah this is part of this plan set yes this was a part of the submitted plan set now the colorized um uh sheet that that's not part of that wasn't coloriz the plan side
correct you mean the map right here the zoning map yes yep yep um the submitted hard copies maybe not okay one we Mar let's mark this and it's exhibit A1 okay and if you could just State for the record what it
is um it's uh drawing C1 of the set that was submitted with the application um showing the tax map and zoning map um and uh also um the uh breakdown in new and existing impervious
areas uh with the old trailer being removed um the area where the existing trailer will be removed will be restored to a grass area uh the new trailer will be positioned just to the south and east
um along the tree line there um it will use the same existing uh utility pull for electrical power let me ask your test T ifying about a document which is up but but what's up is a tax map and the zoning
map are you testifying about them or something else I was just kind of gonna discuss and Page through is that oh sure okay sorry yeah that's just describing what was lower in the corner here uh but I'll page through oh I see okay
um it's not moving forward bear with me let's see if I move this there we go so uh now you're looking at drawing C2 part of the application which is um a site survey plan of uh the River
Road wastewater treatment plant um that uh the in show showed an aerial of earlier um you can see um the trailer existing trailer location down in the corner as shown before moving on to um the site plan
with uh where the existing trailer is in the dash square and the new trailer location next to it the utility pole in between and that's and that's C3 correct correct I'm sorry no no problem um and showing the uh new 60x 23
trailer uh with the new Ada uh ramp um to uh the entryway um so General location of the trailer is the same along this street Tree Line wooded Tree Line same access through the plant Access Road uh same
parking um as before uh there's employee parking behind the main operations building in front of the main operations building and in front of the existing location of the trailer uh this was just another C4 was
just a zoomed in uh drawing of what just explained uh C5 was the existing conditions for um water and fire protection uh located within the uh application uh there's uh
multiple um fire hydrants for fire protection um the whole site is serviced by 20inch line that is uh provided by the water PR New Jersey American water which is the private utility for water in the
Princeton Township um here I'll just move on to some layouts of the trailer itself uh here's the office trailer layout uh this was included in the
application uh General um plan view uh with some offices some larger areas for conference and meeting places and utility closets for filing um some uh elevation views of the trailer uh pretty standard um
uh doubley trailer to be used um I this was not in color I'm not sure of what the color will end up being um here is some details on the trailer itself uh the trailer will sit um and be
supported upon concrete and block Piers with uh appropriate tie downs and connections um paging to the next was a general layout of the peers but then a more detailed uh peer layout in the
signed and sealed copy um the next page after the plan View for the foundation plans was also uh more detailing of the peers um after um that was some general calculations uh supporting uh the
structural uh layout and then we have details on the ad a ramp and stairway that will provide for entrance to and exit to the trailer and um I will then um and that
pretty much was the sum of all the uh documents provided with the appropriate forms uh which uh Princeton planning board committee had reviewed and um had some general comments um I think through staff uh two
of those being um referring to Mercer County planning board um waiver and approval and the Delaware ran Canal commission um uh we have received submitted and received a determination of no impact to uh the county from the
Mercer County Bo and are awaiting a jurisdictional determination from the drcc and we'll provide a copy of those correct Mr Nexon to the board yes yep no problem thank you is that the sum of your testimony Mr
Nexon um yes yeah I'll open up if there's any questions do we have any questions for Mr Nexon David yeah I just wanted to um sort of confirm I know that you removed some impervious
coverage around the site in order to get under the municipal I guess it's 400 square foot limit for um for a minor project um what I wanted to confirm is the whole site drains
basically to River Road correct so so the imperious that was removed is draining to the same area that this trailer is draining to as well yes it is part of the same drainage
area okay thanks okay honey any other questions um I have a oh I'm sorry Dan thank you uh Mr Vice chair um and uh Mr Nexon I don't know if this question is
appropriate for you or for Mr uh Doling um but uh one comment in the staff report uh is that required bicycle parking spaces for public utilities are not identified in uh the Princeton zoning regulations um for uses that are
not identified the code states that other building types should not fit into one of the above categories shall be referred to the planning board for determination of the appropriate parking space requirements um so I believe the documentation indicated there were 41 existing parking spaces on the Stony
Brook Regional seage Authority uh site um and I was just wondering if we can get some testimony as to um if those spaces are adequate for the operations um at the site um and what if any there would be uh for increase in Staffing uh
and therefore a need for parking uh for the site um I believe that's a better question for Mr Dolan M Mr Dolan you've been sworn in uh we'd just like uh to qualify you first
before answering the question okay my what is your relationship with the applicant uh I am the manager of engineering at the sewage plant been working there for uh six and a half
years thank you um so the question um presented by Mr Weissman is um is the parking that's currently there sufficient as as the site currently operates and then um with this anticipated new building it repl the
existing building will it remain sufficient yes it is sufficient currently and will remain sufficient approximately how many employees are currently uh working out of the space and do you expect to see additional
Staffing once you go to the larger trailer I think we have a buildout staffing of 48 or 49 I think we are currently staffed around 46 uh the engineering trailer is
currently staffed at three um and um I'm sorry the last part that was is there adequate parking for that yes there's adequate parking for that we operate on a shift rotation basis so a lot of the staff is rotated throughout the day um
that the parking remains open we have open spots okay thank you very much are there any other questions for question for Mr Doling Mr Doling on average how many open spots are there every
day um I don't know if I've ever counted I would say there's probably five five or yeah thank you David and just to I think pick up from something Dan had said um do you
have any employees who do uh ride a bicycle to the to work here and do you have any Bic parking on the site we don't have any um Park bike racks uh you could lean your bike
against the wall I suppose I do not know of anybody who bikes unless uh maybe a motorcycle but that's not really what you're talking about that's not a bike okay um all right seeing no other questions
from board members I'd like to open the uh very exciting the meeting to public comment see if there's any members of the public that uh wish to comment on this application we have five members in attendance uh I don't see any hands up
if you have if you have any comment on this application or any questions for Mr Doling or Mr Nexon uh please raise your hand now going once going twice not seeing any I will now close public comment thank you very much
um Mr Vice chair uh could we ask Dan whether there's anything else he he wants to bring to the attention of the board absolutely Mr Weissman uh thank you no that was that was the only uh comment I had um the only other comments in the staff report
uh the one was addressed by Mr Nexon regarding um other agency approvals um and then the other comment regarding uh estimate for inspection fees okay thank you great thank you okay um do we have
any any outstanding questions from the board or any deliberation comments David I I guess I'd just like to suggest even if you don't have any employees who currently bicycle um the world is
changing hopefully there may be one at some point in the future I think it would be um a good idea to put in at least like a single bike rack uh in conjunction with the new
trailer would you have any objection I'm suggesting that as a condition of approval yes no objection to that no objection to that thank you very much uh so we will add that to a condition Ian has his hand
raised I'm sorry Ian yeah just to uh clarify um just in case anyone were looking I I believe I misread the number but if anyone's looking for the principles um in in and considering a board decision about conditional use it's t10b 321 so make sure I get the
number correct go on Sunday thank you for that okay um seeing no other questions or comments from the board uh do I have a motion to to uh move this
application I'm happy to move approval David thank you very much and do we have a second I can second PA Paul thank you very much for that uh Miss Philip would you please uh take the vote if I if I
just may absolutely what the relief is I'm sorry Jerry minorite minor sight plan approval and the staff is has recommended uh minor sight plan uh and condition and conditional use approval and the conditions would I just see
three one is what David just articulated about the bike rack the second is about construction cost estimates and the third is um approvals from the maybe necessary from the merati planning board although I understand you've already
gotten a no action uh letter and from the Delaware and we want that submitted and the Delaware re and Canal Commission and that's it okay thank you so with those conditions uh Curry would you take the vote please thank you Miss capoli
yes Mr Cohen yes mayor Frida yes Miss Nuka yes Miss pearlmutter yes Miss Wilson Anderson yes and Mr O'Donnell yes motion carried thank you chairman M of the
board we appreciate your time tonight thank you very much have a good evening thank you thank you thank you and I guess the only thing left is a motion to adjourn I'm happy to offer that as well thank you David do we have a second yay
yes okay Julie thank you very much job Owen okay record time record all right you driving watch out for the salamanders