Right. >> Good evening and welcome. This is a regular meeting of the Princeton Planning Board on Thursday, October 9, 2025. 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 planning board for February 2025 through January 2026. A copy was filed with the clerk of Princeton on January 8th, 2025. Legal notice on the adoption of said
resolution was published in the January 17, 2025 edition of the Princeton packet. Notice that this meeting also has been posted to the municipal website, princetonj.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 development, members of the public will
have an opportunity to comment and ask questions. Public comment is heard by the board after an applicant's representatives have finished their presentations and have been questioned by planning board members and staff. Those wishing to comment orally should
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obscenity, hate speech, or relating to matters not before the board will be muted. Um, Mr. Leco, are you calling the role or is someone else? >> Uh, yes, I can. >> Okay, thanks. Uh, Mr. Bodheimer,
Miss Capazolei >> here, >> Mr. Cohen >> here, >> Mayor Freda, Mr. McGawan >> here, >> Miss Nukea, Mr. O'Donnell >> here,
>> Miss Pearlmutter, Mr. Taylor >> here, >> Miss Wilson Anderson >> here, >> and Chair Wilson >> here. Uh, Madam Chair, you have a quorum. >> Thank you. Um, announcements. Any
members of the board or staff have announcements? Anything from you, Justin? >> Nope. Surprisingly, I don't think so. The first time in a while. >> Yeah. Okay. Um, next on the agenda is the proclamation honoring Carrie Phillip. Um, since Carrie was unable to
be here tonight, we're going to table and defer the proclamation to um, hopefully next week when she can join us or whenever is the next meeting she can join us, which I think is next week, but TBD. Um,
subcommittee reports, we have a report from the landscape subcommittee, >> right? So on October 1st, uh the landscape subcommittee met to discuss uh 469 Euing Street and uh 900 Herrentown
Road. So um both applications are being resolved. I don't know. I guess um
yeah. So I I mean I think uh for 900 um the conclusion was uh replant that we check in on the planting and for 469
I think we were satisfied with the applicants um like addressing those the issues. So, I don't know. You want to add anything? >> Well, I Yeah, I remember the um the with
the the issue with uh 900 Heron towns. The trees there had been poorly u planted and um some were dead uh and had needed to be replanted and had been. So, we're going to keep a close eye on
those and revisit things next spring. And the other one um on Euing, the former Iudelli, um uh property, we did ask for and and received a couple
of substitutions of non-native species, but allowed a couple of non-native species to remain on the site. The landscape architect gave um compelling reasons to use those. So that's the only additional
things that I that I recall from that meeting. Anything else Justin or David? uh just that I think we will be uh the referral to landscape for 900 Harrington
was to actually go on site and evaluate the buffer and we deferred that to when the replanting has happened so >> to be specific >> we will we will we'll have another bite
at the apple Yep. Okay. So, um moving on, uh we have four sets of minutes from regular meetings. Um and we're going to have four or maybe
five sets of minutes at each of the meetings going forward or maybe just about each um until we're all caught up. But first set we have is from June 6, 2024 was a regular meeting. any comments or questions? And if not, would someone
like to move them? >> Madam Chair, actually jump in real quick. Um, this is an unusual set of minutes. It was that one meeting where we had a Zoom issue. Um, so it's really not even a set of minutes because technically we didn't have a meeting.
Um, but I think for completion sake we wanted to get something written. So no role was taken. Um I don't know Jerry how we handle the the motion in the second um and even the vote uh because you know we
don't even I guess we could look back at the video and figure out who was there for the the uh Zoom issues but um uh what are your thoughts Jerry? Well, if there's anybody in the board who could uh volunteer that they were there and uh
vote to Yeah, Julie, >> I I was there definitely >> and and move to approve the minutes. >> I move to approve. Yeah. >> And Alvin, I saw you raise your hand. You're sure you were there, too? And >> you're seconding. >> Sure.
>> Okay. Um all in favor, please say I. >> I. I know I was there. Uh any abstensions? I guess those who know for sure they weren't there. Okay. Um or any nos. I'm sorry because
the extent the the abstensions can be figured out based on who we know was there from the video. Okay. Um although you said you didn't do I'm going to stop talking now. I they're adopted.
Uh the next set of minutes is from September 5th, 2024. Any questions, edits, comments? And if not, would someone like to move them? >> I'll move to approve them.
>> Thank you. Moved by Mazoli, seconded by Mr. Taylor. Okay. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. Next set is from September 19, 2024.
Um, Mr. Foot, you're on mute. There we go. Okay. Um, so just an correction on this one that was pointed out to us by Mr. Cohen. Um on page two under uh B estate tour um the uh Kyler
Road uh was misspelled K Y L E R. Uh that will be corrected to see the correct spelling c U L E R. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thanks Sharp eyes, David.
Um so with that, did we have a motion and second on this? I don't think we did yet. I'll move >> like to move those. Thanks, Mr. McGawan. Seconded by Mr. Cohen. All in favor say I. I. >> I. >> Any opposed?
>> Okay. And um then we have uh the minutes from January 9, 2025. Any questions, edits? >> I move you, Mr. O'Donnell. And is there
a second? I'm actually seeing Mr. O'Donnell is absent for that. >> Oh, I was absent that day. Okay. >> Yeah, I was absent, too. >> Is it okay if I make a motion? >> Yes, I I believe that it is.
>> Yes. And uh thank you, Mr. Taylor. Seconding. Uh all in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. Thank you. Um, next up we have an application from the trustees of Princeton University.
Um, this is the preliminary and finer final major site plan with variances for the Quantum Institute at Fitz Randolph Road and Ivy Lane/Western Way. This is block 50.01 lot 18.01
and it's file number P2525605P. Um Jerry, can you speak to notice and jurisdiction? >> Notice is proper and the board has jurisdiction. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> Um Mr. or um before turning to you Chris
Deia, I'll ask Justin to uh to set the table and if there any um uh pressing comments from other staff, we'll hear that after after we hear from Mr. Leco. >> Let me swear in all our staff at this point. >> Oh yes. Thank you. Justin, who else is
>> anybody else? >> Um, Jim Purcell, Derek Bridger. >> Okay. >> Mr. is here and >> I think >> Scoopian I believe is here as well. >> Who else?
>> Joe Scoopian too. >> Okay. What about Dan Wilson? I don't think Dan is here. >> That the staff that is here, if you could
raise your right hand, you swear or affirm that testimony you're about to give will be the truth. Um, if you could uh could just go around and state your full name starting with Justin. >> Sure. Justin Leco. Uh, LKO. >> James Purcell.
>> I do and I'm the acting Lius engineer. Joe Scoopian, stormwater consultant. >> S ku p i n. >> Yes. >> For the minutes. >> Derek Bridger, zoning officer.
>> Victor, traffic engineer. A N O S I K E. Nathan Foot. F O T E. Assistant director planning department. >> Is that everybody? >> Nathan, you're an attorney, right?
>> Nathan. >> Nathan's our assistant director of planning. >> Okay, good. Thank you. >> Uh, and Madam Chair, Nathan, we wrote a joint report. Nathan did most of the heavy lifting, so he's going to present it. um as you probably know by now, he's
a licensed profess professional planner in New Jersey um and has been for some time. Uh AICP in good standing, all of that stuff. Um one thing I just wanted to point out before turning it over to him, um we met with the university back over the summer and they had some changes that they wanted to make to
their initial uh application that they submitted. Um, and then uh so sorry I can't shut the door because uh we're getting our carpets replaced so my office is full of furniture. Um but uh as I was saying uh
we met with the university to discuss the the handful of minor changes they wanted to make. Um they resubmitted their application uh September 5th I believe. So that's the application you're seeing tonight and all of the reports are reflecting of those changes and again it's minor walkway changes,
window placement, things like that. But uh that being said, I think one of the reports is dated from before then the um environmental commission report. So just be aware of that. But um all of the reports and all you're going to hear tonight are uh based on that September
5th document or or set of documents. And without further ado, I'll hand it over to Nathan. >> Great. Welcome, Nathan. >> Okay. Thank you, Justin. First of all, can is my voice coming through clearly now? Know there was a >> Okay. It's a little muddy, but um
>> Yeah. >> All right. I'll have to get a better microphone for next time. Usually, this one has been pretty good, but for some reason, it it's losing its theme, I guess. >> So, I'll just try to speak up uh throughout this presentation and then if I have to drop in any additional
comments later in the uh the session. Um yeah. So, so as Justin noted, um, you know, my name is Nathan. I'm the, uh, new assistant director for the, uh, the planning department. And, uh, the get situated here. Um, what what's going to
follow, uh, is largely found in the memo written by myself and Justin, uh, dated October 3rd, 2025. Uh, Justin will provide additional background and comments as needed as we go through the presentation and as we go through the rest of the evening. Uh so to give a brief outline of what I'll be discussing
uh first I'm going to provide an orientation to the subject property and the surrounding neighborhood. Then I'll discuss previous applications heard by the board uh related to the property and the uh the overall project that is before the board tonight. Then I'll wrap up by providing some of the details on
the uh the current proposal. Uh the university uh does have an extensive presentation uh this evening. So I won't go into a lot of detail about the project and I'll defer most of uh I'll defer the detailed commentary and questions until during or after the
university's presentation. Um and the next point I was going to bring up Justin has already touched on so I don't have to uh uh to do that. Um so at this point I'm going to share my screen. All right. Is that uh is that shared
now? >> Yes. >> Okay. Again. Okay. Um so this is an overhead image of the subject property and the surrounding area from the New Jersey Parcel Explorer website created by Rowan University. Uh
and Jerry, I guess we'll mark this as exhibit PB1. >> Yep, that'd be fine. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, so the subject property is identified as lot 50.01, lot 18. It's highlighted in the uh the blue highlight. Um, it is located in the E1
educational zone of the former township. Uh, and zoning wise, just north of this is the E2 education zone of the former burrow. And then to the northeast is the uh R2 zone of the the former burrow. Uh and then surrounding it is additional
educational uh zones E1 and the E2 of the uh the former township on the east west and south. Um so as can be seen in the uh from the overhead image uh the property currently includes the baseball field identified
as Park Field, the uh new soccer stadium identified as Robert Stadium. Uh and then uh that's in the uh south southeast corner and then in the southwest corner you have two turf fields. Finefield and Campbell Field is what those are identified as. And then this overhead
image does still show the uh the old soft softball field. Uh and then just north of that is an additional uh field uh stubbing screwing field with the softball field and then upper screwing field. Both of those have been removed uh since this overhead imagery was
taken. Uh so that's been within the last year that those fields have been uh removed and I'll I'll get to why that's the case uh in a couple of minutes. Then surrounding the property to the east we have Fitz Randolph Road. Uh to
the north we have Western Way, what was formerly known as Ivy uh Ivy Lane. And then to the west and south we have uh Garage Drive. Um oh sorry, no, Stadium Drive. Uh when I zoom in on this map,
you'll see it identified as Garage Drive, but in all the in the application materials, it's been identified as Stadium Drive. So that's what I'll be referring to it as uh from uh from here on out. Um the surrounding uses uh to the north
and east uh we have residential uses. Um just west we have a university building that looks to be uh academic office uh type building. To the south of that we have the university now day nursery and childcare uh building. Uh south of that
we have the tiger uh utility facility. Um and then to the south of the subject properties we have stadium drive garage several uh athletic fields um and building including Japan gymnasium which I'm just pointing out because it is uh
involved uh in the trash recycling uh plans uh that we uh we have in the uh the application materials. That's the only reason that I'm bringing that up specifically. Uh and then to the west of the property there is Princeton Stadium which is a football stadium and Weaver
Stadium which is for track and field events. And then uh further out from that we have additional uh university uses. We have additional residential uses. We have Stony Brook and Carnegie Lake um and uh other university uses to the west
as well. And now turning to the uh previous applications uh and at this point I was zooming uh a little bit to the site. Um the board has previously heard two applications related to the northern half of the subject property. Uh the
area occupied in this image by the baseball field to the west and the softball field uh to the east. Um on February 14th, 2024, the university presented a concept plan to the board for a multi-phase project. Uh during that hearing, university professionals
indicated that phase one of that multi-phase project involves the demolition of the sports field uh and the installation of the geo exchange field. Phase two is construction of the quantum institute building uh and that's the development application that is currently before the board that you're
uh going to be hearing tonight. Phases three and four will be the computer engineering building and the aerospace engineering building. and uh the university may uh talk about the phasing and the timeline for those tonight um or uh or not uh but just for
the board's awareness that's sort of the that's the phasing uh plan that the university has presented previously. Uh so as noted phase one of that project of the multi-phase project involved demolition of the existing softball and baseball fields in this northern uh
portion of the the property um excavation of the site and installation of underground geo exchange wells and the associated geo exchange piping. Uh that was submitted to the board as an application. Uh the site plan committee reviewed the application, classified it
as a minor site plan and recommended it for uh approval uh which the board did and final approval by municipal staff was granted November 14th, 2024. Um baseball field is uh currently still
standing. Um demolition of the softball field uh softball stadium um appears has been completed and the university appears to be moving ahead with excavation and installation of the geo exchange wells and piping. Um and it's this location this northeastern quadrant
of the subject property that is the primary area where development is going to occur with this is proposed to occur with this application. And with that, I'll go ahead and start in on the current proposal. Just an overview of what that current proposal
looks like. Um, so as noted, uh, phase two of the of this overall plan for this site is the construction of the Quantum Institute. Uh, that's the application for preliminary and final major site plan approval with, uh, several variances, uh, that the board is hearing tonight.
Uh and as I just noted, majority of the site subject to this application uh is in the northeast corner uh of the property at the intersection of this Randolph Road and Western. Um and at this time I do want to bring up a second
um exhibit. I guess this will be marked as PD2. Uh this is part of the applicant's materials, but I just figured that instead of trying to point to it on the uh overhead map, uh let me just bring this up. >> Nathan, we don't this doesn't have to be marked as a separate exhibit because
it's part of the >> part of the Okay. All right. Perfect. >> All right. Thank you, Jerry. Um so the So this is the northeastern quadrant uh that is being developed with the Quantum
Institute building and surrounding site work. And then uh to the south is this access drive that uh snakes uh snakes down uh follows the uh path between the baseball the current baseball field and those turf fields to the south over to
Stadium Drive and then kind of hooks to the south and uh just to the northeast of the track and field stadium. Uh the university is proposing a generator yard. There's an existing generator there. uh they're going to be adding uh several uh pieces of equipment there,
enclosing that with the existing generator and calling that uh making that into a single uh generator yard. Um so the applicant uh the university proposes to construct a 225,000 gross square foot five-story building.
According to the university, the building will provide quote high performance research laboratories ranging from dry labs, electronics to wet labs uh for chemistry, a 15,000 foot clean room, teaching spaces, office and collaboration space, and a 200 person
auditorium. Um the application materials indicate an expected construction completion date of 2029 with a full occupancy uh target date of 2042. Um the applicant materials also note that the full capacity at full
capacity the building population will be uh 656 people. Uh I've noted before that there are variances required specifically there are three uh that have been identified and requested by the university. I'll get to those in a moment. Uh the primary facade material proposed is face brick
of various textures and colors. uh corrugated aluminum panels, curtain walls, tapered awnings, mechanical louvers, anodized aluminum cladding, and vegetation trellis are also proposed as accents or a secondary uh material. Uh
I'll also note uh because we did come up with the concept review that um the design uh for this building includes a stepped design. So that uh rather than being a single map uh there is a step um a step in the uh each uh level. So there
is a bit more interest in the uh uh the design than just a single blank uh wall let's say. Um and I'm and the university will uh will go into that in more detail uh during their uh their presentation.
Uh the building will have two canopy mounted mounted sides on the western facade of the building. uh one will be located over the main entry um of the uh Quantum Institute building uh close to the northwest corner of the uh of the structure and then the other the second
sign is proposed at a second entry um to the south of the main entry. So over uh down down this section of the the building the all three of the um wayfinding signs are also proposed. Uh all three required
variances are related to the sign. uh one is for the number of the of signs on the western facade. Uh the second variance is for the size of the northern the main entry canopy mount sign and the third is for the size of the uh the way finding sign.
Uh the university proposes extensive site work as well. Uh pedestrian walkways are proposed to the uh the east uh the north uh the sorry the east the west uh the north and uh to the south there is that access drive that is a
shared there is a shared component where there is a pedestrian pathway uh to the south as well. Um there's also a restricted drive uh to the north uh with two in uh ingress and egress points uh from western west.
Um there's a courtyard to the east and there's also a pad uh for artwork uh there's a pad for artwork uh to the northwest of the the building. Uh the university is also proposing
tables, chairs, benches, and trash cans along pedestrian paths and in the courtyard. A total of 88 bike racks are proposed uh mostly to the west and to the southwest of the building. So along really along this main uh pedestrian north south pedestrian corridor uh to
the west of the building. Uh firetruck access to the building is provided via the restricted drives to the north and south. Um the university proposes extensive landscaping for the project. Um a total of 22 trees are being uh protected. 15 along Western Way
and Fitz Randolph Road and seven near the northeast corner of Weaver Stadium where that generator yard uh is going to be located. Uh the plans indicate at least 46 trees to be removed. Uh and according to the plan, 45 replacement trees are required with a total of at
least 146 trees being planted. uh plans indicate 21 of those replacement trees or or those trees being planted will be smaller than 2 and a half inches caliber and 125 will be 2 and 12 in caliber or greater. Uh proposed landscaping provides large
amounts of new plantings between the quantum institute building and fifth rand road. So in this section uh here there's a lot of new plantings proposed. Um and a significant amount but less than along that frontage to the north
between western way and the building. Uh landscaping is also provided along the pedestrian paths. Uh the plans indicate 370 shrubs and 84 vines of various species uh along with copious ground cover both at ground level on the green roofs and uh also in sunken gardens uh
that I believe the university is going to discuss during their uh presentation. Uh ground cover plantings include rain garden mixes to the south and east of the building. Um and there are um six fire retention basins uh around the building mostly to the east and south uh
of the uh of the structure. And with that I'll stop sharing and that ends that uh that ends the summary of the uh the application. >> Okay. Thank you.
Um before we hear from the applicant, um Jim PCEL, is there anything you wanted to specifically flag or uh Joe Scoopian or Victor
N O? I'm not um I'm not asking to take longer. I just want to make sure there's ne you know nothing that you you feel urgently the board should hear from you before we hear from the applicant. Anything?
>> Okay, Mr. Degreesia, welcome back. >> Thank you very much. >> Where in uh your team? >> Yes. Uh I guess we could start with that or um maybe for the record I'll just state my name. Christopher Degreesia
from the law firm of Fagory Drinker Bidd and Wreath. Um uh thank you Nathan for that uh that summary. You pretty much covered most of the stuff that I wanted to to introduce, but thank you for that
introduction. Um as uh as Nathan mentioned, we have taken a few steps to get here this evening. Um, in uh early 24, Princeton University shared with the planning board and the community a
concept plan for this project site. After that, we got approval for geo exchange wells. And essentially, this allowed us to use this project site for two purposes. a university educational purpose and also for allowing us to move
forward on the university's carbon neutrality goal. Um we also constructed a temporary sound barrier on the edge to protect the neighborhood um during the drilling. And prior to all these
actions, there were also some additional steps. Um we had lined up through some site plan applications some necessary infrastructure to put it in place. For example, the stadium drive parking garage. It was east campus garage at the
time. Um that was developed with extra capacity for additional gropes growth. So we had an additional 351 spaces um added to the garage when it was developed. And at that time and through some of the
applications that followed, we put in some circulation improvements such as stadium uh drive and what we now call Chrysalis Drive going up to to um Prospect. Um those have uh been put in
place to anticipate growth. So, there's been a lot of planning that has gotten to gotten us to this moment this evening, which of course is the preliminary and final major site plan application for Quantum Institute. Um,
as mentioned, Quantum Institute is a 225,000 ft building with state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities. The site plan that you're about to see this evening is fully conforming. So, we meet all the books requirements, use
standards, and ordinance requirements. Um, we do have some sign variances and um they were outlined and we'll get into the details in a little bit. Um, we've put together a very detailed
presentation about 91 slides and we have a number of experts. So, unless there's any specific questions, Madam Chair, we could have our witnesses sworn in. Uh, sounds like a sounds like a plan. Thank you. Yep. Go ahead, Mr.
>> You'll raise your right hand. >> Do you swear or affirm that testimony about to give be the truth? >> I do. >> I do. >> I do. >> I do. >> So, I just want to affirm. Could you go around state your full name? Spell your last. Ron, do you want to take start? >> I'll I'll start. Ron McCoy, uh,
University Architect, MCC O Y. Uh, Stone, can you do? >> Sure. Uh, my name is Don Bashaw. B E S H O. >> Sam. >> Uh, Sam Rosiki. R O Z Y C K I. >> Sandra.
>> Uh, Sandra Brock. B R O C K. >> Robin. >> Robin is Oo. I Z O >> Christian >> Christian Bashard. P E S C H A R D.
Sorry. Kevin >> Kevin C re eg >> Did I miss anybody? >> Joe >> Oh, Joe. Sorry. >> Joseph Heresco. H O R E S O.
>> And Steuart. >> Steuart Gordon. >> Yes. This is Steuart Gordon. G O R D O N. >> And Jeff Pulio. >> Jeff Pleo. P U L E O. Uh Christopher, uh there are several
other uh names in the attendees list that sometimes are panelists for you all. Is there anyone else you'd like us to pull over at this time? >> Um not at this time. I think we could pull them in if there's a very specific questions where they have expertise. I think we have who we need um at the
moment. >> Okay. >> We we didn't have enough Um, let me uh just ask one thing. I I think I heard uh Miss Pashard spell her name differently than it's shown on the screen. And I just want to make sure
that if we're capturing names for minutes, we spelled them correctly. So, >> P R E S C H A R D. Is that correct? >> It's wrong on the screen. Yeah. P E S C H A R D. >> Thank you.
Thank you for catching that. Um, okay. So, let's uh I think the next step is I I have two exhibits that we could mark into evidence uh jury and then we'll use those as we move through our um testimony.
>> Okay. >> The first exhibit is our detailed uh sort of a PowerPoint presentation, I would say, our slide presentation. It's made up of 91 slides and we have a response letter that my
office put together um responding to the review reports and that's about a 25page document. So that would be a um applicant exhibit A1 and A2. >> Thank you. That's fine.
And um our first witness is Ron McCoy, University Architect. He's been before the board many times. He's a licensed architect in New Jersey. Um Ron, you have been already sworn in. I guess I I
would also like him qualified as a licensed architect to the extent he provides any architectural um um testimony. Okay. Um, sure. Ron, would you give us a a very brief um overview of your
education and qualifications? >> Uh, as Christopher said, I'm a licensed architect in New Jersey and several other states. I'm a graduate of Princeton University. I was the chair and director of school of architecture at Arizona State University. I'm a fellow in the AIA.
>> We accept your qualifications. Thanks, Mr. McCoy. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Um, so Mr. McCoy, would you like to pull up exhibit A1? >> I will do that. >> Share the screen.
I must say after those introductions, there's nothing left to say, but I did put together 91 slides, so maybe we should do it. One sec. All right. Ready? >> Ready. >> Okay. So, um
we will, as Mr. Müller will remind us in a minute, we will identify each slide as we go through it. We'll do our best to do that. This is slide one. Uh I will be joined by some of our consultants um to talk about landscape, storm water, acoustics and traffic and uh they will
be sworn in as we go through the presentation. As we go also as we go through the presentation we will try to identify responses to questions we received in staff reports. So we'll do our best to tie those together to make everything uh as efficient as possible. >> Thank you.
>> Uh this is the agenda we'll go through. I'll talk a little bit about the 2026 campus plan which is the guiding document for this generation of development. Talk a bit about the program more spec specifically about the context. Talk about storm water and sustainability exterior materials
acoustics parking and the variance requests that Christopher noted. So the 2026 campus plan, this is slide three, this is slide four. The 2026 campus plan um is importantly it's not a roadmap of what we will do. It's a
guiding document that says that gives us optionality and scenarios for for flexibility. Um this shows the area to the east of Washington Road. the the the more specific buildings or rectangular buildings on the north side of the Ivy
Lane in western way were a test fit of the capacity of those sites to handle the programs that we imagined to be built for environmental studies in the school of engineering south of Washington south of Ivy Lane you see in and in other parts of the drawing you
see a kind of yellow mask those areas were anticipated to be developed uh within the next 30 years uh for future buildings and for many times for opportunities that were uh unknown at the time that we developed the 2026 campus plan and quantum is exactly one
of those opportunities. We did not have quantum on our radar when we developed the 2026 campus plan, but we we knew that we we needed expansion area around this new neighborhood for engineering for for research that would emerge and take advantage of the synergies next to
engineering. And that's what we see here with uh the quantum institute. On the left hand side of the slide, you see some of the guiding principles from the 2026 campus plan that talk about creating an integrated environment for teaching, living, and learning. enhancing the distinctive sense of place
of the Princeton campus, creating supporting, supportive and welcoming spaces uh be uh thoughtful approaches to sustainability and to serve the communities that extend beyond the boundaries of the campus. And this being an edge condition, we took that very
seriously as we designed the eastern edge of the camp of the project adjacent to Fitz Randolph. Now we're on slide uh five. Uh this talks more specifically about the value proposition of the particular pill project the quantum institute. Um the
first bullet you see here as Christopher mentioned is that this advances the geo exchange goals of the university to achieve carbon neutrality by 2046. So we've learned as we've embarked in this on this goal that every time we have a construction project we need to look at
the site underneath that construction project as an opportunity for geo exchange wells. And so on this project we have we have done that and we are drilling the site beneath the beneath the project as a separate application for geo exchange wells. Uh there are some staff comments about whether or not
those geo exchange wells would interfere with the building. We'll get to those a little bit later. The answer is no. That's a totally separate system. The laterals that connect the geo exchange system are at the perimeter of the building and accessible. So, but the geo exchange wells themselves are not and they're independent and they will not
the building will not impact the functionality of the geo exchange wells. All right. Now, we're on page six. So, now I'm going to tell you what quantum research is all about. But not being a quantum expert. >> Oh, good.
>> I'm sitting forward in my chair. >> I'm going to tell you what I read. Um so Princeton's quantum science and engineering efforts spann foundational research and technological innovation. The quantum science and engineering graduate program offers interdisciplinary training at the
intersection of quantum phys quantum physics and information technology and it prepares students to be leaders in the emerging quantum industry. Princeton University has a deep legacy and a unique position in the field of quantum science. Uh the quantum science journey
be at Princeton began in 1935 with Einstein Podolski and Rosen's work on quantum entanglement theories. The university has since produced Nobel laureates and groundbreaking research. The the Princeton Quantum Institute which is also known as PQI was launched.
>> Ryan, could you explain the quantum um um theories of of Einstein the what were they in? >> We'll get that later. That's a separate separate presentation. Um the uh uh the quantum institute
initiative was launched in 2019 and it brings together 30 faculty from across the disciplines in physics, engineering, chemistry, computer science and material science. This this uh cohort of different researchers uh foster collaboration across theory,
experimentation and application. uh the faculty are pioneering in in quantum computing architectures, quantum grade materials, long-distance computing, communication systems and other other emerging technologies and
and research. So now let me refer to one of the planning comments number 15 which is to clarify the types of experiments. uh I think that broad overview I gave is to give you is to characterize the type of research that's done but I think importantly the chemicals that are used
or the materials that are used in research are consistent with the academic standards of this type of research that's already used on the campus and the university's chemical waste program is is managed by the office of environmental health and safety in accordance with federal and state regulations. So while the research
is new and different, the the methodologies of getting to that research are familiar on campus and and uh uh nothing is new there. All right, with that we'll move on to page seven, slide seven. This is just a graphic program that shows the
distribution of the assignable square feet in the building. As you can see, if you look at the yellow, which is the research laboratories, the green which is teaching spaces, the dark green which is which is clean room, and then the blues are administrative and research offices. That's that's what this project
is about. There is some small meeting space. There's a lecture room and event space and some building support in the assignable square foot. So it's as as Christopher said, the building is 225,000 gross square feet and the assignable program is 116,500
square feet. Now on slide eight is a transition slide. We're going to talk about the context and campus planning principles. So slide nine, uh this gives uh a more detailed location of the site at the
corner of Fitz Randolph and Ivy Lane. what we what was labeled as the east west connector on the same yellow line as Ivy Lane. That's what we called it in the campus plan. And then you see the north south drive which north of Ivy Lane is called Crystalallin Drive. That's a new name drive that we've just
launched. And south of it is the northwest campus walk. Uh those are the primary uh uh connections to the rest of the campus. And as we go forward, I'll talk about some of the other uh connecting uh pathways in the campus. And then you see around here uh the the
new project for environmental studies, Burgerger Hall and C's to the north of Ivy Lane. You see Robert Stadium, Finny Campbell and other athletic athletic fields to the south and to the west and more most importantly the parking garage at the far souththeast corner of the
site which serves the entire university parking system which feeds also into this particular project. Slide nine. uh are is a more detailed granular look at the campus connectors. Um this um uh until recently on this
site, we had a temporary softball field. Um but you'll see here also the introduction of this pathway that goes connects Stadium Drive across to the east and to Fitz Randolph. We will we will talk about that as we go ahead. This is slide 10. Um,
the Ivy Lane is a shared street and it connects uh the neighborhood to the west of Stadium Drive. Let me talk a little bit about the comments related to the the concept plan. In the concept plan, it's true that we had imagined the the
Ivy Lane as it's developed over time to continue the shared shoulders that that run along the the side of the street between Stadium Drive and Fitz Fitz Randolph Road. We're not doing that at this time because we know we have future construction ahead of us and so that
that street will be destroyed with the future construction. So when those future projects are complete, that's when we will complete the shared uh shoulders along the complete street which is Ivy Lane. Um, I think
the I just want to say that the the north south connector uh is a pedestrian walkway that connects down to faculty road. Right now we're on slide 11. This one talks about the vehicular circulation in this area of campus. And
as you can see the around the around the site, the vehicular access only goes on the uh connecting road between of Stadium Drive and Fitz Randolph Road. We call that a campus walk. Um is a campus walk that's used by service
vehicles and also by vehicles that need to access the loading dock. This is very typical on campus um that we have these kinds of shared shared drives, campus walks that share for that are used for access for service vehicles and for loading docks.
Um so let me see if there's anything else I want to say about this one. All right, I get to I'll get to the details now on the campus circulation. So, this is a drawing 12 that shows the pedestrian circulation. And here's where you see the more granular network of
pedestrian paths that access the site. I mentioned a minute ago that this tradition of having campus walks serve as uh shared roads for access to loading docks and also for service. We have those commonly on campus. We have them at Goheen walk. We have them on the walk
between Icon and Le Thomas Laboratory. We have them accessing Whitman College. We have them on the east side of the new residential colleges. We have them on Macwalk in the center of the campus. Traffic on those roads is it must yield to pedestrians. So pedestrians and bikes
have the right of way. This addresses um uh the comments that have made in the planning board comment number four. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that just addresses a general comment about the kind of use of that road. However, planning comment number
planning board comment number four asks to clarify uh the overall project is designed for 1,184 individuals and how they'll arrive to the to the building. They will arrive to the building. Yes, it's it's size for that 1,184 occupants and they will arrive to the
building via this network of pedestrian pathways. They'll park on campus as in the in the overall system that TPS transportation and parking services manages most likely in the in the new stadium garage and they will use the pedestrian pathways to get to the
building. There's no parking uh at the building. All right. Now, slide 13. I'm going to use this slide to uh talk a bit more about several aspects of the uh questions we received and comments we received in the planning reports in the
staff reports. So planning comment number two asks us to address the confirm the phasing and provide a timeline for future phases and the scales and dimensions of future buildings and to clarify the western portion of site how it will be developed
while awaiting those future uh those future buildings. So let me address that one first and say that uh the concept plan was a long-term vision. We do not have any specific target dates for the constructions of those facilities. We presented the concept plan in order to
demonstrate that we're thinking about this building in the context of of what we know will be future campus development, but we have never put a time scale on that future campus development. And so whether it's a year or 10 years, the site to the west of the Quantum Institute will be a temporary
meadow and will be used for future academic buildings when we get when we decide to launch those academic buildings. Um, I'm also going to use this slide because it shows a bit of the floor plan to address planning comment number five,
which uh asks us to clarify the proposed classroom functions of the building. And it asks, will the labs on level A be used for lab classes or only for research and will the auditorium on level one be used for undergraduate classes? So the response to that
question comment number five is that the uh uh laboratories on level A are not used for classes. There is on this level the main entrance level one classroom for student research for
student classes. A laboratory here just to the uh eastern side of the building right opposite the main entrance to the building. And level A is all research space. The auditorium on on level one immediately to the south of the entrance is used
will be used for uh classrooms by the registar and also for events that support the quantum institute. Uh there was also I think I'll use this slide also because it's the most detailed slide that talks about the generator location. And there was a comment from the zoning engineering
special features uh report comment number one asked us to address information about the location of the generator to be uh the new it's a new generator in an enlarged yard. So large but there's a current generator there. We're increasing the size of the yard to
accommodate a new generator and as was described it's within the boundaries of the site plan that we've submitted. So it's not outside the site plan boundaries of the project. All right. Now, on slide 14, we've gone
up a level uh and we're showing the uh second floor of the Quantum Institute. Now, at the second floor, the terracing of the building begins to become more evident as it steps away from the um eastern side of the site where Fitz Randolph is. You'll see the footprint of
the second floor is stepped away further from Fitz Randolph. And the space between the footprint of level two and level one is used for green roofs. So, and all the and and the landscape to the east of the building between the building and Fitz Randolph we see as a
uh a kind of shared landscape amenity. Stone will talk about this when he talks about the landscape a bit like Betsy Stockton garden which is a garden. This so this is a public amenity that the neighbors can can use, faculty and staff and students can use and it brings people together in the landscape. So
that's all part of a buffer that's related to zoning setbacks at the east side of Fitz Randolph. Um all right now slide 15.
Uh I do want to point out there's been one change in this slide from what we submitted uh I think yesterday or today. We've added an arrow here at this east west campus walk at the west end of the east west campus walk. We've added an an arrow just for clarification. That's
important because this east west campus walk uh is two directional for 95% of the uses. But only the large uh trucks that bring that that come about once a week which cannot turn around in this
loading dock will will head out to the east of the site and will exit uh through a controlled gate and will have to will make a right-hand turn only on that at when they hit Fitz Randolph Road. But uh uh service vehicles, small
carts and and box trucks will be will be going both ways along that east west campus walk just as they do on the many campus walks that I mentioned on campus. Uh emergency vehicles will have a keyed access to that gate from Fitz Randolph.
So they could either come via Stadium Drive and come from west to east or they could come from Fitz Randolph and come from east to west. Now I'm going to slide 16. This talks again about pedestrian circulation. Uh
and let me get to the comments here. Um you were asked we were asked to address pedestrian safety in the planning and engineering pedestrian safety comment number one. Uh pedestrian safety is um as it is on the rest of the campus
handled with the these these uh shared pathways at Eastwood the campus walks that we have. Uh they are sized in this in this in this new project at 12 feet or 8 ft typically to accommodate the kind of traffic that or 22 feet for the major major one east west campus walk uh
is 22 feet wide. So these are sized to accommodate the kinds of tra traffic that we anticipate they'll be on them and they they provide the shared use paths uh and uh are are safe throughout the campus. This I'll also point on on this slide
the uh we'll talk a little bit about it later but the drop of uh topography because you'll see the the the elevations are are shown here on this drawing. There is more than a 16 foot drop in the topography from the northern side of the building to the southern
side of the building. You'll see here a 13 a 12oot drop in the finished floor elevations between the south entrance and the main entrance. Slide 17 uh here talks about bicycle circulation. Um as with the rest of the campus, the
bikes and pedestrians will share the campus walks. As I just mentioned, the widths of the pathways are size appropriate for this multimodal usage. We have uh 88 bike parking racks are provided that accommodate 176 bikes uh
on the site there. As as was noted earlier by Mr. Foot, they're primarily located on the western side where we expect all the arrivals to be. Uh the quantity of bikes is a extrapolated from our campus experience with buildings that have similar programs, similar
ratios of laboratories, offices, student populations, and also the distance from the heart of the campus. We know that the buildings that are further from the heart of the campus are going to have a bit more bicycle use than a building that's in the center of the campus. And we're satisfying our bike requirements
uh pursuant to the requirements of ordinance section 10B-282.2. to D for institutions of higher education learning. Uh this this this is the uh applicable standard for this building since it's not a dormatory and
therefore interior bike parking the distinction between long-term and short-term is not required and covered biking bike parking is not required. So that addresses um planning comment 24 which asks us to address uh uh the the
ordinance 10B-282.2C. to see and as I said that applies to dormitories but not to uh academic buildings. We will um report the bicycle use in our annual report that we submit to
the municipality and we will mitigate any shortfalls in the numbers of spaces that that are identified in this annual transportation demand management and parking report that we submit. And just Ron, for for uhformational
purposes, the 2025 report was submitted earlier this week. And if you're taking a look at biking of for the campus, you're looking at something like 6,15
spaces required. And the campus has 700 7,000, excuse me, 7,443. So we currently have a surplus of 854 spaces just to give the board an idea. Uh but it was reported um earlier in
this week and that's that is available um to review. >> Great. Thanks. All right. Now on slide 18, uh this addresses some of the comments I've already made about service and emergency access. It will be
provided along that uh east west campus walk at the southern side of the site. This is where we have widths of 22 feet using a 12t porous asphalt adjacent to a 10-ft wide grass crete path. This is a strategy we've used at things like the
new residential college where we can uh uh provide uh footings for the outriggers of emergency vehicles along the pathway, but we can also plant grass and reduce the amount of impervious service along that walkway. that will continue from Stadium Drive all the way
to the um uh Fitz Randolph and it'll bring bring vehicles to that that loading dock as I mentioned and as I said only the once a week uh uh long longer trucks will be will need to go out through the eastern side. All other traffic will will have to go out to the
west to state and drive. That's obviously to prevent traffic from going into the neighborhood. And for those weekly trucks that do exit on Fitz Randolph, they will be required to turn southbound or turn right on Fitz Randolph. Okay.
Um, slide 19. This is talks about site accessibility. As I mentioned a little while ago, there's a uh substantial slope across the site from north to south about a little bit more than 16 ft. Thus, uh the main entrance at the west at 143
is a level above the the entrance of the south uh southwest corner of the of the site. Um, and I should also use this drawing to indicate that a portion of the of the level B of level of of level B below the building comes out to the
perimeter of the building here. So, uh, that's all under a green roof. So, that green roof that I mentioned that serves as a setback to Fitz Randolph, part of that part of that area has the laboratories under underneath it. Um, the site is fully all the pathways on
the site are fully accessible. Uh there are in indicated in orange here uh two areas on the west and two areas on the east that involve stairs and steps. But wherever there is a stair or step there's a parallel or equivalent
pathway for accessibility. So all the entrances at every corner and this exit uh here at the east side have accessible routes. on the east side because of the stairs and the steep drop off to Fitz Randolph. The pathways go to the north
and connect to Ivy Lane. All right. Um slide 20. I'm going to transition to Stomu here who will talk uh about the landscape, but I just want to use this slide to introduce uh the landscape strategy is to recognize the different zones of the campus, the different placemaking opportunities of
the campus. And as Stomo goes through his slides, he will uh address everything here. So Stomo, why don't you take it away? Just tell me when to change the slides. >> So So Stone, we you were already sworn in, but we need to get you qualified. >> Sure. Uh so my name is Stone Bishop. Uh
I'm a licensed landscape architect and the director with field operations. Uh we've been working on the multiple project with Princeton University uh over the past seven years. I have a bachelor of agriculture from University of Tokyo and the master of landscape
architecture from the uh University of Pennsylvania. I've been practicing landscape architecture over 19 years and I'm registered in New Jersey and in Pennsylvania >> and your New Jersey license is current. >> Yes, good.
>> Thank you. We we accept your qualifications. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> So this is slide 20. Uh so as mentioned I will walk you through the places we are proposing around building uh including north south campus walk east
west campus walk boots east gardens structure gardens and streets escape. Next sorry slide 21. Uh so starting with the northwest corner of the building uh we are proposing a series of the lawn areas
along the north south campus walk to create the open and inviting landscapes for the uh west entrance which is a primary entrance to the proposed building. Next uh slide 22 uh showing the east west
sections cutting through this area. Uh so as you can see in the sections uh this area in front of the entrance overlooks the temporary meadow to the west. Uh there will be a very open and gorgeous view to the meadow although it's you know meant to be a temporary.
Uh also we are proposing a sunken garden uh to provide light and air to the building uh lower level as well as be creating a small outdoor space uh which I will discuss uh in details with sections uh in a bit.
Uh next uh slide 23 uh showing the paving uh materials and the furnishings proposed for this area. The uh north south campus walk and the plaza space in front of the entrance will be paved with the uh primeable unit paper uh for the
storm water management and this paper uh paper is the campus standard and it has been used at the firestone library and beyond and is also going to be used the uh at some uh other projects which are currently under construction.
Uh we are also providing a good number of bike racks near the entrance uh where the demand for the bike parking is high. uh 30 bike racks in total proposed for this uh entrance >> and again >> and again each rack will accept two two
bikes correct >> that's correct so 60 bike uh parking spaces for this area and here uh I just want to uh hand over to Ron to speak to the uh future campus art propose uh in this area at the corner of the uh the building
>> right and and Chris may help us here we we have identified a a hypothetical site for for campus art. We have noted that art work. Uh but we're we want to see if we can include it in the uh proposal in the in the in the application. And then
Christopher, I think our strategy is to request that the approval of the art be deferred to to um the landscape subcommittee later. >> Yeah. Or municipal staff. Basically, we put the foundation in as part of this project anticipating art in that area.
And um the the final location and I guess the art um hopefully we could we could get that just reviewed um administratively um through with staff would be helpful.
Um I I'll leave that to the board to discuss, but um if we have, you know, no other landscape issues to to take to the landscape subcommittee, I would think that's probably fine. But
um if we if we do go take things to the landscape subcommittee, then the the art could be part of that. I I certainly don't foresee any hitch Okay, thank you.
>> Uh the next slide 24 uh showing the planting propose for this area. So as I mentioned, we have three loan areas uh shown in light green uh which are populated with the uh three Kentucky coffee trees to create the sense of threshold. Uh the lawn areas are
surrounded by the planting beds with trees, shrubs and ground cover planting and the proposed tree species include uh red bot dog good uh honey locust here and the area west of the north south campus walk uh shown in orange will be
met as we discussed uh which will be very similar to what we uh just planted at the meadows campus in west winter. And lastly, uh 18inch wide gravel strip will be installed in the planting beds uh all around the uh building to address
the uh new fire code. Next uh slide 25 the proposed shrub species uh including bakai the smoke tree and sumac and ground covers will be mainly grasses uh along with some perennials as accent.
Next uh slide 26. Uh so moving on to the southwest corner of the building uh where there's another entrance uh south entrance. Uh we are proposing a gro of multi- trunk trees to signify the corner. Uh we are also proposing the bio
retention basin at the uh southwest corner of the building. Next uh slide 27. paving materials uh proposed for this area which are essentially same as the area in the north that I just discussed. Uh we are
also proposing a stair over the uh the bio retention basin in order to make the access to the building from the the bike parking area in the south easier. Yes, that's the south uh the bike parking area. Next
slide 28. Uh uh showing the proposed furnishings. Uh we are proposing to create a gathering space in front of the uh the south entrance with a two uh very unique benches shown in orange. One is straight, the other one is curved. Uh
and in a similar fashion to the the west entrance, we are providing plenty of bike racks. uh 58 bike parks that means 116 uh bike parking spaces uh in total for this entrance. >> So if I could just jump in here and
point out the lectern wayfinding signage which is shown in this diagram, this photograph here and that's located right here because this will be a point of arrival for people who are coming either from to from the west or from the the stadium garage. So as they approach the
building, they'll have an opportunity to see one of our wayfinding signs that gives them orientation to the campus. >> And because that type of sign's not really contemplated by the municipal ordinance, we're requesting a variance
for that sign. Um the similar sign is on the south, I mean to the north rather. This is the south side of that um path. as you you follow up the walk the walk on the slide before I guess we showed it. There's another one of those proposed to kind of orient people to um
give them some information on where they are and um how to get to where they want to go. >> Right. >> Uh so next uh slide 30 uh >> I think we're on 29. >> Sorry, this is 29. Sorry. Sorry. Uh
proposed planting. Uh so multi- trunk uh river branch trees are proposed to create the growth and the tudi popular and katsura tree are proposed at the key location and other proposed tree species include swamp white oak and yellow and
the planting beds are filled with shrubs and ground covers in the same way as the area in the north. Next uh this is slide 30 uh moving further south. So we are creating another small gathering space by uh
reshaping the plaza uh that's been built for the robot stadium. Next uh slice 31 proposed paving materials and furnishings for this area. Uh so the this area will be paved with the uh same
primary wall unit paper to reinforce the continuity of the north south campus walk and gathering space will be furnished with the uh existing craft bench uh as well as the some loose furniture. Uh next uh slice 32 proposed planting.
So it will be a mix of trees uh shrubs and ground cover planting including honey locus uh ty popper the horse and nineberg for this area. Next uh slide 33 uh again here I'm going
to uh turn over to Ron to talk about the east west campus walk. Yeah, uh we've talked about this a little bit already, but this is just another opportunity to uh respond to one of the questions planning comment number 22, which asks us to clarify if there will be a traffic
restriction device at the southern access drive from Stadium Drive, which we assume is is referring to this intersection here. And the answer is no. As I pointed out earlier, most of the there will be there will be signage that says um signage that says this is
restricted access uh because we need to get service vehicles and carts and things like that to the loading dock. Uh and I said again with the exception of the the large vehicle which comes weekly uh everybody will also go out in that direction. So we do not we do not
imagine that there'll be any functional benefit to having a uh uh restricted device at at that intersection. It be more it'll be more common on campus to have have that open for vehicular traffic. Uh and then we have an exit exit only
gate here as we've mentioned and a uh right turn only southbound on Fitz Randolph to stay away from the neighbors. Just just one point for the record. Um we updated this sign to add this slide to add the exiton language there. Um
there's four slides that we've since updated since it was submitted and posted on the website. Um and this is the second one. Um m Mr. McCoy already identified the first one which was slide 15. We added the arrow. Uh this one was
also similarly updated. >> Thank you, Christopher. Uh the next slide 34 uh proposed paving materials and furnishings for the uh east west campus walk. So the uh north half of the walk will be paved with the
uh por asphalt uh shown in blue and the other half the south south half will be paved with the grass shown in green and uh as mentioned you know grass is the basically the concrete paving with the boys which can be filled with either grass or gravel and we have used you
know this material for a few projects on campus and it's been very successful in reducing the scale of the uh heartscape and the uh As Ron mentioned in the previous slide, uh gate will be installed at east end of the walk and then signage will be installed at uh
west end uh of the walk uh to control vehicle traffic at each location. Uh next uh sl uh zooming into the loading dock. Uh the loading dock uh comes with a space for the vehicular uh maneuvering uh which
will be discussed in detail later uh in the presentation by Sunday. Uh you can also see the grass crete looks like you know in pictures in the upper left corner. Uh next slide 36 uh showing the uh proposed planting along the east west
campus walk. So this walkway uh will be flanked by metal uh planting beds and bio retention basins. Uh next slide 37 uh zooming into three bio retention basins uh located between
the building and the east west campus walk. Uh as I previously mentioned there will be one basin at the southwest corner of the building and there will be two mobile retention basins at the southeast corner of the building uh with
two different levels uh as shown in the section. uh these two basins are you know more visible to the public so uh they can bring a great opportunity uh to showcase what the university is doing for the uh storm water management.
Uh next uh slide 38 uh proposed planting pilot for the bio retention basins and some precedent images. So the basins uh will be uh heavily planted with a mix of trees, shrubs and ground covers uh like
the ones in the images uh shown here. The next uh slide 39. Right now moving on to the east side of the building. Uh this area actually uh contains various types of landscapes uh including
terrace, the courtyard, grove and woods uh along with the level changes. So it will be very uh interesting space to be walked through as well as to be looked at the uh from the street level. The next uh slide 40 uh uh the slide is
showing the uh the east west sections to illustrate the level changes in this area. So as you can see uh the terrace uh it's basically the as Ron said it's got uh the uh the green roofs and the terrace in front of the building uh is
at the higher elevation than the street level and there will be a terrace bio retention basins between these two spaces. Let me just point out maybe it's clear in this in this section here that this this fuchsia colored line here is the roof of the building below of the
laboratories below. You see the green roof here and then it terraces down to the uh Fitz Randolph Road and the walkway sidewalk >> right it's continuous you know when you're on the ground so you don't realize the building just appearing underneath the the garden.
Uh this is slide 41. Uh proposed baby materials and furnishings. Uh so the terrace >> and the courtyard will be paved with the same primable unit paper and furnished uh with the benches and movable
furniture. Uh lots of space to sit uh to enjoy the uh outdoor space. Next uh slide 42 uh proposed planting. Again, you know, this area will have uh various types of planting including canopy trees, understory trees and
shrubs to create at northeast corner of the site. Uh flowering uh trees for the grove along the uh uh terrace bioente basins. Uh symbol tree uh for the cordier at the southeast corner of the
area. Uh and by the way, this tree is the kata tree. uh one of the non-native species uh we are are specifying and the bio retention basins will be uh densely planted with shrubs and ground covers.
Uh next uh slide 43. Uh now we are moving on to the places that are uh integrated into the building. Uh we call them structured gardens. uh including the uh sunken garden that we discussed
roof terraces, green roofs and vine planting for the building facade. Next uh slide 44 uh first the sunken garden uh uh located just north of the west entrance. So uh this is a section
cutting through the garden and uh you can see uh space to occupy uh on the right hand side and two raised planting beds on the left hand side allow just on the uh upper level side and these planting beds are meant to mitigate the
scale of the toll wall uh between the upper level and the lower level. And the scheme shown here is uh what we had uh documented in the municipal submission. We recently changed the design a bit uh by lowering the two planting beds to
address the some maintenance concerns. So this is uh slide 45 uh the revise the current scheme. As you can see you know two bits were lowered uh for ease of the uh the planting maintenance. Uh but now we have a small trees uh uh in the upper
planter. So this configuration still should be able to mitigate the scale of the uh the uh very tall wall. Next slide 46. Uh so proposed planting for the sunken garden. So you know obviously this area will be uh heavily shaded. So
we are specifying shade around plants uh such as horn beam uh Christmas m and smon seal. And we are also specifying the uh English IV uh to cover the W uh which is non-native and considered
invasive uh as pointed out in the reports from the town uh specifically comment number four in the landscape architects report and one of the comments in the share tree committees report. However, you know this sunken
garden is very contained uh you saw the you know very tall wall there and heavily shaded. So uh we believe it is less likely that the vine is going to spread out from the uh space.
Uh next uh slide 47. Uh now we on the roofs uh we are covering substantial area with the vegetation. Uh both extensive green roofs uh shown in the dark green and intensive uh green roofs
shown in the uh uh light green. And the area highlighted with the magenta box there are three uh these are the roof terraces uh that we are proposing. >> So let me point out let me point out this this this yellow line
>> is a additional uh restriction barrier so that if someone leaves the building to access that roof terrace to enjoy being out in nature. We want to prevent them from walking across the roof and getting near the edge. So this is a a barrier that prevents people from going further toward the per perimeter of the
building. >> Right. Thank you, Ron. Uh next uh slide 48. Uh so showing one of the three terraces uh that we just discussed. Uh so the terrace will be paved with PA and bounded by a concrete wall with a bench
uh the bench seat top. Uh so you know it's a it's very small space but uh it can provide the users with the opportunity to get out outside and enjoy fresh air you know when you don't have time to go to downstairs. Uh next uh slide 49.
Uh moving on to the vine planting for the building facade. So the vine is a very uh important design element uh of the building facade and we are proposing uh essentially you know for all building faces.
Next uh slide 50. Uh so we are proposing these four different vine species. Uh as I mentioned one of them is English ivy but all other three species are native including American wisteria
and Dutch man's pie. Uh next uh slide 51 showing the building elevations with the vine planting highlighted in green. As you can see, you know, it is integrated into the facade design uh enhancing the
articulation of the building facade. The next slide 52. Uh now moving on to the streetscape on IV lane in north and Petrand road in the east. Uh we are proposing to create landscapes with
shade and seasonal interest. Uh next uh slide 53 uh proposed paving materials and uh furnishings uh for the streetscape. So the fire line uh north of the building will be paved with grass shown in green and the sidewalk on the
IV lane will be cast in place concrete shown in orange. Uh this is the uh continuation of the sidewalk in the west. and then did the sidewalk on the fifth roundoff uh will be the uh for asphalt showing blue and the buler
proposed at each carbon cut on IV lane to restrict the vehicular access to the fire lane. Uh next uh slide 54 uh talks about the existing trees uh we
are preserving. Uh so they are large and mature and we understand the the board's landscape architect raised the concern about the preserving two Norway maples on IV lane uh since they are in fact the
uh invasive species. Uh that's uh comment number two in his report. Uh so we recognize the concern but would like to keep them because you know they can provide much needed shade uh for the pedestrian and also have some presence
uh while the uh newly planted trees grow which obviously takes some time. Next uh slide 55 proposed tree planting. Uh the proposed canopy trees are shown in dark green and the proposed
understory trees are in yellow. uh we have a few of them uh on the IV lang and then the uh existing trees are in light green. Uh so for the trees on fit of road we have originally proposed both canopy trees shown here but we realized
that there are not that uh much room for the new canopy trees because of the size of the existing trees to remain. So we made uh minor adjustments. Uh the scheme shown here is the original scheme which we documented in the municipal submission. And the next slide uh slide
56 uh is showing the revised current tree planting scheme. Uh so as you can see we replaced the uh some of the proposed canopy trees uh on uh fand of road with the understory trees shown in
yellow. And we believe this actually works better uh from the design standpoint since you know these understory trees will help make the uh uh streetscape more diverse uh with a layered effect. And next slide 57.
Uh going back to the uh zooming out to the overall site and this slide is showing the tree removable plan and we recognize there are some discrepancies about the tree counts in the drawings uh as pointed out in the reports from the
town uh specifically comment number 28 in the planning report and one of the comments in the uh share tree committees report. So I'll be clarifying all the tree counts in this slide and then uh the next one 58. Uh also there were two
typos in the presentation we shared uh with the town on Tuesday. Uh uh so I will correct those typos as well. Uh so here we go. Uh so we are preserving 22 uh existing trees not 24 as shown in the
previously shared presentation and removing the uh 48 trees and three trees have been already removed because of the uh their health conditions and the uh 34
uh not 33 uh out of the 51 trees uh are larger than 8 in DBH which require tree replacement and part ordinance uh 45 tree replacement is required for those 34 trees to be removed or that has been
uh that have been already removed. Uh next uh h sorry can you go back uh to the uh one slide? Yes. 57 sorry. Uh I also want to uh speak to the comment number 29 in the planning report
regarding the existing tree protection outside of the limit of the work. Uh so responding into the comment yes we will work with the town's arborist to make sure we protect existing trees that may be affected by construction activity
even if they are outside the uh limit of disturbance. Uh next slide 58. Uh here's the proposed tree planting plan. So we are planting uh 150 trees and 129 out of the 150
trees are larger than 2.5 in caliper trees which can be uh counted towards the tree replacement. And last tree uh as I mentioned as I briefly mentioned two out of the 129 trees are non-native
species which are the katoua trees and you know they are proposed at the primary location uh and we understand the uh using non-native species was pointed out in the uh landscape architect report uh comment number three
and the uh uh mentioned in the environmental commission port. However, you know, they are part of the important landscape design elements. So, we would like to keep them in the design given that you know we are planting much more
than required by the ordinance and the kata trees are not technically uh considered invasive species. >> So, this slide is also updated right from the earlier. >> Oh, yes. Yes, that's the yes. Okay.
>> The numbers were corrected in these two slides. All right, number 59. We're going to bring in Jeff. Jeff, did you get sworn in? >> Yes, you're sworn in. Can you tell us a little bit about your education and qualifications?
>> Graduate of Roger Williams University 1991. Uh, been a registered architect for 29 years. I am registered in five states and including New Jersey. I'm right licensed and registered in the state of New Jersey. I'm a planning principal
with HGA here to talk about this this one plan. >> Thank you. We accept your qualifications. >> Thank you. >> I think the first thing I'd like to say is that the lighting plan um proposed for quantum building here is very
consistent with the university standards and fixtures that you're accustomed to seeing around campus. Um the lighting fixture selection shown on the left uh are categorized in uh tiers of
lighting for site and the building. The first selection of fixtures of the street lighting along Ivy Way, Ivy Lane and Fitz Pat uh Fitz Randolph, sorry, to the east. And that's the pole leg. It's uh
labeled PX2. And the graphic on the plan is a little small to read. Um and that's 20 ft tall. This second tier in are what we call pedestrian pole lights and that's PX1.
And that will also mirror that same um location along IV lane to the north and Fitz Randolph to the east. It'll continue down on the pedestrian way that stretches north south on the west side
of the building and along the service road along the south um across the site in between for the the pedestrian pathways that lead up to the entrances
of the building. We have ballards, the BX1, those are lower height 36 to 42 in in height and light the pathway along up to the building. uh at building entrances, major building
entrances on the west, southwest corner at the loading dock and again on the um east are down lights in a canopy shielded from view and down light just the entrance portion of the um buildings.
We do have a a number of light wall um flood lights if they if you will that are all angled downward and are at the loading dock in the south highlighting the that deep guarding on the west side.
They're lowle um lower than grade level if you will down deep in the well. And there's some edge light along those retaining walls as well that shine in towards the building. Um,
all of the lighting calculations that were performed for this layout meet the the city requirements for street and pedestrian ways um and are selected to pre prevent
night um sky pollution. And so the those angle uh fixtures are all primarily down light fixtures. Okay. Thank you. Is anything else? All right. Now Sandy, I think we're
going to turn to you to uh talk about the loading docks. >> Uh yes. So I need you just to be sworn in first, I believe. Uh I think you got sworn in but um we need to qualify you. >> Absolutely. Um so I am a a professional
engineer in good standing in the state of New Jersey and in Massachusetts. I have over 30 years of experience and happy to go into any details about professional societies or any other uh qualifications you'd like me to talk about.
uh just your education um if you've appeared before the boards etc. >> Sure. So I I graduated in 1985 with a civil engineering degree >> and you've presented to Princeton. >> I presented to West Windsor. I have not
presented to the Princeton. >> Okay. Thank you. We accept your qualifications. >> All right. I'll just start with uh slide number 60 which shows the dimensions of the two bay loading dock. Uh this is in response
to uh several comments related to the loading dock. Um including uh let me just get that including uh planning comments number 20 and site plan comments number eight and nine. So the next three slides will be responding
to those comments. If I can if I can can I just jump in here to S maybe hope hope you weren't going to say this but I also want to say that >> there have been several comments about the interior trash room and uh and the waste waste management program and I just want to say here in response to
planning comment number 20 which asks us to confirm the adequacy of the trash storage given the size of the building commenting that it's relatively small uh and to talk about how that is going to be managed and operated. ated and I would just the the response is to say
that our trash collection is managed by the university building services and the capacity of all trash storage in the building is coordinated with the waste handling schedule. So we realize that a smaller uh interior trash room will be need to be managed and serviced more
often. But that's the that's the kind of total scheme that we've we've uh we're initiating on this project. So it's the the point is that the size of the trash room is in sync with the operational plan to manage the size of the trash room.
>> Shall I go forward, Sandy? >> Yes, please. And so what I'll be doing is going through some turning movements for uh the different vehicles that will be accessing this loading dock. Um we'll start with uh the turning movements for
Kubota tractors. So, as Ron just indicated that the trash room and everything will be serviced by the university. This is the vehicle that the university typically uses for trash collection but also for general building services. Um, and this is a relatively
small vehicle. It's approximately 12 ft long. It can easily maneuver on the east west east west access road and in and out of the loading dock uh pretty freely. The next slide which would be 62. This
is actually the vehicle that is the largest vehicle that will be accessing uh this loading dock. This is a a WB um 60 >> 62 and the actual length of that uh trellot
truck is uh 69 ft long. Um the WB means wheelbase. That's why it's WB62. And this one is a little bit longer. Uh, this vehicle will enter uh the quantum site um off of Stadium Drive. It'll go
down the east west connector to the loading dock. It will back into the loading dock. Um, you can see the the basically the tracks of the vehicle and how it backs up. It would then leave this uh loading dock out towards Fist
Rolph taking a right and only going south. And these are the uh the turning movements that were requested. I also want to just make sure that you're aware that there was uh turning movements submitted for all the fire trucks for the different access of the building
that happens to be on sheet C705. Uh but this is addressing the loading dock specifically. So I think we can move on to the next slide. Before we before we do that, let me say that there are other staff report comments that these slides that the
testimony that Sandy and I have given should satisfy. One of them is I'm not going to read them all in detail because they all talk about the same issue of the dock sizes, turning radi, and the size of the trash room, but they they are planning comment number 25, site plan comment number seven, site
plan comment number nine, all relate to these topics that we've just given testimony on. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. So, uh, next conversation will be around storm water and sustainability. If we go to the next slide, which is 64, um,
you've already seen a lot of this information presented because most of this is showing up on the landscape plans. And the reason is is because the storm water management is integrated into the landscape in a very thoughtful way. So, this is an overview of of the
site. Um, and as I said, some of this you've already seen. Um, you know, the brown areas, the areas of the different porous pavement systems. Um, whether that's the grassrete, the porous asphalt, other porous pavers that were previously mentioned. It also shows um
the building with the various green roofs on it. Uh, the different colors has have to do with the depth of green roof. And then also we've already seen some sections uh previously presented um that show the uh bio retention basins whether you're on the east side of the
building and uh I'll be going through these sections again but my presentation will be showing you how these storm water systems are integrated into those landscape plans. >> Okay. Um the other kind of couple of things that wanted to point out here and
this is just kind of a summary about the amount of green infrastructure that's being prepared or being proposed on this particular project. When you look at the drainage area for the quantum building site, it's about 6.75 acres. Of that
6.75 acres, there's approximately 43% of that that will be green infrastructure. and that includes the porest pavement systems, the green roofs and the bio retention. That's pretty significant. Um, also on the left hand side of this
plan is the uh proposed generator area. That area will be taken care of in service. Um, the storm water will be taken care of through a a crush stone in and around all of the proposed generators and other equipment.
Uh if we go to the next slide >> before we do let me just add one comment here. Um sure to say that I think this Sy's testimony now well the testimony I'm about to give satisfies uh response to planning comment number 27 which asked us to confirm that future phases
of the project will provide additional storm water management and the answer is yes. uh uh we were very careful during the concept design phase to make sure that um those projects would would be designed or had enough site capacity to
handle the storm water requirements that they will be h that would be required to manage. So even though we haven't designed the buildings that will obviously be the requirement that we have uh given ourselves for those buildings. >> Correct. It was very intentional based on where our limit of storm water
systems were to make sure there was ample space and location for any future buildings being developed. So this this first section is um section one which is on the uh southwest corner of the building. Uh this actually shows
um uh bio retention basin six, but it also shows you how the the section that goes up through some of the walkways and entrance plazas and also through the um the campus walkway of how all of the systems are integrated into what you've
already seen in the landscape. So starting with the porest pavers there will be um basically sub subsurface storage underneath those pavers which help to u mitigate any kind of increase based on the uh proposed development. Um bio retention six also is heav he
heavily planted yet it also contains additional storage um beneath the uh bio retention basin. And then you move over to the uh campus walkway which was already described as having porous asphalt but also grassrete. Both of
those are porous materials. In addition, there is now uh proposed storage underneath of that. This is how everything is layered into the actual um landscaping. So you may not, you know, you may go out to the site, you're going to see a beautiful landscaping, but all
of the storm water is actually incorporated into that. So if we move to the next slide, uh again this was already previously discussed which is the sunken garden from a drainage perspective obviously
and from uh Princeton's perspective. One of the key items of this this is an isolated area that is lower than the surrounding um areas. So this is showing um this section of it which shows that there'll be a porous system on the plaza
deck. There will be a series of under drains underneath that um that plaza that little sitting area that will be brought out into the drainage system. In addition, there is a separate trench drain system that will also be brought out. This is a redundant system and this
has to do with just the configuration of this location and making sure that there is redundancy to make sure there's no issues if any of the system fails. And if we go on to the next section. So this is when it gets fun. This is my
area here. So when we get over to the east side, um it's really nice to see how um you know how the landscape is working, but how we've integrated all the storm water in it that comes from the storm water from what's um all the
you know the the green roofs on the building itself into the actual bio retention. This is a step bio retention system. So each basin steps into the next one. So there is uh an under drain or perforated pipe in each one of those
uh bio retention basins. If you have an extreme storm, um they're actually are set in to have overflows to actually Whoops, sorry. Um each one of them has an overflow so that basin one will overflow to basin 2,
basin 2 will overflow to basin 3. So there's a series of steps there. So on the next >> on the next section >> that was slide 68 >> now it's yeah sorry >> on the next section here >> uh if you go back one slide
this is this is um you know showing bio retention two and three but it's also showing the connection to the existing drain the 30in um RCP that goes down um Fitz Randolph we go to the next slide
>> so quick question Does does that like third overflow redundancy biblical flood pipe um does that connect to one of your really huge underground storage systems or does that connect to this storm sewer
and basically go straight to Lake Carnegie >> or option three? >> Yeah, it's it's option three. It goes into the Fitz Randolph Road uh drainage system. Eventually, there is an existing 30-inch drain that then connects into Fitz Randolph. Then, yes, goes all the
way down to the lake. >> Okay. All right. >> Y >> right now we're in 69. >> And then this is, you know, instead of the east west sections, we're looking at the north south section. You've seen this section previously. This is basically looking at um all of the storm
water along Fitz Fitz Randolph. So in here you can see um not only by retention three but you can see how the porous pavement is integrated into the bottom where the steps come down. There's a a small area there that's
porous pavement that then goes into another bio retention basin which then goes into another bio retention basin and that one goes out to that same uh 30-in pipe out in that ends up in Fitz Randolph. So this is again a type of system that's all connected to each
other. They all have under drains. They all have overflows. And again it's a it's a continuous system. Um and it's all within the landscape. And then also this also shows uh the porest pavement on the uh east west walk. Um but it's a
very layered system and you may not see the storm water but there was a lot of storm water mitigation going on on this particular site. Excuse me. When you say that uh one bio retention basin drains into another, that's all underground,
isn't it? I mean, you're not seeing anything on the surface like like a mini waterfall or anything like that. >> No. Uh it the way it's designed is that you would only see an overflow in an extreme storm >> that that it is it is there as like any
other type of uh drainage facility. You always have a want to have an emergency overflow. So you should not see it. If you do, something very big is going on. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Uh there we go.
>> Okay. Thank you, Sydney. That was very interesting. That's great stuff. Now, we're going to talk I'm on slide 70 and I'm going to talk a bit about uh sustainability. Uh this is a diagram that just describes some of the variety of sustainability
objectives for the project. You see at the bottom that the project is designed to be lead gold and we have set a university target of at least 20% invited carbon reduction as and energy reductions. The project will be connected to the geo exchange system and
all the rooftops will be designed to be uh solar ready. Obviously the geo exchange system is part of our campus goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2046. And as I said earlier, the ge exchange system is beneath level B, the subb and is independent from the
building. The laterals that the ge exchange system feeds and and may need maintenance are located at the perimeter of the building and can be accessed. Uh I also picking up on the comments that Sandy and Stone have provided, I just want to talk about the uh robust native
landscape and the biodiversity corridors. This building, particularly on the east side, is is is really trying to enhance the biodiversity along Fitz Randolph and draw up the woodlands from this from Lake Carnegie uh into this
edge of the neighborhood and into this edge of of the of the site. And I would also say that again picking up on Sandy's comments that uh this has been one of I think most robust efforts to design a building from a storm water management plan. First, first we
consider the storm water management. Then we design the building to accommodate that storm water management as opposed to designing a building and then trying to fit the storm management into the design of the building. So slide 71 gives a bit more detail on the um
uh uh embodied carbon reduction and sustainability goals. You'll see here the diagram on the right of the baseline building uh the glowing GWP the global warming potential by design case and on
the right the optimizations that we've uh found primarily in the superructure of steel and metals the superructure concrete substructure steel and metals and the substructure concrete all those systems are um contributing to the uh um
embedded carbon goal of uh you see here we're we're designed to to hit a 23% reduction in the embodied carbon of the building. Uh this also helps address I think the question that um about mass timber. Um I
want to say that uh this building is a high sensit highly sensitive to vibration and vi uh mass timber is not viable for this particular project because of that that vibration requirement. And so we're we're really looking at every other alternative way
to get to the lower embodied carbon of the building through these technologies that I've just identified. All right, let me just check one thing here. Uh another comment here is uh on the
comment of uh planning planning board comment number 12. Why the building is is being designed to made solar ready as opposed to providing solar panels on the building when it's constructed. If feasible, solar panels should be provided immediately after construction.
Our response to that is that we manage our investments and our design and our strategies for solar uh in the in a campuswide system to fit the grids scaled approach. And so um we're currently delivering about 19% of the campus energy is through our solar
strategy. All of the buildings in this current generation are being being designed to be solar ready. And as we increase our onampus solar, we will we will review all of the opportunities of all the rooftops we've designed and prioritize those in which we can get the most solar energy for the best
investment. So it's a very careful strategy and rather than do one building at a time, we want we're going to get better benefit if we do them as a kind of strategic plan where we get the where we look at the entire inventory of projects and choose those that are most
viable for for solar. So, we're not providing it. We're making it solar ready, but we're not providing solar from day one. All right. Now, on slide 2072, I'm going to transition to the exterior materials and character of the building.
Slide 73 uh talks about the setback to height ratio. And we're looking at the top drawing here, looking at an elevation, uh along from Robert Stadium, looking to the north. You see Fitz Randolph on the right. I mentioned earlier in the
presentation that the setback uh to the property line in the in the on the Fitz Randolph road is a required 3 to one setback. You'll see that red line that shows the 3:1 setback. You'll also see the 100 ft maximum height limit in this in this particular area. And we're well
below both of those lines. Uh so these this step section makes the building very friendly to the neighborhood. brings down the scale to the neighborhood and then this robust landscape that Stone and Sandy have talked about uh provide that public amenity on the on the Fitz Randall side
of the of the building. the lower drawing uh we're looking at the west elevation, the entrance elevation from Stadium Drive looking to the east and again you'll see similarly a required setback from the property boundary at the uh north side of Ivy Lane 3 to one
and that steps the building upward and away from the mass away from the street and you also see that the the maximum height limit we're well below the maximum height limit. So these these uh I mentioned storm water was one of the first strategies to design the building that was at the same time designing the
building to meet these zoning requirements and to enhance the kind of break down the massing of the building and make it a more smaller scale building. Now I'm on slide 74. Uh and now we're looking at the north elevation along Ivy Lane uh on the uh top drawing and the
east elevation along Fitz for the lower drawing. And these tell the same story. uh to the right if we're looking on on top drawing to the right of that you'll see the stadium but again you'll see the buildings well below the height limit and the 3:1 setback ratio which is
required and similarly along the east Fitz Randolph uh road elevation uh so we're looking toward the toward the stadium here along Fitz Randolph again you see the 3:1 setback and the maximum height
so now on 75 uh we're showing some we're going to show some renderings of the building. Uh, as you can see, the brick the building is a brick building. It's a um I'd say highly uh uh crafted building with a tra very traditional material. Uh
it has a very discreet use of glazing as a passive energy strategy and it's really a it's a very intimate scale building. It's really two stories above grade with a very large mechanical system to service this very sophisticated clean room and all the laboratories in the building. the brick
verticals there integrate the the mechanical pen houses which have an aluminum uh grill system and corrugated grill system on them that those vertical stripes of brick bands integrate the penthouse with the rest of the building so it doesn't seem like a kind of big uh a kind of big penthouse is plopped on
top of the building. You'll also see here the the main entrance uh underneath the sign and to the left of that sign you see that sunken courtyard that we've talked about and you'll also see the very purposeful and careful strategy to bring planting and and uh vines into the
building. I think we've probably talked in the past that we we still maintain a list of all the vines that Beatatrix Fand used on campus and the tradition of incorporating vines and plantings on the building is very rich at Princeton and
it it kind of uh creates a more humane and intimate character for the campus. So they're care they're carefully designated in particular parts of the building and coordinated with our our building management folks and grounds our grounds and operations folks for maintenance.
Now we're on page 76. This is a little more detail of the uh brick materials. You'll see in the middle there the medium iron smart 46 and the medium iron smart 46 artisan. Those are the two uh main bricks of the body of the building.
Uh again it's just it's a very simple brick. It's a local brick but it has some interesting te text texture and character that give it some richness. And on the left you see an example of the variety of uh brick strategies that uh bring the sense of craft and richness
of material to the building. Mechanical penthouse as I mentioned is is is basically integrated with the mass of the building through those vertical columns of bricks. You'll see a soldier course. You see the flemish brond brick with protruding bricks. And on the bottom you see a diagram of vines. So
this is the vocabulary that will be used in you know not 100% of the facade but through throughout the building this vocabulary will be used. And on the right you see the accent colors the metal panels for the louvers and the light bronzecoled corrugated panel also
at the penthouse and then a flamed granite coping. On slide 77 now we're over at the generator enclosure. The generator enclosure is very modest. It simply uh uh picks up on the uh it's a brick facade, a brick wall that re uses the
same brick on the existing generator enclosure. So it's just a continuation of that garden wall which encloses a current generation current generator on the east side of Weaver Track on 78. Uh we're zoomed in here to the
west west west entrance of the building giving a bit more sense of the character and detail and craft of the brick and the presence of the vines and the as I said the discrete use of windows for passive energy uh design. You do see here the sunken garden and that large
stair which is adjacent to the sunken garden which brings light down into the lower levels of as you've heard testimony about. To the right, this is the main entrance of the building. And to the right of that, that's the main lecture hall of the building.
Uh we're now on 79 and we're looking at a rendering of the south uh west corner of the building. So uh we've come up behind us here is the north south campus walk. This is southern southern southwest
entrance. Uh you'll see the storm water basin here and the pathway to the entrance. The bike parking adjacent to the entrance. This little set of steps which spans over that bio retention basin connects to another larger one of the larger bike parking areas. The uh uh
tra and loading dock is to the right here. And you see a very sculptural massing and the variety of of materials and the use of vines and landscape to break down the scale of the building. Slide 80. Now we're on Fitz Randolph
looking to the north and you're seeing uh those terrace uh gardens landscapes and stormwater retention basins the structured ones that Sandy talked about along that uh porous asphalt as a walkway the sidewalk that that goes to the north and again you can see some of
the vines that are uh clinging to particular parts of the facade. And here's where you really get a sense of the building stepping away from the neighborhood and taking advantage of uh uh the landscape. Next slide. I think we're hope we're on 81 here. This is now looking to the uh
west along uh Ivy Lane. Uh and again the the setback here, the 3:1 setback that we have on this side again contributes to the sculptural massing of the building, use of vines, very discreet use of windows, the rich rich sense of
craft and materiality and the landscape. Now we're on 82 and this is a section looking uh to the east. So we've come right in through the front entrance uh from the west entrance and we're into this lobby. This is that sunken garden
that has the stair brings light down into the laboratory area. And to the right of that is the lecture hall. Above this above this level, as I as I mentioned, it's really a two-story building with a large penthouse. The second floor is really suites of faculty offices that are broken down into small
neighborhood clusters that give them more intimacy and create a lot of natural light in those clusters and then take advantage of the green roofs that you heard Stone talk about. On the right here uh is the lower entrance. Uh as I mentioned there's about a 16 ft drop in
the elevation from from north to south. Uh slide 83. Now we're taking a section uh looking to uh the north. So Fitz Randolf is on the right. This the the series of terrace landscape storm motivations is over here. The laboratory
which goes underneath the green roof of the eastern landscape is here. And you see the large scale laboratory below the teaching laboratory on the main level one. And the office clusters on level two. Mechanical penthouse on the top. And again, here's the section through
the stair and that sunken garden. Now on 84, uh taking again a section looking to the to the north. Now we're taking that section through the entry lobby uh which has a two-story space. It connects to the the second floor which
is surrounded by a faculty conference room and gives access to those uh neighborhoods of offices for faculty and graduate students at at level two. And level one and and the level below are the laboratories.
Now we're going to have Joe come in and talk about acoustics, but Joe needs to present his credentials. >> Right. >> Thank you Ron. Uh Joe Horesco. I am uh of bachelor of science from mechanical engineering from the University of
Hartford with a uh concentration in acoustics. I've been practicing uh since 1999, so 20 uh 6 years or so. And I'm a principal with Asentech and I am board certified with the Institute of Noise
Control Engineers. >> We accept your qualifications. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh so on the slide 86 here, this is a a graphic. It's an output from our uh acoustic uh calculations. Uh the
software that we use is called CADNA. It's a um it's a well-vetted uh software that uses international algorithms and acoustics. So it follows standards. Um so the inputs in the the model include
building um height and geometries uh the topography of the site and then uh you know the big picture is the uh the sound levels from the mechanical equipment. Um so we input the the locations and the um the sound levels at those uh openings
for the the units. So uh in this model we specifically have um the air handlers which are located in those third floor mechanical rooms. There's six air handlers. There are three exhaust air handlers that are located in a mechanical well as well as six exhaust
fans. Um so they're identified roughly here. Um the air handlers have uh openings for air intake and then also um some exhaust openings through the roof. and the exhaust fans, they also, you
know, in addition to the the fan itself, the sound goes up through stacks uh and out the top of the exhaust stack. Uh so we input all that information. Um and this is the result here. Uh so the code
uh we Okay, back up. Sorry. Um we're comparing this to uh the code uh which is uh 65 for the day, New Jersey state code, 50 for the night. Uh, as you can see, the 50 line would be the the
line between the I guess I'll call it cyan and light blue contour. Um, it's actually the smaller one. Yeah, that's so the the line between those is actually the 50dB line. These are 5dB contour um uh sections. So, what we're
showing here is that we are not even close to that near the property lines. are actually below the 40dba line. Um we have identified these seven uh receivers that are closest. Um and we can you can
see the number the the the specific number at those exact points are identified and we're below 40 with all of them. So that would compare to the 50dB nighttime code. But it also compares to the 65dB nighttime code, but we focusing on the the uh the 50dB8
because if this equipment were to operate at night, that would be the prevailing code. Um so uh not sure if there are any other highlights here. >> Let me just point out one thing because this helps answer one one of the staff
comments. Planning comment number 16 asks us to clarify where exhausts from the level A basement labs will be conducted to and disposed of. Uh and so I think Joe just testified that it's in the uh these these are enclosed wells
here and here and then also the air handling units are in in the enclosed penthouse. Is that right? >> That's correct. And the the exhaust from the labs are actually through the eh aus which I believe uh well those are the the northernmost ones of that well. Yes, that's right.
>> Yeah. I shouldn't say it's fully enclo it's a well but you cannot see it's an open to the sky well but it's it's a it's a shielded well. >> Correct. And we have modeled it that way. >> Great. >> And so this is a second output from our
uh model. the it's the same uh building uh mechanical equipment sources and we've added in the sounds from the emergency generator here. Um again the daytime code which would be more applicable in this one since the uh
generators are tested during the daytime. Um that would be the line that's between that the yellow and the dark green. Uh and again we can see that that 65, you know, we're nowhere near uh the receiving property lines. In fact,
um you know, we're generally in the low 50s uh and and as low as low 40s at the receivers during that generator test, which again occurs during the daytime hours. Um so, uh everything here is is is showing
that we're well below the code. And there is a question uh I think I should comment here. um response was a comment number 34 about uh multiple generators or what the generators were. This is an additional generator. So this model only
indicates the new generator sounds and our understanding is that this will be tested separately from whatever is existing which is why we're indicating it the way we have. >> This is slide 87. I I just want to chime in since neither of you mentioned it
>> that it appears that the new building creates a shadow and actually shields the residential neighborhood from the generator sounds. Is is that a correct interpretation of this uh illustration? >> Very much so. Yeah, there's is not only
is the building standing but the topography as we mentioned before there's a Ron mentioned about 16 ft from one side of the building to the other. So all of those things are in play, but the building itself is certainly doing that. >> We're building an expensive sound wall.
>> That's right. >> And how often does the generator kick on to test itself? Is that a weekly thing occurrence? >> My I'd have to defer that, but I I I
don't know. I could answer. I believe it's a week or no less than a week. >> I think it's monthly. The team's going to tell me in two seconds. Someone's going to tell me. >> Weekly. >> Robin Robin says it's weekly. >> Yeah. During daytime hours and and
generally for less than an hour. >> She even says it's every Tuesday. >> And can she tell us how long how long it lasts? >> I'm sure she can. She'll tell me and I'll tell you. or a secret communication channel here.
A few minutes each. >> Okay. Yeah. I didn't think it would take anywhere near an hour, but then it's a very different generator than you typically hear in neighborhoods. So, okay. Thank you. >> Great. My pleasure.
>> All right. Moving on. We're almost done. >> I think we're bringing up uh Steuart Gordon. Yes, we're on flight 89. >> Stuart, are you there? >> Let me see.
>> I forgot to unmute. Sorry about that. >> I was like, I saw you before. >> Yeah. All right. So, I'll qualify myself. I'm um um I have a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in engineering from the University of North Carolina. I have over 35 years of experience in the state
of New Jersey. I am currently licensed as a professional engineer in the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. And I'm also certified as a professional traffic operations uh engineer with the Institute of Trans traffic transportation engineers.
>> Thank you. We accept your qualifications. >> And I have I have testified before the board before if that helps. >> Sure. >> So the parking Yeah. So the parking so obviously the east campus right the stadium garage was built right to have
additional capacities for buildings such like the quantum institute and there are additional 257 parking spaces that to accommodate projects like this. Um it's estimated that the full buildout of this project will need 100 parking spaces. Um
that's based on the fact that there'll be 656 um folks within the building. Um, of that, uh, we have 252 people that would probably drive to, uh, the campus, but there currently is 102 people that are
currently already parking on the campus. So, that reduces it down to 150 people that would commute. Um, the parking ratio for that is 1.5 per parking space. That brings you to 100 parking spaces. So, as stated before, there is no
on-site parking. Um, it's been stated before that the parking space demand is managed campuswide. Um, and plenty of support there for bike, walking, and the Tiger Transit system. It's very comprehensive. The stadium garage has approximately 773 available parking
spaces when we did our report back in February of 2025. That does vary, but is monitored on an annual basis. Um so on the ongoing monitoring part of the parking and intersection capacity, the university as it's been stated submits a
transformation demand um transformation demand management and parking report to the municipality and with the status of the campus parking occupancy and vacancy rates. Um as Christopher noted earlier tonight, that report was submitted earlier this week.
Um and they also do an um a stadium garage regulatory study that monitors the intersection capacities around stadium drive garage. Um a study was done um using 2024 traffic data and
capacity analysis was done at all the surrounding intersections um within the site here and all these intersections resulted in having excess capacity to absorb additional traffic that will be generated by the quantum institute. Um I don't know if there's any questions
we can take them later but I go into more detail if needed. I I could I would also just mention that the next traffic monitoring requirement would be when the garage is at 75 to 80% occupancy. That was in in condition with the ESNC's
project. So once we getund uh 1,200 cars there on a regular basis, we'll have another monitoring uh study required and we'll produce that to show that um to focus on the traffic counts and and look at the key intersections.
Okay. >> So, let me move on to slide 90, which is introduction to the signage variances that we've talked about. As Christopher has mentioned, there are two variances we're requesting uh three variances. One
is uh for the size of the sign, um which is uh requires a minimum size of 24 ft. We're asking for 76.5 feet on that western elevation at the entrance to the Quantum Institute. Uh the reason for this is that uh first of all this is
facing internal to the campus. It's not facing any public road and it's scaled to the building but also we we keep our you know obviously donor information is very confidential. Uh and we need to plan for sometimes long complicated
donor names. So if you count the number of characters here there could be 10 or 15 more characters in a donor name of a building. So we want we want to make sure that we have enough space in this approval process for a sign that's appropriate size to the building and to the donor name. Uh second variance
requested is for an additional uh building name sign at the southwestern corner of the building which is sort of very it's actually seen from a different vantage point although it typic although it does face to the west. So this is an additional signet on that that that
facade. And the third variance request is for the two lecterns that we we talked about the one at the southern part of the site. Christopher mentioned the one at the northern part of the site. These are part of the campus wayfinding system and they're located at basic place p places of arrival to this neighborhood so that people can find
their way around and be oriented. And with that uh we are at the end of our presentation and we'll stop sharing. I can pull up the slides at any time you want to go back to anything but I'll turn it back to the chair. Thank you. Um I'm sure that there will
be um lots of questions and discussion or I'm not I know I have a few, but I'm going to propose before we start um the Q&A to to take a 10-minute break. Um and we can all u you know run up and down
the stairs and get our hearts going again and uh formulate our questions. So, uh, it's 9:15 right now. See everybody back at 9:25, um, promptly. Thank you. >> Okay. Thanks.
>> Why don't you kick it off? Thank you. Yeah, I um first want to just say, you know, I think this is a really attractive project. I am very impressed with the storm water management system.
Um so, but I do I do have a list a kind of a lengthy list of questions. I'm just going to run through them and hopefully y'all can keep track and answer them after I finish the list because I don't want to have a lot of back and forth.
So, the first one is I heard two different occupancy numbers. One that was in the mid600s range, which I think is the anticipated full occupancy of the building, but there was another one that was,00 that I heard early in the presentation.
I just want somebody to clarify what those two different occupancy numbers refer to. Uh second question, um Mr. McCoy, it indicated that the shared soul shared shoulder
uh road was not intended to be installed along this section of Ivy Lane for now because of concerns about future construction um damaging it. I fully understand that, but wonder if you would
be uh implementing just a striping temporary shared solder shoulder solution because you you do already have the shared the permanent shared shoulder on the first section of Ivy Lane, which is beautiful.
And I think for users of the roadway, it'd be helpful to continue that treatment all the way to Fitz Randolph even if the treatment on this section of Ivy is temporary. Um, so that's question two. Uh, staff report and I think the
PEC report suggests that there should be some covered bike parking. You may have addressed this in your discussion of bike parking. I I might have spaced out for a minute, but I realize that none of the parking that you have shown right now is amendable to be covered bike
parking, but I wonder if there's a potential to have some covered bike parking either in the building or in some other location because I think for, you know, all day commuters who are going to be in this building, you know,
for eight hours at a stretch, it would be helpful to have that covered bike parking. Um, slide number 35 uh was a little bit ambiguous as to what the paving was at the loading area. I think there was a rendering that made it
look like it was grassrete, but I'm pretty sure it's not grass. So, I'd just like you to clarify what the paving is at the loading area. Um, the ballards at the beginning and end of the pedestrian uh walkway on the west
side of the building make perfect sense to me. The ballards that are at the entry and exit for the emergency vehicle access on the north side of the building, I just would like to understand how those will be used in the
event of an emergency. Are they breakaway or is there some other uh approach to making those ballards um not interfere with emergency access? Um the stormwater system uh I think I fully
understand how it works for storm water quality and quantity. Uh I didn't hear any discussion about storm water or groundwater recharge and I wonder if somebody could just address you know are the soils here as difficult as they are
elsewhere on campus or is is this system going to actually recharge uh groundwater in accordance with the ordinance. Um we have a recurring question about concrete and I think you know sort of
carbon uh sequestration concrete it's an evolving uh technology and I'd like an update whether it's uh ready for prime time on this project yet. And uh the last question is um Mr.
McCoy, you referred to the windows several times as sort of enhancing a passive energy conservation strategy. Um, I couldn't see in the renderings any kind of shading devices. Uh, you know, west facing windows are particular are
notoriously difficult to get passive benefit from. South facing also if they're not shaded properly. So, if you could really address that a little bit more directly, how these windows are um contributing to the passive energy
conservation of the building. That would be great. That's my list of questions. >> Okay, that wasn't too long. >> I tried to be quick. >> Good. Thank you. Uh, let me can I tackle a few of these, but I let me also give some assignments.
Can somebody else begin to get the occupancy statistics ready? Because I I did quote the 1100 number and Christopher, you're on mute. >> I was going to say that was for the original concept plan with the three
buildings. That's why you have that larger number. >> Thank you. The >> the smaller number is the correct one. I forget what it was. 7 something >> 6 640 something like that. >> Something like that. Yeah, 640.
>> If I can address the uh shoulders on the uh complete street strategy, uh I think it makes sense for us to to maybe use sherrows on the portion between Stadium Drive and Fitz Randolph. That's a kind of another common technique that we use.
That's that's what we use on the uh College Road and uh other other roads. No, actually college road has the shared shoulders or >> Yeah, you're right. >> It has a parallel stripe. Yeah, you're right. We could do we could do something
like that. Yes, >> that's what I would like to see because it just makes it consistent along the length of the road for the users >> to understand how >> we could do that. for the covered bike parking. Our strategy is that the uh the
transit station at the stadium garage is very very close and that has abundant covered bike parking. So our strategy is to use that for this for this particular building. >> Okay. >> Um the
could somebody address on the team the ballards uh on the walkways? Christian Sam on the emergency >> vehicle access. >> Yeah. Right. >> I'd be happy to address that. >> Okay. Sam, you were already uh sworn in,
I believe. Correct. >> I was. >> Okay. And your your title is Princeton project manager. >> Princeton uh program manager. >> Program manager. Okay. Thank you. So uh uh Councilman Cohen, we did review
this with the fire marshall's office and this is consistent with how we implement ballards on the campus already. So the intent is that these ballards are in the event of an emergency removed by our public safety who typically meets any incoming emergency services folks and
helps guide them further into the campus so there's no delay in response whatsoever. >> Okay. Thanks. Okay. Could I ask Stone to address or maybe Yeah. Stone, could you address slide 35 and the paving materials in the
>> Sure. So, uh the the paving material uh at the loading dock is grassed, but we are not going to fill with grass. We are going to fill with gravel uh because you know grass will be difficult to grow there. So, that may be a confusion uh on
the slide. the the one with the yellow is the uh uh field with the gravel and the one with green is the uh field with the grass. >> Okay, >> just Ron, if I could add one little piece, I may have caused that confusion. >> Um and and the reason is because I'm an
engineer and like to be conservative. We actually um designed the storm water to be for it to be impervious. However, it's still the grass crete. we were just um being very conservative so that we had flexibility if anything changed. That's why there might be a uh kind of a
confusion there. So no, maybe in the storm water we designed it as impervious so we would have flexibility. In reality it's what's on the landscape plans as um the grassrete. >> Great. Thanks. >> Okay, let me uh address the passive
design windows since I did mention that a couple times. Uh Mr. con um you're right uh that these they do not have uh what I was referring to is the more a strategy of rather than broad sheets of glazing that the windows were discreet
you know and and modestly scaled but they are they are not shaded from from direct sun from northeast south or west >> okay >> um the sequestration of carbon in concrete
Uh I'll I'll explain that but others can jump in. Um we need to give ourselves flexibility to work with the construction manager and work with the market. So um that could be it could be an opportunity uh when we get into
buying the concrete uh portion of the of the project. But we don't we cannot uh box ourselves in to have a kind of lack of competition for bidding. So it's it's I think a a possible solution but I I actually don't know the state of that uh
that technology right now but I think the primary thing is that we cannot tie the hands of the CM in terms of the market availability of materials. >> Okay. So as long as um it's something that is explored at yes at the bidding
stage that that's satisfactory. >> Let let me let me just ask someone from the team if it I want to make sure that that I answer that appropriately. Could it is it is it on the list of things that would be explored at the bidding stage, Sam? >> Yep. I'll jump in, Ron, on that. Yes, it is something we'll explore during the
bidding stage and what you stated earlier about the commercial viability of it. Now, while we see >> more plants developing and modifying uh their capabilities day in and day out, just not enough of them have started to do that yet. But we will continue to
press this and and look for opportunities. >> Great. I think Oh, >> yeah. >> I was just gonna say you covered everything except the groundwater recharge. >> That's exactly what I was going to.
>> So, just to kind of u um to give you an indication. So, the soils are poor. They're desoil. It's not a very highly infiltrating soil. And so, per the New Jersey D regulations, we do not count or take credit for any infiltration. Having
worked on the campus many times before and in the different storm water systems we put in, we do understand that you do get some recharge. So, one of the things that we do, which is part of what Princeton does for their goals, is that we have um a dead air dead space or dead
volume at the bottom of our systems that allows for infiltration. However, we don't take credit for it. So, it's it's something that um that happens on most of the projects on the main campus where there isn't good soil because we know from other projects um that there will
be infiltration at certain times of the year. So, no, it's not taking credit for, but we allowed for the opportunity for infiltration into the ground. >> Great. Okay. Thank you. >> Um thank you, David. uh Jack Taylor and
then Owen O'Donnell. >> May I pose a question on a subject which thus far we haven't dealt with but one which I think is interesting and important namely fire protection. In the document it's been made clear
that the water system or the hydrant system or the maze as the proper words might be for the project are satisfactory. They meet all the standards. But there are a couple of sentences that raise questions in my mind. Namely that Princeton University
itself is facing and the languages deficient water systems or mains. In other words, dealing with the flow that this is a problem for the university. It's been recognized. It's being dealt with. My question under my basic
area of concern is that isn't there or is there a relationship between deficient water systems for the entire campus and the water systems for a given project when the issue is water
flow. The target is 2,000 and apparently deficient means 1,500 and in some c cases less. >> Sam, can you >> Yeah, I >> do you have information to address that fully? I mean,
>> I do, Ron. I can address that. I'm not sure fully or not, but I can address the question. So as part of the engineering work that the team is doing, we take readings at each of the hydrants around the building. Um we use those readings
both for PSI and flow um to confirm whether or not very simply we have the flow in the building at the highest level in accordance with what's required by the the building codes. The design team has looked at that closely and
based upon the the hydrants in the area, we know that we either need to add a fire pump to the building in order to supplement that or not. And right now, the team is including a fire pump in that design of the building so that we know for certain that we have the flow
requirements in all corners of the building. Now, the the commentary that you see is likely uh about other areas of the grid that that we know over time need some maintenance. Um, but we can tell you based upon the engineering work
that the design team did that we have adequate flow and PSI to support what's required by the building code for the quantum building that's proposed. >> Dam, are we tying into a new line in on in Ivy that we're connecting to? So the point of connection maybe I could
ask Christian exactly where it is. Yeah. >> Is is there an inter relationship between meeting the standards necessary in the building and the deficiency of Princeton University system otherwise.
And apparently that's not a question that's been addressed. I think what Sam is saying is that this building is designed to meet its requirements. >> That's correct. >> And just as a piece of that, Sam is that we are connecting to the new 12-in line
in Ivy in Western Way. So that was uh done as part of the ESNC. So that's a brand new line. When you look at the grid system, that's connected to other uh other water lines in the overall area. So that's why we're connecting there. um to give you details on the
other lines. I don't have that in front of me, but I do know it was very intentional where we connected. >> Good. >> And and I'll I'll add Mr. Taylor that we've reviewed this very closely with the fire marshall's office. Walk them through the point of connection and and
howly they would attack a fire in this building. And the report from the fire official at this time says fire department has no comments or concerns. >> Good. Superb. Thank you. >> Great. Thanks for the question, Jack. Um
Owen, >> thank you. Uh the one thing that I know about quantum mechanics and and what's going on here is something that Mr. I already touched on which is that this uh the instrumentation is very sensitive to
uh movement and I imagine that's one of the reasons why the laboratories are built on the lowest level. Um how far down are you going to have to go and are you going to have to blast at all in order to uh remove bedrock or
other material? >> Sam, can you answer that? >> Sure. So we do have to blast some material and the way we procured the construction of the project is to minimize that. Um they have attained uh via maybe traditional excavation
activities just typical excavators uh more than we anticipated which means that we lessen the amount of blasting that we have to do. But there is still some rock that does require blasting and each week we're seeing a little bit less of that as a result of those traditional
excavation activities. >> Okay, great. And uh you know based on your experience in previous uh construction in that area uh do you anticipate uh less blasting than than
has had to happen in the past or is that is it too early to tell that yet? >> No, we can tell that now and and we are seeing that less blasting as a volume uh is required here than previous projects. ESNC's as an example. Okay, terrific.
One other question that I had for Mr. McCoy, I guess. Uh the sign above the uh western entrance, is that going to be illuminated? >> No. No. >> Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Owen. Other questions from board
members? Um, I just want to echo what David Cohen said about the um the design and the storm water management on this site. I too think that it's really really interesting and
and really impressive. And um I do want to ask you to reconsider the um the English ivy as well as the katsua uh and the non-native um magnolia the
have to look at down to not the star magnolia the other one >> closer Maybe. >> Yeah, there there is a there are native um magnolia that I think would
would substitute really nicely a a a magnolia grand flora instead of a solana. Um anyway, but the English ivy I feel I understand what you're saying about it
being um very contained. Um, but it's also um uh it I would just hate for people to see that English ivy is in a new installation at Princeton and that mean
it that means it must be okay. Um, and it's it's really it's just really a scourge. And uh I would hope that there's another uh another vine. I know that um you're already using Virginia Creeper, but I
also know that at least uh in places that I'm familiar with, it does, you know, very well in the shade just as it does in the sun and just about everywhere else. So maybe that's an appropriate
um substitution. I I saw in Mr. Doberilsk's um memo that he suggested um some additional uh evergreen trees uh in
lie of the um the non-natives. Uh, and I I think that that sounds like a good idea. American holly or or or red cedar. And um wonder if if you will consider substituting
uh those things. And I say that acknowledging that you're planting a lot more than is required in the ordinance. And you know, we're grateful for that. And there's many, many wonderful, really interesting
plants here. And um I don't want for my comments about non-natives to diminish uh you know the the high regard I have overall for the landscape plan.
>> Let me if I can jump in on some of those comments but I think Stone has he's the expert. Um I think we can definitely look at at an alternative to the English ivy. Um I would just for your information we've had lots of conversations with our grounds team. They help they want to make sure that
they can access and trim all the ivy. So they they also don't want anything to go get out of hand. So we're trying to coordinate the ivy strategy with a uh operation uh regime. But I think your comment is something we can we can look
at and we can we can certainly find an alternative to the English ivy on the non-native trees. Um I again will defer to field operations for trees that have this similar aesthetic impact. But I do think that we've had conversations in
the past about particularly when we're going well above and beyond the number of required trees that that we have an opportunity on occasion to uh also sort of u support the arboritum arboritumike quality of the campus and so we thought two trees in that in that regard were
were sort of in that spirit. So, we essentially we did reduce the number um in on our on our plans. Now, there's two. That's all that's left, >> right? We actually >> Oh, I didn't realize that. I thought there were still I thought there were
still three. And plus, there's those Norway maples, which I understand you don't want to cut down. And I'm I I agree with the shade value and all of that stuff there. But, sorry, Mr.
Bishop were you? Oh uh so we actually remove all non-native magnoras and we have only uh two katra trees which are not uh native trees and uh I understand the the command from the b landscape
architect to replace cura trees with the evergreen trees but uh for example the one of the curator tree is proposed at in the courtyard kind of the middle of the courtyard and you know we are imagining people can sit uh around the
tree and it may be you know it's much nicer to have a decidious tree and I know there are other you know native decidious trees but uh one of the uh uh good things about cutra tree is the shape of the leaf is you know it's very
round but at the same time you know creates a very dense uh the canopy so it's nothing you know it's a very unique tree in terms of the leaf texture and the canopy density And so that's why we selected uh to make
a a kind of symbol uh you know the center of the small quote here. >> Okay. >> Excuse me. I didn't quite catch that. Did you say that you would um replace
the non-native magnolia with another um >> other native species? Okay. So basically the number of the non-native uh trees uh went down to two now just one uh uh by the uh at the
courtyard at the southeast corn of the building and the other one is the by the uh south uh entrance to signify uh the stair uh over the basin >> and those two are that's two in
individual ual katsua trees or two species that we're talking about? >> Uh two two individual katua trees. So basically just a katra tree is you know non-native species that we're using as a tree. >> So so okay yeah just to sum up. >> Okay.
>> Yeah we we have 150 proposed um we we have 45 required. So basically we're we're providing an additional um you know 105 trees and only two of those are non-native.
>> Understood. >> Well, thank you for your explanation and defense. I appreciate that and um that's acceptable to me and I also appreciate your already having substituted some uh native trees for other non-natives on the plan. Thank you.
>> As well as the English ivy. Yeah, we'll find Yes. Thank you. >> We're looking for another solution for that. >> Yeah. >> Um, let's see. I had another I had a green creek question, but I think that
was that was answered in the in the course of um of your testimony. Um um early on, Mr. McCoy um testified about
um comment 15 in the um in the memo from the planning office. And I just wanted to make sure I wasn't I wasn't positive that that if if I could get Nathan and Justin to look back
at comment 15 and if you if you had any issues with whether the response was um was what you needed to learn or >> uh yeah. So, I guess I'll I guess I can
address that since I wrote up the uh the memo. >> Okay. And you'll need to speak up, Mr. Foot, because it's hard to hear >> muscles again. Okay. Um let me just make sure I'm on the right audio. Yeah, same audio. Okay. Um
yeah, so so the testimony was that it's going to meet federal and state regulations. Uh that was part of the testimony. um that that's yeah that's suitable that we that I I think that's adequate uh for really what
we were uh we didn't like necessarily need specifics about um you know the specific uh chemical reactions that are taking place um as long as it's following state standards federal standards for um disposal especially um
that's really what what I needed to hear and I think what Justin needed to hear as Okay, I just for other board members, the reason I brought this up is that it it it deals with hazardous chemical waste. So, I just want to make sure um that the
staff was satisfied with that um that explanation and answer. >> And I think Mr. McCoy also said it would be consistent with the way chemical waste is treated across the campus. >> Right. This is not new to us. >> Yeah.
>> Right. Okay. All right. Thank you. And so, um, let's see. I would turn to, um, just before we go to public comment, any comments from, um, Jim Purcell, uh, Victor Ana,
um, Derek, any any other questions that you might have raised in your memos that have not yet been addressed? If I may, uh, Chair U Wilson, um, yeah, I think they covered almost everything that's in my memo, uh, except for the
general issues of when they, uh, resubmit for our record, um, making sure that the title blocks uh, meet the requirements of the state and list the uh, certificates of authorization for each of the different um, organizations working on this. I do have one concern
and that is about the ADA accessibility. Um the applicant has testified that, you know, all of these um pathways are ADA accessible except for those that uh have stairs. Um I didn't see sufficient detail to verify that in the plans. Um
and I have had experience at Princeton University where uh during construction we've had to do make modifications in order to make sure that some of the walkways are ADA compliant. most recently on ESNC's um and some field changes have had to be
made. So I would like to see some more detail in terms of grading plans in order to uh ensure that not only the walkways but the curb ramps uh at the uh
intersections with the uh streets um meet ADA compliance. Um and I think that was really the only concern. And I think they've covered everything in terms of traffic. I'm very familiar with the way uh campus transportation and walkability
and um uh bikeability uh work. Uh if you if you know what I mean. Um and they've done a very good job in um making sure that all of the um all the the questions that I had and I think that Victor might
have had, but I won't speak for Victor. um concerning uh traffic and and parking have been addressed. So um that's that's the only the only the only real thing was uh more detailed grading that I could look at. >> We can we can definitely provide the all
the details you've uh commented on requested in our compliance set. So we accept that as a condition of approval. >> Thank you. >> Christopher Christopher, you want to address the title block? >> Oh, same same answer. We we will we will >> comply. Thank you, Christopher.
Perfect. Love that. Um Nathan, you've got your hand up. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, I just wanted to to clarify a couple of things. Uh Mr. Beso had testified that there was a previous
scheme and a current scheme uh for the I think it's the streetscape as well as the sunken gardens. Uh so I just want him to clarify when he talks about previous and current schemes. Is the current scheme on the September 5th plan
uh or is that different or are the current schemes updated from the September 5th plan >> just knows what they are >> right the current scheme >> with this. >> Oh yeah. Uh so the current scheme means the the the latest plan that we are
carrying right now. And then >> it it is an update from the plan that you received the the the most recent plan that you received. It is an update from that plan >> from the September 5th plan. >> The September 5th. >> Okay. >> And it's and it's the it's the sunken
garden. Um I don't know what do you call it? The the the the le the first level has been lowered. >> Right. Right. But that but that's a change from the September 5th. >> Correct. Correct. Yes. Correct. Okay. And that will be reflected in the compliance uh thing should the board
approve it. >> Correct. >> Okay. Uh same with the streetscape or is that uh is that also >> that's all same same situation. >> Same situation. Okay. All right. Thank you. Uh and then just so it's not lost, I just want to make sure that it's uh
noted um as a condition. Um the discussion with uh the uh sheriff on IV lane um those those have been agreed to um to provide those on a you know until it
becomes necessary to remove IV or Western way as it's called now. >> Yeah. The uh the the striping that uh council con requested. Yes, we would we would agree to that and include it in the compliance set. >> Okay. >> And that would be >> that was described as parallel striping.
Is that the way it was? >> Yes. Sometimes called >> technology in complete streets. >> Well, so I I just want to when Ron initially referred to it, he called it shared shoulders. Um my preferred terminology is actually
an edge road configuration. um which you know sometimes we call them accessory or advisory bike lanes. Yeah. >> But sometimes they're for pedestrians as well as cyclists. So >> it gets a little cumbersome to say uh
advisory bike and pedestrian lanes and the the terminology of edge line edge lane roads is what I've been finding uh in the literature sort of nationally as the preferred terminology. So you
thought that was and we agree that it's what we're doing on on College Road. >> Correct. >> Right. >> Okay. Good. >> Okay. So both of those things should be reflected >> in the in the uh resolution. Uh Mr. Anik.
>> Yes. Uh thank you Madame Chair. Um I I just I just wanted to get a little bit more clarification on the uh traffic uh intersection capacity studies that they submitted to the
township. Um, just from the response to my uh comments on that, I it seems to me
that there is um the the the the narrative on parking. I don't have any problem with the parking. I believe the parking there's enough parking. The East Campus study
did actually provide additional parking for the now stadium garage. However, the additional parking spaces were not
uh the traffic was not analyzed for those additional parking spaces. By that I mean they weren't distributed to the intersections. We just said there's going to be enough parking.
So, uh, another example is if you look at one of the slides there, it says there's 100 or people already parking in the um in the in the campus, but they're going to relocate them to this stadium
garage. And I didn't see a a distribution of how they going to come to this garage. If if we're adding new new traffic to the intersections on
Faculty Road, uh the the the the yearly monitoring, the monitoring that they submitted just talked about or rather analyzed the existing condition for 2024. I don't think that he included the
anticipated traffic for this uh uh site that is going to be coming up. So I I I wonder if uh Steward or any >> can I maybe I can start with that. the
the traffic impact study for the for what's called now the stadium garage was done with the uh modeling based on full 100% occupancy of that garage. So all the traffic impacts were included as if that garage was fully loaded
there. So we've already done that. That's in that that's in the initial traffic study for that project which was previously approved. And so if we're if we're having less parking, less if if the garage is currently going to be less loaded, then those that analysis is still viable.
>> So So we did review that the East Campus garage. So um what was shown in that study was
the lot 21 was removed and moved to the parking garage. So those traffic were all rerouted back to this new garage stadium garage. But there's additional 350 spaces you're providing for future
developments that might come in. We didn't analyze those traffic. >> No, those 350 those 351 spaces were included in the total capacity of the garage. >> Yes, but not at the intersections. That's what I'm saying. >> And and intersections also. All the traffic related to those parking cars
were included in the traffic study. >> Okay. Uh I'm going to take a look at it again, but >> yeah. And and there was also a the study that we referenced. We had a study done submitted in July of 2025 where we used 2024 data to do analysis
to see if the projections in the analysis still are in line with the projection with the stadium drive study EI you know the EI the TIS for that and the numbers are lower much lower that resulted in reserve capacity to add more
traffic to those intersections. We were seeing level services A and B and worst case was a C. So there there's plenty of capacity at the intersections to absorb 50 peak hour trips potentially that are being generated by the QI institute.
Right? So if you go back and look at that report and that was submitted I'm not sure if you had that as part of your record for review but that was also submitted to the municipality. >> That was submitted in July of 2025. So you have the March 3rd, 2020 original
traffic impact study that evaluated the full capacity of the garage. Then you had a future monitoring requirement one year after the garage was built that looked at all the intersections and that was the stadium drive garage uh
regulatory study that was submitted in July of 2025 and it was based on 2024 counts and all across the line pretty much they were consistently lower than the earlier projections. And then um the
next stage of monitoring will occur when the garage is at 75 to 85% occupancy and we'll do the traffic counts again. We'll observe the intersections and we'll report back to the municipality at that time.
>> Okay. Okay. Um >> that's that's all I have. Okay. Thank you. Other questions from board members before we go to public comment. Um
>> Oh, Mr. Scoopy, and I'm sorry. Thank you for turning on your >> That's quite all right. >> on your camera. >> Yeah. Good evening. Um thank you. Um just uh just for the record, um my report had five comments. Um I've in in the letter that was issued earlier this
week um the uh the applicants uh agreed to address all of them. They're all technical in nature. There's nothing um nothing controversial. It's just needing more data. Um Miss Brock has sent me some information just yesterday on one
of them. I haven't had a chance to review it, but I think we could work through that. Um what two things two points though um I just want to bring up that are not in my report but if if we could address them this evening quickly. Um it's funny on the storm water system I've heard the words interesting
integrated fascinating which to me winds all equals complicated. This is quite a complicated storm water management system. Um and in including the fact that we have 43 subsurface
porous paved detention basins um in addition to the four or five green roofs and I think there's six bio retention basins. Nothing wrong with that. It's just that when we when we have that level of complexity and we have that
number of subsurface basins, um I'd like to have I'd like to ask that and and I've tried I haven't seen anything on the plans, but what we'd like to do is because all of the all of these subsurface uh detention facilities, I'd
like to have some inspection ports included in each one of them. you know, I've see cleanout details for these for these facilities. I see cleanout details for the um uh green roofs and the bio
retention. So, I it's doable. Um and in fact, the overflows in the in the bio retention basins may work as inspection ports or in observation wells if the caps are easily removed. But I think between Nich and I, we can work out a
detail that way. we because particularly on the the poorest paving ones, we really don't know how they're working. If if we have a surface basin, you can look at it and see that gee, it hasn't rained in two weeks and it's still full of water. Um, on the subsurface ones,
particularly this large number of them, and a lot of them are interconnected, and each one's going to rely on its neighbor to function properly. if we can have some inspection excuse me inspection ports put in um that would be I think would be a help in the long
term. The second one is and it's kind of a detail. Uh there's not there is groundwater recharge requirement in the ordinance. It's it's being met here simply because as Miss Brock said this is typical Princeton University soils both the NRC a soil mapping and
Princeton's own soil surveys. Soil testing has shown these are not really permeable soils out there. So there's not a lot of recharge happening now. As such the project won't create a deficit. So that's how they're meeting their requirement. Whatever whatever infiltration they do get uh is a bonus,
but they're not required because technically there isn't really any happening. Now, however, um this is kind of a technicality there. As far as storm water quality goes, there's no mention in the reports as to the amount of
regulated motor vehicle surface to see if it exceeds 5,000 square ft. And technically storm water quality is required. Now it is a moot point because all of the uh motor vehicle surface is going to be porest paved which will be
treated. Whether it's necessary to include that in the report just to tie that end down that yes we do need to provide it and we are or no we don't need to provide it but we are. I think that if we can add that to the report
that would be a help as well. Thanks. Yeah, that's a good idea. I mean, one thing that I I really like about and I certainly take your point about the complexity or >> on one hand it's it's great to have all
this distributed smallcale a lot of it um uh management practices. Um but also there are so many more roots going into the ground with this new
uh you know after this site is developed than are there now overall it'll function way more like a sponge than it does now. Well, >> and so even what doesn't get infiltrated or, you know, overflow is going to be
taken up. I I I would expect and I you know, I know just enough to be dangerous is going to be taken up and trends evaporated, etc. in a in a really beneficial way. Well, that touches one on one of the comments in my report that
um I'd like to see a a cross-section of all these different types of porest paved walkways because to make sure that do we have a crown is there a cross slope? In other words, is the rain that falls on them going to stay on the paving and infiltrate or you know it
because of this grading or anything it's going to run off before it has a chance. And so that's um the folks at Niche have agreed to provide that. It's it it is a detail. One interesting thing though about the um right now that softball
field is synthetic turf and it is under lane by a underground storm water detention basin. So they are actually in building this site eliminating what was or an existing storm water facility. And
so I was interested to see how they would handle that. And they did a very good job. They did include in their existing conditions the effects that that existing basin does have on reducing existing flow and base their allowable outflows on that reduced flow.
But yes, there is infiltration and and underground storage of water happening right now. >> Not not to the extent it will in the future. Um, but it was interesting to see that we're eliminating existing underground detention. Let's make sure
that we include that. And they did a very good job. >> If I can make one observation here in Mr. Scoopian's remarks, we did not set about to make a complicated system. It wasn't our goal. We didn't say to to Sandy, make a really complicated storm
water solution. But I have a feeling we're going to see more and more of these going forward because we have to preserve we have to design for the kind of you know the new stormwater regulations and for the resiliency of the site. And in our planning for the two for the future buildings, we knew
that we could not reach out and and use conventional strategies to solve storm water here because that would have then reduce the capacity of storm water for future buildings which were to reduce the amount of square footage we could build in future buildings. So all that to say is that I we think the inspection
ports is a good idea because if we're going to build things that are this is not a one-off. this is going to be the way of the future and anything that can give us information about how to design better in the future is a good idea. >> Mhm. And it's great for the town to have all that information on file. You know,
it's it's um I expect to be very helpful and someone referenced this earlier. It was probably you, Mr. Moy, that >> um the storm water management was, you know, part of the planning process from the beginning. And that is just, you
know, that's the kind of sea change in storm water management that a lot of people have been working toward for a long time. So, thank you for mentioning that. >> Yeah. And just to Ron's credit is the fact that as an engineer and someone who's been very heavily involved in
storm water for a very long time, it's great to have a client who pushes you and I really appreciate that. And as a company we we're very happy to you know take on the challenge and um and part of that challenge is to make sure that
system is not just looks great in the plans but actually functions for years and decades to go. >> Yeah. Great. Thank you. Um okay. Uh if there are no other questions um from board members or
comments from staff, I will open up um the meeting for public comment. We have 20 people in the attendees area. Um if any of you would like to um address the board at this time
um and address the applicant um please raise your hand virtually by clicking on the raise hand icon the bottom of your Zoom screen. I'm not seeing any hands go up yet. Um, so I'll say it again. If you want to address the board, you have
three minutes. Um, seeing no hands go up at all. Okay. Uh, seeing none, I will close the public comment portion of the meeting and invite um,
uh, maybe uh, Justin or Nathan. Um any final thoughts from you or or from um any of our board members before we talk about uh resolution? Mr. C uh Mr. Cohen. >> Yeah. I just wanted to um create a
record um on the variance requests for the signage and indicate that I think that um all of the variances are easily justifiable for the reasons that the applicant
>> um indicated during their presentation. So I'm in favor of granting those variances. >> Thank you very much. Other comments from board members? Um I certainly agree David with your thoughts about the sign variances Mr.
Foot. >> Yes, thank you Madam Chair. Um so yeah with the sign variances um you know yeah we we I think from a planning perspective uh those can be um those can
be justified and uh I did have to make sure that we get thing that we need on the uh on the record. >> Great. >> I think that's uh
I think that's all that uh I needed to include. >> Okay. I don't have any comments, Madam Chair. I agree uh with Councilman Cohen. >> All right. Um Mr. Mueller, would you like to
lead us into a conversation about the the findings of fact? >> Yep. Um obviously this is a uh an application for preliminary and final site plan approval. which is the the plan has been discussed
at length um by uh by both Nathan and the um and the applicant. Um there are three the three variances we talked about. I don't know if we need to talk about them anymore. And then there's a series of at least potential conditions
that I'd like to go over with your sufference. Now, Madam Chair, >> Mhm. >> we're going to do it in order of first we're going to take them from my notes and then there's a couple that'll come from the reports, although not a great deal. There's actually not that many uh
um conditions. One is the artwork. Um you had suggested um Madame Chair that go to the landscape committee um if the landscape committee was getting um other matters. I don't know that they are. If
not, the staff um will review, but I'm not exactly sure what the review is going to entail to tell you the truth. >> Well, first of all, I um you know, having heard all the testimony and the and given the discussion we've had, I do do not think that the landscape
subcommittee needs to review the landscape plan again. Uh if other members of the landscape committee who are here disagree, please say so. Okay. Um, and um, and so with that, I'm I'm uh
I see your hand up, Mr. Leco. I I'll let you talk before I finish my sentence. >> Sure. Uh, yeah. Generally speaking, um, we often process uh the artwork, whether it's new or when it changes, as an administrative waiver of a site plan. Uh
so that might be the the most expeditious way um assuming the university is still deciding on on what they would like to put there and also um you know we wouldn't want that to hold up anything with the rest of the site. So I think if
>> no nor would I want to leave the impression with anyone that this board is interested in um deciding what art >> should go where on Princeton's campus. I mean, um, >> and what did you >> That's not That's not any place I want
to go. >> Yep. >> Yeah, that sounds good, Justin. Thank you. >> Okay, so that's one. Uh, then the next one is um the ivy lane between Fitz Randolph and Stadium Drive. It should be
striped as it's done for College Road. The next one um they'll we use a different an alternative to the English ivy and then they will um replace the non-native magnolia with with another uh
breed. Um >> is that one correct just? >> Yeah. So non-native magnolia is already gone. We we don't have any non-native magnoria. >> Oh okay. So is it >> okay fine? I think just English IB.
>> Okay. Oh, that's fine. >> Is the one to be replaced with something else, >> right? Thank you. >> Sure. >> Uh Jerry, can we go back to uh the striping one? >> Yes, sure. >> Just to be clear, uh we're talking the
college road part uh past Alexander Street um by the graduate college, correct? Not the >> correct >> uh the part towards Marter. >> Right. Right. Correct. >> Also known in complete streets
vernacular. And correct me if I'm wrong, David and Nathan. Uh also known as edge lane road configuration. >> Correct. Is that three words? Edge,
lane, road, or is edge lane one word? >> It's three words at most. >> Edgelane either be one word or should be hyphen. >> I think it's three. I think it's three words. Yeah. >> All right.
Um then more detail on the grading plan showing ADA compliance. Um the changes in the sunken garden that is shown on the um on the um slidesh that were different than uh what had previously
been submitted. Um put those on the uh that'll be part of compliance package. Um Joe Scoopian's five comments. I could go over those if you want. Uh then add inspection ports for the bio retention basin. Add to the report that water
quality is being met. Um then the signature block and now I'm reading from uh from Jim and Derek's uh memo. Um the signature block on the cover sheet of the site plan is to signed by the owner but not dated.
Ensure that the compliance submission includes the date and signature. Is that >> Yeah, we're we're going to meet all his requirements with regard to signature blocks, signatures, and licensing. >> Yep. Okay, good. And then the is so that
would be the first first and third comments. Um and then um that's what that's all I have, Madam Chair. >> Okay. Um,
with that, would a board member like to move approval? >> I would. >> Preliminary and final major site plan with variances. >> I would move that. >> Thank you, Councilman Cohen. Is there a second?
>> Second. >> Thanks, Mr. O'Donnell. Um, >> and the condition. >> Yes. Yes. With with variances. Yes. and given the conditions that have been enumerated here. Yeah. Um
Justin, would you call the role, please? >> Certainly, Madam Chair. Uh Miss Capazolei. >> Uh yes. >> Mr. Cohen, >> yes. >> Mr. McGawan, >> yes. >> Mr. O'Donnell, >> yes.
>> Mr. Taylor, >> he raised his hand, but you're on mute. Jack, can you unmute and >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you, >> Ms. Wilson Anderson. >> Yes, >> Chair Wilson. >> Yes. >> Motion passes.
>> Thank you much. >> Really appreciate >> Thanks as always for a thorough and efficient presentation. Really, really appreciate it. And also all of the all the questions and good Q&A. Um, so, uh, we're back next week with a
special meeting to look at, uh, um, community park school, which we didn't get to, um, last time. Um, anything else for the good of the order? >> We'll see at the art museum on October 31st. >> Ah, yes.
>> Big day. >> Thank you. I I I I am really looking forward to seeing that. I really am. It's it's and I'm hearing about it no matter what NPR station I tune into blanketing the NPR. You know your
audience. Let's just uh thanks for that Mr. Cohen. >> I move to adjourn. >> Second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Thanks again everybody. Good night. Thank you. >> Thanks.
>> Thank you. Good night. Have a good night. >> Good night.