Good evening. The Raritton Township Planning Board is now in session. Call to order. The notice requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act have been satisfied by the placing of a notice of this meeting on the bulletin board at the municipal building, filing the notice with the township clerk, and transmitting the notice to the Hunton
County Democrat, the Courier News, the Star Ledger, and the Trenton Times. I have a roll call, please. Chairman, Mr. Edward Gettings here. Vice Chair Miss Donna Drews here. Miss Robin Fatu here. Mr. Scott McDade here. Miss Michelle Cavakiri here. Mr. Dennis Conan here.
Mr. James Miller here. Mr. Glenn Solowski here. Board professionals board attorney Mr. Joe Toriello here. Township planner Mr. Jeffrey Vakarella here. And all other board professionals have been excused. Okay, I'd like to invite everybody to
please rise for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence for our troops to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for
all. Thank you everyone. Okay, before we get started, I guess I should mention that on the agenda this evening, if anyone is here for this for the public hearing on Diamond Nation LLC, that has been adjourned to the
September 24th, 2025 meeting without need for further advertisement. Thank you. Okay. Figured figured if I didn't say it, Steve, he would. Okay. Terms of comments and reports, I don't have any report this evening. Any
board comments this evening? Anything anyone would like to bring up? No. Okay. Engineers comments. We don't have Reset with us this evening. Planners comments. Jeff, anything for us? Not at this time. Okay. Thank you. Attorney's comments. Mr. Corell.
Okay. Correspondence, discussions, and recommendations. There is something related to the uh the application that w was adjourned for this evening. It has to do with and council person Fatu brought this up earlier. If we could have some discussion on how we arrive at
uh the count for parking spaces in a case like the diamondation how do we get to that number because it's not clearly defined. Yeah, I think in reading the traffic report that was provided for the application, there was
mention of concern around the overflow parking and what would happen to that as a result of this application being approved. And I don't think all of us are well educated. No, I'm certainly not on the steps that it takes to and I think this will address many of the questions that we've heard across the
planning board um especially for unique property um that the overflow parking serves which is across the street at the Dination facility is how is the occupancy calculated? Who does that? How is it done? Um and then you know knowing
the experience that we've had over the years in the expansion of that um facility uh how does that then result in the number of overflow spaces that would be required to ensure on a max capacity
day? Um adequate parking just to have a more methodical approach than was existing in the previous applications to compare to what the number is in the existing overflow. So that would the uh storage facility be approved and would
the overflow parking be eliminated, there would be confidence in this planning board that the proper number of spaces would then um be accommodated at a different location wherever that would be. But um I think that was the underlying question that was heard
consistently. And so if we could get educated on that, I think we would be a long way ahead of then being able to hear the application in full and being able to move forward properly with um you know an approval or not related to that application. So that that's what I had heard consistently and I thought
that was worthy of a conversation and a point of education this evening so that we can move this along and for so many other things the occupancy deter is determined for typical uses of the space but in this case how do you determine that?
Yeah and some people had shared different ideas or methods. I I know I appreciate um Dennis as fire marshal looking at the prior um applications. I believe you referenced in some of the buildings themselves there were numbers associated. Correct. Correct. So generally for a building you
would come up with an occupant load calculation. Um for instance at the uh what was labeled the administrative building over at Diamond Nation. Um I want to say the occupant load was 150. For the concession stand it was 49. Um
there was nothing calculated for the viewing areas. When it comes to bleachers, um it's 18 in per person. Um 18 inches of bleacher space. There's also a calculation for like standing room viewing. Yeah.
Um but basing something solely off the uh the occupant load for parking at least. Yeah. You might have um for instance like Walmart, the occupant load of Walmart is several thousand.
Um but you wouldn't have several thousand parking spaces. No, no, it's a it's a burden below that. Yeah, you kind of have to figure out sometime. Yeah, you have to kind of trim it down from there. But Mr. Gber, yeah, Mr. Chairman, I hate
your input valuable. That's why you're here. Uh yeah, because the public hearing has been adjourned, it really wouldn't be appropriate for us to be having a detailed conversation about this right now in terms of the specifics of the Diamond Nation uh property. Um but we
understand the board's concerns. That's why we continued the meeting and we're going to work with the board's professionals and particularly uh Jay Troutman to provide you with a number that will hopefully satisfy your board's
professionals so that they can educate you on that. But I don't want to get too far in the nitty-gritty on this because we just continue the application. We're not we're not going to but but I I wanted there there was a lot of email exchanges today and Rob and I had a lot
of conversation a lot of conversations with Jeff and I didn't want to step on everybody in terms of sharing concerns but but my my my philosophy on this is like every application that's why this board has professionals so it's really
not for this board. We don't have to figure out the methodology. We've identified the issue. The issue is this board needs to be informed as to the specific number and to have confidence in it. So, we should just task Jay to work. And if Jay can't do
it, and I don't know this is the case, but hypothetically, if Jay says, well, the construction and design, you know, it would be an architect, right? That's what we want to understand. We don't have to. Jay will lead it. And if Jay can't do it, Jay will say, I need
to get an architect. I need to He does what he needs to do offline. We just tell Jay, you are tasked with giving us a number. And if and if you can't do it, if he can't do it, it would be on it would be on him to say that's not my
sandbox. We need to hire an architect. We need to whatever. But that process will be like in every other process. The board will the board's professional will do what it needs to do. It'll generate a report. It'll be sent to everybody and
uh including the applicant and it'll be addressed at a hearing through through testimony and and responses in in the normal course. Yeah. And again on this particular application, what we're presenting before the board on this is just with
respect to self storage on a preliminary basis only. And we had committed in correspondence even just to start this public hearing that we understand that the resolution of overflow parking would be a condition of any approval.
Understand that the board wants a number has an idea about a number and we learned that today. So we're going to work with Mr. Troutman and any other board professional, Mr. Dargy and and Mr. Varela um to provide them with the
information that will assure the board that whatever that number is, we can provide it offsite. I've talked to I've talked to Jay today, so he's he's aware of what he needs to do. He has actions. Good. Yeah, I think it's good. Okay. I think it was really just brought
up to let everybody know that we're trying to just understand it. Yeah. not get into diamond nation specifically, but they brought up these things that hey, maybe we don't understand how this works. Agreed. That's all. Well said. Right. Perfect. Thank you. Very good. Thanks for bringing Want to make sure everybody heard the
same thing one time. Very good. And thanks for your input. Okay. Uh we do not have any minutes to approve this evening, nor do we have any resolutions. Citizens privilege. If there's anyone here this evening who would like to address the board on any item other than what's further down on
the agenda, now would be the time to do so. You step up to the microphone. There being nobody, we can move on to public hearing. Mon'nique and Joshua Robinson. This is a time extension request to the file to file the
subdivision deeds. Block 71, lot 20, 267 Rayville Road. We were together on this back in November and we had agreed at that time to extend it to the end of June. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Steven Gruinberg on behalf of the applicants. We're essentially done. We had actually
had the deeds signed and delivered to the board for execution and Mr. Dargy's office had some minor comments with respect to the deeds, the meets and bounds descriptions of the deeds. Um, they I believe they've already been approved by Mr. Sordillo in terms of the
conservation easement and I think Mr. Toriello even agreed with the form of the deeds. I think it's just that the meets and bounds descriptions needed to be corrected. We're already in the process of doing that, but it necessitated me sending my June 20th
letter asking for a 90-day extension just for that to be able to take place. Okay, this is pretty straightforward extension. Any comments from the board? Any questions? Pretty straightforward.
Appreciate. Nobody here from the public other than you good folks. You feel free to stand up and say something if you want. Very anxious to get this. I bet you are. What date are you requesting? 90 days from today. I don't expect it to take that long, but
I'm just don't want to come back. Yeah, we always do that. Yeah. Ask for more. Okay. Can I have a motion, please, to approve the uh time extension request to the files subdivision deeds. Motion second.
Chairman, Mr. Edward Eddings. Yes. Vice Chair, Miss Donna Drews. Yes. Miss Robin Fatu. Yes. Mr. Scott McDeade. Yes. Mr. Dennis Concan. Yes. Miss Michelle Caviciri. Yes. Mr. James Miller. Yes. I'm going to have to revise the deeds to include the board's actions so that they they can get recorded. So, we'll give
you new deeds with that. Okay. Very great. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Okay. And with that, we have uh let me ask Taylor and Jeff, what do we have coming up for the end of June?
Well, I me personally, I would maybe ask if the adjournment letter from Steve is actually run into the record just because he does grant a time extension. do that. This doesn't have the 90 days though, does it?
It's this one. I'm looking at the other one. Yeah. Yeah. So, what I have in front of me is correspondence from Gruinberg Law Office, Mr. Steven P. Grubberg. It was received today, July 9th, 2025, to Taylor Vaughn, our board secretary.
No, this is the this is the uh that's the domination. That's what you want, red. Oh, that's what you want, red. Oh, I thought you want this. Okay, got it. My mistake. Yeah, Diamond. So, the subject is Diamond Nation Properties LLC application for
preliminary and final major site plan and variances for Aron Township Block 16.03 Lot One. Dear Taylor, pursuant to our conversation, the applicant is in receipt of the board professionals review correspondence and is requesting
that the matter be adjourned in order that issues may be addressed prior to commencement of the public hearing. I understand that the matter will be adjourned to the September 24th, 2025 meeting date without the need for new notice of hearing. Accordingly, we
hereby extend the time period for the board to act on this application through the end of October 2025. If you require any additional information, please feel free to contact me. Very truly yours, Steven P. Gruinberg, attorney at law.
Good. Mhm. Okay. Sorry, we were just talking about the other one. I thought that's the one. It's an emotion. Yeah. Okay. So, do we have anything on for July 23rd, Kayla? We do not.
Okay. At this point, as of right now, there are some uh capital review applications that may be on. Okay. I will not be at that meeting. I'm good. There's a possibility that it could be scheduled, but at this time we
do not have the materials. So that's why it has not it's not on the agenda. Yeah, they don't have to notice. Uh we just need the materials and they'll have to present. It's BCH and Hunter Central. Okay. Okay. Well, good. All right. Unless there's
anything else, we're adjourned for this evening. Thanks everyone. Thank you. You're coming out on a hot evening. stand this summer.