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Good evening everyone. This is the regular meeting of the municipal land use board of the burough of River Edge for Wednesday, June 24th, 2026. Time now is 7:32 p.m. This meeting of the municipal land use Board of the Burough of River Edge is being held both in person and remotely via Zoom in

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compliance with provisions of the Open Public Meetings Act and associated regulations. Notice of this hybrid meeting was published in the Bergen record posted at Burough Hall and posted on the Burough's website. The notice included the dialin and login information necessary for public participation and access to this meeting

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remotely. Copy of the agenda for this meeting was made available on the Burough's website near the posting of the meeting notice and included the dial in and login information. During the public comment period of this meeting, if you would like to make a public comment, you may step up to the microphone and wait to be recognized by

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the chairperson. Press the raise hand button on Zoom or dial star 9 on your telephone keypad to raise your hand. You may mute and unmute yourself by pressing the microphone icon on Zoom or dialing star six on your telephone keypad. You must state your name and address clearly prior to making a public comment.

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Um this point would you all just stand the >> flag salute. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation

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under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> That's right. Miss Brown, would you call the role, please? >> Yes. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, >> present. >> Mr. Kaslin, >> here.

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>> Mr. Craig is excused. Miss Boland >> here. >> Mr. Given is excused. Mr. Kigo is excused. Mr. Sava >> here. >> Mr. Gotier >> here. >> Councilman Glass is absent at the moment. And Miss Lavine

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>> here. >> All right. Also present we have our burough zoning officer on Zoom and our board attorney Mr. Cost our board engineer Mr. Costa sometimes attorney. Okay. Uh we have a relatively light

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agenda so this should go fairly quickly this evening. Our first item on the agenda for this evening is under the approval of minutes. We have set of minutes for our meeting of May 27th 2026. draft of the minutes was circulated for the board's review prior to the meeting. Open it to the board for

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comment or questions on the draft minutes. >> Uh I did have a couple just minor edits. There was a a note that it couldn't be determined who made um the motion. So I just made

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it a general statement that was for the vote on to closing closing to the public. So that was inconsequential. And then um I noted the time when the recess occurred,

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which is around 8:53 p.m. on page seven. Um some just little typos, nothing else substantive that I noted. >> Yep, that was all. >> Okay. with

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with those edits. Uh board has no comments or questions. I'll look for a motion to approve. >> So moved. >> Give us go. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Give us bowling. >> And everyone is eligible. >> Okay. >> Okay. All in favor? >> I. Any oppose? Same thing.

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>> All right. Thank you. We're going to move on now. We're going to jump down to memorializations. We'll come back to discussion items. Um later memorializations. First memorialization for this evening is DNL Dellesandro

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properties 292 Woodland Avenue block 112 lot 15 approval for an addition alteration and renovation of single family home. Draft of the resolution was circulated for board's review prior to this evening. Open it to the board for comments or questions on the draft

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resolution. >> There being none, I'll look for a motion to approve the resolution as presented. So moved. >> Thank you, Mod. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, M. >> And I'll only call those eligible to vote. >> Okay. >> Uh, did I get that?

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>> Uh, Mr. Kaslin. >> Yes. >> Miss Boland, >> yes. >> Mr. Saba, >> yes. >> Mr. Gotier, >> yes. Uh >> M is Miss Lavine. >> Yes. >> Okay. The motion passes.

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>> Okay. Thank you. Our next item under memorializations, the applicant is uh J. Malkey, 473 Windsor Road, block 814, lot 10. Resolution approving additional alterations to single family home. Draft of the resolution was circulated for the

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board's review prior to this meeting. Open it to the board for comments, questions on the draft resolution. There being none, I'll look for a motion to approve the resolution. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Modia. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Miss Bolan.

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>> All right, Mr. Mayor. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kaslin, >> yes. >> Miss Bolan, >> yes. >> Mr. Saba, >> yes. >> Mr. Goautier, >> yes. >> Miss Leavine, >> yes. >> All right, the motion passes. >> Okay, and last memorialization for the evening applicant is Christina Castanzo.

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property is 320 Lexington Drive, block 1106, lock 26. Resolution approving uh additions and site improvements to a single family home draft. The resolution was circulated from the board's review prior to the meeting this evening. Open it to the board for comment or questions

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on the resolution. There being none, I'll look for a motion to approve the resolution as presented. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you both. >> All right, Mr. Mr. Mayor, >> yes. >> Mr. Castlin, >> yes.

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>> Miss Boland, >> yes. >> Mr. Salva, >> yes. >> Mr. Gotier, >> yes. >> And Miss Levine, >> yes. >> Okay, the motion passes. >> And for these resolutions, we just need Mr. Gibbons as the secretary, but since he's absent, if we could just appoint an

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acting secretary. I know sometimes we forget to do that. >> Anyone want to do the honors? All right. Since Mr. God is closest to you. I'm going to nominate Mr. Goier to be acting secretary for the evening. >> Second.

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>> Wheels. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> And then actually before we go to our discussion item, um do you want to handle old business announcements? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> All right. So, under old business, we have the application for Pacific Outdoor

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Advertising LLC, address 14, Route 4 West, block 1402, lot 4 um for preliminary and final minor finer final site plan approval, use height, and bulk variance relief to install it and operate a two-sided static billboard.

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This hearing will be carried to the July 22nd um meeting of the land use board without further notice. So, if you are here for uh that hearing, you have to come back on July 22nd. And same thing with the next application,

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Michael and Melanie Schwiger, address 265 Adams Avenue, block 506, lot 3, um for the construction of an outdoor living space where none exists. That hearing will be carried to the July 8th land use board meeting um without further notice. So, if you're here for

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that, please come back on July 8th. Okay, thank you very much. Last item for this evening on our agenda is under discussion items. Uh we at the last meeting um heard an

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application made by Sweet Spot River LLC property. The question is 75 Route 4 East block 1415 lot 1.01. Uh excuse me. The applicant has uh requested that the um has submitted a an

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application to the state department of transportation looking to reconfigure uh what is currently an exit only um access point onto Route 4 from their property and to reverse it and create an entrance only um drive driveway point. And in

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connection with that application, they've um it was recommended by DOT that they seek a letter of support from the bureau um through either the council or the land use board. And that this time they've asked us um since that was

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a topic that was discussed at the at the last meeting. Um the request has now been made that we provide said letter in support of what we had discussed at the time that that point um would seemingly

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um make sense from an engineering standpoint. Mr. Cost, I'll let you weigh in to some degree, but again chairman >> if you could just come up to the microphone. Um, what I would suggest is the board before the board takes action,

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I would send it to the police department, >> okay? >> And then wait for their comments back because if everybody remembers, they were very much involved with the traffic patterns on that site. Um, but that would be my recommendation

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as far as I haven't seen anything else. I haven't seen their application, their their traffic studies, any of the above. So you weren't provided with any information as to what they've >> communicated with DOT about. No, at this point. >> Okay. >> So, >> but that would be my again because the chief definitely got involved, the

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police got involved with the toll traffic circulation in the parking lot. Whether I agree with it or not is another topic for conversation. But um I think what it comes down to is their business. Obviously, what they testified here, their business is not doing well

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and they think it's the issue is the uh that people can't get there because of the traffic patterns. Now, maybe people just aren't doing drugs. I don't know. So, time will tell. >> So, it's topic for the board's consideration and open to the floor for

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discussion. >> Can I weigh in? Um I I would think not bas having not been here that it seems reasonable if the DOT is going to grant it that uh it should first go before the police department.

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>> I agree. >> Okay. >> Makes sense. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So I I'll send their request to the chief um and copy the chairman and mayor um and just ask for their comments. And then I'll I'll also ask um the applicant

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for any submissions that they made to DOT. I don't know if they had just put out their initial request to them. Um and that's I thought I think it's a little odd that DOT is asking for this letter from the town if they hadn't if

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they only did something informal um like an informal submission to DOT. But maybe that's the case. Um, so I'll find that out and then we'll have an update for the next meeting. And then because I don't want to send a letter without us knowing if we did send a letter of

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support, it would it would be have language saying subject to any land use board approval, burrow approvals, all yada yada. So that's just standard that would be in there. >> I mean, again, >> through the chair, the bottom line is DOT has jurisdiction over it. It's a

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state highway. The town has literally no jurisdiction over that driveway. Internally, the town has jurisdiction, >> right? >> So, and it was a lot of discussion. I think it should go to the police. We should at least get a copy of what they actually submitted, if they even submitted an a true application and then

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again bring it back here or send it to obviously the police and get get their input on it. That would be my opinion. >> Mr. Deppkin has any >> Mr. Deepkin? Sorry. Yes, sir. No comment. >> Okay. >> Okay.

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>> Thank you. >> All right. I think that's it. That's to me that sounds like a reasonable course of action. Um, anybody else has anything further? Do we want to um >> Are there any members of the public present? Jessica, could you >> No, just us.

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>> Okay. So, we don't we don't need to take any action other than just >> No, I'll just make those those requests. The Okay. >> All right. Anything else? While we're here. All right. There's no one on the public.

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>> All right. I'll look for a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. Second. >> All in favor? I. >> Any opposing? Journ 746. Thank you