okay welcome to tonight's meeting of the zoning board of adjustment of the township of union which is being held pursuant to the open public meeting law C231 laws of New Jersey dated 1975 notice of this meeting was advertised in
the local source the newspaper of record and notice has been posted on the bulletin board in the municipal building adjacent to the municipal clerk's office roll call mr wy is absent miss Martins here mr bentega is absent miss Scott is
absent mr johnson is absent mr mcneel present mr graves present miss Ricketts here mr champion here there being a quorum present this meeting is now declared open at this time I'll entertain a motion for the approval of
the minutes from April the 9th mr chairman I move that the meeting minutes of April 9th uh be approved as amended and dispensed with their reading can I have a second second mr chairman let it be known for the
record I was absent on that day thank you all in favor i opposed so moved are there any communications Mr mongusa uh there are no communications at this time Mr chairman hearing none our first
order of business this evening will be the adoption of a resolution for calendar number 3450 Liberty Assets LLC located at 306 Carnegie Place block 5811 lot 39 applicant wishes to subdivide and build
a one family and two family dwelling on the lot board members you've all had a chance to read the resolution at this time are there any board members that would like to comment make changes or modifications to this resolution as it has been written hearing none may I have a motion
and a second mr chairman I move that this board adopt the resolution as read and modified as accurately memorializing the previous findings of this board second roll call uh Miss Martins yes mr mcneel
yes mr graves yes mr rickettts yes and Mr champion yes proceeding with tonight's meeting our next order of business is calendar number calendar number 3447 Liberty Assets LLC located at 1044
Woodland Avenue block 309 lot 11 applicant wishes to subdivide and construct four new single family dwellings uh Mr chairman Rob Pansul i'm the board attorney i know the public is here tonight you're probably here for this application there is a letter that
came in it was circulated to the board it's on file uh the applicant is is going to adjourn tonight's meeting but renotice because they're going to change the plan it's going to be a different plan that's going to be proposed which will require a new notice the date that we're contemplating right now is May
28th you may want to note that for your own edification but just realize that they're going to renotice you're going to anyone who lives within 200 feet of the property will get an individualized notice explaining what the new plan is going to look like we don't have it officially yet we have an idea that it's
going to be different so I can't really say anything more than that other than to recommend for the public's benefit stay in touch with our building department to file when it is it has to be here at least 10 days before the ultimate hearing date assuming for example if it's May 28th any time after
May 18th it'll be on file for review and be available for anybody to look at um so but but it will be changed it will be different than what's here for tonight right Mr mongus so you don't have any additional information at this time no this it'll come certified so if you see
a sticker on the door it's probably that that's what it's probably about so for tonight's purposes I think what the board will do just to make a record the applicant sent the letter in it's it's dated April 7th if the public did ever want to see it it is on file it's from the attorney who was here representing
the applicant uh and it requests the adjournment for the reasons that I just stated they have waved any constraints that were on the board to move within a certain time under the municipal law that's legal ease so they protected the town in that regard but nothing will happen until we get the new plans public
gets notice our engineers will look at them again it's going to be totally new um and we'll deal with the issues from there um we're really not having a public hearing tonight i'll answer any questions you might have after the meeting if you don't mind so if you're noticing people
200 feet within the property just whoever got notices this last time yeah why can't you notice people that so that you don't come out for the second time because
all the town can do is make the applicant do what the municipal land use law requires and the state sets up those rules it's not unreasonable what I s can suggest is maybe reach out a couple days before the meeting to the zoning board we got information about the adjournment
and I know some people had reached out and Mr monguso did represent to them that the case was going to be adjourned i appreciate the hardship but we don't have control over that no that's not correct well like I said because this gentleman reached out
yesterday and was not told that All I can say is we can't make the applicant renotice or notice that they're going to adjourn i don't know who they spoke to on the town they spoke to me they spoke to me and that gentleman his name is Brian
right there i told him that this was going to be adjourned did I not i didn't i just knew that it would not go through all right well that's you know I I apologize certainly if if we could think
of doing something to not inconvenience the public we would all I could suggest as the lawyer who's been doing this for 30 years is to stay in touch with the building department as he did if there was a miscommunication or misunderstanding that's unfortunate um
you can call me at my office my information is on the website if you want to reach out to me I'll I'll try to speak with you anyway i can because I don't vote you know I'm just saying on that's I understand what you're saying but that's not entirely fair to
to expect the town to be able to reach everybody within 200 feet to let them know there's anger we just it's just not feasible you know maybe we'll get to the point with the website and the telecommunications being what it is where it could be posted i mean that's something that we can certainly the
municipal annu law is contemplating changing these kind of things because they're required to also notice in the newspaper and the newspaper the star ledger doesn't exist anymore either so I mean they're changing the way notices are going to go out so ultimately I think what's going to happen is you're
going to see notice requirements be posted on the website i guess that's good i mean I'm an old school kind of guy i don't like the sound of that you know my grandparents wouldn't been able to check that but that's where we're heading you know the website is there somebody's got to punch it in and check for you hopefully that'll happen someday because
I can appreciate what you're saying i mean it's 7:30 at night it's a week night people work people got to work tomorrow it's a holiday week etc that's why I'm trying to give you as much information as I can may 28th is the contemplated date it's not the actual date it won't be actual until you get
that notice and the publication in the newspaper to the extent anybody even looks at the newspaper anymore for their publication so um but certainly Mr monguso's office or my office as the lawyer you can't talk to the board members but uh Anony's the zoning
officer and I'm the attorney so you certainly can reach out to either one of us uh both as to procedures and any questions you might have about what's going to happen and when you can see the plans etc so I think for tonight we need a just a motion and a second to adjourn
this matter uh subject to renotice from the applicant it will not be heard under the original plan it was submitted so I mean that's at least that is productive in and of itself tonight because the plan that we vetted it to some degree with the engineer in the town the
comments that we got from some of the public I know we have them we were ready to address it with the applicant people who submitted information to us um that plan is not before us anymore so I mean that's something at least so you can at least take solace in that i I would hope
um and I would also hope last thing I'll say is so we could start our Easter holiday week reach out to the applicant who is your neighbor one way or the other if you can or if you know him or if you reach out to his lawyer try it you know
I say that all the time he's going to be a neighbor he's looking to build something maybe you have an idea i mean I saw some good ideas and stuff that was sent to me which I'll communicate with the uh applicant you know it doesn't hurt to vet your comments with who will be ultimately your future neighbor
someday may not amount to anything but it doesn't hurt to try can you just clarify that the person who's the applicant is the Liberty Assets LLC is the applicant but there is a representative that if you can't reach him you certainly can reach his lawyer
who was here the Gashion Pomacco Law Firm they represent them you can reach them in in West Orange is where they're located if you have a question about and when I do applicant work as a lawyer in land use circles I love hearing from people before the night of the hearing
because some we had a case a week ago where the public was here and misunderstood what they were proposing to do read the plan had a conversation said "I'm fine with it." And then they left but you know it doesn't always happen but they can that's the only reason I'm suggesting that so
thank you i think you're good Mr chairman and and certainly as I said don't hesitate to reach out to me as the board attorney i can try to help or speak to anybody after the meeting if you have procedural questions i certainly can try to help you thank you Mr
pensula can I have a motion and a second to adjourn calendar number 3447 Liberty Assets LLC mr chairman I move that we adjourn calendar number 3477 Liberty Assets LLC 1044 Woodland Avenue block 309 11 to May 28th with
three notice second second roll call m martins yes mr mcneel yes mr graves yes m ricketts yes mr champion yes mr chairman there being no further business coming before the board I move
that we adjourn second all in favor i opposed so moved