good evening and 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 5 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 here miss Martins is absent
mr bentega here miss Scott here mr johnson is absent mr mcneel here mr graves here miss Rickettts here and Mr champion here there being a quorum present this meeting is now declared
open at this time I'll entertain a motion and a second for the approval of the minutes from our April 2nd meeting mr chairman I move that the M meeting minutes of April 2nd be approved as written and dispensed with their reading
second second all in favor i opposed so moved mr monguso at this time are there any communications uh Mr chairman there are no communications at this time hearing none our first order
of business this evening will be the adoption of a resolution for calendar number 3446 rule de burrito located at 422 Putnham Road block 1208 lot 29 applicant wishes to install a fence in
the front yard at this time board members you've all had a chance to read the resolution as it has been written at this time are there any board members that would like to comment make changes or modifications to the resolution as it has been written hearing none may I have a motion
and a second to adopt the resolution mr chairman I move that this board adopt the resolution as written and as accurately memorializing the previous finding of this board second roll call
mr wy yes uh Mr bentega yes miss Scott yes mr mcneel yes and Mr champion yes continuing with tonight's meeting our next order of business is calendar number 3451 J menendez located at 2346
Springfield Avenue block 4707 lot 14.01 applicant wishes to construct an addition with insufficient setbacks mr mendez good evening
good evening for the record can you state your name for the record el Mendes and who's with you speak in front of the microphone please could you stand in front of the mic please thank you and speak into it thank you
one Luis Mendees okay and who's with you tonight my wife and she's an you together you're the applicants yes you own the property at 2346 yes springfield Avenue correct yes um we had some conversations before this
is Rob Pansula the board attorney uh Mr chairman for the board and for the public's benefit uh our township engineer from Collers offered some comments about the application that requires some response on behalf of the applicant i spoke with the applicant me
and the zoning officer uh and I think what what makes sense to do and I think they're in agreement is they want their experts their professionals their architect and engineer to address the comments raised by cyers and submit them to the board so we can when we present
the case we'll have a full record so my recommendation was to rather than get started and do it in peace meal i know there's people from the public here tonight too i spoke with them as well uh will get a new date and allow them the opportunity to have your experts deal
with collers directly and provide the information they're seeking rather than to waste basically waste time tonight because we're going to have questions the board's going to have questions of uh the of your experts so that's what has to happen as a practical matter and I think you're in agreement with that so
um my suggestion would be unless anybody has questions right now I won't even swear them in and mark the application yet we'll get started at the new date and I don't know what date would be available Tiff based on the calendar may 21st June leave it up to the
applicant i don't know if you want to Which date would you like of the two the May 21st that date works for you when you may want to check with your professionals to make sure one or somebody might be available or at least get you the
information before that date so we can have the board consider it and the public can consider it too sure um so May 21st I I think Mr chairman under the circumstances to address the township professionals uh I would suggest unless there's
further comments or questions of me a motion and a second and then a roll call yeah I'll make the announcement we do the adjournment the public will know that they can come and look at the plans um yeah I will definitely do that but let's get the adjournment may 21st is
the proposed date i would suggest we do it without further notice the applicant would allow the board to adjourn this to wait for your additional information correct yes yes okay at this at this time can I have a
motion and a second to adjurnn tonight's meeting mr chairman I'd like to make a motion to adjourn calendar number 3451 J menddees 2346 Springfield Dav block 4707 lot 14.01
um to the next available date which is May 21st with uh without further notice mcneel second roll call mr mr wy yes mr pentto yes mr scott yes mr mcneel yes mr
graves yes mr ricketts yes mr champy yes for the benefit of the public uh this is the only public notification there will be no further notification mailed or published in the newspaper and the public hearing for this which is a regular meeting night of
the board as requested by the applicant will be May 21st 2025 here in this room and just let me add further since I spoke to the neighboring property owners who received notice the plans of what is being proposed by the applicant are on
file at the building department in the township so you can come in during normal business hours any of your neighbors can do this and review the plans certainly the applicant is here tonight if you have any questions you might be able to ask him while he's here uh I always encourage that your
neighbors you know and you gota you want to try to get on the same page um but certainly the plans and any reports that I've referenced from the township and any responding data will come from the applicant all that'll be on file with the building department in in this building during uh regular business
hours you have the right to look at it you can come down during business hours i don't know if they need an appointment right 8:30 to 4:30 but the the meeting is not going to start tonight we're not going to do testimony tonight because we're going to wait for this additional information the
meeting will occur on May 21st Wednesday as the chairman said at 7:30 in this room there'll be no further notice the applicant waved time constraints to allow us to do the adjournment and that's when the meeting will be started may 21st 7:30 in this room thank you
thank you thank you can I have a motion and a second to adjourn tonight's meeting mr chairman there being no further business coming before the board this evening I move we adjourn second a motion all in favor
opposed so moved