yes so give me the Okay good evening everybody and welcome to this regular planning board meeting on April 24th 2025 madam Secretary can you please call roll mrs parker here mr ket here
mr mr lily here mr heinman is absent mr kimoney here mr deal councilman Roman town manager O Sullivan here mayor Tambbor here vice Chair Freshley is absent chair Pearson
here board attorney Misara here engineers are excused for this evening and this is Kristen Spatola she is the um technical assistant to the construction official but she will be sitting in for me next month so she is here tonight hi Christina welcome
can everybody please join me if you can rise for the pledge of allegiance i pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for all can you please read the public meeting act open public meeting act the notice requirements of the open public meetings act have been satisfied with respect to this meeting of the township of Verona planning board which
is being held in person in the ballroom of the Verona Community Center located at 880 Bloomfield Avenue Verona the time and date of this meeting were included in the annual meeting notice posted in the community center and sent to the official newspaper of the township the
Verona Cedar Grove Times at least 48 hours preceding the start time of this meeting the agenda and instructions on how to comment will be provided at the appropriate time all meetings are recorded those wishing to speak during any public comment period should only provide their name and municipality
street addresses are not required please be advised that should a member of the public choose to state their street address it will not be redacted from the recording thank you um it's public participation time but seeing that there are no members of the public present we
will forgo that um e approval of minutes has everybody received the regular meeting minutes from March 27th and obviously when you get them you know you can always send Kathleen a correction like I was there or I voted on that or whatever so does anybody have
any updates or any changes can I get a motion to pass the meeting minutes and um acknowledge the fact that resolutions are attached at the end of that so move mayor makes the motion can I get a second please mr kamoodi
seconds all members voting for I I I All members that are not voting for and anyone who's uh abstaining abstain okay um next up on the agenda
is resolution 20258 extension of time request memorializing resolution 202508 granting Verona Sunset Urban Renewal LLC One Sunset Avenue Verona block 303 lot 10 uh
lot 4 a one-year extension um has everybody reviewed that resolution yes does anybody have any questions pretty straightforward would somebody like to make a motion to pass this resolution
what's going on over here would somebody like to make a motion to pass this resolution i I'll make the motion can I get a second second mayor seconds um can we get Do we Yeah can we get a voice vote on this
please i mean not a voice vote a roll call vote my bad mrs parker's not eligible correct right okay mr ket yes mr lily yes mr moody yes m okay he's out here okay town uh town
manager oh Sullivan you're recused too right mayor Timoro yes chair Pearson yes the motion passes um this is again a memorialization of a vote that we took
at the last meeting um uh as a quick update to our subcommittee meeting it we will be meeting via Zoom on Wednesday May 7th um to review from my understanding the
entirety of the draft for our affordable housing element and um working any kinks out hopefully within that meeting and having revisions made shortly thereafter and what I had pitched today to our
manager and Greg um your input on this is vital because you're an attorney if you recall when we did the last master plan in 2022 we held a special Zoom board meeting that
invited the entirety of the board and the public to put input in on sort of a final run through review of that the entire master plan in this case it would just be that one element so that at the the ne the very
next meeting there was sort of less discussion and we were able to basically without too much ado make a motion and pass that element um so we basically created a special zoom meeting
for discussion and review of the element i thought it worked very well and we did have some people on on that asked some questions and I and some very good questions i does everybody everybody remembers that did you like that format
a special a potential special meeting for the discussion well the public the public is invited to every meeting right so I think we kind of just encouraged you know um I believe advertised if you will the special topic
and that it had to do with the master plan the master plan requires obviously special notice but what you're suggesting is we had a extra meeting right which I always recombut so that
then when it comes time to vote on it the issues have already been addressed and corrected andor not corrected necessarily modified compromised etc so I think it's a great idea okay i I listen I don't know who came up with it
last time it might have been you so it's a great idea if it was a great idea probably not me no um well it might have even been like you and Sam together working on that but whatever the case I'm suggesting that we look into that
after we um meet in our subcommittee and I'm suggesting also or actually I want to know do we need to notice a special notice for the discussion of a master plan before we're we're we're planning to pass it i don't think so because it's
it's not required by statute this is a it's like any other board meeting where you have new business and you discuss new business so it wouldn't require the special notice okay um thank you very much um the last thing on our
agenda is the carrying of planning board application 2025-021 Wedgwood drive block 1712 lot one uh hearing for tree removal and the applicant is requested to carry to the May 22nd 2025 planning board hearing
where no new notice is required any further comments or statements about that yeah just just one on that um they're you know it does seem that they're working over there so can we just make sure Mr o Sullivan that you
know construction official goes over and make sure they're not actually removing trees before we have the hearing every every every so often just pop over um so I spoke with Chuck Malinero today regarding that so he did go over walk the site to make sure that any work that
they're starting is not involving any trees and what they have reported is that they are doing some preliminary work that will not require disturbance of any of the trees so I will leave that for now right we will So what I've asked them to do is just revisit as as So yeah
a stop in every once in a while would be good because I I worry that when an applicant wants to delay for two months that you know that that leaves opportunities for you know mistakes to happen that's what I was going to ask is what
is the delay have they communicated that um I saw that I think in the email that they hadn't met with the engineers or anyone yet right so I had reached out because we had a uh agreed upon at least a minimum of 10 days prior to this
hearing that they would submit revised plans that they would speak with the foresters that they would meet with Boswell um and they have not done any of that so I spoke with their attorney told them had to be done gave them the new deadline and said that would be you know
again the minimum 10 days before um and I will keep reaching out to Boswell and to the Foresters as well as to the applicant just to keep everyone moving along so according to the schedule that was set out the planning board should
have any sort of new documents that they may be putting forth by the 12th of May which is 10 full days before maybe even the 11th but you know the the 12th latest so if we don't get anything then
I I toss my hands up in the air and go I don't know what's going on so okay any other questions or comments motion to adjurnn can I get a second i think we're ajourned thank you
wow that's still not the best what i jump out