##VIDEO ID:oRi0rStrqOM## e e e e e e the tenant approval procedure will be required so unfortunately in order for you to proceed for with you for okay uh so um use variance in front of a board of adjustment correct which is the Zoning Board in front of the zoning okay and get the application it's actually online if you go through fors there's an application online for okay all right cool I will do that awesome all right thank you guys very much for your time appreciate it take at this time we have uh minutes from the January 8th meeting all members have printed copies may we have a motion to accept as printed motion by Joe M and John rart all in favor any opposed motion carries unanimously so just a couple of things before we get underway um we have a hard stop curfew at 10 p.m. because that's just the way it is tonight so sorry again that we got a late start um we will be going out of order on the uh items and we are streaming so it's good to keep in mind if you're not by a microphone to speak out and project if you could please um because sometimes we the people that play it back can't really hear um so the first thing we'll do is the resolution for how how wagy SM 24-4 6 Birch Lane and members have a copy of the resolution a motion to dispense uh with the reading motion by Jo and Stan secretary please call the RO for the way they the resolution we'll start with uh Paul with the review of open space and Recreation plan consideration for adoption as an element of our master plan thank you co shatz is refusing himself thank you madam chair for the record Paul GLE from the office of the burough planner I am filling in for Barbara Davis from the Land Conservancy of New Jersey her firm prepared this document she unfortunately had an issue that precluded her from being available to present this evening but I have worked with her in other municipalities on similar and so she saw my name on the correspondent said I think Paul could probably present it for me awesome so um that's what I'm doing this evening she was gracious enough to provide this presentation uh the board also I believe has been provided copies of it as well as a two-page handout a double-sided handout that hits the main points and frankly I don't think we need to go into great detail in the presentation but I can try to answer any questions that come up uh because at the end of the presentation it is a formal public hearing the public will have a chance to offer any comments and then the board will be asked to consider adopting this as you mentioned as an element of the Burrow's master plan so with that I can get right into it if absolutely sure and thank you for being here yeah my pleasure and the this is the same presentation so if anyone was at the council meeting mayor and Council have seen this previously in December uh but for the benefit of the board and anyone else who has not we'll go through this briefly um so again the why of preparing a plan such as this it provides a road map and framework for open space and Recreation in the municipality but it also helps with Green Acres State funding it's a prerequisite for that as well as providing points towards um sustainable Jersey certification and on top of that just you know it's always great to with any kind of planning effort every 10 years or so to reassess where things are and to make recommendations for future improvements or how to do things better where funding can be utilized there's very specified regulations for both Green Acres and some of the funding programs but there is local uh local governments can get matching grants through the state and W because you've seen in some of the handouts has been a recipient of some of this in the past and again hopefully going forward as well with this plan being adopted just briefly here are the overall goals which are also listed and the handout of the open space plan providing Parks and Recreation within a 10-minute walk of every resident offering a variety of outdoor venues to support recreational Pursuits for residents of all ages and abilities safeguarding a resilient landscape and integrating cultural heritage to ensure that sense of place as the plan goes into it's not just open space and Parks but also things such as the train station and historical sites are included within uh the plan then there's a detailed overview within the plan itself and the handout but it goes back to 1976 when Brookview Park was acquired through Green Acres funding or partially at least through Green Acres funding up to the very recent past when WALB uh obtain preserved the 3 Acre Wagner property utilizing money from the open space trust fund and along the way there again they having been County grants and other grants as well as the brough's own open space trust fund which as a sizable amount of money over $1.5 million had been has been collected for that fund have the head right here as the numbers for you you're probably very familiar with this but there are currently six parks within the burrow plus the new potential Park of the wager property as well but T Bell EMT Park Brookview mville pool Veterans Park in burrow Park background within the plan about the benefits of open space may seem self-evident but again this puts it in writing it provides a road map some guidance for for folks to understand why you're going through this effort ranging from Recreation you know providing opportunities for physical activity to helping with storm water management and addressing the impacts of you know storms and the climate change and other issues some of the overall recommendations include improving and updating existing parks and recreational spaces acquiring land to expand those parks and creating new ones uh creating connections between parks and people so for example there's talk of you know the connection between Crescent school and the high school uh utilizing the new the newly acquired wner property as part of that applying to Green Acres Grant Program preserving historic places and stewarding public lands to ensure resiliency this just goes into more detail on each of them again the idea is to take what you have you have undeveloped property in this case but to uh provide a opportunity for future development on this particular property the Wagner property but also again updating and improving other Parks uh one of the big recommendations in here relates to re potential acquisition either through purchase or through easements of other properties so for example next to the Wagner property you have the Waldwick Gardens site would be a nice complement if that was to be a come available and added such shown on the far left slide the blue is the Wagner property uh the yellow which is a recommended expansion being Gardens in the middle photo is potential expansion of Brookview Park so it's over by the Highlands Community Association over our by the saddle border which is shown in in yellow uh that's the top left and you have the Brookview Park which is more open and undisturbed in blue and then some properties that actually in walwick but are related or connected to properties in Saddle River so that might be a difficult acquisition but potentially whether through easement or other means could be a potential uh for expansion and preserving that open space and making it you know forever protected and lastly on the right side is the old uh psng RightWay and creating a linear park or Trail through there I know on parts of it in Waldwick and as well as HZ Ridge with other towns you have some informal Recreation uh the idea would be to maybe formalize that it's a bit disconnected now but again to start thinking about utilizing some of those pieces of land that are form a nice Network and connect to the downtown area just generally the the idea is to try to provide Parks uh within walking distance of everyone as I mentioned earlier as well as in this case connecting schools uh connecting people to jobs and opportunities to services so this map just shows existing parks with Public Access and it's a little hard to see on there the 10minute service area walking distance in the lighter green so there are some areas that are currently outside of that so it's again it's a little hard to pick up with the darker green or existing parks I would note the environmental centers off the map it's not sha here but again it's much less an active Park than a or a preserve although I guess our Trails there so I would add you do have a little bit of an option that's not shown on the far left corner the Far West part of the burrow but other than that that section you over towards the white golf border is limited currently with regard to Park and Recreation facilities certainly outside the 10minute walk mentioned Green Acres before again upon accepting State funding walwick has updated Rosy or Recreation open space inventory that way it's published something that you know planners like me other folks can go online and look and see what is there that's perly protected so when there State money involved through this program it's set in stone if anything there are ways to replace open space here but it's you know this very complicated a match I believe it's two to one of land other things that make it difficult to take a property off that open space inventory plan also as I mentioned talked about preserving historic places so there's some limited existing resources and the ideas to try to enhance them and provide opportunities for additional funding for this type of effort towards the end here with regard to stewarding public lands to ensure resiliency again um it's no surprise to us that we've seen more flooding and unfortunately you know more intense storm events in recent years um so the idea being that where you have you whether hocus brook or other water bodies and other in the Saddle River over on the far East side of the burrow to try to um help preserve land and increase the ability to store carbon through trees but also hold storm water on top of just keeping the space open it's also taking maintenance of course and doing other taking other measures as well but this is um through this plan trying to identify some of those steps as well as maybe enhancing or improving and expanding those areas just briefly on the process again I've not been involved till recently but uh this has been ongoing with the burrow for some time again the the council meeting back in December it was presented there but there was a long process that goes back a year now from the kickoff of this and the idea being tonight hopefully the final step with regard to adoption by the planning board and with that that concludes the presentation I can certainly take any questions to the extent I'm able to answer them but once you're done with that as I mentioned would be the ability of you to then adopt the plan after having a hearing on it that's very concise considering all this there's a lot in there I read through it I made a few minor suggested edits which were reflected already but thank you um how practical are the connections to each Park and is that in the near future that that could happen I'm curious I'm not directly involved in that but by reviewing what you have it's um it will take time these are things that again you don't have dedicated land in some of these areas to do it' be more through on Street in some places connecting from one park to another so whether it's through bike lane or other type of measure in some instances it'd be great with the right of way but I know that's not a simple task to to deal with that one the old PSC area you know but um yeah this is I think my understanding it's is more longer term so unless you know mayor and others can correct if I'm wrong there's something more foot that's more near term I'm not aare be happy board members wag yes oh I'm sorry there that was a connection listed yeah let me get this no yes yes correct but it was the idea was it's in the middle of a connection from Crescent down to the high school right it's not yes property taking advantage of that new source that if you were to connect through local streets down to W off F yes thank you for the clarification it's there's a very very relevant question at this point in time it has been um right now you're going spoiler alert you'll be dealing with this in the next few months potential updates to the housing elet fair share plan which will take us essentially if land is already preserved so space it's off the you know the developable parcels database so you're allowed to do that if the burrow has is proactive as it has been um the idea as a planner you know stepping back from New Jersey Law and all that the idea is to try to have a balance of that so you want to have affordable housing and new economic opportunities but it shouldn't be at the expense of open space the problem is the state when it came forth with some of its potential land that could be developed didn't really look at that carefully at the Maps uh so it's our job as the bu's planning consults we've looked in and Council and there have already seen these as well you know the maps out there publicly looked and said uh this one is you know for various reasons things are off the developable list yeah so now it's um now that's obain and preserved yes yeah there are some stand great so that's the idea behind this yeah again it's not to say you know there are other properties out there that can still be obtained but the becomes a little bit of a battle I hate to say because of the whole affordable housing mandates that that drives up the desirability of land for the tug of war between those two purposes that would have been in the last go round considered developable land and now it's again that changes that step changes they had mentioned in the formal plan itself that it made it into there I saw that yes so that'll be formalized in that rosi update anyone else comments questions anyone from the public would like to comment questions first actually right see none would the board like to talk about how we can move forward the way it is or anything what are your thoughts open is some conc and do the Green Acre grants pay for everything they there's enough funding for them to or we need to have that in the budget as well so we have the budget each year and what would the time frame be everybody what Co percentage of the realistic development potential there's certain calculation but um it's supposed to be yeah there it's supp have more teeth to it um but that said it's based on a number that you can still reduce for lack of vacant land it still relates to that we'll get again stay tuned for more details in the next month or two I'll be back to disc that as well as with the administration and the mayor council but that is is going to be a little different than the past well open space is a good thing so I'm um I'm happy about it and I hope around to enjoy it and I hope that everyone thinks that it's something that we should add or adjust to the master plan um how common is this in the areas around us are folks don't have statistical events but in the past year our firm's been involved in two or three these Bergen County for other towns where it's the exact same procedure where we came to land conserv brings the board we advised the planning board they adopted it so it's pretty again for all the reasons we cited with regard to Green Acres and everything else utilizing the funding it's become and hopefully the state will continue to have money to grant us yes sir if you yep if you'd like to come up please state your name and address please um my name is Jim Bosler excuse me uh I live in Ridgewood actually U I'm the chairman of the open space committee um I wasn't going to say anything except we did use the Land Conservancy in our Master B and they did somewhat the same type of presentation and we incorporated into oops incorporated into the master so we're going through the same problem you're going through with the affordable housing open space and it has yet to be determined thank you for sharing than so the question resol believe it's a resolution because you'd be adopting taking action to adopt as an element of the master plan so whatever the procedure was for the housing Element last time where they re-exam or done land you something in the past so believe that's a resolution I think that's it's by resol yeah it's resolution so it's not a referral it's a formal formal formal vote and action that you take you're the ones that adopt it I mean the mayor and Council take their own action and pay for it of course or dealing with that part of it but planning board by law is statutorily you know supposed to adopt it as well kind of what I thought good to check used to say don't ask that's why we do all that notice and everything to make sure it's done correctly by state law yes and it'll be filed with the county filed the state and it's on the books for adoption as an element of the master plan yes motion um yeah well Joyce got it all already so better when she goes I go so just say no I've been tell her that for a while uh so we will have a motion to accept that that Mark rundo and second by the mayor thank you and all in favor any opposed motion carries unanimously uh secretary please call the RO good thank you Mr greo thank you sir for coming to walwick appreciate that next we will take up the review of the Waldwick Board of Education field Turf and site improvements at Waldwick High School 155 White cof Avenue who is presenting that we're just reviewing that folks just so you are aware comes this for the record nobody's here no I was always on the other side fair enough yelling at you guys thank you very much all right know is school district is an a over it however it's of hereu hopefully aone somebody else FR set of so that's what we're doing here used to sat I have to want to finish up and yeah we have two it's 8:30 so absolutely agree that we had no idea so if folks want to uh look at the site plan for the Board of Education we could I don't know is it is it okay to put our questions together and revisit this or that's for them January yeah I mean I see I see it try to figure respon so that's 55 days I understand and we can'ta talk it this does allow us to put on next's agenda everybody now has it to look at and March 5th is sufficient well if it's 45 days plus 10 days to respond okay then that is almosts don't we'll later to watch so we'll table that thank you next up is the um applications for 17 Walter Hamond Associates LLC and um are we doing obviously one at a time so please Mr Whitaker thank you for your patience no problem good evening everyone for the record Bruce Whitaker from the fir McDonald Whitaker representing the applicant uh there's two applications here this evening uh number 17 and number 25 um I'd like to start with your permission to start with 25 wh LLC uh that pertains to 25 wal to ham place it's shown on your tax map is block 108 lot 7 this is property that is in the c-1 zone um we are seeking a site plan approval for this we've sent out notice to all Property Owners within 200 ft and provided proof of uh Service as well as proof of publication for that purpose and I trust that's all in order thank you uh the applicant is proposing to construct two building uh with a footprint of about 2400 sare ft so it's a very modest building as I said it's in the C1 Zone C1 Zone permits um as a conforming use a mixed use a mixed use here will be with a first floor that would contain either retail or office use and then above that on the second floor there would be two apartments um the lot itself um has some inhibitions if you will as far as the size of it is concerned and for the purposes of creating a building that will be viable so we are seeking variance relief as it pertains to um the curve along the South and easterly property lines uh to request that the curbing be one foot from a property line where 5T is required I'm sure all of you are aware of the area you're also aware there's a wide open space next to this which you just referenced earlier which the old PS uh e that that runs through that so although this property uh is what's owned by the applicant is here you recognize that uh in this area also there's a wide expanse of open space um we've had the opportunity to review the reports of your engineer dated January the 13th of this year we've also had the opportunity to review the report from your planner we will stipulate that we can make and meet any of the conditions set forth in those two reports and we will address some issues that have been raised this evening um with that said Mr asayan who I know you're well familiar with u is here tonight to testify as an engineer as an architect as well as a planner for the purposes of making this presentation and U with that unless there's any questions of me uh only other thing I would add is that as far as the parking spaces are concerned uh we're going to testify to that this evening because some questions have been raised about theing and uh we will comply with the ADA requirements of move ahead that way I think what you're seeing here tonight this um site plan review is that it really makes a piece of property very viable in your downtown in your commercial uh area and for that purpose meets a lot of the conditions under the second section of theal land use law as far as the purposes of the land use law concern so I would ask that Mr be sworn in or we can move ahead from there I have to you three times raise your right hand please do you stimy sir Thomas and for the record Mr is very well abely AST thank you very much Mr singer with that said Mr you've been engaged by the applicant for purposes of preparing the plans that were submitted with his application is that correct correct and these uh plans that were submitted are before us this evening on the board up there yes they I'd like you just identify the plans with the date and the final revision date Mr singer we can Mark those as A1 collectively so the whole set set of drawings comprised of sp1 SP2 and sp3 and there's also a an A1 the architectural schematic A1 is a overall sight plan I mean I'm sorry sp1 is an overall sight plan SP2 is a soil conservation landscape plan SP sp3 is the lighting plan of course the1 as I've already suggested is at all is a while he's doing that Mr s i app are other and bu sign Ma repr fin off so before we go through the reports themselves I'd like to just walk through some other aspects of the plan uh let's just take a look at the building itself and the to describe what that is and what the layout is and what the building material will be for the exterior first what type of building material will be used for the the the building itself will beet theight requirements of the in connection with the apartment they'll each be self serving they have their own facility and they'll comply with re if we can go back to the plan itself I'd like to just walk through an overview of what drainage is being proposed second would it be correct to say that theage plan and system that you're proposing will meet all of the requirements under the local ordinances guines and in that regard if the board were to approve this stipulating my understanding is that you will submit the appropriate drainage calculations and soil permeability tests will be conducted is that correct the report from B Engineering also speaks in terms of the Ingress egress and parking again just for the record describe number of parkes what's required and Andress for you will see in the reports between your planner and your engineer one says we need an EV make ready space What report says we don't we will stipulate that we will have one made ready so we do that in connection with the location of a dumpster area recognizing this building is 2400t what is being proposed as far as the small amount of revenues that gener we're stipulating of course the and ref collection will be a private corter in connection with the soil movement aspect um if this board were to approve uh this site plan at that point a typical correct I'm sorry just one of are in connection with the report there was a request for input from Fire subcode official as far as striping is concerned um we can stipulate that we comply with any type of Fire Safety Striping that will be required in the parking lot in your opinion as a planner and engineer you're looking at site like this is there a necessity or need for a loading Z the Boswell report of January 13th specifically talks about modifications to the overall Landscaping U talking about um how the plant beds should be mapped certain screen plantings are recommended um certain small flowering native tree is recommended Etc you read through these without laboring the point we can match andet all of the requirements that run in paragra 26 A through l M I'm sorry M I didn't turn the page we have on this plan a Propst sign and the side will comply with all own reement in connection with the report by Mr GLE you've had the opportunity to review that correct I believe everything that you've covered in the B report U is also covered in this report but there's nothing different in terms of what's being requested but we can comply with um any of the suggestions that have been made in that report this is all I have on Direct this is for the S plan aspect before we start maybe I could just have them cover the two variances to point out the two variances are being requested from a planning aspect what gran along e trans this be AAL use variance so you would not have jurisdiction we have to go to the zoning board so by the virtue of what your ordinance requires makes us comply with your CC in connection with the curving the curving is requ from the safety element for parking SP correct and by virtue of placing these curving as here we're comping with creating parkes that and when I look at this curve and I look Beyond The Curve especially to the sou I'm not going to really realize where there is a property lineur dear lot and the correct and as as the curing that be running the east or to that portion to the property where the building is there's a building next door that is not performing as far as the set back is concern and so the purpose of putting the curve where putting here properly dear has a demarcation for the property line itself and from safety standpoint accomodates that's proposed from your perspective as AOG your understanding La your opinion is there any substantial to zone or zoning ordinances in this the two request being for no G you going to be touching the trees that are there to has a per per and are you trees in theeast corner no I mean on there's a tree there's a tree in the Southeast corner of your property just just on the p i don't it's on there right on the Cor sep of the basement is to beor for what because we're under the five requirement uh they'll build as were two apartments share a staircase very simple very modest and neat anyone from the public any questions please come up your name and address please hello I'm sorry what your address the add uh my home address at the moment is in and will be in uh St Petersburg 1964 Carolina Avenue St Petersburg Florida we also have a home here in Saddle River which we had for about 30 something years uh we own this property and uh I'm just a little confused about something we didn't have a chance to talk but I just want to make sure that what we're talking is I think we need whatever you're saying on the record so if you would I just wanted to get more spe specificity about that whether it's slot seven or eight uh now I understand it's seven um having the property next door property sir uh 40 Franklin Turnpike we have the little school juice me in the front and the other one on uh Salon um my read for the board would be I think it's an excellent idea I think it's something that the town needs even though I don't live in this town but my roots are here uh I particularly like what I could see drawing what the presentation in effect would look like to the community I don't see that causes any problem with our contiguous properties it seems like everything's pretty much that I would have some concern about is really being addressed so I'm a proponent so even though I'm not a resident here but having the property and and and gifting all these property taxes each year which by the way you've actually contained them very well so uh relative to Florida so I I'm just a supporter I just would like to vo vocalize that to you thank you thank you anyone else any comments to Mr um to say your stipulation if you are comping everything in reports goes forward as well any subs folks it really helps in the long R to the to actually Express where I actually want your opinions because it does help to have it on the record what you think V you I think it's a good project for the to I don't think it's overdone or entous at all I'm curious about the colors did you talk about colors might be important to some of us like pink no I don't like pink thank you anyway we don't have any jur over it's very to the yes I think it's a big improvement over the looks the current looks and uh it'll be a nice addition bacon for a long time I've lived town all my life and I know it's always been bacon just for that yellow house I that's what I was looking at two people that lived in that house Through The Years time I don't have to any cutting all that wildass I don't have mayor Mr R yes Mr Mr kski mrck yes Mr or Mr basilo Mr P is 10 y open will B can you just tell me if you said 16 or 17 parking spes still G Street post office resp prop as Ma EST VAR Pur re is Tre MI B AR bu on SE of as Sol don't building a got us each there's a spot resal think hav so we consider at this to basically and I know touched in reference the ttim waser Jo for I have a question and it's more of a guidance from Mr singer why not currently each building is proposing two retail commercial spaces uh has happened in the past any other retail commercial buildings you know someone might comment says well I don't need other than maybe 500 square feet how do was this play where potentially the the two units could they divided into more spaces how would that be treated from zoning perspective because we've had that situation in the past where we would have a commercial building um that were approved for number of uses and the next thing you know is that these spaces are being somewhat curved divided exactly into more spaces how would that come up or if it does come up to refer pretended review where it seems appropriate am I wrong on that no that's okay there's one other possibility I'll throw it out there because you know it's worth asking not necessarily only because we've got the any there could create a lark reement the use we have certain uses that require certain number of parking spices is that certain uses require number of parking spaces per square footage but also number certain number of parking spaces per employees so that's what this might come into play um anyone's aware that's part of toal POS mentioned about lighting I think Sor lighting the park that kind of lighting doesn't folks that are living upstairs M mayor Mr yes any old business folse off the we Geto come doite you have any advice on that how we get somebody to present for the field right now I can't tell you what I don't know I it was his sign at one point but now it's line don't look keep going the right all right so we're set everyone and thank you so much wow look at that look at that 944 thank you for coming out