When I I ride. Adequate notice of the meeting was given in accordance with the open public meetings act by the board secretary to at least two newspapers on January 3rd, 2025. And this meeting has been posted on the township bulletin board
electronic message board WCTV and on the township website. Thank you, Grace. With the flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it for it stands one nation under God
indivisible for all and justice for all. Uh Grace roll call please. Mr. Carol here. Mr. Murphy here. Mr. Pledo here. Mr. Tulle is absent. Mr. Toro is absent.
Mr. Mojeransky is absent. Councilman is absent. Mayor Kari is now dear Kawari. I'm actually here. Yes. Chairman Sabino here. Let the record reflect. Also in attendance are attorney Lul Lamatina, engineer Paul
Haselina, planner Joe Burgess, and board secretary Grace Cage. Thank you, Grace. Please read the public portion. To participate in the general public portion of the meeting, please click the link below to join the webinar. You'll be asked to state your name and address for the record, and we ask that only one
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At the end of the general public portion, no further general questions or comments will be accepted. Thank you. For the record, Mr. Toro has Thank you. Do I have a motion to open the public
portion? Motion. I'll second. Oh, I'm sorry. All in favor? I I Okay. Is there any in the audience who would like to address the planning board on agenda items that are not on this
evening's agenda? Anyone on video that would like to address the planning board? No, this is doesn't seem to be funnel.
Sorry for the technical difficulties. Okay. Oh, there's low. All right. Okay. If no one wants to address the planning board, do I have a motion to close the public portion?
I'll second. All in favor? I I I Okay. I would like to change up the agenda for this evening. Uh, I would like to first uh discuss the housing plan uh with Mr. Joe Burgess
close session or not? U should we go into close session on the housing plan discussion or is that I don't I'm not sure what's being discussed but I ordinarily know litigation. Joe, is there any reason
that you know what to be in close session? No, I just know that in some municipalities they do that because there's always the threat from various entities, but I'll leave that up to you. Well, again, I have no idea what you're
going to be discussing. The basic the basic plan components. Not quite. You going to go into specifics on any conservative any specific property? Yes. And maybe it should be in close session.
Okay. Okay. So, you need to amend the agenda unanimously to add a close session item for the housing plan. So, you should ask for a motion. Okay. Do I have a motion to uh amend this evening's agenda to
include a to include a closed portion? So, I'll move. Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry, Mayor. Either one of us. Go ahead, Mayor. Okay. I'll make a motion. Okay. I'll second it. Okay. Roll call. All in favor? All in favor? I say we're coming
back. Okay. That we're coming back. Any opposed? Okay. At this time, I would ask for everyone to uh leave the uh the chamber and we will back be back from a closed
portion once Mr. Burgess is able to give his testimony on the housing plan. for permanent approval for East Glenn Avenue block 253.03 03 lot can hear. Do we know if there's
other two people who were here? Not in the hall. Yes. I we spoke with them. They were for a different applica application. Oh, okay. They they were noticed, but they're not there's no other application for uh it was 311 walnut. They did not
execute their not. Thank you. I didn't want to start without the be. Yeah. Okay. The applicant is supposed to be on Zoom. Is Miss Carter on? Yeah. Yeah. I see
her. Oh, I don't see um I'll put her on. Yes. Miss Carter, are you on? Can you hear us? Miss Carter. Hi. Can you hear me? Yes. Um, can you also see me or I cannot see
you. Oh, why can't you see me? That's weird. Is your video on? That's what I'm trying to figure out. I'm so sorry. No problem, Lou. If she's not on video,
she cannot testify. Correct. Uh, correct. Okay. And just so I I'm clear, how many members do we have? We had uh I think we had six, but do we have a seventh? Is Mr. Man, five, six, seven? Seven. Seven.
Perfect. Thank you. So, would you like to uh commence? Yeah, Lily, just try to try to get your camera on or try to maybe relog in and I'll start. Um, she's going to be answering some questions if there's questions. So, I'm going to need her to set this. Okay. But I'll I'll start and
we'll see if she can hopefully get the camera on. Uh, good evening, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Mayor, members of the board. Uh, we're here on a reauthorization for resolution. Um it's your resolution PB2308. Um it was approved back in
February of 2023 uh for a minor site plan review and a major soil movement approval. Uh it's the location. There's no street address yet, but it's East Glenn Avenue uh lot 5 block 253.03. At that time there was a I'm
sorry. Can you give us your name? Name your Yes. Blcoya Petreski Petresky Law Offices Riverdale, New Jersey. Uh and I'm the attorney for the Thank you. Okay. Um so Okay. So the application was for a
single family uh single family dwelling about 2500 square ft. Uh the application uh conformed with all uh zone uh zoning rules. So there was no uh variances requested. There was one waiver um and
that was actually there's two waiverss. One for the need for a topographical mapping of the surrounding lands and the second was a waiver on the uh RSIS the residential site improvement standards um because of the size of the lot. Um
everything was approved by this board uh unanimously I believe uh in February 2023. Since then there um there we we are seeking an amendment to the resolution. The resolution in page uh on paragraph
11 and I'll I'll read this into the record so that it's clear um what we're asking to be amended. The application number 11 the applicant proposed removal of 51 trees 11 of which are classified
in the arborous report as dead and four of which are classified as dangerous. A total of nine trees ranging in the size between 8 in and 32 in shall be preserved within the undisturbed areas of the site. So since this approval,
those nine trees were removed from the site. And so we have we are seeking the board's reauthorization um with those with the same exact plans. There's no changes to the site plan with the exception of the removal of those nine trees. Just so the board has a
little bit of a a background, there was a summon issued by the town for the removal of those nine trees. Um I was representing the uh there the defendant here, the applicant. The resolution of that case was a dismissal of the charges
with a remediation of planting of 15 trees throughout the town. So the town um I believe it was the township administrator picked the areas and so there was 15 trees um that were replanted and as a result the that summons was dismissed. Um I don't know
if the board wants I can put in a uh into evidence a a an email from Mr. D Carlo which I believe is the administrator advising that the the tree planting was completed. All 15 trees were planted. So I will mark that as
Yeah, I'll just Can I mark as A1 and thank you? Thank you. So essentially that that's the request today. Um we are not requesting any other changes to the resolution. Um we will comply with all the the
requirements that were agreed to back in February February of 2023. And again we are seeking uh amendment to the to the resolution stating that those additional nine trees were removed. basically that there was there were to be 60 trees
removed from the from the lot instead of the 51 that were approved back in 2023. Um I at this time I'm going to call Miss Carter as my first and only witness if we have her sworn. Uh Lou, can you
please swear right hand after me? You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So I help you God. I do. Okay, Miss Carter, I just if you could just give the board just a I I know I already did, but just a brief overview of the project and what you're looking
to do. So, all I really want to do is build my house there as planned. 2500 square ft approximately over two floors and maybe a little bit over 500 ft on a garage. And I don't want to change
anything. Even the layout is the same as the people before me who owned it before me. I I didn't even change the layouts that was originally there from maybe 10 15 years ago. And uh so is it your testimony today
that the approval that was from 2023, you're not making any changes to that site plan? Is that correct? No, no, no. Okay. I didn't change the site plan even from the Russo family when they owned it. They had their own plans. I just used the same footprint and everything.
Just naturally added what the town required in terms of the drawings. So that's it. And as part of that that approval back in February 2023, you agreed to be subject to I I can't condition. There's eight. I'm
sorry. As part of the February 2023 approval, you agree to be subject to 18 conditions. Um, right. For the approval, you still agree to be subject to all 18 of those provisions. Yes. Yes. And you're just requesting an amendment to provision number 11, which said that
there was going to be 51 trees being removed and now it's going to be 60 trees. Is that correct? Yes. open it to the board if they have questions for Miss Carter. Any questions from uh any board members
of Miss Carter? Okay. And we we have no other witnesses. Okay. So, we uh respectfully request that the board uh give the approval. Um as I previously stated, we have we're not making any change to the site plan.
There was the issue of the removal of the trees that was remedied. We we worked with the town and with the with the municipal court. Um they are satisfied with with the 15 trees. That was the resolution we had entered. So we respectively request that the uh this board uh reapprove the the resolution
with with that one change. Thank you. Thank you Lou. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, I spoke to the Washington Township prosecutor Mark D. Maria about 2 hours ago and got all the information about
the pending case. Uh, he indicated the summon is not yet dismissed, but there is a plea agreement and that the matter is on for June 10th for dismissal and acceptance of the plea. Uh the plea is that the applicant w has planted 15
trees at a location uh designated by the town I believe the Carlo. So um that would satisfy the criminal case. Um this board still has
jurisdiction to deal with what happened. Um but given the fact that the town participated with uh Mr. the Maria and the applicant. It would be my recommendation that the town that this board agrees that the remediation would
be the 15 trees already planted. The the other question I or or statement I have in question is the applicant is going to or will or has planted the 80 other trees set forth in paragraph 11. Is that correct, council? Uh that is part of the approved plans.
They will be uh planted as construction goes. So yes, we are agreeing to to the 80 trees. Yes. Um also just for the record, we got the dismissal on May 1st. I will if you give me a second, I can try to look it up. Maybe Mr. De Mario's
confused. I got one case. He's got 30 session. But uh May one is when it was dismissed. I will I will look that up to confirm. But I I believe May one the the municipal court matter was dismissed. Okay. Yeah, I don't think it's too important because there is an agreement
according to Mr. Di Maria and as I understand the town has agreed to that and they're already planted so that that's a good thing. Um and again just to reiterate the 48 emerald green arboride to be planted uh
on the easternly border adjacent to the garden state park right of way and 32 deciduous trees consisting of 16 sugar maples and and six and 16 black gums 3-in caliper or better along the norly and southerntherly borders. So that's
going to be complied with. That is correct. We will comply with that and all the other provisions that were uh requested back in 12.3. Given that stipulation, Mr. Chairman, I have no other questions or concerns, but it is up to this board to approve the
amendment to the resolution, which basically will recite that trees were removed and deriggation of the board's uh February 8th, 2022 resolution. uh municipal summons was issued and pursuant to that uh case the applicant
has planted 15 trees to the um approval or of the burrow excuse me township and that would be what the resolution says. Okay. And and Lou just confirm council has mentioned that you will comply with the resolution of the
which is on page seven paragraph 11 right? Yes, we will comply with the with the the other plantings that were previously agreed to the 80 total. There was a breakdown, but the 80 total trees will be planted as part of the plan. Yes. All
right. Any questions of any of my board members of council or Miss Carter? Okay. Do I have a Do I have a motion to approve? Oh, I'm sorry. Do I have a motion to open the public
comments? Motion. Second. All in favor? Anyone in the audience? No one in the audience. Anyone on video? None. Do I have a motion to close public comments? So
moved. Second. Roll. Motion to approve. Yeah. So, do I have a motion to approve the amendment? Motion.
A second. Hold. Mr. Carol, yes. Mr. Murphy, yes. Mr. Toro, yes. Mr. Pledo, yes. Councilman Alman, yes. Mayor Kamari,
yes. Chairman Sabino, yes. Resolution is approved. Thank you. Have a good evening, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Well, something paid in. Okay. Um, can somebody tell me what am I doing
now? I'm gonna I'm gonna remove you. You can log. Okay. All right. Last last agenda item is the minutes. April 19th, 2025. Any of the board members have
comments on the minutes? Mr. Chairman, I just had one minor correction. The last page, the paragraph that starts with Mary Komari down at the bottom, there's an extra the there. It says stopping
work is the the under the authority. Yeah. Yeah. I have corrected that. Okay. Yeah, that's all I had. Any other comments? None. Do I have a motion to approve? Motion.
Second. Roll call. Yes. Mr. Murphy. Yes. Mr. Pledo. Yes. S Toro. Yes. Councilman Hullman. Yes. Mayor Kamari.
Yes. Chairman Cino. Yes. Okay. Any uh any board member have any comments that they would like to bring forth to the boards? Epiphanies stories Bangkok Thailand
stories. Mr. Chairman, where do I send the bill for my $58 lobster dinner that got cold while I was talking to Mark? raise their hand. Just send it to Mark. Okay, Mark. All right. I don't want to get paid. I just want to send it to somebody. What a dinner though.
Wonderful. Okay. With no comments. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion. Second. All in favor? I I thank you everyone. Thank you. Have a good night everyone.