1 1 HUDSON COUNTY PLANNING BOARD 2 RE: ) ) 3 MONTHLY MEETING ) ) 4 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _) Hudson County Administration 5 Building, Freeholders Chambers 567 Pavonia Avenue, Third Floor 6 Jersey City, New Jersey Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7 6:30 p.m. 8 BEFORE: 9 RENEE BETTINGER, Chairwoman 10 MICHAEL HOLLOWAY, Commissioner 11 MARY AVAGLIANO, Commissioner 12 JUDE FITZGIBBONS, Commissioner 13 DANIEL CHOFFO, Commissioner 14 DEMETRIO ARENCIBIA, Commissioner 15 ALSO PRESENT: 16 THOMAS CALVANICO, ESQ., Board Attorney 17 STEPHEN MARKS, Board Secretary 18 19 Reported By: 20 Michelle Gruendel, C.S.R. 21 22 REPORTING SERVICES ARRANGED THROUGH: 23 VERITEXT/NEW JERSEY REPORTING COMPANY, LLC Kabot Battaglia & Hammer, Suburban Shorthand 24 Waga and Spinelli, Arthur J. Frannicola, CSR 25B Vreeland Road 25 Florham Park, New Jersey 07932 Tel: 973-410-4040 Fax: 973-410-1313 2 1 CHAIRMAN HOLLOWAY: Call the 2 meeting to order, please. 3 Mr. Calvanico, has this meeting 4 been properly advertised? 5 MR. CALVANICO: Yes, Mr. Chairman. 6 The meeting was advertised with publication on the 7 board with the Clerk, Board of Chosen Freeholders, 8 and also with the County Clerk, and also in the 9 official newspapers as required under the statute, 10 so it has been properly noticed. 11 CHAIRMAN HOLLOWAY: Thank you, very 12 much. 13 Can we have a roll call? 14 MR. MARKS: Sure. 15 Commissioner Arencibia? 16 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Here. 17 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 18 Avagliano? 19 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Here. 20 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 21 Bettinger? 22 COMMISSIONER BETTINGER: Here. 23 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 24 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Here. 25 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Dublin is 3 1 not present. 2 Commissioner Fitzgibbons? 3 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Here. 4 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Liggio is 5 not present. 6 Commissioner Mehta is not present. 7 Chairman Holloway? 8 CHAIRMAN HOLLOWAY: Here. 9 MR. MARKS: Present. 10 Mr. Chairman, we have a quorum. 11 CHAIRMAN HOLLOWAY: Thank you. 12 Can we all stand and Salute the 13 Flag, please? 14 (Flag Salute takes place.) 15 CHAIRMAN HOLLOWAY: At this time 16 I'm going to turn over the meeting to our Board 17 Attorney, Mr. Calvanico. We are going to do a 18 reorganization of the Board Members. 19 Tom? 20 MR. CALVANICO: Thank you, Mr. 21 Chairman. 22 At this time I will take 23 nominations for the position of Chairman of the 24 Board for the Hudson County Planning Board. 25 CHAIRMAN HOLLOWAY: I would 4 1 nominate Renee Bettinger. 2 MR. CALVANICO: Do I have a 3 second? 4 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: I'll second. 5 MR. CALVANICO: Thank you. 6 Open the floor to any other 7 nominations. 8 Hearing none -- 9 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: I make a 10 motion to close the nominations. 11 MR. CALVANICO: Thank you. 12 Second? 13 COMMISSIONER BETTINGER: I second 14 it. 15 MR. CALVANICO: I'll take a vote on 16 the motion made by Mr. Holloway. 17 MR. MARKS: Should I just go 18 through it? 19 MR. CALVANICO: Yeah. 20 MR. MARKS: Mr. Chairman, on a 21 motion by Commissioner Holloway, seconded by 22 Commissioner Choffo: 23 Commissioner Arencibia? 24 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 25 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 5 1 Avagliano? 2 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 3 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 4 Bettinger? 5 COMMISSIONER BETTINGER: Aye. 6 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 7 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 8 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 9 Fitzgibbons? 10 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 11 MR. MARKS: And Commissioner 12 Holloway? 13 CHAIRMAN HOLLOWAY: Aye. 14 MR. MARKS: Okay. 15 MR. CALVANICO: I'll take a motion 16 for the nomination for the position of Vice-Chair. 17 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: I make a 18 nomination for Commissioner Choffo. 19 MR. CALVANICO: Thank you. 20 Can I have a second? 21 COMMISSIONER BETTINGER: I second. 22 MR. CALVANICO: Thank you. 23 Any other nominations? 24 Hearing none, move to close the 25 nominations. 6 1 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: I make a 2 motion to close the nominations. 3 COMMISSIONER BETTINGER: I'll 4 second that. 5 MR. CALVANICO: Thank you. 6 MR. MARKS: Mr. Chairman, on a 7 motion to select Commissioner Choffo as Vice-Chair 8 made by Commissioner Fitzgibbons and seconded by 9 Commissioner Holloway: 10 Commissioner Arencibia? 11 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 12 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 13 Avagliano? 14 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 15 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 16 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 17 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 18 Fitzgibbons? 19 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 20 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 21 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 22 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 23 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Aye. 24 MR. CALVANICO: Take a motion for 25 position of Secretary for the Board. 7 1 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: I nominate 2 Jude Fitzgibbons. 3 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: I second it. 4 MR. CALVANICO: Any other 5 nominations? 6 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Make a motion 7 to close nominations. 8 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: I'll second 9 that motion. 10 MR. MARKS: Mr. Chairman, on a 11 motion to make Jude Fitzgibbons the Secretary, 12 made by Commissioner Avagliano, seconded by 13 Commissioner Holloway: 14 Commissioner Arencibia? 15 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 16 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 17 Avagliano? 18 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 19 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 20 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 21 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 22 Fitzgibbons? 23 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 24 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 25 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 8 1 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 2 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Aye. 3 MR. CALVANICO: At this point, move 4 to close the reorganization portion of the meeting 5 and move forward with the rest of the Board's 6 business. 7 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Motion to 8 close. I'll make a motion to close. 9 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: I second 10 it. 11 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Okay. 12 Congratulations. 13 MR. CALVANICO: All in favor? 14 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 15 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 16 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 17 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 18 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Thank you, 19 everyone. 20 Next item on the Agenda is to 21 review the adoption of the minutes of the meeting 22 of December 21st. 23 Did all the Commissioners receive 24 the minutes? 25 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Yes. 9 1 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Yes. 2 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Do I have a 3 motion? 4 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: I'll make a 5 motion. 6 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: I second 7 it. 8 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, on a 9 motion made by Commissioner Choffo and second by 10 Commissioner Holloway, to accept the minutes of 11 December 21st, 2005: 12 Commissioner Arencibia? 13 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 14 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 15 Avagliano? 16 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 17 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 18 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 19 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 20 Fitzgibbons? 21 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 22 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 23 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 24 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 25 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: I vote aye. 10 1 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, the motion 2 passed. 3 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Does anyone 4 have any comments on the public portion of this 5 Agenda? 6 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, at this 7 point, as a request to the County Executive and 8 the County Administrator, we have Mr. Ted Semegran 9 from the Bicycle Touring Club of North Jersey who 10 is here for a presentation. 11 MR. SEMEGRAN: Thank you for 12 letting me speak. I spoke a month ago to the 13 Hudson County Freeholders, and I think at that 14 time they were very interested in the suggestions 15 that we, our group, are making, and so Steve Marks 16 had asked me to do it again before the County 17 Planning Board. 18 I'll just introduce my club and 19 some of the other people I'm representing so you 20 understand where we're coming from. 21 The Bicycle Touring Club of North 22 Jersey is a 1,000 member club. They ride 23 principally from, I'd say this area all the way as 24 far as the counties in the north Bergen County, 25 all the way out to Sussex, and we have a very 11 1 active cycling group. Cyclists tend to go in 2 areas which are more accommodating to a bicycle, 3 and one of the things that we noticed when we went 4 through this, this area, and we're talking about 5 going from, really from Fort Lee, so we're talking 6 from Bergen County into Hudson County, is that it 7 looked like this would be really a great place to 8 have a cycling lane or a running lane. River Road 9 is the way that -- people would be able to go from 10 the George Washington Bridge all the way down as 11 far as, as far as, let's say Jersey City and take 12 the ferry and actually could do a real circular 13 tour. You could also go to Bayonne and go across 14 the Bayonne Bridge into Staten Island and come 15 back. That's one of the routes that we do at 16 least once a year, it's called the loop, so what 17 we are trying to impress upon you is the fact that 18 the River Road area, because of all the 19 condominiums that have been built, is getting to a 20 point where it may be impossible to set up some 21 type of, either a bike path, bike shoulder, some 22 way that would allow people, both for recreational 23 reasons as well as for commuting reasons, to use a 24 road which, you know, I think really deserves to 25 be partly a cycling road. One of the things that 12 1 Steve Marks and I had talked about is that people 2 who commute by the ferries, now one of the ways 3 they could get down to the ferry would be simply 4 to cycle down River Road. One of the problems, 5 we're doing that right now, is safety, and I know 6 that Hudson County is only about one-third of the 7 length of the road from, let's say the GW Bridge 8 down, but it's probably the one that could be done 9 the easiest right now, and probably one that 10 actually fits the best because of the width of the 11 road in the different areas, so what we're hoping 12 for is that you'd look at the feasibility of 13 putting in something either as simple as a bike 14 shoulder, which is simply a few -- it's a line 15 which might be two or three feet from the curb 16 which allows people to either cycle or run or walk 17 with a little bit more safety. It's not perfectly 18 safe, or actually look at the feasibility of some 19 bike trails or bike paths in the, what's left of 20 the greenery, or some of the curb area that is 21 around. 22 I would show you a picture of what 23 this is. These are pictures of types of shared 24 lanes, bike lanes, bike paths. These paths are 25 actually similar to what would be seen now in New 13 1 York City. You have paths or you have bike 2 shoulders or bike lanes now on First Avenue, 3 Second Avenue, Third Avenue, Central Park West, 4 St. Nicholas Avenue. You have bike trails all the 5 way from the GW Bridge down to the Battery Park, 6 and I think the New Jersey side, which would 7 include the Hudson County segment, probably should 8 have something like this as well, so I don't know 9 how to show this around, but can I just bring it 10 around? 11 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Better 12 off with the bicycle. 13 MR. SEMEGRAN: Probably, yeah. 14 This is, these are shared lanes. 15 There's a lane there, you can see, that's actually 16 designated with a, with some lines for cycling, 17 and these, these type of lanes are found in most 18 of the major cities that are cycling cities. One 19 of them I just visited last summer was Montreal, 20 which is actually brilliant. You have them 21 throughout Europe and now you have them throughout 22 New York City, and that's what we're hoping that 23 you'll look at. 24 Last, but not least, there's a 25 designation of a -- this is a road that we're 14 1 hoping to put together for Maine down to Florida, 2 and it's called the East Coast Greenway. The East 3 Coast Greenway will use the Hudson River Trail as 4 well as the alternate route, which would go down 5 River Road to Jersey City and all the way down to 6 Trenton, and in order to have that safe, as well 7 as being designated, River Road would be one of 8 the ways to do it. There's a plan to try to put 9 in a similar path to the one in New York City on 10 the Hudson River side, but that may take many, 11 many years, if not a few decades, so River Road is 12 probably the fastest way to have a route which 13 would go through the George Washington Bridge, 14 down to, down to Jersey City and through Hoboken 15 and to Liberty State Park and then all the way 16 down to Trenton, and that is the hope that we 17 have. 18 The Bicycle Touring Club of North 19 Jersey is a cyclist group that uses this area, and 20 I'm sure that you've seen a lot of cyclists and 21 runners that use this area as well, so that's 22 where we are. 23 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: I have a 24 question. 25 Don't we have something on the 15 1 books for a walkway, waterfront walkway? 2 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, we have -- 3 the County Planning Board just about a year ago 4 adopted a Hudson River Waterfront Walkway Plan. 5 The New Jersey Department of Environmental 6 Protection has waterfront development regulations 7 in place which require a 30-foot right-of-way and 8 16 feet of passable surface, but that's on the, 9 basically, the waterfront side. I don't think 10 it's an underestimation that the population of the 11 northern waterfront, north of, say Hoboken from 12 Weehawken north, the waterfront, I'm talking 13 about, not the upland, not on top of the 14 Palisades, will probably be doubling within the 15 next five years with all of the approvals that 16 this Board and the Municipal Board, Planning 17 Boards have given, and it's the idea that Mr. 18 Semegran has put forth and has been embraced by 19 the Freeholders, it is my understanding that his 20 idea has been embraced by the Freeholders and also 21 a Commissioner in West New York, and a 16-foot 22 walkway along the waterfront and a four foot 23 sidewalk along River Road I don't think is enough 24 to accommodate the additional bicycle/pedestrian 25 traffic which is anticipated from all this extra 16 1 growth. The county owns right-of-way along River 2 Road, and I think Mr. Semegran's point is 3 compelling and is worthy of a feasibility study, 4 to see whether bicycle/pedestrian improvements 5 could be made, whether, in fact, we could put in a 6 bike way or a larger sidewalk or walkway of some 7 sort to accommodate the extra population growth, 8 so the Freeholder Board has asked us to basically 9 hear out what Mr. Semegran's asking for and call 10 for a feasibility study, and, if at the end of 11 the, at the end of the day, at the end of the 12 feasibility study, if it is feasible to make those 13 improvements, it would be incumbent to this Board 14 to adopt that plan and forward it to the 15 Freeholder Board as the governing body for their 16 consideration. 17 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: So we need 18 to make a motion? 19 MR. MARKS: We could have the idea 20 introduced, our attorney, Mr. Calvanico, could put 21 the idea in writing for next month and then 22 actually adopt the resolution, recommending to the 23 Freeholder Board that a feasibility study be done. 24 A second part of the resolution 25 would also be to address the numerous easement 17 1 requests of property owners and developers along 2 River Road. Nearly every application that comes 3 before this body on River Road, the property 4 owners and developers request easements, and 5 slowly but surely the opportunity to make 6 pedestrian and bicycle improvements is being lost 7 from the numerous easements which are being 8 granted to the developers. The easements could be 9 for buffering, landscaping, driveway. Two months 10 ago PNC Bank had requested an easement for 11 parking, which was required for their utilities 12 and signage, so slowly but surely the opportunity 13 for those improvements, for a bike way, for a 14 walkway is being lost. 15 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: We need to 16 make a motion to do a feasibility study? 17 MR. MARKS: Perhaps for -- we 18 could, the Board could request Mr. Calvanico to 19 create a resolution for next month recommending to 20 the Freeholder Board that a feasibility study be 21 conducted. 22 MR. CALVANICO: What I'd like to do 23 is to, if it's agreeable to the Board, I'd like to 24 discuss it with the County Council so that we do 25 it in the form that's acceptable to the Board, so 18 1 we don't have to come back and redo it again, in 2 the mean time, and I'll have it ready for the next 3 meeting. 4 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Okay. 5 Sounds good. 6 MR. SEMEGRAN: Thank you, very 7 much. 8 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Excellent 9 idea. 10 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Wonderful 11 presentation, and we appreciate you coming before 12 us. Good luck. 13 Next item on the Agenda is the 14 memorialization of resolutions approved at the 15 last meeting. 16 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, item 7A on 17 the Agenda is the memorialization of applications 18 approved in December. 19 We have, the first application, 20 SD-98-05, Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., located 21 at Harbor Boulevard in Weehawken, and application 22 SP-112-05, Omnipoint Communications, located at 23 2672 Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City. 24 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: I'll make a 25 motion. 19 1 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: I second 2 it. 3 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, on a 4 motion to accept made by Commissioner Choffo and 5 seconded by Commissioner Holloway: 6 Commissioner Arencibia? 7 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 8 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 9 Avagliano? 10 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 11 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 12 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 13 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 14 Fitzgibbons? 15 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 16 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 17 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 18 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 19 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Aye. 20 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, the motion 21 passed. 22 Chair, the next order of business 23 is Section B, applications declared to be exempt. 24 Beginning with application 25 SP-113-05, Omnipoint Communications, Inc., located 20 1 at 561 Westside Avenue, Jersey City; application 2 SP-114-05, Omnipoint Communications, Inc., located 3 at 615 Palisade Avenue in Jersey City; application 4 SD-116-05, Y&J Realty, Inc., located at 13-17 5 Prescott Street in Jersey City; next is 6 application SD-119-05, Efrain Garay, applicant, 7 located at 261-263 Old Bergen Road in Jersey City; 8 next is application SP-120-05, New Cingular 9 Wireless PCS, LLC, located at 27-39 Avenue C in 10 Bayonne; next application is SP-122-05, CCMMI, LLC 11 located at 81 North Hackensack Avenue, also known 12 as 94 Third Street in Kearny; and lastly, 13 application SP-03-05, Festus Mensah, located at 14 281 Chapel Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey. 15 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Do I have a 16 motion? 17 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: I would 18 make a motion. 19 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: I'll second. 20 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, on a 21 motion made by Commissioner Fitzgibbons and 22 seconded by Commissioner Choffo: 23 Commissioner Arencibia? 24 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 25 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 21 1 Avagliano? 2 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 3 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 4 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 5 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 6 Fitzgibbons? 7 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 8 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 9 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 10 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 11 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Aye. 12 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, the motion 13 passed. 14 Madam Chair, the first application 15 scheduled for Public Hearing this evening is 16 SP-83-05, Michael P. Gorman, located at 451-457 17 14th Street in Hoboken. 18 Madam Chair, in your packages this 19 evening is a letter from the attorney, Rick 20 Veneiro, and he is requesting that the matter be 21 continued at the February meeting. 22 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Do I have a 23 motion? 24 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: I make a 25 motion to table it to February. 22 1 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: I second 2 it. 3 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, on a 4 motion made by Commissioner Fitzgibbons and 5 seconded by Commissioner Holloway, to table 6 SP-83-05: 7 Commissioner Arencibia? 8 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 9 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 10 Avagliano? 11 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 12 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 13 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 14 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 15 Fitzgibbons? 16 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 17 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 18 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 19 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 20 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Aye. 21 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, the matter 22 was tabled. 23 The first application, or the next 24 application scheduled for Public Hearing is 25 SD-106-05, South Shore Village II LH Corp., Block 23 1 192, Lot 27 and Block 12, Lots 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, 2 located in Bayonne. 3 MR. OWEN: Would you like me to 4 proceed? 5 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Yes, please. 6 MR. OWEN: My name is David Owen. 7 I'm an attorney with the Law Firm of Rabner, 8 Allcorn, Baumgart & Ben-Asher in Montclair, New 9 Jersey. I represent the applicants before you, 10 South Shore Village II Leased Housing Corp. and 11 South Shore Village Leased Housing Corp. also 12 called South Shore Village I. I think that the 13 rider to the application pretty much summarized 14 things, but if I might, I thought I would take a 15 second and try to, so to speak, bring it to life 16 graphically. 17 I'll take the subdivision plat and 18 point out a few things to you. This is the same 19 thing that you have in your package, I presume. 20 I'll try to stand so that everyone can see. 21 MR. CALVANICO: Can you just 22 identify the document for us? 23 MR. OWEN: Yes. The document is a 24 proposed subdivision plat prepared by Herbert G. 25 McDonald. It's dated November 9, 2005. It's a 24 1 single page and I believe that's the document 2 that's been provided to you. 3 The property that we're talking 4 about is located in Bayonne. It is bounded to the 5 west by the Newark Bay and it's bounded to the 6 east by Avenue A. The property is what we would 7 call a flag-shape property. It has a flag pole or 8 a flag masked as it comes out and approaches 9 Avenue A. The application is really simple. Back 10 in the 1970's -- I should indicate that while I'm 11 making representation to you, I don't think 12 there's any one person that can know the whole 13 history of this. What I've learned is based upon 14 title searches and what they've reported to me, 15 we've had attorneys look at deeds and what they've 16 reported to me. 17 To try to put this into a nutshell, 18 what we're really talking about here is this blue 19 line that goes right down here. In the 1970's, 20 late in the 1970's the Bayonne Housing Authority 21 received approval to construct this 11-story 22 senior citizen building, and at the same time, 23 title to this entire property was split between 24 two entities, one of them is my client, South 25 Shore II, which came to have title to this piece 25 1 over here closest to the bay, and then South Shore 2 I, which came to have title to the remaining 3 piece, over here. The next significant event was 4 in the year 2000, when South Shore II applied to 5 the Bayonne Board of Adjustment and received 6 approval to construct the senior citizen housing 7 complex, which is now under construction. At the 8 beginning of last year, we learned for the very 9 first time that this subdivision line, which was 10 supposed to be put in in the late 1970's, was, in 11 fact, never put in. I'm not sure who had 12 responsibility to do it. It was long before any 13 of us were active doing what we do today, but that 14 line apparently should have gone through a formal 15 application with a formal map being filed and it 16 wasn't. However, all the underlying deeds to the 17 owners on this side and the owner on this side all 18 make reference to this line, and when I made the 19 application to Bayonne in 2000, the property 20 survey and the plans that were submitted all 21 showed this line. It came up in a title search 22 earlier this year and it's not there. We thought 23 the proper thing to do was to come in, get you and 24 Bayonne to look at it and approve the line, and at 25 the same time, while we're doing that, there's a 26 1 number of lots that comprise the property to the 2 left, consolidate those and do the same thing with 3 the lots over to the right, and that's about as 4 easily as I can try to summarize it for you and 5 give it to you graphically. 6 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Has this 7 been approved by the Bayonne Planning Board yet? 8 MR. OWEN: It's pending right now 9 in front of the Bayonne Board of Adjustment. The 10 reason it's in front of the Board of Adjustment is 11 because the application originally came to them 12 because the Bayonne Housing Authority is one of 13 the uses in the Sito (phonetic) Complex, and we 14 think they should have, after having discussed it, 15 they should have continuing jurisdiction. It's 16 ancillary jurisdiction over the subdivision, but 17 it's really simple as putting in a line that 18 everybody's taken to be there. In fact, when the 19 Sito Project was approved, we had a setback 20 variance and it was measured with reference to 21 this blue line, so our part, our thought is let's 22 put it in now, let's record it and put it into 23 that. 24 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Commissioner 25 Arencibia, do you have any comments? 27 1 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: No, not 2 really. This is off Kennedy Boulevard, it's not 3 anywhere near it. It's a senior housing project, 4 so it shouldn't be much traffic generated from it. 5 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Any other -- 6 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: It's going 7 to be an improvement, because that senior building 8 is really an eyesore, and so it's an improvement 9 for the senior building next to it. I've been in 10 that senior building and it really needs 11 improvement, so it's going to be -- 12 MR. OWEN: Has some exciting 13 features to it, too. There's a public access way 14 that takes you down to the waterfront, maybe you 15 know about that, but that was part of the project, 16 and it received New Jersey, I believe Department 17 of Environmental approval in connection with it. 18 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: No other 19 comments from any of the Commissioners? 20 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: I make a 21 motion to approve it, pending Bayonne Board of 22 Adjustment's approval. 23 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: I second 24 it. 25 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, on a 28 1 motion to approve made by Commissioner Fitzgibbons 2 and seconded by Commissioner Holloway: 3 Commissioner Arencibia? 4 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 5 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 6 Avagliano? 7 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: I vote 8 aye. 9 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 10 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 11 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 12 Fitzgibbons? 13 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 14 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 15 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 16 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 17 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Aye. 18 Thank you, very much. 19 MR. OWEN: Thank you, very much. 20 Thank you. 21 MR. CALVANICO: Mr. Owen, one 22 minute, before you leave. 23 If you'd like to submit a 24 resolution for us for memorialization next month. 25 MR. OWEN: I can do that, if you'd 29 1 like me to. 2 MR. CALVANICO: I would, just 3 because you know the lots better than I do and I 4 don't want to have to do it and then have it 5 redone afterwards. 6 MR. OWEN: That's fine. 7 The other thing I might do, I might 8 submit to you a plat that has a place for 9 signature on it as part of the filing, so I'll do 10 both of those in advance of your next meeting. 11 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Mr. 12 Calvanico, do we need to mark that exhibit? 13 MR. CALVANICO: No. We have it on 14 the record and we have it in the packages, so 15 that's sufficient. 16 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Okay. 17 MR. OWEN: Thank you. 18 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Next item? 19 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, the next 20 application scheduled for Public Hearing is 21 SP-117-05, Victor Ghatus, applicant, located at 22 3629 Kennedy Boulevard. 23 MR. RIDALPHOUS: I'm Billy 24 Ridalphous, with Victor Ghatus, we're developers. 25 Billy Ridalphous, Victor Ghatus, we're developers 30 1 in Jersey City. We usually buy lots, 25 by 100, 2 demolish them and make two-family new 3 constructions. 4 We never did a project on the 5 Boulevard before. 6 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Okay. 7 Counsellor, do we need to swear him in? 8 MR. CALVANICO: Yeah. I need you 9 to identify yourself and swear you in so your 10 testimony is under oath. 11 Okay. State your name and your 12 address. 13 MR. RIDALPHOUS: Billy Ridalphous. 14 Where I live? 15 MR. CALVANICO: Or your business 16 address. 17 MR. RIDALPHOUS: Yeah. 134 South 18 Street in Jersey City. 19 MR. GHATUS: Victor Ghatus, 181 20 Lincoln Street, Jersey City. 21 BILLY RIDALPHOUS, having been first duly sworn 22 according to law, testified as follows: 23 VICTOR GHATUS, having been first duly sworn 24 according to law, testified as follows: 25 MR. RIDALPHOUS: Should I 31 1 continue? 2 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Yes, please. 3 MR. RIDALPHOUS: Okay, so we got 4 City approvals for a two-family house on the 5 Boulevard. This is the first project we ever had 6 on the Boulevard. We usually do inner city, most 7 of our projects in the Heights, and we never 8 really went through variance before, because 25 by 9 100 lot, you don't have to go through variance in 10 the City, so we went and we got the permits 11 through the City and we started construction on 12 the Boulevard and we got stopped by the 13 inspectors, because we didn't know, the City 14 should have told us, which they didn't tell us, 15 that we got to go through County Planning Board, 16 so as soon as they, you know, told us, we 17 complied, we stopped and we came to Mr. Marks and 18 he helped us out, fill out the application to come 19 in front of the Planning Board today, so it's 20 basically a simple two-family house that -- with 21 three bedrooms on each floor, which we do, you 22 know, throughout the City. We do several 23 projects. We've been developers for 20 years, you 24 know. I live in Jersey City for 30 years, and so 25 has Victor, and we're just basically trying to 32 1 improve the City. I mean, we like the money as 2 much as we like to do the building, and we really 3 enjoy it, so we apologize for our ignorance, that 4 we didn't know about the Planning Board, and 5 that's basically where we are. 6 The inspector said the most 7 important thing with the Planning Board is the 8 curb-cutting. If you want to take a look at the 9 plans -- you want me to bring them around or -- 10 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Commissioner 11 Arencibia? 12 MR. RIDALPHOUS: I gave a copy to 13 Mr. Marks. I don't know if you guys have looked 14 at them before. Would you like me to bring them 15 around? 16 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Show me. 17 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: What 18 street is this? 19 MR. RIDALPHOUS: This is 3629 20 Kennedy Boulevard. There's actually a new 21 construction right next door that has, I think it 22 was done maybe a year or two ago, that also has a 23 10 foot curb. We're asking for a 10 foot cutting 24 curb. 25 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: What's the 33 1 cross street? 2 MR. RIDALPHOUS: It's between 3 Irving Street, yeah, three houses in off of Irving 4 going northbound, and the other street would be 5 Poplar, so it's between Irving and Poplar. 6 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Okay. 7 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Here, you 8 go. 9 Anyone else want to look? 10 I just have some comments, in that 11 as a condition for the approval, that the plan 12 should show your curb-cut that you want to do. 13 MR. RIDALPHOUS: Yes. 14 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: You should 15 show drop curb and the sidewalk, replacement of 16 the sidewalk, and that should be shown on that 17 plan. 18 Okay. Are you doing any other 19 street, openings in the street for service 20 connections to the house. 21 MR. GHATUS: It's on sidewalk, not 22 in the street. 23 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: It's all 24 in the sidewalk? 25 MR. RIDALPHOUS: Yeah. It's in the 34 1 sidewalk. 2 MR. GHATUS: All in the sidewalk. 3 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: So you 4 show that on the plan and you can come in with the 5 road opening permit and that has to be as a 6 condition for the approval. 7 MR. RIDALPHOUS: Doesn't it show 8 the curb-cut here? 9 MR. GHATUS: Yes. 10 MR. RIDALPHOUS: This shows the 11 curb-cut on the plan. 12 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: I couldn't 13 see it on the plan, but just highlight that when 14 you come in for the permit. That has to be part 15 of the permit. 16 MR. RIDALPHOUS: So what do we do 17 now? 18 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Well, I 19 would -- unless any other members -- 20 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: I have a 21 question, actually. 22 Mr. Ghatus, do you have all your 23 proper building permits from Jersey City -- 24 MR. GHATUS: Yes. 25 MR. RIDALPHOUS: Yes. Right here. 35 1 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: -- on your 2 application? 3 You didn't have to go in front of 4 the Municipal Planning Board, right? 5 MR. RIDALPHOUS: No. 6 MR. GHATUS: No. 7 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Just the 8 Construction Department? 9 MR. GHATUS: Yes. 10 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: You complied 11 with all their notices? 12 MR. RIDALPHOUS: Correct. 13 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Any other 14 comments? 15 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Yeah. I 16 have a question. 17 Do you guys work on Saturday and 18 Sunday? 19 MR. RIDALPHOUS: No. 20 MR. GHATUS: No. 21 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: If you 22 had -- 23 MR. RIDALPHOUS: We need special 24 permit, yes. 25 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Do I have a 36 1 motion to accept this application? 2 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Motion. 3 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: I'll second 4 it. 5 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, on a 6 motion to approve SP-117-05, made by Commissioner 7 Holloway and seconded by Commissioner Choffo: 8 Commissioner Arencibia? 9 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye, with 10 the conditions that I just mentioned. 11 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 12 Avagliano? 13 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: I vote 14 aye. 15 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 16 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 17 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 18 Fitzgibbons? 19 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 20 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 21 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 22 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 23 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Aye. 24 Do you understand? You seem to be 25 confused. You understand what needs to be done? 37 1 MR. RIDALPHOUS: I'm a little 2 confused. 3 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: I could 4 tell. 5 MR. RIDALPHOUS: Yeah. 6 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Maybe you 7 could speak. 8 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: The plan, 9 when you come in for the road opening permit, you 10 have to bring that plan for the approval. That 11 plan has to show the driveway that you want to put 12 in and the replacement of the curb and the 13 sidewalk. 14 MR. RIDALPHOUS: Okay. Didn't we 15 go through this, to the -- 16 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: County 17 Engineer's Office. 18 MR. RIDALPHOUS: County Engineer 19 Department, okay, no problem. 20 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Okay. Is it 21 clear? 22 MR. RIDALPHOUS: Yes, very clear. 23 Thank you, very much. I really appreciate it. 24 Thank you. 25 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Thank you. 38 1 Next item on the Agenda? 2 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, the next 3 application schedule for Public Hearing is 4 SD-01-06, SLH Holding Corp., Claudia Jastrzebski, 5 located at 383 Sixth Street, Jersey City. 6 MR. ALAMPI: Thank you. 7 Madam Chairperson, Commission, my 8 name is Carmine Alampi, A-L-A-M-P-I. I'm the 9 attorney for SLH Holding and Claudia Jastrzebski. 10 MR. MARKS: Sorry. 11 MR. ALAMPI: That's the best I can 12 say it. 13 This is an application for major 14 subdivision, but before we start, I'd just like to 15 bring to your attorney's attention, SLH, it should 16 be SLH Holding Company, LLC. I noticed on the 17 application form, it said Corp. It's Company, 18 LLC. The property is actually owned by 415 19 Brunswick Street, LLC. SLH is the applicant. 20 This is an application to subdivide 21 two parcels of land on Sixth Street at the 22 intersection of Newark Avenue and Brunswick 23 Street. The properties are owned by Claudia and 24 415 Brunswick Street, LLC. The property consists 25 of some commercial buildings and a parking lot. 39 1 Excuse me. I'm fighting a cold. What they've 2 decided to do is re-org the parcel so that we 3 would create building lots for residential, 4 two-family homes in the residential part of the 5 property and we would leave the larger parcel in 6 the neighborhood commercial zone, so, therefore, 7 residential would be in residential, commercial 8 would be in commercial, and we will be eliminating 9 the encroachment. There presently are two 10 encroachments by the existing buildings on to my 11 client's property, and by reorganizing the lot 12 lines, we will eliminate those encroachments. 13 I have Glen Lloyd, a Licensed 14 Surveyor from the Schoor DePalma firm, and I have 15 two exhibits to show you, we would mark as A-1 and 16 A-2. A-1 is the existing conditions today, A-2 is 17 the proposed major subdivision, which is 18 underneath that. 19 Lastly, we did receive approval 20 from the Jersey City Planning Board at the 21 December 20th meeting. I have prepared the 22 resolution for the Board's Attorney and Planning 23 Division, which I expect to be adopted at the next 24 meeting, this next week. 25 With that, I'll have Mr. Lloyd 40 1 sworn in. 2 MR. CALVANICO: Please state your 3 name and your affiliation. 4 MR. LLOYD: Glen J. Lloyd. I'm a 5 Licensed Land Surveyor in New Jersey. I work for 6 Schoor DePalma. 7 GLEN J. LLOYD, P.L.S., having been first duly 8 sworn according to law, testified as follows: 9 MR. CALVANICO: Thank you, sir. 10 MR. LLOYD: Thank you. 11 MR. ALAMPI: Glen, as you said, 12 you're employed by Schoor DePalma and they are the 13 lead engineers on this subdivision plat, correct? 14 MR. LLOYD: Yes. 15 MR. ALAMPI: You prepared the 16 actual survey and you sealed the plans with your 17 surveyor's license seal, correct? 18 MR. LLOYD: Yes. 19 MR. ALAMPI: Could you just show 20 the Board A-1 and just outline the two properties 21 and the lot numbers of the two properties? 22 MR. LLOYD: This is exhibit A-1. 23 As Mr. Alampi had said, it's made up of two 24 existing parcels. Lot 51 is outlined in green, 25 Lot 50 is outlined in blue, the existing 41 1 encroachments that he had mentioned are 2 highlighted in orange, and they consist of this 3 existing building being just slightly over the 4 line here and another existing building over here. 5 MR. ALAMPI: And Glen, could you 6 just show the Board where the NC commercial zone 7 is with your hand, and show them where the 8 residential shown is? 9 MR. LLOYD: Okay. For that, I'll 10 switch to the -- 11 MR. ALAMPI: A-2? 12 MR. LLOYD: -- A-2 exhibit, which 13 defines and deliberates the zone line on it. 14 The R-1 zone is located on this 15 eastern side of the zone division line, which 16 comes to the southerly direction, then west, 17 southerly through the properties, west again and 18 down, then down here to Fifth Street. The 19 commercial zone, NC is located to the west. 20 MR. ALAMPI: By re-configuring 21 these lots in this manner, you have contained all 22 of the residential, proposed residential 23 development in the residential zone and you've 24 left the existing commercial buildings in the NC 25 commercial zone, correct? 42 1 MR. LLOYD: Yes. That's correct. 2 MR. ALAMPI: These are all fully 3 conforming lots to the zoning ordinances of Jersey 4 City? 5 MR. LLOYD: Yes, they are. 6 MR. ALAMPI: And the lots that are 7 created are 29 by 100 on the corner lot? 8 MR. LLOYD: Yes. This corner lot 9 right here is 29 by 100. 10 MR. ALAMPI: And the remaining lots 11 will all be 25 by 100, correct? 12 MR. LLOYD: These five lots here 13 are all 25 by 100, yes. 14 MR. ALAMPI: We contemplate, of 15 construction, conforming two-family homes on those 16 lots? 17 MR. LLOYD: Yes. 18 MR. ALAMPI: I have nothing 19 further. 20 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Commissioner 21 Arencibia, do you have any comments? 22 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Just that, 23 really, any county properties within 200 feet of 24 this location, so it looks like -- 25 MR. ALAMPI: Right. We're here 43 1 only because it's a major subdivision. There are 2 no county roads impacted, there's no new 3 infrastructure, there are no new curbings. We're 4 not going to create any curb-cuts, as well, 5 because the parking will be in the rear of these 6 homes. 7 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: I do have a 8 question, Chair. 9 Could you just explain the current 10 zoning again? I didn't catch all that. What's 11 the current zoning for that parcel? 12 MR. ALAMPI: R-1. 13 MR. LLOYD: Current zoning on the 14 eastern portion of it is R-1, two-family housing. 15 Current zoning on the western portion is NC, 16 neighborhood commercial district. 17 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: All right. 18 MR. LLOYD: And currently, with, 19 you know, this lot configuration, the lots, the 20 existing lots kind of go into the two different 21 zoning districts. 22 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: So the car 23 wash parking lot is going to be replaced with 24 residents? 25 MR. ALAMPI: Two-family houses. 44 1 The car wash itself and the other buildings will 2 stay. They will pick up a lot of land behind them 3 and then we will have two-family houses where that 4 parking lot is now. 5 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Any other 6 comments? 7 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: That's an 8 improvement for that area, also. 9 MR. ALAMPI: Oh, absolutely. 10 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Great 11 improvement. 12 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Which car 13 wash are you speaking about? 14 MR. ALAMPI: It's owned by 15 Claudia. I don't know the name of it. It's her 16 family business. 17 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Do I have a 18 motion to approve this application? 19 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: I make a 20 motion. 21 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Second. 22 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, motion to 23 approve SD-01-06 made by Commissioner Fitzgibbons, 24 seconded by Commissioner Avagliano: 25 Commissioner Arencibia? 45 1 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 2 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 3 Avagliano? 4 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 5 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 6 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 7 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 8 Fitzgibbons? 9 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 10 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 11 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 12 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 13 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Thank you, 14 very much, and good luck. 15 MR. ALAMPI: Thank you. 16 Counsel, we'll prepare the 17 resolution. 18 MR. CALVANICO: If you would, 19 thanks. 20 MR. ALAMPI: Thank you. Good 21 night. 22 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Good 23 night. 24 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Next 25 application? 46 1 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, the next 2 application is SP-02-06, Nextel of New York, 3 located at 3101-3117 Dell Avenue in North Bergen. 4 MR. MOLICA: Good evening, 5 Commission. My name is Tom Molica. I'm from 6 Vogel, Chait, Collins & Schneider in Morristown. 7 I'm here tonight on behalf of 8 Nextel of New York, Inc., filling in for Richard 9 Schneider, the attorney for the applicant. 10 We're here seeking County Planning 11 Board approval for a proposed collocation of a 12 wireless communications facility on the subject 13 property known as 3101-3117 Dell Avenue in North 14 Bergen. 15 I have with me here tonight Mr. 16 Robert Nelson. He's an architect with the firm 17 Herbst Musciano. He does have a set of his plans 18 here and can give a brief presentation for the 19 Board. Perhaps we could have Mr. Nelson sworn in. 20 MR. CALVANICO: Please state your 21 name and your affiliation, for the record, sir. 22 MR. NELSON: Yes. My name is 23 Robert S. Nelson, Jr., N-E-L-S-O-N. I'm employed 24 by Herbst Musciano Architects at 240 Cedar Knolls 25 Road, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey. I'm a Registered 47 1 Architect for the State of New Jersey since 1981, 2 graduated from Virginia Tech in 1975. I been in 3 front of a number of Municipal Planning Boards and 4 Boards of Adjustment. Some facility -- towns, 5 Rutherford, Red Bank, Old Bridge, Rahway, 6 Hillside. 7 MR. CALVANICO: Okay. 8 MR. MOLICA: You're familiar with 9 the site? 10 MR. NELSON: Yes, I am. 11 MR. MOLICA: And the plans? 12 MR. CALVANICO: Just one second. 13 ROBERT S. NELSON, JR., having been first duly 14 sworn according to law, testified as follows: 15 MR. MOLICA: Can you give the Board 16 a brief description of what Nextel is proposing? 17 MR. NELSON: Okay. I have two 18 plans with me here tonight. One is the site 19 plan. It's drawing Z-2, which was presented in 20 front of the Board, and this is basically the site 21 plan, and the site -- let me just put this down. 22 Existing monopole, which is about 107 foot, six 23 inches high, is located at this location here. 24 There's an existing shelter -- Sprint has their 25 facility right here. It's in a fenced-in 48 1 compound, about 30 by 40 feet, and we are planning 2 to -- it's on a large site which is fenced-in. We 3 are planning to put our shelter within the 4 existing compound and we, we -- and locate six 5 antennas on the existing monopole. 6 The second exhibit is Z-3, and it 7 shows the elevation of the existing monopole with 8 the proposed and the existing shelters, and 9 enlarged site plan getting a little better 10 description on where our shelter is in 11 relationship to the existing -- and the pole. The 12 existing shelter is right here, here's the 13 monopole, and we are going to put our shelter on 14 the opposite side of the compound with the 15 overhead cable to the monopole and we're going to 16 be relocate -- we're going to be locating our six 17 antennas -- it's an array of two antennas, three 18 sets of two antennas. The antennas are 48 inches 19 high, they're 12 inches wide and about six inches, 20 seven inches deep, and the average height of these 21 antennas are at 96.6 inches above -- 96 feet, six 22 inches above the finished grade. The existing 23 antennas are at 105 feet above existing grade, and 24 I said, like I said, the top of the pole is at 107 25 feet, six inches. It's a collocate, as they -- as 49 1 it's termed. 2 The facility is an unmanned 3 facility. Once it's built, approximately, maybe 4 once a month the service tech will come out and 5 service the building, the equipment inside the 6 building for a few hours. Doesn't have any 7 running water in it, no sanitary. There's 8 electric already to the site, so we're -- has a 9 four meter, four meters, and we'll be tapping into 10 one of the existing unused meters, electric meters 11 for our service to the shelter. The shelter has 12 the telephone equipment in it and the cables run 13 up to the antennas and communicate. The shelter 14 size is approximately 12 feet by 20 feet and it's 15 10 foot, eight inches high. It's supported on 16 concrete footings and it's approximately, about 12 17 feet off the ground. There are three smaller 18 antennas that are mounted on the shelter, one 19 right here, one right here and one right here. 20 There are the GPS antennas, they're only about 18 21 inches, maximum, above the height of the shelter 22 itself. It has two air-conditioners, one's 23 primary and one secondary, and the noise from the 24 air-conditioners are about the average family 25 residential air-conditioning. It doesn't produce 50 1 a lot of noise at all, and basically, we're going 2 to be within the existing compound. 3 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Has this 4 been approved by the North Bergen Planning Board? 5 MR. MOLICA: No. Madam Chairwoman, 6 I believe the applicant is scheduled before the 7 North Bergen Board of Adjustment for Public 8 Hearing on February 1st, 2006. 9 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Commissioner 10 Arencibia? 11 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: This is 12 inside that loop ramp that comes before 95. It's 13 elevated. 14 MR. NELSON: Yeah. It's funny. 15 It's high on this side and it goes, slopes down 16 and wraps around. 17 Actually, I have -- if you want, I 18 have two sketches from Map Quest, if you want it 19 to kind of get a better understanding where, 20 actually, it is in relationship to all the, all 21 the roads. It's very -- 22 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: I know 23 exactly where it is. I just never paid attention. 24 MR. NELSON: Funny location. 25 Actually, it's in the loop right there, but the 51 1 Lincoln Tunnel is right over here and we're right 2 on the -- Dell Avenue is kind of like at the 3 dead-end, at that spot. 4 Like I said, it's an existing pole. 5 MR. MOLICA: That's right. It's 6 existing. There's an existing monopole at the 7 site with, I believe Sprint has antennas there 8 currently and Nextel is seeking to collocate their 9 antennas on this pole on this site. 10 MR. NELSON: Right. That's it. 11 This is the high section right here and then it 12 loops around, so we'll be up here, in this 13 location right there. 14 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Okay. Any 15 comments? 16 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Madam 17 Chair, I have a question. It's not really 18 concerning this site. 19 Is Nextel planning to put more 20 antennas in Jersey City, mostly near the border of 21 Bayonne and Jersey City? 22 MR. MOLICA: I'm not familiar with 23 Nextel's inventory with Hudson County. 24 MR. NELSON: I'm sorry. I just 25 really, I really don't know about that. Nextel 52 1 representative isn't here. They would have to 2 answer that question. 3 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: No problem. 4 MR. NELSON: I'm just here to kind 5 of explain the physical character of the -- 6 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: No problem. 7 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, to 8 follow-up on Commissioner Holloway's question, the 9 applicant should have prepared a propagation map 10 for the application. Doesn't have to hold back 11 this hearing this evening, but perhaps the 12 applicant can submit the propagation map for this 13 area to the Board for its consideration for future 14 reference. 15 MR. NELSON: Okay. 16 MR. MOLICA: I think that -- that's 17 okay, but I just want to point out that we were 18 deemed complete. 19 MR. MARKS: For the purpose of 20 Public Hearing. 21 MR. MOLICA: Okay. Well, I think 22 that that's acceptable, and I can talk to the 23 people at Nextel and have that map prepared. 24 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, I also 25 have one other question. We've seen it with a 53 1 couple other applications, and I think it's fairly 2 new to the Site Plan Committee. 3 To Mr. Nelson, what are, what are 4 the GPS units and what do they serve? What 5 purpose do they serve? 6 MR. NELSON: They're there for 7 communication. It's, I believe it's a requirement 8 that they have them. I, I'm really not the 9 technical person on the main function of them. 10 They don't -- we don't have the Radio Frequency 11 Engineer here or someone -- 12 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Madam 13 Chair, I have a question. 14 Isn't GPS usually on movement 15 vehicles, or have to be moved? This is 16 stationary, so why would -- 17 MR. NELSON: Yes. 18 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Why would 19 you need a GPS on something that's stationary? 20 MR. NELSON: I'm sorry. I don't, I 21 don't know that answer. 22 MR. MOLICA: I mean, I'm not 23 overly-familiar with the technology. It is my 24 understanding that GPS antennas are attached to 25 these facilities the same way the regular wireless 54 1 antennas are. It's part of the same technology. 2 The specific role of the GPS antenna compared with 3 the regular wireless cellular antenna, I'm not, 4 I'm not totally sure, but I know that in my 5 experience, at least when you have a wireless 6 communications facility and antennas are being 7 proposed, there's always the wireless antennas 8 together with two or three GPS antennas, and I 9 believe that they work in connection with each 10 other, but again, Mr. Nelson isn't qualified to 11 really give the technical data regarding the 12 antennas and, unfortunately, we don't have a 13 Nextel representative or a Radio Frequency here 14 with us tonight. 15 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Thank you. 16 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: I have a 17 question, Madam Chair. 18 Do you know if there's any county 19 properties within 200 feet of this location? 20 MR. MOLICA: I am unaware, because 21 the application form doesn't specify whether or 22 not Dell Avenue is a county road. 23 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: I don't 24 think it is. 25 MR. MOLICA: It was my 55 1 understanding, I think that it was, and that's why 2 we were here in front of the Board tonight, but I 3 don't believe that information has been confirmed 4 and I'm unaware of any county properties within 5 200 feet of the site. 6 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Steve? 7 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, the 8 application was reviewed by the Site Plan and 9 Subdivision Review Committee and it does, the site 10 does abut Paterson Plank Road. Dell Avenue itself 11 is not a county road, but it's within a 200 foot 12 radius of Paterson Plank Road, and it did appear, 13 from the application and the site plan submitted, 14 that the project abutted Paterson Plank Road, 15 which is, indeed, a county road. 16 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Steve, I'm 17 looking at the tax map that they supplied, or you 18 supplied, and this 69B is on the western most part 19 of the ramp inside the ramp and then the nearest 20 road is Paterson Plank Road that we have, the 21 county has, and just by looking at some of these, 22 the lengths of the lots, it looks like it exceeds 23 200 feet from Paterson Plank Road. I know we 24 looked at it at the Committee, but I think we 25 were -- we didn't look on the tax map. I think we 56 1 were looking at the site plan. 2 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, for the 3 record, the tax maps which were submitted to you 4 as part of the due diligence by Mr. Torenti from 5 the Improvement Authority are for our reference 6 and were not submitted by the applicant nor are 7 they legal surveys, so we can't determine from the 8 tax maps whether they are 200 feet or more or 9 less. The tax maps that are in your folders are 10 for reference purpose. 11 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: I'm just 12 bringing it up because they may be exempt, if this 13 is the case. 14 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: For the 15 purpose of the question for Mr. Nelson, in case we 16 have to vote on it. 17 MR. MOLICA: I think Mr. Nelson and 18 I and Nextel and, you know, my company counts on 19 this application. I don't think anyone was aware 20 of how the Hudson County Planning Board had 21 jurisdiction over this application, but, you know, 22 obviously we wanted to appear tonight and present 23 our application. We didn't have any problem doing 24 that, but I don't think it's ever been confirmed 25 how the Board has jurisdiction, so be that as it 57 1 may, obviously we are here tonight presenting our 2 application and willing to do so and willing to 3 answer any further questions the Board may have 4 regarding the site. 5 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Do I have a 6 motion to approve this application? 7 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Motion. 8 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Second. 9 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, on a 10 motion to approve SP-02-06 made by Commissioner 11 Holloway and second by Commissioner Avagliano: 12 Commissioner Arencibia? 13 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 14 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 15 Avagliano? 16 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 17 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 18 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: I vote aye, 19 with the appropriate approval from the 20 municipality. 21 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 22 Fitzgibbons? 23 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 24 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 25 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 58 1 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 2 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Aye. 3 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, the motion 4 passed. 5 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Thank you. 6 MR. MOLICA: Thank you. 7 MR. NELSON: Thank you. 8 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Next 9 application? 10 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, the next 11 application, SP-04-06, Omnipoint Communications, 12 located at 102-106 Kennedy Boulevard in Bayonne. 13 MR. PRYOR: Good evening, Chair. 14 My name is James Pryor with the firm of Trautmann, 15 Pryor & Luther on behalf of the applicant, 16 Omnipoint Communications. 17 This is an application seeking 18 County Planning Board approval for installation, 19 rooftop installation for cellular telephone 20 antennas along Kennedy Boulevard. Obviously, 21 Kennedy Boulevard is a county road and, therefore, 22 we require county jurisdiction. 23 This is an installation which 24 proposes rooftop antennas as well as equipment 25 cabinets on an existing apartment building on 59 1 Kennedy Boulevard, at 102-106 Kennedy Boulevard. 2 The installation has already 3 received approval from the Board of Adjustment of 4 the City of Bayonne. It was approved last year 5 and the resolution memorialization was adopted 6 last year by the city. 7 I do have the applicant's engineer, 8 Mr. Warnet, who can give you a brief overview as 9 to what is proposed for this installation. If I 10 can call Mr. Warnet to be sworn. 11 MR. CALVANICO: State your name and 12 your affiliation, for the record. 13 MR. WARNET: Russell B. Warnet. 14 I'm employed by Dewberry-Goodkind, 600 Parsippany 15 Road, Parsippany, New Jersey. 16 RUSSELL W. WARNET, AIA, having been first duly 17 sworn according to law, testified as follows: 18 MR. CALVANICO: Thank you, sir. 19 MR. PRYOR: Mr. Warnet, I know you 20 have some boards, so why don't you give the Board 21 an overview of this proposed installation, please. 22 MR. WARNET: This is a drawing, it 23 was one of the drawings that was submitted to the 24 Board. It is drawing Z-3 in the application, and 25 with that, I can provide a brief overview of the 60 1 site and some of the features on the site. 2 As Mr. Pryor said, the entire 3 installation will be on the rooftop of the 4 existing building. There will be an equipment 5 cabinet platform that will be supported by the 6 existing parapet walls on the steel tonnage 7 frame. That will be on the north side of the 8 building. There will be six antennas located 9 around the perimeter of the building, two at each 10 location. The antennas will be concealed inside 11 an RF transparent material. That material will 12 appear to look like a chimney. The chimney will 13 be about two-and-a-half feet square and raise 14 about six feet above the existing parapet. The 15 electric and tel-co services for the equipment 16 cabinets will be taken from the existing electric 17 service in the building and existing tel-co 18 service in the building, routed through the 19 building up an outside wall on to the roof and 20 connected to the equipment cabinets. The 21 equipment cabinets will be connected to the 22 antenna location via antenna cables and they will 23 be routed to the antenna location in a covered 24 cable tray on the roof of the building. 25 MR. PRYOR: That's basically what's 61 1 proposed in this case, Chairman. I should note, 2 also, by the way, since Board staff indicated 3 propagation map is submitted, I did not submit a 4 propagation map with the application, but I do 5 have a Radio Frequency Report including 6 propagation maps, if I can hand it in this 7 evening. 8 MR. MARKS: Thank you. 9 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Is this an 10 apartment building? 11 MR. PRYOR: Yes. It's a 12 multifamily apartment building. Yes. 13 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Commissioner 14 Arencibia, do you have any comments on this 15 application? 16 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: I don't 17 have any comments. 18 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Any other 19 Commissioners? 20 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Madam 21 Chair, I have a question. 22 Have you checked the roof, is it 23 stable enough to be able to handle this type of 24 weight? 25 MR. WARNET: Yes, we have. We will 62 1 be submitting for building permit to Bayonne and 2 included with that will be our structural 3 calculations and we certainly can supply the Board 4 a copy of that. 5 MR. PRYOR: The Board Engineer, 6 John Lasick, did ask that specific question as 7 well. 8 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Thank you. 9 MR. PRYOR: I would also note, if I 10 can, miscellaneously, with respect to GPS and 11 those instances where a GPS antenna is located, 12 it's for time synchronization. The GPS not only 13 has the latitude and longitude, but also time, so 14 what it does, is it basically tells the 15 installation where they have the GPS, what the 16 exact time is, as required for synchronization of 17 the network. 18 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Thank you. 19 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Any other 20 comments? 21 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: I make a 22 motion to approve. 23 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Second. 24 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, on a 25 motion to approve SP-04-06 made by Commissioner 63 1 Fitzgibbons and seconded by Commissioner 2 Avagliano: 3 Commissioner Arencibia? 4 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 5 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 6 Avagliano? 7 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 8 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 9 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 10 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 11 Fitzgibbons? 12 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 13 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 14 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 15 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 16 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Aye. 17 MR. PRYOR: Thank you, very much. 18 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Next item on 19 the Agenda is Old Business. Do we have any Old 20 Business? 21 MR. MARKS: Just, Madam Chair, the 22 one order of Old Business, the last couple months 23 we had talked about establishing a training, I 24 guess work shop for Planning Board Members, and in 25 working with the New Jersey Planning Officials 64 1 Association, we put aside April 1st, which is a 2 Saturday, to do a -- there's a, there's a law in 3 the books now that Municipal Planning Board 4 Members have mandatory training. I don't believe 5 that applies to County Planning Board Meetings -- 6 County Planning Board Commissioners, rather. 7 Hudson County is cosponsoring the workshop with 8 the New Jersey Planning Officials Association and 9 anyone who is interested and available is more 10 than welcome to go. Just let me know, we'll take 11 care of your registration. That's April 1st at 12 the Casino in the Park, and it's a morning, I 13 think from nine to one. It's in your packages. 14 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Okay. 15 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Do we know 16 how many are going from this Board? 17 MR. MARKS: You can let me know 18 today or sometime between -- I think the deadline 19 is February 26 for registration, so any time 20 between now and the registration deadline, since 21 we're working with the NJPO and we talked to him 22 regularly on this. 23 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: The 24 21st, I'll go. 25 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Yeah. It's a 65 1 Saturday. 2 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: You could 3 put me down. 4 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: I'll 5 attend. 6 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: I'll be 7 attending. 8 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: As long 9 as you guys pay for it, make sure you have plenty 10 of coffee and donuts. 11 We get a confirmation on that, 12 right? 13 MR. MARKS: Yes. 14 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Why don't 15 you try getting the books beforehand so we can 16 review them before we go to the meeting. We could 17 absorb it faster. 18 MR. MARKS: Also in your packages 19 are the book order forms. That's a book that NJPO 20 puts out every year. There's an annual update, I 21 think Mr. -- he's a well-known and established 22 author in the field of Planning Law. I think his 23 name -- it's Doyle and Cocks, who are the authors 24 or coauthors of the books. If anybody's 25 interested in getting a copy of that 2006 edition, 66 1 I'll put them in. 2 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Does 3 everyone want a copy of it that will be 4 attending? 5 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Yeah. 6 MR. MARKS: Okay. I'll order them 7 for everybody. 8 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Okay. Is 9 that it for Old Business? 10 Move on to New Business. 11 MR. MARKS: Under New Business, 12 Madam Chair, before you this evening and sent out 13 in a smaller format in your packages is a draft of 14 the Official Hudson County Map. The County 15 Planning Enabling Legislation for 27, I think 16 it's -6, sets forth the procedures for 17 establishing and adopting official county maps 18 which show county facilities, roads, parks, 19 bridges, drainage facilities, so on and so forth. 20 We, the county recently hired a Geographic 21 Information Specialist who has prepared this map, 22 unlike previous maps which we essentially bought a 23 license from for the local map companies, we never 24 owned the map before. This will be county-owned. 25 This will be the map for future endeavors. Our 67 1 Geographic Information Specialists are also 2 working on a myriad of other projects, including 3 homeland security, domestic preparedness, flood 4 hazard, mitigation maps, so on and so forth, but I 5 think the first order of business, we haven't had 6 an Official County Map in several years, so if 7 this map is officially introduced tonight, it will 8 basically set forth a time line to send out the 9 copies to the municipalities, collect public 10 comments and then 30 days from now the Board could 11 recommend the draft map to the Freeholder Board as 12 the Official County Map, so if there's any 13 questions -- 14 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Do I have a 15 motion to introduce the draft map for the -- 16 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: I'll make a 17 motion. 18 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Second it. 19 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: -- County of 20 Hudson? 21 MR. MARKS: On a motion to accept 22 or introduce the draft Official County Map made by 23 Commissioner Choffo and seconded by Commissioner 24 Holloway: 25 Commissioner Arencibia? 68 1 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 2 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 3 Avagliano? 4 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 5 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 6 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 7 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 8 Fitzgibbons? 9 COMMISSION FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 10 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 11 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 12 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 13 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Aye. 14 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, the motion 15 passed. 16 And, Madam Chair, the final item on 17 the Agenda this evening, in your packages, also, 18 was a draft Interlocal Agreement with the Hudson 19 County Improvement Authority, basically 20 formalizing the relationship between the Planning 21 Board and the Improvement Authority to basically 22 do two things; one, to use the inspectors which 23 the Improvement Authority has on hand for their 24 services, to basically use them as our agency. 25 Mr. Torenti, for example, has gone out, taken 69 1 photographs of the various projects which come 2 before you. It gives you a better understanding 3 of where exactly these sites are with the existing 4 conditions, also to, similar to the Dell Avenue 5 question, getting a copy of the tax map, which 6 isn't always included in the application, to get a 7 better, give you a better idea of where the 8 project is and what impact it's having. 9 In addition to that, we do have a 10 substantial backlog of escrow accounts. Before we 11 close out any of the applications where there's 12 escrow accounts remaining, I'm hoping to use the 13 inspectors from the Improvement Authority to go 14 out, survey the situation for this project and to 15 determine whether the project has been completed 16 and whether they have lived up to the obligation 17 which this Board has set forth. The last thing I 18 would want to do is to return any unused escrow 19 deposit to an applicant who didn't comply with the 20 conditions that this Board set forth, so until 21 somebody, an inspector, Mr. Torenti or another 22 Improvement Authority inspector goes out and 23 surveys those, those sites, we have no idea, so I 24 think using their services, we can close out the 25 escrows, get up-to-date and move forward. It's a 70 1 good relationship, also. The Improvement 2 Authority has on Board other consultants who, CPA, 3 Certified Public Accountants who could also 4 certify that the escrow accounts are -- basically, 5 do an audit of the escrow accounts and make sure 6 everything is done properly and close them out, so 7 that's what this resolution or what this agreement 8 is about. It's just a draft. If it can be 9 introduced tonight, I think the details still have 10 to be worked out between Mr. Calvanico and the 11 Improvement Authority, Mr. Netchert. The fee 12 involved was, it was an arbitrary figure that was 13 thrown in there. Instead of having an actual fee 14 based and local agreement, it would be based on 15 the escrow amounts and a fee schedule, which would 16 be a part of the Interlocal Agreement instead of a 17 dollar figure. 18 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Do I have a 19 motion to approve the agreement? 20 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: I make a 21 motion. 22 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Second it. 23 MR. MARKS: Madam Chair, on a 24 motion to introduce the Interlocal Agreement with 25 the Hudson County Improvement Authority made by 71 1 Commissioner Fitzgibbons and second by 2 Commissioner Holloway: 3 Commissioner Arencibia? 4 COMMISSIONER ARENCIBIA: Aye. 5 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 6 Avagliano? 7 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Aye. 8 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Choffo? 9 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 10 MR. MARKS: Commissioner 11 Fitzgibbons? 12 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 13 MR. MARKS: Commissioner Holloway? 14 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Aye. 15 MR. MARKS: Chairwoman Bettinger? 16 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Aye. I 17 think it's a wonderful improvement to this 18 Planning Board, and it's very helpful when 19 approving these applications. 20 MR. MARKS: And finally, Madam 21 Chair, the last item, which we discussed earlier, 22 was the recommendation to the Freeholder Board to 23 declare a moratorium on easements for River Road 24 and to perform a feasibility study for bicycle and 25 pedestrian improvements. 72 1 Mr. Semegran was here earlier, and 2 for the next Board Meeting I'm hoping to have a 3 draft resolution for everybody's consideration, 4 appealing to the Freeholder Board. 5 That's it. 6 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Okay. Do I 7 have a motion to adjourn the meeting? 8 COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY: Motion. 9 COMMISSIONER AVAGLIANO: Second. 10 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: All in 11 favor? 12 COMMISSIONER FITZGIBBONS: Aye. 13 COMMISSIONER CHOFFO: Aye. 14 CHAIRWOMAN BETTINGER: Thank you. 15 (At 7:50 p.m., proceedings were 16 concluded.) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 73 1 2 CERTIFICATION 3 I, MICHELLE GRUENDEL, CSR, do 4 hereby certify that the above proceedings were 5 recorded stenographically by me and reduced to 6 typewriting by me. 7 I FURTHER CERTIFY that the 8 foregoing transcript of the said deposition is a 9 true and correct transcript of the testimony given 10 by the said witness at the time and place 11 specified hereinbefore. 12 I FURTHER CERTIFY that I am not a 13 relative or employee or attorney or counsel of any 14 of the parties, nor a relative or employee of such 15 attorney or counsel, or financially interested 16 directly or indirectly in this action. 17 18 19 20 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 MICHELLE GRUENDEL 22 23 24 25