PB-18-02/Valley Road Residential, LLC

RESOLUTION OF APPROVAL PLANNING BOARD OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE Decided: May 2, 2018 Memorialized: June 6, 2018 VALLEY ROAD RESIDENTIAL, LLC Extension of Site Plan Approval With “c” Variance 22-26 Central Avenue & 9-15 Mitchell Street Block 9, Lots 1, 7, 44, 50 & 56 PB-18-02 WHEREAS Valley Road Residential, LLC (“Applicant”) was granted Final Site Plan approval by Resolution adopted on May 7, 2014; and WHEREAS Applicant now seeks to extend said approval which was previously extended through May 7, 2018; and WHEREAS the Board has jurisdiction by reason of notice filed in accordance with statutory requirements; and WHEREAS the Board having received a memo from Board Planner Paul Grygiel, PP dated April 30, 2018; and FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW: 1. Applicant obtained Final Site Plan approval by Resolution adopted on May 7, 2014. 2. The West Orange Ordinance at Section 25-48.10(a) provides that site plan approval shall expire after two years and one day unless a construction permit has issued. No construction permit has issued as of this date. 3. Patrick McNamara, Esq. appeared on behalf of the Applicant. 4. The Board received a letter from William J. Sullivan, Esq. dated April 16, 2018 on behalf of the Applicant in which he stated “due to unanticipated delays related to the completion of those (construction) plans and contracting” the Applicant was requesting an extension. 5. The Ordinance permits the time frame for issuance of a permit to be extended “for good cause shown.” 6. The Board finds that the reasons for the delay constitute good cause, namely, a delay in finalizing construction drawings.