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Minutes · May 2, 2018

May 2, 2018

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PB-18-01/375 Mt. Pleasant Avenue, LLC Block: 155, Lot: 26, Zone: O-RA 375 Mt. Pleasant Avenue Preliminary and Final Amended Site Plan with deviation from Redevelopment Plan requirement. Chairman Bagoff announced that Mr. Trenk had recused himself from hearing the Application. EXHIBITS: A-1: Site Plan (Sheet SP-2), signed by J. Michael Petry, PE, PP, RA, Petry Engineering, LLC, dated 2/5/2018; A-2: Site Photographs, prepared by Petry Engineering, LLC, undated; A-3: Parking Analysis A-4: Layout Sheet, highlighting “22 future parking spaces Parking Area “F”, signed by J. Michael Petry, PE, PP, RA, Petry Engineering, LLC DISCUSSION: Robert C. Williams, Esq., appeared on behalf of Applicant. He stated the Applicant had originally appeared before the Board in 2008 for approval of the medical center that had become very successful. He stated there had also been one subsequent Technical Review approval in 2012. He stated the current application was to seek approval to use space that was currently not being utilized other than for storage. St. Barnabas Hospital was interested in leasing the additional space for use as medical offices. He stated the applicant was seeking preliminary and final amended site plan approval with deviation from standards. J. Michael Petry, PE, PP, RA, Petry Engineering, LLC, was sworn in, stated his professional credentials, and was accepted by the Board to be an expert witness in engineering and planning. Mr. Williams identified the Exhibits for the record. Mr. Petry stated there were two questions in Mr. Grygiel’s review letter (dated 4/23/18), that were related to in Exhibit A-3 and Exhibit A-4. He stated the (Organon) Redevelopment Plan required calculations done in two different ways for medical office space; one was by square footage; the other by medical professional staff and number of exam rooms. He stated that Exhibit A-3 represented the calculation for the majority of users on site that cooperated and provided the information, and A-4 was a copy of the original approved site plan indicating where the future 22 parking spaces would be located. In response to inquiry from Mr. Dwyer, he stated the original approval final site plan approval was dated 3/23/09. Mr. Petry gave a brief recapitulation of the prior site plan application submitted in 2008, and the subsequent Technical Review application submitted in 2012 for

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site plan approval was dated 3/23/09. Mr. Petry gave a brief recapitulation of the prior site plan application submitted in 2008, and the subsequent Technical Review application submitted in 2012 for modifications to walkways in the upper regions of the parking lot “A”. The original approvals were for a total medical office build out of 105,800 square feet, and a total of 458 parking spaces, along with the approval of an additional 22 future parking spaces as shown on Exhibit A-4, for a total of 480 parking spaces on site. He stated that at the time, that approval was a deviation from the original redevelopment plan. He stated the two former dwellings that were located on the property were specifically excluded from the original approval; those dwellings were marked on Exhibit A-1 as #1 and #2. Building #1 was used by Organon as office space; Building #2 was used as the construction office

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