July 30, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

2 (Pages 2 to 5) Page 2 1 A P P E A R A N C E S: 2 GACCIONE POMACO, P.C. 3 1 Boland Drive West Orange, New Jersey 07052 4 BY: DIANA POWELL-McGOVERN, ESQ. Attorneys for the Board 5 6 HUTT, SHIMANOWITZ & PLOCKER, P.C. 459 Amboy Avenue 7 Woodbridge, New Jersey 07095 BY: BRYAN D. PLOCKER, ESQ. 8 bplocker@huttshim.com Attorneys for the Applicant 9 10 BRUCE I. AFRAN, ESQ. 10 Braeburn Drive 11 Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Attorney for Objector, We Care NJ Corp. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 3 1 I N D E X 2 WITNESSES: SWORN 3 PAUL ANDERSON, P.E. 19 4 5 6 EXHIBITS MARKED INTO EVIDENCE 7 8 NUMBER DESCRIPTION PAGE 9 (NONE MARKED) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 4 1 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Good evening, ladies 2 and gentlemen, welcome to the West Orange Planning 3 Board meeting. Notice of this meeting was given to 4 the township clerk and posted on the township 5 bulletin board and township website calendar and 6 sent to the West Orange Chronicle and Star Ledger. 7 This meeting has been properly noticed according to 8 the Open Public Meetings. Act no new matter will 9 start after 10:30 p.m. 10 I'm going to ask all of you to rise for 11 the Pledge of Allegiance. 12 (Pledge of Allegiance is recited.) 13 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: I'd also like to 14 welcome all those who are watching on Zoom this 15 evening. The next Planning Board special meeting 16 will be held on July 31, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. in Town 17 Hall. The next Planning Board regular meeting will 18 be held August 7, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. 19 Roll call, please, Jamilet. 20 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Alper? 21 MR. ALPER: Here. 22 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Cardoza? 23 MR. CARDOZA: Present. 24 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Ms. Kapferer? 25 MS. KAPFERER: Here. Page 5 1 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Wilkes? 2 Council President Rutherford? 3 COUNCILMAN RUTHERFORD: Here. 4 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mayor McCartney? 5 MAYOR McCARTNEY: Present. 6 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Guarino? 7 VICE-CHAIRMAN GUARINO: Present. 8 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Chairman Bagoff? 9 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Here. Thank you. 10 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: And just for the 11 record, Mr. Klein won't be joining us tonight and 12 Mr. Smeraldo is excused. 13 MS. McGOVERN: He's recused -- 14 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: He's recused. 15 MS. McGOVERN: -- he won't be 16 participating. 17 (Whereupon the Board attends with other 18 matters on the agenda.) 19 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: We are on 20

recused -- 14 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: He's recused. 15 MS. McGOVERN: -- he won't be 16 participating. 17 (Whereupon the Board attends with other 18 matters on the agenda.) 19 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: We are on 20 Application PB-24-01, West Essex Highlands, 21 Incorporated, Block 179, Lot 32, Zone: IH-1, Warner 22 Road. The applicant is proposing to develop a 496- 23 unit inclusionary multifamily residential 24 development on a vacant 120-acre property in the 25 northwest corner --