August 14, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

2 (Pages 2 to 5)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 4 1 (Zoom meeting begins at 6:38 p.m.) 2 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: ...August 14, 2024 3 at 6:30 p.m. 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 The Star 7 Ledger. This meeting has been properly noticed to 8 the public in accordance with the Open Public 9 Meetings Act. No new matters will start after 10:30 10 p.m. 11 May I ask everybody to rise for the 12 Pledge of Allegiance. 13 (The Pledge of Allegiance is recited.) 14 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Thank you. Please 15 be seated. The next regular Planning Board meeting 16 will be held September 4, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. via 17 Zoom. Roll call, please, Jamilet. 18 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Alper? 19 MR. ALPER: Here. 20 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Cardoza? 21 MR. CARDOZA: Present. 22 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Klein? 23 MR. KLEIN: Here. 24 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mayor McCartney? 25 (No response) Page 3 1 I N D E X 2 APPLICANT'S WITNESSES: SWORN 3 LAURANCE APPEL, P.A. 7 4 5 BOARD'S WITNESSES: 6 JOHN J. HESS, P.E., P.P. 5 7 GERARD M. HAIZEL, P.P. 5 8 9 10 EXHIBITS MARKED INTO EVIDENCE 11 NUMBER DESCRIPTION PAGE 12 A-3 Foundation Exposure Exhibit dated 13 8/14/24, prepared and presented by Mr. Appel 8 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 5 1 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Morgan? 2 (No response) 3 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Wilkes? 4 MR. WILKES: Here. 5 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Council President 6 Rutherford? 7 (No response) 8 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Mr. Guarino? 9 VICE-CHAIRMAN GUARINO: Here. 10 MS. BAQUERIZO VITE: Chairman Bagoff? 11 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Here. Thank you. 12 Would you swear in the township 13 professionals, Ms. McGovern? 14 J O H N J. H E S S, P. E., P. P., Consulting 15 Engineer, is duly sworn/affirmed by the Board 16 attorney. 17 G E R A R D M. H A I Z E L, P. P., Consulting 18 Planner, is duly sworn/affirmed

overn? 14 J O H N J. H E S S, P. E., P. P., Consulting 15 Engineer, is duly sworn/affirmed by the Board 16 attorney. 17 G E R A R D M. H A I Z E L, P. P., Consulting 18 Planner, is duly sworn/affirmed by the Board 19 attorney. 20 MS. McGOVERN: Thank you. 21 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Two housekeeping 22 things. I incorrectly previously stated this is an 23 overlay zone. This is not. This is an actual zone 24 in the Township of West Orange. 25 The second thing is, somebody had asked