PB-25-05 WO Board of Ed/Mt Pleasant Elementary School Block: 172 Lot: 29.01

(Paved Playground: C-1, C-2, C-3, C-4 C-5) Architectural Plan Roderick Watkins, AIA - | 6/9/2025 (T1.1 and T1.2) Dicara Rubino . Brian Chewcaskie, Esq. of the law firm Cleary Giacobbe Alfieri Jacobs, LLC represented the Applicant. . The Mt. Pleasant Elementary School is owned by the West Orange Board of Education. . Dennis F. Keenan, P.E., of French & Parrello, as an Engineering Professional and Kenneth Ross, AIA of Dicara Rubino Architects testified as an Architect Professional on behalf of the Board of Education. . The Board of Education seeks to construct a paved playground and modular building with six (6) classrooms on the subject site located at the rear of the Mount Pleasant Elementary School. . As the Board of Education is a governmental entity this application for proposed development is not subject to local zoning regulations. . The Planning Board’s statutory duty pursuant to the Municipal Land Use Law N.J.S.A.40:55D-31 for an application of this type is for “review and recommendation” in conjunction with the West Orange Master Plan. . The Board finds that the subject site is a 434,162.52 SF corner parcel with frontage on Manger Road to the south and Ellison Avenue to the west and on the southern third of the site there are two attached school buildings which are occupied by the Mount Pleasant Elementary School.