July 2, 2025 Planning Board Regular Meeting Minutes

Mayor McCartney asked, Is there adequate parking for additional staff. Mr. Keenan said what's proposed here is 11 additional parking stalls, which is going to handle a good portion. He doesn't know the exact staff count. Chairman Bagoff asked how we know that parking is sufficient if we don't know how many staff are going to be in the building. Mr. Chewcaskie said Mr. Ross indicated in his testimony, there are 6 classrooms and a nurse. That would be at least 7 people there. The parking in this area was intended to be maximized. And again, this has to be approved by the state board of education to ensure that they meet the standards. Mayor McCartney asked if there is a way to delineate or to show where the wetlands are on this property by that aerial view. Mr. Keenan said he can show it right on the plan. He shows where the wood line is, as well as the wetlands, and then the dashed line on the plan is the buffer. Mr. Guarino asked if there is any mention about what type of fire suppression will be built into the structure. Mr. Ross said as far as he knows that there won't be sprinklers. They'll have fire detection only. PROFESSIONALS QUESTIONS Mr. Haizel asked if there seems to be no real relationship between what is being proposed to add and the playground. If it's something that's going to be accessible to the students in this new facility, there is no connectivity shown on the plans. How is that going to work? Mr. Keenan said the connection will be the crosswalk and the sidewalk going around that area of parking in front of the proposed building. There is a gate to get into the existing playground area. Anybody who's using it would walk across the sidewalk and come in the gate right there. Mr. Scott asked if the expansion of the driveway is going to maybe interfere a little bit with the crosswalk, so is it possible to see if that crosswalk can shift down a little bit. Mr. Keenan said that it would be great if they could work with the township because it is challenging. There is a fire hydrant there, and they can't sway it the other way. Mr. Scott asked if the plan proposes any lighting. Mr. Keenan said there is a Cobra headlight fixture on the utility pole in the drive. There's also a Cobra headlight at the top, up by the playground. These will provide lighting currently for those two areas. And then there's going to be additional lighting on the

y pole in the drive. There's also a Cobra headlight at the top, up by the playground. These will provide lighting currently for those two areas. And then there's going to be additional lighting on the building, which is going to be limited; it's not going to cover the parking area. But they'll review that with the district. Mr. Scott asked if the stormwater management system and design are in accordance with the recently adopted stormwater management rules from the township. Mr. Keenan said yes. Mr. Scott asked regarding the proposed infiltration to the CF perforated pipe. Has a geotechnical investigation been done to test the soils and make sure that it's adequate? Mr. Keenan said yes, it has. PUBLIC QUESTIONS Deborah Butensky at 11 Rappleye Court asked if we are losing O'Connor field, the whole baseball field that Mountaintop used to use. Mr. Keenan said yes, the ball field that's there is going to be occupied by the buildings, that won't be able to use it as a ball field. Ms. Butensky asked if there is any way that this ball field can be replaced because it was heavily used by the Mountaintop league. Mr. Keenan said he doesn’t know about this property. Seth Weisleder at 17 Howell Drive asked if the soil testing for the new playground and the old playground, where pre-K kids will be playing, was for any contaminants or environmental issues. Mr. Keenan said they did not test it for contaminated soils. They