July 16, 2025, Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 23 far away from that slope as possible so that you're not imparting the roads or doing excavation for example, that would impact the stability of that slope. One of the things that I did find is that in the settlement of litigation agreement signed by Mark Hoffman on April 23, 2020 it states that "The application before the Planning Board must be built consistent with the West Essex Highland Concept." 16 for West Essex Highlands. And part of that there's a conceptual layout of the building on the site which relatively, fits relatively in the locations of the proposed buildings as they are proposed today. However, the one thing I noticed about Building D, when you compare the concept to the current plan, they moved the building on the southern side of the building, southern side most building. Well, now it has a jog as opposed to being straight. It used to have one jog in the building and now it has two. But they also moved that side of the building 50 feet closer to the edge of the top of the slope. On the, on the northern side they ended up moving it about 30 plus feet closer to the top of the slope on the side. What I think happened, when you review the plans, in the concept they had a parking lot to the south, a sole parking lot to the south of the building and now the plans show parking along the entire