August 25, 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 83 commissioners is also on the South Orange Planning Board. So they're aware of the Planning Board matters. MR. AFRAN: Thank you very much Ms. Garreffa. We appreciate it. We call Ms. Michele Byers. Her thumb drive I think is with Mr. Fagan. MR. FAGAN: She can come right up here. MR. AFRAN: By way of introduction, Ms. Byers is the prior executive director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation. That's the same organization that currently employs Dr. DeVito, who testified on forestry matters and she will be testifying as to the preservation value of this particular site. Not in terms of asking this council, which she doesn't have the authority to do -- to designate preservation, but to speak of the preservation value because that relates to the need to avoid ecological harm under the MLUL and under the ordinance as reviewed. Ms. Byers, I will -- well, you need to be sworn in. MS. MCGOVERN: Ms. Byers, please rise your right-hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. THE WITNESS: Yes.