September 3, 2025 Planning Board Regular 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 19 THE WITNESS: Basically we had a memo that was presented dated August 22, 2025. The background on this is we looked at this previously, so now we're looking at it again in a new light. There are 496 apartments to be put in place versus the smaller development, less than ten. And what we're doing now is we're looking at it under the auspices of the Residential Site Improvement Standards. The standard of New Jersey presently govern residential development in the state. Most people don't realize but their own ordinances now have been taken over by the state RSIS and it requires you to follow that and it's more stringent than the local ordinances are. One of the things that the state and the RSIS has was the problem with the definition of cul-de-sacs. Cul-de-sacs have been mainly restricted by fire hoses in the past. And how long the fire hoses could be with pressure from the engines and the pumper. So that limited basically in addition to single family houses being built on one acre or half acre to an acre of land, limited the length of cul-de-sacs. Just from some safety reasons more than anything else and fire aspects. Now, cul-de-sacs are defined a street without a -- is defined as a street with simple means --