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Minutes · Oct 23, 2025

October 23, 2025, Special Meeting

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o Parking: Mr. Savage said that Mr. Bersch, during his testimony, went through in detail the parking requirement; the total required for the site is 49 spaces. This breaks down to 15 spaces are required for the Popeyes and 34 spaces are required for the IHOP again, that's looking at the maximum of one parking space per 45 square feet for patron area and one parking space per three seats in each use the site, as proposed, provides 48 spaces, including one Electric Vechicle Charging space. Therefore, with consideration of the EV credit, the parking requirement is met. Parking and queing conduct counts were performed at a number of Popeyes facilities. Three (3) facilities were counted in New Jersey, one (1) in Union Union County, one (1) in Raleigh Union County, and one (1) in Glassboro, Gloucester County. And from those counts, it was able to identify that a Popeyes typically has a peak parking demand of about 10 to 11 spaces. So the Popeyes itself, specifically, requires 15 based on our accounts, that 15 spaces is more than enough to accommodate the parking typically required for a Popeyes restaurant. © Queueing: eight (8) queueing spaces are shown on the Site Plan. The Queue spans and wraps around the building to provide eight total spaces. This meets the Township Ordinance, which requires six (6) spaces. 10 vehicles was the maximum counted during any of these counts. So there are eight vehicles shown. Mr. Savage opined that he believes two (2) additional vehicles can fit onto the site without really impacting on the site, circulation or parking. Therefore, he is comfortable and confident that the queuing provided is sufficient to support the anticipated demand. e Ms. Kinback asked a few questions, because with the proposed Popeyes, it's a conditional use and one of the conditional use variances being sought is to permit a driveway distance to the intersection that is less than 100 feet away and asked for an explanation to having the driveway at that location, its impacts to the Rosney Terrace intersection, and also its impacts or benefits to ingress and egress and on site, circulation. Mr. Savage answered that there were two existing access points to the site. It is proposed to maintain those two (2), and the unique depth and location of this site, he believes that the two (2) driveways will provide for more efficient ingress and Egress to and from the

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ite. It is proposed to maintain those two (2), and the unique depth and location of this site, he believes that the two (2) driveways will provide for more efficient ingress and Egress to and from the property separately. The sight lines from Rosney Terrace were reviewed and voluntarily restricted that left turn out movement, which he opined would be the highest potential conflict point, with any vehicle turning to or from Rosney Terrace. e Ms. Kinback asked as part of this application, being represented that the refrigeration truck deliveries will all take place in the front of the building, and that is where the delivery trucks will load and unload. Does having that second driveway access benefit the delivery truck access and their ingress and egress to the property and mitigate impacts to the neighbors so that they don't have to circulate the entire building? Mr. Savage answered that Yes, in my opinion, it would having two driveways essentially allows the tractor trailer to enter the Western driveway, pull up to the front of the building, load and then exit via the Eastern driveway. If there was only one driveway that that truck would need to circulate the building at some point, either entering or leaving the site, so there would more. BOARD QUESTIONS e Chairperson Neuer asked for confirmation that the report submitted was written on October 21, 2022, and was revised on June 4, 2024. Mr. Savage said that it is correct. 9

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