January 14, 2026, Planning Board Special Meeting - WEHI Transcript

02/03/2026 04:49:05 PM Page 61 to 64 of 122 16 of 53 sheets 61 dropping and proximity of Building D to our homes.1 Let's see.2 Legal. Howell Drive was not properly3 notified about the input in the settlement agreement in4 the zone overlay ordinance before the Planning Board.5 There is no proof of delivery and that is from an e-mail6 from the deputy municipal clerk on 8/14 from an OPRA7 request concerning green cards or proof of delivery8 notification. We have been unable to locate them.9 I am trying to click forward. Sorry. There10 we go.11 This is the area of focus, the developers12 design. Sorry, I think I went -- sorry about that. I13 did go to fast. Okay. So this is the current14 developers design. This is the area that we are talking15 about and as you can see we don't know where the houses16 are exactly.17 The neighborhood will have the largest18 building of the project towering over our homes.19 I said that, I am not going to repeat. Let20 me go to the next slide. Okay.21 So this is the concept plan that was22 submitted on 3/3/20. You can see the look of the23 building here. This is the latest design two years24 later, a part of the Planning Board application. So25 62 it's moved closer to the slope and it's changed1 significantly. I don't know what that exactly looked2 like but this building here, and you will see on my next3 slide, I am going as fast as I can here. You will see4 this is really not one building but two buildings. It's5 connected by this little lobby area here. So I am not6 sure why it's considered one building. You can see7 Building D is the largest building. Building Ds8 location has made this the luxury building only because9 of the views it's providing being closest to the slope.10 Building D will be higher than -- it will be higher than11 the tree canopy. Why is this building the only one with12 a rooftop deck added on later after the original design13 was submitted. Those questions have still not been14 answered.15 These are Google Map images of screen shots16 that I took and drew on myself on 3/24/25. The red17 arrow view is up the hill. The blue line is the18 approximation. Again, I approximated, I'm not an19 engineer, on the line of the slope for Building D. The20 line of the slope for Building D is approximately here.21 This is 17 Howell, this is 15 Howell and you can see the22 slopes. This is 13 over here. So the arrows

line of the slope for Building D. The20 line of the slope for Building D is approximately here.21 This is 17 Howell, this is 15 Howell and you can see the22 slopes. This is 13 over here. So the arrows are23 showing right up the slope there and this is the24 cul-de-sac where the emergency exits going to be.25 63 This is another image from another angle1 which we have not seen. Here you have Howell Drive here2 and you can see you have 15, 17 and across the street is3 16 with the ridge line being here and Building D being4 somewhere in this area towering over our neighborhood.5 This is a screen shot that I took on6 3/24/25. The white line in the photo is going up the7 slope from Howell Drive to Building D, approximate8 location according to the design, which is 413 feet from9 the roadway from the homes of 13 and 15 on Howell Drive.10 Howell Drive is here. Building D is here. The11 emergency road cul-de-sac is here. Building D is12 somewhere here. This is measuring a total of 413 feet,13 according to Google Maps. Right here it's about 20014 feet. So you can see how close this is from our homes.15 And this is an aerial view according to Google Maps.16 Next one. Real quick, the white line is17 going up from 17 Howell, which is my home. On the18 corner of Building D, which might be approximately about19 here. Again, the cul-de-sac. Here is the rest of the20 homes on Howell Drive and in Verona. Howell Drive in21 West Orange. 17, 15, 13 and so on down the line. And22 you can see that it's 200 feet, 334 feet from the23 residential homes.24 Here we are looking at, again, a Google Maps25 64 shot approximately, the reason I am showing this is1 because you can see it's not depicting our homes.2 The little ambulance at the top is where3 that emergency access is, but we still don't know the4 length of that road. So basically I'm requesting a5 visual overlay to know the exact location of Building D6 and how it's going to affect our neighborhoods. The7 yellow and blue ambulance up here represent the8 emergency areas.9 Okay. Both images captured on Google Maps10 again. Another different viewpoint here. Howell Drive,11 the emergency egress. This is where the ambulance is12 and the cul-de-sac is. Howell Drive in West Orange.13 You have homes 15, 13 and 11 right over here and14 proximally Building D somewhere in this area over here.15 Now, this, if I went to fast my

is12 and the cul-de-sac is. Howell Drive in West Orange.13 You have homes 15, 13 and 11 right over here and14 proximally Building D somewhere in this area over here.15 Now, this, if I went to fast my apologies16 again.17 This view is looking up here on the street18 of Howell Drive using Google Maps. The blue line19 indicates approximate view of Building D roof according20 to the plan. If you can stand here on Howell Drive21 looking up, this is house number 15, you are going to22 see this huge building towering over Howell Drive.23 Okay. Google Maps screen shot 3/24. Aerial24 view looking down on 13, 15, and 17. Cul-de-sac,25