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proposal will require approval from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs ("DCA"); and WHEREAS the Applicant offered the testimony of Richard Keller, a licensed professional planner and engineer in the State of New Jersey (and no relation to Township Consulting Engineer Eric Keller, of Omland Engineering), Mr. Keller was offered as an expert in planning and accepted by the Board as such, Mr. Keller indicated that his report of July 15, 2011 encompassed all of this planned testimony, that the proposal which calls for a filling in of the current “U” shaped building is a great reorganization of the space, the proposal maintains the existing buffers to Llewellyn Park and has the existing building absorbing all impact of the expansion with the exception of the driveway expansions, that the driveway and entrance redesigns promote the health safety and welfare of residents and other users of the building, that the Applicant has established the criteria for the "“D” variance because the driveway and entrance redesigns promote the health safety and welfare of residents and other users of the building, and there is no detriment to the public good, or to the West Orange Zoning Ordinance or Zoning Master Plan, that the “C” variance for parking should be granted since no additional staff is contemplated after the expansion and the current parking lot adequately serves the needs of the facility and that the applicant seeks a waiver of the traffic study requirement since no real change in quantity of traffic is contemplated, although traffic Flow throughout the site is improved, that the driveway we