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Jamilet Baquerizo Vite, Secretary West Orange Township Planning Board March 10, 2025 Page 7 Steep Slope Ordinance). The Applicant’s failure to provide the Board with stormwater runoff information as to 42 Eagle Ridge Way, Block 106, Lot 24.01 (with the owner’s principal – Mr. Cohn – the same as the Applicant’s principal) prevents the Board from making an informed determination as to the Application. For starters, Ordinance § 25-29.9 requires the Applicant’s Site Development Stormwater Plan to include a topographic base map of the site extending a minimum of 200 feet beyond the limits of the proposed development, which would include a depiction of 42 Eagle Ridge Way’s drainage ditches and associated topography (already mapped by Colliers as part of a Stormwater Management Report it prepared in connection with a development application for the 42 Eagle Ridge Way property currently pending before the Township’s Board of Adjustment – depicting drainage patterns from 42 Eagle Ridge Way that intersect with, and impact, the drainage structures at the 40 Eagle Ridge Way Property). In fact, on July 9, 2024, the Colliers engineer for the Applicant, Justin Ferrazzano, communicated to the Township that “we do need to prepare a comprehensive major site plan with a stormwater management report encompassing both properties [40 Eagle Ridge Way and 42 Eagle Ridge Way], as well as prepare a submission to the Planning Board. As discussed, by planning for both properties we can transfer some obligations of 40 ERW [Eagle Ridge Way] to 42 ERW [Eagle Ridge Way] to better serve the Township and the owners. To prepare a full plan set and stormwater design, then proceed through planning approval will take several months…” Ten days later, on July 19, 2024 the West Orange Director of Planning and Development/Zoning Official notified Mr. Ferrazzano and the Applicant’s principal that “no construction, remediation or any other improvements on the site will be permitted. Your intent should be to submit a complete application to the land use board. This should include your plans and reports so that the board professionals can review in totality (40 Eagle Ridge Way and 42 Eagle Ridge Way).” Despite the Colliers engineer representing to the Township that Colliers would study the stormwater impacts collectively from both properties, the Applicant has improperly failed to submit to the Board

espite the Colliers engineer representing to the Township that Colliers would study the stormwater impacts collectively from both properties, the Applicant has improperly failed to submit to the Board any stormwater “plans and reports” for 42 Eagle Ridge Way. This is especially concerning since 40 Eagle Ridge Way and 42 Eagle Ridge Way share the same drainage pattern into Llewellyn Park (the drainage maps submitted by the owner of 42 Eagle Ridge Way to the Township’s Board of Adjustment depict a drainage path that culminates at the 36” pipe location on the Applicant’s Property). Disturbance activities on both 40 Eagle Ridge Way and 42 Eagle Ridge Way have altered the location of the drainage ditch that traverses near the boundary between the two properties. The 42 Eagle Ridge Way property contributes runoff to the 40 Eagle Ridge Way Property’s Stormwater Report’s points of study but is not included in the calculations. The Property’s Stormwater Report also does not include any contributing offsite subareas in its pre- and post-development calculations, nor does it consider the clear cutting of many trees and the removal of vegetation on the 42 Eagle Ridge Way property that has contributed to the increased water flows into Llewellyn Park. Further, the stormwater plan for the water coming in part from the Crystal Lake Association property onto the Applicant’s property is limited and incomplete, with the only protective elements being the proposed removal of the damaging elliptical pipe the Applicant’s contractor installed