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Supporting Documentation · Nov 10, 2024

Vite 10 22 2025

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LAW OFFICES HUTT SHIMANOWITZ & PLOCKER A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION STEWART M. HUTT (1929-2013) RONALD L. SHIMANOWITZ  459 AMBOY AVENUE DAVID M. HUTT + P.O. BOX 648 BRYAN D. PLOCKER WOODBRIDGE, NEW JERSEY 07095 JANICE K. SCHERER∞ THOMAS J. PERRY DAVID T. FERRARA KEVIN M. KILLMURRAY∞ CHRISTOPHER M. WALL∞ TEL: (732) 634-6400 FAX: (732) 634-0718  ALSO ADMITTED NY BAR + ALSO ADMITTED FL BAR ∞ OF COUNSEL October 22, 2025 VIA EMAIL AND REGULAR MAIL Jamilet Baquerizo Vite, Secretary West Orange Planning Board 66 Main Street West Orange, NJ 07052 Re: West Essex Highlands, Inc. Block 179, Lot 32 Application for Preliminary and Final Site Plan Approval Dear Ms. Baquerizo Vite: This firm represents West Essex Highlands, Inc. (“WEHI”), the applicant in connection with the above-referenced application for site plan approval pending before the West Orange Planning Board (the “Board”). Pursuant to the Board’s request, enclosed please find a Declaration of Easement and Right of Way Agreement dated January 19, 1988, between Allied-Signal Inc. (“Allied”), Essex Fells Country Club (“EFCC”), and WEHI, recorded with the Essex County Clerk on January 28, 1988, in Deed Book 5012, Page 571 (the “Easement Agreement”). The Easement Agreement together with its attachments addresses the parties’ rights and obligations regarding Oval Road. As set forth in the Easement Agreement, Oval Road is a private road owned by the property owners whose property abuts Oval Road. On December 5, 1986, Allied, EFCC, and WEHI, as the then-owners of Oval Road, entered into a Letter Agreement regarding the widening and realignment of Oval Road by WEHI. Pursuant to the Letter Agreement, a copy of which was recorded as an exhibit to the Easement Agreement, WEHI is solely responsible for the design, construction, maintenance and repairs of Oval Road. Pursuant to the Easement Agreement, Allied, EFCC, and WEHI, as the then-owners of Oval Road, established an easement in the realigned Oval Road and dedicated “said easement and right of way for public use.” The parties to the Easement Agreement granted to each other a “permanent easement for reasonable ingress and egress on and across” the realigned Oval Road. The Easement Agreement is binding on all successors and assigns of Allied, EFCC, and WEHI. The current owners of Oval Road are EFCC, West Essex Highlands Condominium Association,

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LAW OFFICES HUTT SHIMANOWITZ & PLOCKER A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION Inc., The Grande at Pleasantdale Homeowners Association, Inc., and Pleasantdale Chateau and Conference Resort, Inc. Thank you for your courtesies. Very truly yours, /s/ Bryan D. Plocker BRYAN D. PLOCKER, ESQ. Bplocker@huttshim.com Enclosures cc: Diana McGovern, Esq. (via email)

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