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Supporting Documentation · May 28, 2026

Prior Resolutions of Approval submission

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regard to the landscape architecture of the Subject Property, but admitted she was not a landscape architect. Most importantly, she admitted only being on the Subject Property for at most 10 to 15 minutes. Considering that she walked all the way to the location of the remaining metal frame of a greenhouse, which takes approximately 5 minutes to walk from where cars park based on Board member's visits to the Subject Property, she was barely on the Subject Property and therefore had no real ability to determine what was there. Further, unlike Mr. Hayden who performed extensive background research on the prior property owners and the Olmsted brothers, Ms. Galop did not. As noted by Ms. Galop, it has also not been adequately demonstrated whether any of the Olmsted plans pertaining to the Subject Property were ever implemented. 23. Seton Hall’s construction on the Subject Property of additional athletic fields will free up the use of the Township's fields for other Township uses, as there is much competition for the use of the public fields in West Orange. The testimony of Bill Keogh, the Township’s recreation director, and Mr. Edwin Johnson of the Township’s Recreation Department, demonstrated that the expansion of the Seton Hall fields will have the positive effect of freeing up use of the fields at the Township’s parks and schools for Township residents and children, thus providing a further benefit to the Township and the public good. 24. The use of the Subject Property for the proposed expansion of athletic fields and the field house is justified ~28-

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