PB 24 01 West Essex Highlands Inc Draft Resolution

24. The application was reviewed by the Site Plan Review Advisory Board (“SPRAB”) on March 12, 2024, and a report was issued summarizing the findings of the Board by Paul Grygiel, AICP, PP, Township Planner dated March 18, 2024. 25. The plans and testimony of Applicant’s engineer, Paul Anderson established that the proposed sanitary sewer system is a gravity flow system to the low point of the property near Building D and shall have its own sewer pump station to pump to the West Orange system. There is an existing system across the site from another condominium complex, and the applicant will not be modifying or connecting into that other system. 26. The landscape plans show that of the 102.5 acres located within the property boundary, the proposed area of disturbance is 27.85 acres and within that area of disturbance, approximately 5,900 trees will be removed, and 5,409 trees are required to be replaced on site; however, pursuant to the ordinance the Applicant would receive credit for 7,123 trees replaced with the installation of 33.6 acres of deer fence. The total number of trees that will actually be planted on site will be 279 trees. 27. The Applicant proposed to install and maintain 36.6 acres of deer fencing to preserve the undisturbed wooded area which will in turn, allow for the regeneration of the forest understory and allow for the native vegetation to re-generate and create a healthier forested area. 28. According to the Ordinance related to Zone IH-1, 212 trees shall be provided for each acre of disturbance which, for this application, would be 5,904 trees that are required to be replaced on site. The 33.6 acres of deer fencing results in a credit of 7,123 trees and the Applicant is proposing to plant an additional 279 native trees on site. Therefore,