2549-18 Exhibit to Ordinance Adopting Redevelopment Plan for Essex Green and Executive Drive Properties.pdf

300 EXECUTIVE DRIVE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN | Township of West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey INTRODUCTION AND PROCESS condemnation area in need of redevelopment. The Township 300 Executive Drive is an approximately 8.7 acre parcel in the Council took action at its January 9, 2018 meeting, designating north-central portion of the Township of West Orange. This the Area as in need of redevelopment through resolution 17-18. parcel, and the adjacent properties at 100 Executive Drive, 200 This Redevelopment Plan is the next step in the process. Heyer, Executive Drive, and 10 Rooney Circle are developed with Gruel and Associates (HGA) was retained by the Township office buildings built between 1971 and 1984. These properties Council on June 12, 2018 to work with the Township Planning are collectively the Executive Drive Area; however, this Plan is Board to prepare a Redevelopment Plan for the Area. limited to 300 Executive Drive (Block 155, Lot 42.01). As requested, HGA prepared a draft Redevelopment Plan for On September 19, 2017, the Township Council adopted the 300 Executive Drive Area and attended the July 11, 2018 resolutions 212-17 and 213-17 to direct the West Orange Planning Board public meeting where the Board discussed the Township Planning Board to investigate these properties, as well draft Plan and made recommended revisions. As part of the as the adjacent Essex Green Shopping Center, to determine if Planning Board process, the public was invited to ask questions the area qualifies as a non-condemnation area in need of and comment on the

process, the public was invited to ask questions the area qualifies as a non-condemnation area in need of and comment on the draft Plan. The proposed revisions focused redevelopment per the statutory criteria of the Local on including sustainability and circulation standards consistent Redevelopment and Housing Law (LHRL) N.J.S.A. 40A:12A, et with the Township Master Plan. seq. The Plan contains the elements required by the LRHL, sets forth The Township’s planner, Paul Grygiel, PP, AICP, of the firm Phillips goals and objectives for the area, and provides use and design Preiss, prepared a preliminary investigation report entitled, standards to govern the redevelopment of the Area in a “Essex Green and Executive Drive Area in Need of manner consistent with the Township’s goals and objectives and Redevelopment Study”, dated October 2017. The Township incorporates the Planning Board’s comments. Planning Board held public hearings on the Study on November 1, 2017, and December 6, 2017. On January 4, 2018, the Planning Board adopted Resolution 18-01, which recommended that the properties be designated as a non- 4 | July 2018 HEYER, GRUEL & ASSOCIATES