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

Exhibit “A”

TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE 300 EXECUTIVE DRIVE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN JULY 2018 REVISED JULY 13, 2018 Prepared By: Heyer, Gruel &Associates

Heyer, Gruel & Associates Community Planning Consultants 236 Broad Street Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-741-2900 The original of this report was signed and sealed in accordance with N.J.S.A. 45:14A-12. ____________________________________ Susan S. Gruel, P.P. #1955 _____________________________________ Fred Heyer, AICP, P.P. #3581 ____________________________________ John Barree, AICP, P.P. #6270

Township of West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey | 300 EXECUTIVE DRIVE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN Contents RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER PLANS ...................................................... 21 INTRODUCTION AND PROCESS ......................................................... 4 State Development and Redevelopment Plan (SDRP) ......... 21 STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS ................................................................ 6 State Strategic Plan....................................................................... 22 EXISTING CONDITIONS ........................................................................ 7 Essex County Plans ........................................................................ 22 Location and Description .............................................................. 7 Master Plans of Adjacent Municipalities ................................... 23 EXISTING ZONING ............................................................................ 9 ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS.................. 24 Existing Land Use ............................................................................. 9 Redevelopment Entity .................................................................. 24 REDEVELOPMENT CONTEXT – SUBURBAN OFFICE MARKET ......... 12 Property to be Acquired .............................................................. 24 PLAN PRINCIPLES, GOALS, AND OBJECTIVES ............................... 13 Relocation

Acquired .............................................................. 24 PLAN PRINCIPLES, GOALS, AND OBJECTIVES ............................... 13 Relocation Assistance................................................................... 24 Goal ................................................................................................. 13 Affordable Housing ....................................................................... 24 Objectives ...................................................................................... 13 Provision of New Affordable Housing Units ............................... 24 RELATIONSHIP OF THE PLAN TO TOWNSHIP LAND DEVELOPMENT Amending the Redevelopment Plan ........................................ 24 REGULATIONS ..................................................................................... 14 Duration of the Redevelopment Plan ....................................... 24 STANDARDS OF THE 300 EXECUTIVE DRIVE REDEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION OF REDEVELOPMENT PLAN .............................. 25 DISTRICT ............................................................................................... 16 Redevelopment Agreements ..................................................... 25 Purpose ........................................................................................... 16 Permitted Uses ............................................................................... 16 Bulk Standards ............................................................................... 16 CONCEPTUAL RENDERINGS FOR 300 eXECUTIVE DRIVE ............. 17 CONFORMANCE WITH TOWNSHIP OBJECTIVES ........................... 20 Master Plan Reexamination Report and Update (2010) ....... 20 HEYER, GRUEL & ASSOCIATES

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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

Township of West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey | 300 EXECUTIVE DRIVE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN HEYER, GRUEL & ASSOCIATES 5 | July 2018

300 EXECUTIVE DRIVE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN | Township of West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS b. The Master Plan of the County in which the The Local Redevelopment and Housing Law (N.J.S.A. 40A:12A- municipality is located; and 1, et seq.), requires that a redevelopment plan include an c. The State Development and Redevelopment outline for the planning, development, redevelopment or Plan adopted pursuant to the “State Planning rehabilitation of the project area sufficient to indicate: Act” P.L. 1985, C398 (C52:18A-196 et al.). 1. Its relationship to definite local objectives as to 6. As of the date of the adoption of the resolution finding appropriate land uses, density of population and the area to be in need of redevelopment, an inventory improved traffic and public transportation, public of all housing units affordable to low and moderate utilities, recreational and community facilities and other income households, as defined pursuant to section 4 of public improvements; P.L. 1985 c.222 (C.52:27D-304), that are to be removed 2. Proposed land uses and building requirements in the as a result of implementation of the redevelopment project area; plan, whether as a result of subsidies or market 3. Adequate provision for the temporary and permanent conditions listed by affordability level, number of relocation as necessary of residents in the project area bedrooms, and tenure. including an estimate of the extent to which decent, 7. A plan for the provision, through new construction or safe and sanitary dwelling units affordable to displaced substantial rehabilitation of one comparable, affordable residents will be available to them in the existing local replacement housing unit for each affordable housing housing market; unit that has been occupied at any time within the last 4. An