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MONTVILLE
TOWNSHIP ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
MINUTES OF MAY 16, 2007
7:30AM
ROLL CALL
Nick Cifaretto -
present
Ron Cain, Jr. - present
Everett Vreeland - absent
Mark Tabakin - present
Leonard
Murphy -
absent
Ron Soussa - absent
Jennifer Horowitz (Alt #1) -
absent
Carol Ann Soroko (Alt #2) – present
Anthony
Speciale – present
Liaisons:
Planning Board Liaison: Gary Lewis - present
OLD BUSINESS
‘How Do Guide
‘ not discussed. More work needing to be done on this, and a lot more has
to be done. Subcommittee will work on it and bring it back to a future
meeting.
Rezoning updates
Kevor Konner
site looking to develop a Lifestyle Mall use. They will come in with a
concept plan once they get all the parameters from DEP and buildable
area. They also indicated that they need a temporary tenant for Hertz Penske
site since this site will not be part of the Lifestyle Mall. The
representative indicated that the ultimate build out would be a restaurant on
this site. Mr. Lewis indicated that the owner should come in with a
planned development project showing the ultimate development and then deal with
temporary use under that scenario.
GI Auto Site: General
discussion ensued on where this project sits. Mr. Lewis indicated that
the applicant was asked to come to the Planning Board several times, and that
they haven’t done so. Recently Linda White indicated the Planning Board
asked the planner to readdress the type of uses that may be able to exist on
this site. Originally they asked for aged restricted housing of 400
units, but no ordinance was ever developed to respond to the Planning Board’s
input offered from tours conducted. The applicant thru Boswell now feels
the site may be better suited for a box retail use like Lowe’s and is coming
back to Planning Board with this type of layout. The Planning Board did
put this on their agenda to discuss with Mr. Burgis on May 24th, and
asked Mr. Boswell to renotice for the June 14th Planning Board
meeting to discuss his conceptual ideas of retail box store development.
Committee members felt
that the owner Rene Avila should be contacted by EDC to help in promoting
redevelopment in this area, and indicated he would contact him to clarify the
change from housing to retail and discuss his ideas and coming to the township
for a meeting to review this property for redevelopment.
Sunoco Site:
Mr. Cifaretto indicated that there was a meeting held on this site with the
owner, along with he and, Ms. White and Ms. Nielson and that they reviewed a
conceptual layout for retail use on the site. Owner indicated he could construct
a building that would meet retail use. At that meeting, members all gave
some ideas of why types of uses, parking ideas and development ideas to help
promote redevelopment of this area. Mr. Cifaretto indicated that he would
be meeting with Ms. Horowitz and this owner again this morning to further
review their property ideas.
Website Development
Linda White indicated
that she has been advised that they are moving forward with new web design and
that she has sent a lot of the information she gathered to Mr. Perkins will
take the concept/information and modify for our use.
Meeting with
Commercial Realtors – not discussed due to time constraints
Updated Business
Inventory Listing & Existing Businesses: Linda White indicated
this was updated but more work and updates have to be done. She indicated
she hasn’t heard from Mr. Vreeland who usually sends her any updates he may
have.
NEW BUSINESS
Potential Coffee
Shop Use: Mr. Cifaretto indicated he wanted to bring the board up to
date on his investigation into a concern that a potential developer who wanted
to construct a coffee shop in town was being told it would be 8 months before
they could even get before the board. He indicated he has found that this
was not accurate and that the applicant’s professionals were the ones that had
given that information to the potential developer. He did place calls to
the proposed developer but did not receive back any further calls.
MINUTES
Adoption of EDC minutes
with amendment to indicate the ‘welcome’ section was taken from Summit.
Accordingly amended minutes of 4-18-07 adopted unanimously.
Approved: Mr. Speciale, Mr. Cifaretto, Mr. Cain
Next Meeting:
June 20, 2007
Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Linda M. White
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