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MONTVILLETOWNSHIP PLANNING BOARD
8:30AM Start
195 Changebridge Road, Montville Municipal Building
SUBCOMMITTEE MINUTES OF JANUARY 8, 2009
ROLL CALL
Mr.
Karkowsky - present
Ms.
Nielson - present
Mr.
Lipari - present
Mr.
Visco - present
Also
present: Joseph Burgis, Planner
BUSINESS
Discussion
re: PSPP/F08-11 Lasala Development - B:
40, L: 30.03 & 30.04 – 2
Jacksonville Rd.
Present: Frank LaSala, applicant
Adam
Remick, PE
Mr.
Remick indicated that they the County Planning Board abandoned, at this time,
their plans for road improvements at the corner of Main
and Rt. 202. Mrs. White indicated these
improvements have been on the book for approximately 6 years. Mr. Remick indicated that the County felt it
would be too expensive to condemn this site since the improvements originally
engineered and financially approved would require taking of the entire lot.
Discussion
ensued on whether or not some other type of improvements could be made since
this was a concern to the municipality some years back, thus the request for
road improvements in this area. Mr.
Barile was asked to address this also at the municipal level. Mrs. White indicated she conferred with Mr.
Barile on this matter of road improvement.
Ms.
Nielson indicated that the municipality is concerned about traffic improvements
in this area since as Towaco redevelops, there was a need to make sure areas
like this are upgraded to address any resident concerns previously voiced to
traffic congestion issues.
Ms.
Nielson suggested that perhaps Eric Keller from Omland Engineering should take
a quick review of this issue to see if he could offer some traffic calming
and/or improvements in this area to respond to the township’s concerns.
General
comments offered to the applicant was the entrances on Jacksonville as well as Main Road, and perhaps there could be a
redesign and/or shifting of some of the improvements to respond to upgrades in
traffic improvements at this intersection.
Parking
numbers and parking needs reviewed. Mr.
LaSala indicated that he has provided parking for 10 employees on the Goddard School site adjacent, which is under his
ownership. He also indicated that the
original Goddard School
site had deferred parking of 14 spaces, and that as part of this approval, he
would construct those parking spaces, which would mitigate parking number
issues, but as a result, would increase impervious coverage on the Goddard School site.
This
property is located in the prime aquifer.
Existing coverage on Goddard lot is 50.2%. Mr. Remick indicated he has designed
stormwater system exceeded the recharge percentage provided for in this
code. Mr. LaSala also indicated that it
was his intent to use pervious pavers to further comply with intent of Towaco
ordinance/master plan.
The
issue of COAH was brought up. Mr. Burgis
indicated this development would require 2 units since the retail is calculated
(perhaps a monetary contribution), as well as the residential component. Mr. LaSala indicated that he would review
this, and if possible, allocate the one bedroom unit to the affordable needs of
the municipality, possibly seeing if it could be aged restricted unit. Applicant indicated he would address this as
this application goes further at Planning Board level.
In
view of issue with traffic and safety related improvements and need for the
Township to take another look at this site, Mr. LaSala indicated he would carry
this application from the regularly scheduled Planning Board meeting to the
January 22nd meeting to allow the board engineer, Eric Keller and
Mr. Barile to confer and review site plan.
PMISC08-45
Signature Marketing Group – 25 Riverside Dr.
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B:
182, L; 7 – office (3,700 s.f.)/warehouse (29,200 s.f.) appliance
distribution/assembly – 18 employees – 8:30am-5pm Mon-Fri – no outdoor storage
- signage to be in compliance with approved theme (Frasetto)
Approved
subject to compliance with use letter, sign theme and agency findings.
PMISC08-46 Kramer U.S. – 700
Main Rd. – B: 40, L: 30.01 – 1,400 s.f. office for
pharmaceutical equipment sales – 3 employees – 8am-5pm Mon- Fri – no signage
requested – no outdoor storage (Karl Weiss – Kitchen Creations)
Approved
subject to compliance with use letter, sign theme and agency findings.
PMISC08-47 Stephany Yang – 28 Bloomfield Ave – B: 170, L: 16 – office 850 s.f. -dietician,
marriage counselor, accu-pressure – 2 employees – 9am-7pm Mon-Sat – signage to
be in compliance with approved theme – no outdoor storage (Carpel)
Approved
subject to compliance with use letter, sign theme and agency findings.
Discussion
re: Master plan Re-examination schedule
Mr. Burgis indicated he felt that the
best way to proceed with this is to hold
workshop meetings before the regular meeting of the Planning Board starting at 6PM with the Master Plan Subcommittee. He indicated there are three components
involved: Re-examination, Housing Element and development of new ordinances. He said he would first begin with a meeting
with Mrs. White to review the previously
adopted re-examination report, as well
as meet with Mrs. White to review some background data. It is
anticipated the Planning Board will start this subcommittee review at the first meeting on
February 12th at 6PM. Mr.
Visco was asked to sit on this Master
Plan subcommittee as an ‘alternate’
Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Linda M. White
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