how are you So you guys talked about some dates Yes May I think you said May 8th right Or May 8th May May 8th Okay Oh well is there another day after that I know So that's the next thing I was going to You know first first second pullet
starts right I'll wait till it'll be soon Sorry folks No everybody gets to sit up here first There'll be a reason Just What's that Just go with the flow Everybody just go with the flow I always
do Carl Carl is Carl is uh taking a taking a making a left turn and everybody's got to go along with it Albuquerque I know you have Are we ready Are you ready We're ready David are we ready
Yeah I didn't turn my Why You're here just enough to say hi Yes exactly Would you like this It'll be a little later Well but the point is look yeah I'm not
open I would call Rob and scream at him Ron P Oh Rob Rob Robert Robert Are we ready He had us all ready and then see Is it like Alexa We can we can we just
say dim the lights Make the camera waggle There he goes He gave us the serial Give us the seal All right we're ready All right Good evening everyone Welcome to the Hillsboro Township Planning Board
meeting of April 3rd 2025 Please join me in salute to the flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all
Please be advised this meeting has been duly advertised according to section five of the open public meetings act chapter 231 public law 1975 otherwise known as sunshine law Notice the 2025 annual meeting schedule has been provided to the officially designated
newspapers The township clerk post on the township's website and available here at the Hillsboro Township Municipal Complex In addition application document documents and plans have been made available on the township civic clerk website at least 10 days in advance of this evening's meeting Complete
application files are available in the planning and zoning department for inspection in accordance with the public meeting notice That may have a roll call of board members and also board and township comm professionals Please [Music] vice chen Mr Wagner members of our tali
are absent Mr Flag here Mr Rawitz here Miss Smith here Mr Deb here Mr Smith here Committee Leani present Mayor Cherelli here Sher Sarra here Mr Co present Mr Ball is excuse me Miss Ball
is absent Mr Bernstein maybe Mr Mayhew here And myself and the videographer here Okay Welcome everyone If the board will indulge me I'm looking to take things out of order this evening because and you'll find out why in a moment So I want to go right would like to go right
to this even this evening's application of Homestead Road LLC and come on up Two objectors You got two We got two seats We'll fight for it Yeah No one fights for one because not going
to be sitting here for long Okay Okay So again a home road LLC file number 21-PB-25-MS backsp with a time of decision of April 30th of this year And you guys can
introduce yourself Good evening chairman members of the board Craig Janetti of the law firm Dave Pittney on behalf of the applicant Homestead Road LLC Good evening Mike Pisaro policy director for the Watershed Institute Objector number one
John Lan Objector number four Scott Gross Objector number two Brian Tarantino representing SWAT Lori Cleveland from the Sourland Conservancy Okay welcome everyone And before we get
I'm going to turn over to Mr Bernstein Well I'm not here So Oh you're here for this part I might I might be I was I wasn't sure Uh Mr Chairman it has for the board's edification six members of the board are
eligible to participate in this hearing as this has gone on for the duration it has Unfortunately two of those members are not here this evening While it looks like we have a full group we do But for the purposes of the
Homestead Road hearing we became aware early this afternoon that two of the member at least one of the member we thought was going to be here in fact is not We advised Mr Geianetti's office We advised the objectors
It has come to our what would normally happen based on that is it would come to next week's meeting which we have but we have come to the understanding and Mr Giannetti will place his own comments that he and his witness are both unavailable next week and therefore we
have to look for scheduling another meeting and an extension on the time of decision rule because we are not going to get this done by the end of April So yes that that is correct And if if you
recall from last meeting when we sent set this date as we typically request we typically request for two dates and we talked about April 10th but I advised I was going to be unavailable and I also learned that our witness would be unavailable Uh we were prepared to go
this evening um and finish the public questioning of our traffic expert Um so I believe the date that was mentioned previously was uh May 8th if
that date is available and then would also inquire if there's a second meeting May 8th [Music] Second meeting ladies and gentlemen will probably be in June because the board
has a remand from Judge Menon on another application that is taking priority over your I saw I saw him today in court You got in my week So um we're probably looking at one of
the meetings in June We will have to get back to Mr G and Eddie before the 8th as to when that will be because we are juggling not only that application but the housing element fair share plan that we have to get done by the end of June and whatever other matters So I would
ask that Mr Gianetti graciously grant a time of decision through June the 30th and that we set down another meeting and by the way this is going to have to be basically on the record because there are insufficient members
of the board in order to carry it So it would be carried until unless anyone has any objection carried until May 8th 2025 at 700 p.m or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard Time of decision is
being carried until Juneth What I'd like to do is you want to do May 31st May 30th or 31st whatever 31st and we'll look at it where we are Correct Uh I do have a housekeeping issue that council was supposed to bring up but I guess I will Well I was going to bring
that up now Well bring it up Okay Uh so as the board may recall at the last meeting uh we finished um the direct examination of our rebuttal witness for traffic We completed our rebuttal witness for uh civil engineering
uh the objectors were instructed if they were going to have any further rebuttal of the rebuttal uh that the reports were going to be due 10 days prior uh for this meeting And as I mentioned we were prepared to go this evening and finish
the small amount of public questioning that was available and then was expecting that the objectors would if they had anything to present would be presenting uh they did not submit the report and for that we said we believe they should be foreclosed you know from
trying to use this adjournment uh through no fault of the applicant to try and get a second bite at the apple I would concur Mr chairman I board members or who's eligible Okay All right
Well there's nothing really say agree I agree for purposes of the record and this is for the objectors Mr Dean is will be back here Correct me if I'm wrong Mr Janetti on the 8th of May Correct He is you you're finished
with his direct testimony Correct Yes I reserve any redirect depending upon what comes out in the rest of public questioning I believe Mr Pisano had questioned him but memories are fading since it I I
don't believe I had any questions for Mr Dean Well I I believe I don't think I think you were the last one and that's where we sort of public comment Public comment Thank you Mr So basically it's public comment on Mr Dean then potential
rebuttal You're done Redirect Redirect Pardon me You're done with rebuttal Correct Are you planning on any of you calling rebuttal witnesses without a report Let me just seek a clarification
The applicant is not calling any additional witnesses Mr Ford's testimony is done Mr Dean's testimony is done That is it at this point So yes our rebuttal testimony is done Uh
we will respond in some form or fashion to the review letters we received Um we're still going through it We believe a lot of the stuff they raised our position has been addressed in testimony Uh and we'll highlight that
They may not agree with it or they may not think it's satisfactory but it's our position was addressed But we'll we'll be responding to that Uh but it's not our expectation that we will call them as witnesses unless the board
specifically wants to hear from them So go ahead I I was just going to say I mean to the extent there's no additional testimony from the applicant's experts with additional information I have no intention of
calling in you know uh Dr Emerson back If plans change i.e the site plan the storm water plans change as a result of the review letters then I do want to reserve the right to do
so if necessary And I will use if necessary Not Mr Gianetti you have any idea when you're going to have a response to Mr Mayu and Mr Kois's reports Uh I would suspect in the next two weeks
Um and I there's I'll confirm with them but I don't expect any plan revisions or uh revisions to the strong management report If you if you pro today is the 3 If you provide
the material by the 20th of April which is the Friday a by 21st of April which is the f Monday after Easter we'll post it on civic clerk If any of the objectors plan on
calling a witness or because there'll be no reports calling a witness we would ask that you advise us 10 days in advance of May the 8th Copy Mr Gianetti's office so he is aware
and we'll know where we are Assuming no changes in anything and the public is done questioning Mr Um Dean Dean Dean then it will
be public comment on the overall application followed by the closing presentations by the objectors and in the rare moments in life Mr and Eddie will get the last
word and then it will be up to the board on deliberation and I suspect that will be where the next excitement will start Sounds good All assuming we get five people So okay Any other questions from
the objectors andor applicants Council Yeah just can we just circle back to the calendar for a minute So we have May 8th We're looking at the calendar for a second meeting You have May 8th for for what would have been tonight I understand But we had May 8th right For
the next meeting And then if we're talking about a blocking for a second meeting possible meeting if I heard correctly you were going to get back And all I wanted to say for the record for Mr Pasaro and I are not here on May not available on May 15th the following I
just want to block May 15th There's gonna I don't think we'll be lucky enough to get first of all May 15 May 15th is not a board guys Secondly the board is not going to deal with this application beyond May 8th and May We're
we're under another constraint from the court But since we keep filling in the calendar I just wanted to give courtesy of it would most likely be June 5th or June 12th would be the next depending on where depending on where we're at But that's where you shouldn't participate And we're we're also at in terms of
other items But we will have a better idea by May 8th If not before really if there's a date that we have in mind before the 8th we will circulate to everyone
But remember it's also a count issue Anything else ladies gentlemen Appreciate it Okay So I believe Mr Bernstein outlined a motion to carry Well there's no motion Do you have do not have enough people to
make a motion or a second Well that that that that's true Fair point So the parties have agreed The party Yes on the record to all of this Yes And maybe just one more announcement for the public of it being carried to that date would be
appreciated This this application will be carried until Thursday May 8th 2025 at 700 p.m or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard in this room without further notice
Thank you Time of decision till May 31st Thank you So with that everyone that was interested in the application it's free to go One last item for procedure I did receive a signed document from the mayor
indicating that an absent member he has reviewed the transcript from the May 13 March 13th meeting and he will be eligible to to participate when the meeting reccommenes in May
hopefully Thank you All right So now we're going to return to our normal scheduled uh normal scheduled program You want to wait a couple of minutes Yeah Okay You say that
You say that [Music] What's that I gave it to somebody so many problem is fair So I got to lock down I got to make sure Jen knows
because after Okay the uh the crowd has cleared We do still have people that are interested in seeing what we're doing Okay so we are moving back up to the top We do not have meeting minutes for consideration We do have two resolutions
for consideration First up is Somerset County Senior Wellness Center the pavilion with a file number of 25-PB-01-infuse me Eligible members are Mr Flag Mr Ratowitz Miss Smith Mr Deb
and the chair Thank you May I have a motion I'll make a motion Okay Is there a second I'll second Okay Any comments from Zas Hearing none Roll call please Mr Flag Yes Mr Editz Yes Miss Smith Yes Mr Deb
Yes Chair Sarra Yes Next TV LLC File number 23-PB-02-MS Same people Same group Okay Mr Deb made an emotion Mr Deb thinks he's Mr Scobo Uh well you know he is sitting in his seat So he he's kind
of challenging channeling him He has to turn the volume down Well that's true He has to talk Yeah Yeah You're too audible because you know No because we never could hear him Right All right We have a We have a
motion We have a second Oh sure Second Thank you Comments from DES Roll call please Mr Flag yes Mr Rowitz yes Miss Smith yes Mr Deb yes Chair yes We do not have any planning board business We don't have ordinances
for consideration Now we will go to business from the floor for matters not on this evening's agenda If there's anything you would like to come up to address to the board obviously please refrain from anything directly or indirectly warehouses because as you see
we have a couple of active applications going on and please state your name and address for the record please Good evening everyone My name is Richard 921 Lewis Street from the Burough of Manville I drove all the way here tonight I didn't know so I figured I'm
going to comment anyway right So planning boards are difficult to serve on and a lot of you are volunteers up there that don't get paid and I just want to say thank you from a neighboring burrow for what it is you do because I get it and
um driving here tonight coming in on the driveway Mayor I'd like to give you some credit and the American flags really brought a tear to my eye It's a great time to be in this country to be an American and I love what you did with all those flags in your parking lot So
keep up the good work guys I'll be back in May Have a good evening All right Thank you Mayor Any of you No All heads shaking What You here for the pizza
You You changed your shirt from earlier too All right Okay So with that well do we do we still have anything on the agenda for next week So nothing for April 10th and also the 24th 24th is still up in
the air in terms of a possibility of master plan Okay Okay You want to hold on to that I think just then can I have a motion to cancel the April 10th 2025 meeting So moved Second
Okay Comments Anyone really is objecting to canceling the meeting Sorry Who was the motion And the mayor The mayor and the and the board secretary That's all right Okay Roll call please Mr Flag Yes Mr Rowitz Yes Miss Smith Yes
Mr Deb Yes Mr Smith Yes Committee Yes Mayor Cherelli Yes Chair Saraji Yes And with that I will entertain a motion of adjournment So moved Second All in favor I Thank you all And we're adjourned all night cuz I couldn't
get [Laughter]