oh no Township Township attorney we have a no we have a special attorney special coun special councel special okay so we are recording and we are now webcasting I got through it live at this time I'm going to call the March 27th meeting in the maple sha planning board to order public notice of this meeting has been given in accordance with the provisions of the open public meetings act would everyone please rise and salute the flag pled algi to the of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all we'll have the O of office for Matt greeves we swore in Mr McDonald at our last meeting that's correct yeah so Mr Reeves you please raise your right hand and repeat after me I please state your name Matthew Rees do solemly swear or affirm do Solly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and I bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and to the governments established in the United States and in this state and in the state under the authority of the People by the authority of the people so help me God so me I do further solemnly swear I do further solemnly swear that I will impartially and justly that I will partially and justly perform all the duties of perform all the duties of the office of planning board member the office of planning board member according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God now we are finished that's congratulations to the F welcome welcome to the planning board my voice are you sick don't come get SI no I Ain sick got a frog in my throat I get sick on you you got to blame me Matt you're an alumi at the CYO right basball team I knew Matt when the old CYO baseball scenes okay roll call please Daniel McDonald here Matthew re here CLA wpe here Susan dansson here Steve Smith present Z beardon here Emily Wallace here Robert wi Marian Constantine here Justin Bennett here Joseph Dugan here there's no new business and there's no old business I wonder why don't we cancel this meeting 23 pages is why oh we need that 23 Pages done okay so solicitors resolution resolution number 2224 pb01 resolution granting board reorganization professional appointments and Adoption of minutes meeting schedules and official newspapers can we do these all ones or do separ well this was from January so we'll do this one first 24 pb1 okay can I have a motion to approve no move second all those in favor I opposed item resolution number two is 24 pbo2 resolution granting amendment to previously approved site plan for tap shed construction to to Dr Britt's Beer Company block 91 lot 3 applicate number application number PN 2207 can I have a motion to approve that resolution second all those in favor I opposed and we'll just let the record reflect it only members who were present at the meetings at the meeting in February and I believe everyone did vote in favor there were no uh there was no contary votes at any of the applications but for for all in favor purposes it's only I better take a roll call for well well I think we have it's it's I usually do I thought I could get by with the all in favor on these wasn't sure it's hard to tell who's responding in the in the eyes but guy who was here for this meeting for eligibility purposes it's only the MERS on page six I have for the February meetings okay so if uh for the we'll do the next one okay resolution number 24 pbo3 resolution graning preliminary and final site plan and conditional use approval for automobile Services station to flying against Town Center LLC block 18904 lot six can I have a motion to approve that resolution move second roll call please can I startop okay Daniel McDonald I'm just wondering why we do CLA walp yes Susan Danon yes Steve Smith yes Emily Wallace yes Maran Constantine yes Justin bannett yes Joseph Duan yes resolution number 20 24 pb4 resolution granting amendment to a previously approved site plan approval to Baron's urban renewal Associates LP block 64 Lot 1 application number PB 2401 can I have a motion to approve that resolution so made do I have a second second roll call please Daniel McDonald yes clar Wy yes Susan yes Steve Smith approved Emily Wes yes Maran Constantine yes Justin panon yes Joseph du yes under discussions report 2023 zba annual report adopted on March zba at in March zba meeting njsa 40 calling 55d 7.01 who's reporting on that during the year 2023 zoning board handles certain applications if you see the last page I have prepared the table for everyone that represent the applicants uh application number the property who are the applicant and the addresses out of those total 14 applications 50% of the application seven were approved one application was dismissed without prejudice one application was withdrawn by the applicant and five open applications we have carried to the year 2024 so that's where we have distributed the all applications and now five applications will be heard in the year 2024 I have given all detail information about all the application and the decisions their proposals and all the variances if you have any questions you can ask I think you sent that to us I reviewed that already Yes I did okay we have any questions on that that was sent to it when was it s okay very good report do we need an acceptance on that there's no formal there's no action for the that's I right how about the next say there is action yes okay next item on the agenda be cannabis ordinance brief on cannabis Orban ordinance permitted Zone districts and discussions on referrals and recommendations letters from the planning board who's handling that one what have we doing mayor you can give the overview oh I'm sorry you're you're I mean the overview is you know when we say cannabis is we're talking to you yeah unfortunately yeah I mean the easiest way to describe is is um we had originally backed out of cannabis because the state had no statutes no how much taxes nothing they had no information for so so we opted to back out of it um now we're going to back back into it because they have gotten their crud together um we are going to do a manufacturing a production no it's cator a cultivator and then three retail licenses um I don't think it's going to take us very long to fill them we have people knocking every day at the door waiting for a resolution to go through um the yeah the tax um Advantage is is hopefully going to be significant um like very significant uh I I was joking around the one company that's coming in is going to be a grower a producer and a retailer U out of that we're basically a 5% partner with them for free because everything they do we get percentages of 2% One Way 1% another and 2% and other way so uh and we're talking companies that are doing ridiculous amounts of money um New Jersey as a whole is estimated to do over a billion dollars in retail cannabis in 2024 so if we can piece of that uh I think it'll definitely help our taxpayers um we've gone through the the uh ordinance um with Ron mandelo he is the special counsel that we hired he um I think he created a fantastic resolution uh we think we thought of everything he's done a bunch of them we're not the first town he's done um you know so we allowed for where they can be where they can't be uh distances to schools and playgrounds and all the stuff that you know any any parent or anyone with a little bit of Common Sense would definitely want to see had I believe we've done all that so um what we're looking for out of the planning board is just a uh a nod on their end so then the turn Council can get the resolution moved forward so any questions on the Cannabis resolution yes so some of the distances that we have currently um in there they will be uh we're looking at the distances again currently we have 5 1,000 ft um from distances from you know buildings whether it be a public building or it be a school a daycare center whatever so those distances uh Council will consider changing some of those distances I think Steve what do we say 250 and 500 correct is what it was um limiting only because of the how Maple Shade is and how close we are to things um we feel that we still have the safeguards in place to be able to attract um but the 500 and the one ,000 really restricts us as far as as locations so and every one of our I call it our Highway commercial you know if you look at it you think okay coming down 73 you got Sony run and fox meow right behind so it seems as residential behind everywhere where there's commercial so we had to be sure that we didn't you know cut our nose off despite our face there um some towns have crazy back crazy crazy setbacks and other ones have none so um I think we did enough um looking into it and enough looking the tax maps and trying to make sure that we've we've protected ourselves um properly and I think we've done that there's nothing on Main Street in our downtown area there's nothing permitted there it is just in our Highway commercial our HC our C which is General commercial and then our BD and our bd1 which is all along Route 73 and Route 38 is what it is so now what action do we take on this we just recommend it to the uh uh yes so the board has any comments on the resol on the ordinance any recommendations okay for example adjusting those uh we listening you got any additions or examples recommendations I have a question do now these companies that come in and you know they want to build do they get still have to come in front of the board for approval yes yes for it yep um and they got to come in the first thing we're doing too because we're going to have so many uh professionals involved in it um we're not going to make them leave a $500 escrow it's going to be $15,000 like we got to know that they're serious we got to know that they're going to come in they're going to have the money to do it we don't want somebody go through the whole routine open up and a month later by a business it doesn't do anyone any good so just if I could just speak to that um been through a lot of these in different towns and you do get some shady characters coming in some small time they think they're just going to come in do this uh one was an art designer and she realized she had to do a site plan and they backed out of it um but for the most part you do get the bigger agencies that are coming in yeah the couple that have approached us right I mean they've you they've come in and they've dropped numbers and I'll make up numbers for the conversation so like yeah we're going to buy that building for whatever a dollar we know we got to put $100 in you're just stand onone okay and we're talking like numbers in the realy in the millions and they're like yeah whatever we'll put whatever 10 50 million building doesn't matter they know they know it's a future Business Without A Doubt without a doubt it's definitely it's definitely a money maker it's definitely um you know something everybody wants to to get in you know the companies that are doing it want to expand so and you prime example you look at Mount La I mean you ride down you ride down 73 and they're they're they're literally next door to each other they share a parking lot the retail Distributors like they're everywhere and I've never I've never driven pass that without people walking no yeah no doubt well well like I said when when I read the article that new jerseyy is going to do a billion dollars in retail cannabis so I was like we need to be a part of that the rumor was that Diner that sits on the corner of the joke there along that Corridor right there is that it is cannabis row like that's what everybody there's going to wind up being five of them they put tons of money into that Diner when they refer and then it never you figure what's opened it closed it refed it again so now you're going to get your food yeah the one thing about the ordinance too was that we made sure you know the state has given governing bodies a lot of leeway and on being able to make decisions and whatnot but like in our ordinance as well we have this there's a cannabis Review Committee so when an applicant comes in that application is going to have to meet you know certain requirements um before it's even considered you know before it can even go anywhere so it's very possible that you could have you know high level of competition with uh with some of these cannabis you know these cannabis companies um so Council will be able to have that discretion of H you know they they really didn't meet our our our preference our parameters and and what we want to do um and then obviously anything that has to be done does still come before the board so it's not like it's just a stamp of approval you're in here's your application you're done there are still processes in place it's just um again when we first had opted out of the ordinance it was because the state just wasn't giving a lot of guidance and we were not comfortable because once you opted in you could not opt out um so that was the fear is oh my God right in the very beginning if we opted in we would have been stuck and we just we weren't in a position did we had I guess we had the option of not opting in but then you could get sued for not opting in correct no no no we can stay opted out for as long the problem is is that all of our neighboring doing it so like even right now we are a little behind the eightball here and we're a little behind but they're still they're not going to I really did not think that it was going to be as competitive and I kid you not when I when we left the last meeting after we had introduced it I had they must have been watching we had two I had two messages on my voicemail of okay like what's the next step and I'm like wait like let's just slow it down a little bit like we still so it is very competitive I'm sure Fred you've seen I'm sure you've seen it to Del Ry just did four I mean if you could compare it to dry towns four in when we were surrounded by dry towns we had nothing but bars I guess it's like bars willing was up whether or not you want to decide whether or not you want to be a you know a smoke free town or not you know and well well you still can't just cuz you can buy in town does you can't stand in front of the place to smoke I me you can't you can't stand FR liquor store and drink a beer either well this is true right but um willing Barrow has I was up the event with the Mayors where I had to speak on a a committee for um economic um development uh willing bro has a drive-thru of cannabis store has a what drive-thru drive- through I would add on state has started allowing the launches into the kabi retail it's the what Lounge a lounge yes this no everything I've read says absolutely not it is recently start we I don't want any of that here no I mean I personally don't how you going to get him you're not supposed to drive the same thing it's like a bar get drunk what's the difference then you just set the cops out there drive slower the cops are going to be but they also have the UOP they also have the I want to call home it's not home what's the afterwards what I want to call contribute a little bit of money to anything we may want oh now see you're putting me on the spot I can't think of agreement host agreement I want to say the host agreement um and some of these companies have you know looking at other townships they come in and they get everything they want then they come back and they go okay we got everything we want we're getting ready to open what do you want right and these companies said well we want to put whatever lights in our baseball fields and it's a half a million dollars and like done but it's all afterward so it's not like we're doing it as a but they know they're going to make a ton of money they want to be good um good neighbors good you businesses so they're like hey you know we're going to make a crap load of money here's whatever here's your 100,000 half a million dollar whatever the number happens to be for what they got going on but um that's so if we see you driving a Lamborghini you're you are in very serious TR too not going to happen he's still he's still recently same thing happened with the Paul Boro one guy he gained approval for entire project and now he is selling the project only the invest really invest oh okay any other questions I think FR did you have some no I was I know you have distances 500 a th000 did we ever put a map together to make it easier or yes did we did yeah you're not getting a copy we're going to make you work you're not getting a copy we're going to make you work no it's just so we know exactly so people don't come asking a million question oh yeah no it's very it's it's pretty detailed we want that and that was part of it when we said retail licenses right three retail license one cultivator one distributor manufacturer um but yeah it was that was something that I didn't realize it's you can almost spot Zone I hate using that word but you can almost spot zone are you sure about that like some of them did L BL circles to it gets to where you wanted to that's exactly what it some towns literally did lot and block like these lot and blocks are okay these are not like they went through hand I had another town where they defined it the same way and they said that it can't be located closer [Music] that'll go out with the application package yeah where where are we at with the combining boards we're stalled yes completely stalled so so you're good so far just combine combination right right now we have the people that we we were just so short on people that was the reason why it was entertained because every board was either just at members or a member short we had no alternates like we were really short so that's why we contemplated doing it but our residents and our friends and everyone stepped up and we filled the Gap so first time in four years every position's filled every alternate every everything yeah so so we're not merging the boards right right this moment we're not for the ordinance we're looking for a motion to recommend that the governing body uh proceed with second reading I proceed to adopt the ordinance as it's been referred to the planning board and I I I gather from the comments and testimony of the board that the board feels it's consistent with our master plan and uh for that reason uh again we find no inconsistencies and recommend that the governing body proceed with adoption of the ordinance as it's been referred to the board so first and a second for somebody want to make that motion make a motion have a second what he second okay second I second roll call I Matthew Rees hi Daniel McDonald yes CLA wpe yes Susan dson yes Steve Smith approved John Bearden yes Emily Wes yes Maran Constantine yes Justin Bennett yes chairman to yes can I have a motion to approve the minutes of our February 28th meeting 2024 second all those in favor I pose oh I only wanted to add that we have the resolution to send back to the governing body that um is just resolution 2024 pb05 resolution of the township m shape planning board regarding Township ordinance 202 2407 and this just contains our the what we just found 30 seconds ago that the ordinance is consistent and uh we recommend it be adopted by the governing body so uh we would just need a a Voice vote on on 2024 pb5 containing the board's recommendations on our cist ordinance okay have a motion to approve for that yes okay I have a motion to approve that motion to approve that yes okay do I have a second sir roll call it's an addendum and who is the second one John John yeah I think met yes Dani McDon yes CLA wpy yes Susan Danon yes Steve Smith approved John beardon yes Emily Wes yes Maran Constantine yes Justin benett yes chairman Dugan yes okay anything else we have to cover I have two quick things there's a draft on the back of the ordinance does anybody else have that that your is that the minutes I don't know looks like minutes from February that we approved some minutes from our last meeting I think maybe they were just stap together yeah okay got it I was confused um the other question I have is uh is there any way we can get the uh PB things that were passing prior to the meeting yes I I can circulate copies to the I'll email copies to everyone okay um but if if you need any time to to review the res tonight we have no business so it was a night where certainly you know if there was any time needed to review the resolutions we can always take that time during yeah I don't feel like I ever have enough time and I feel like approving without reading that's not fun when I have 75 pages in front of me I get the resolutions to the board I you usually Monday you know 48 hours at least before the meeting okay so that'll be the policy going going forward excuse me I would appreciate that very much any other questions can wej seeing none entertain a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second all those in favor iOS I