[0:09] Open public meetings act. Notice of the time and place of this meeting has been posted

[0:14] and sent to the officially designated newspapers. Roll call. Vote, please. That'll.

[0:25] lodge it here. Yes, here. Khan. Here. Money. Here. Roberts. Here. Schuldiner. Here. Singh.

[0:33] here. Taylor. Todd. Here. Locklear. Here. Sharma, here. And now we will have the salute

[0:46] to the flag. Okay? Flag of the united states of america. And to the republic for which it

[0:55] stands. One nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Right now, I'm

[1:06] going to open nominations for the chair. Do we have a nomination for the chair? I

[1:14] nominate dave camp, and do we have a second? Second? And do we have a motion to close

[1:20] nominations? So moved. And a second second roll call vote please. Yes yes yes yes, honey.

[1:33] yes. Roberts. Yes. Schuldiner. Yes. Singh. Yes yes. Yes. Good evening. Is yours? It was a

[1:45] hard fought battle, but thank you everybody. And as everybody on the board knows, except for

[1:53] our newest person, I take this pretty seriously. And I'm really proud of what we did

[1:59] last year, because that was a challenging year for this board. So I'm glad to be back. Okay.

[2:07] do we have a nomination for vice chair? I would like to nominate our vice chair. Second,

[2:18] I was going to second. Okay. Two seconds. Do I have any other nominations for vice

[2:24] chair? Okay. Another hard fought battle. And can we do a roll call, please? There. Roger.

[2:33] yes yes yes yes. Money present. Roberts. Yes. Yes. Singh. Yes. Taylor. Todd. Yes. Yes. Okay.

[2:49] this is everybody always jumps for this one. Do I have a nomination for secretary? I

[2:57] nominate sarah roberts. Oh, I will second that. Any other nominations? Sarah, do you

[3:08] accept the nomination. Oh yes. Okay. Good. Roll call please. Tara. Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes

[3:19] yes. Singh. Yes. Taylor. Todd. Yes, sir. Yes. Okay. Thank you everybody. First order of

[3:30] business is our meeting schedule. And be it resolved by the planning board of the

[3:35] township of montgomery that the planning board will meet in 2026 on the second and the

[3:41] fourth monday of the month, and that the monthly meeting dates of the board are hereby scheduled on the following dates to commence at 7 p.m. In the municipal building located

[3:50] at 100 community drive, skillman, new jersey. All interested persons may attend

[3:54] and be heard. Special work sessions scheduled periodically will be noticed as required.

[4:00] upon scheduling, this notice shall be transmitted to the officially designated

[4:05] newspapers and filed with the clerk of montgomery township. Those dates in 2026 are january

[4:13] 26th, february 9th and 23rd, march 9th and 23rd, april 13th and 27th, may 11th, june 8th

[4:22] and 22nd. July 13th and 27th. August 10th and 24th. September 14th and 28th october 12th.

[4:33] november 9th and 23rd. December 14th and then the reorganization meeting will be

[4:39] january 11th of 2027. Do I have a motion to approve the slate of meetings? Mr. Chair, can I

[4:46] make a comment? I believe october 12th is columbus day, and I don't know if the

[4:53] township is actually open that day. That's true. October. Anyone have a calendar handy?

[5:01] no. Let's see. Yeah. Do you have the township one? I'm just checking to hear december 1st.

[5:09] and I do have our. Our closings usually follow the state closings. And I believe the

[5:21] state is closed on columbus day or indigenous people day, if we want to call it that. So okay,

[5:27] maybe we can double check that because I don't have it on my calendar either. Usually lisa

[5:31] will put it, but we can double check as yeah, well, why don't we confirm the rest of the

[5:38] meetings, vote on that. And then to martin's point, we will figure out what dates in

[5:43] october. We'll meet. Okay. And then we can do that at our next meeting to finalize october

[5:49] 12th. So do I have a motion? Yeah. Subject to changes I move it. Okay. Do I have a second?

[5:55] second roll call, please. Sarah. Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes okay. Next order of

[6:11] business is the site plan subdivision committee meetings and be it resolved by the

[6:16] planning board of the township of montgomery, that the site plan subdivision committee will

[6:20] hold on the following dates in 2026 at 8:30 a.m. Virtual meetings enabled by zoom gov.

[6:28] special work session schedule periodically will be noticed as required upon scheduling. This

[6:33] notice shall be transmitted to the officially designated newspapers and filed with the clerk of montgomery township. All interested persons may attend those portions of the

[6:41] meeting that the applicant is being heard. Those dates are february 3rd, march 3rd, april

[6:49] 7th, may 5th, june 2nd july seventh, august 1st, september 1st, october 6th, november 3rd

[6:58] and december 1st. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve these meetings? Second. Second. Okay.

[7:10] roll call please. Jerry. Yes yes yes yes yes. Roberts. Yes. Yes. Singh. Yes. Taylor. Todd.

[7:22] yes. Blackler. Yes. If I can just interject for a moment, sherry just texted me. We are

[7:29] open on columbus day, so that's why that date. Oh, okay. We are open. Okay. Then we will not be

[7:36] coming back about this next meeting. Thanks, sarah. Okay. Next is the designation of the

[7:43] official newspaper. And between january 1st, 2020 sixth and march 1st, 2026. The official

[7:54] newspaper for legal, municipal advertising and notice shall be the courier news and the star

[7:58] ledger in accordance with pl 2025, chapter 72, section 4654, no later than march 1st, 2026,

[8:06] township notices will be posted on the montgomery township website and will be available

[8:11] at public notices. Montgomery township, new jersey beginning march 1st, 2026, applicant

[8:17] notices for public hearings must be in an eligible online news publication. Okay, so

[8:31] until march 1st, it's going to be the actual newspaper. After march 1st it is online. Is that

[8:36] correct? Okay. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Do I have a second? Second? Roll

[8:44] call please. There. Roger. Yes yes yes yes yes. Roberts. Yes. Yes. Singh. Yes yes yes. Okay.

[9:01] next order of business is the appointment of subcommittees. And I'll just read who the who

[9:07] will be on the various subcommittees. First is the master plan land development

[9:12] ordinance update committee that meets from six, 6 to 7 p.m. On the second and fourth mondays.

[9:19] so there will be an hour before the planning board meeting. The members are. Mayor and myself

[9:29] and marvin schuldiner and arun mani. Site plan subdivision committee meets the first

[9:35] tuesday of every month at 8:30 a.m. Via zoom. Members are. I'm sorry, patricia taylor todd

[9:44] paul blodgett, mayor, and myself. And then marvin schuldiner will be the planning

[9:52] board liaison to the transportation advisory committee that meets on a

[9:56] quarterly basis. And the planning board liaison to the edc economic development

[10:02] commission will be our. And marnie. And I believe those are our committees. I have a

[10:10] comment on the meetings. Yes, it looks like august 1st is a saturday. Oh. Which one,

[10:20] forgive me is august 4th. August 4th, august 1st. That's the site plan. Yep. All right.

[10:36] so yes, it must be a typo. It must be the fourth. So I will make note. We will adjust it

[10:45] okay. August 4th, third or fourth. Oh of yeah it's the tuesday right. Tuesday. Yeah

[10:54] yeah. Okay. Thank you pat. Okay. Next item is the approval of a combination membership for the

[11:08] new jersey federation of planning officials. Membership is $212.50. Do I have a motion

[11:15] to approve that expense? So moved to have a second. Second. Roll call please. Yes yes yes

[11:28] yes yes yes. Schuldiner. Yes. Singh. Yes. Taylor. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Dara. Okay. Next

[11:42] item is the appointment of professional services under the local unit pay to play law. And

[11:48] the professional services resolution is resolution oh one dash 2026. Look at that. The

[11:54] first one. Whereas there exists a need to acquire the following professional services for 2026

[12:01] without a fair and open process as defined by pl 2004 c 19, the local unit pay to play law that

[12:10] includes the planning board, attorney, planning board, planner, planning board, landscape architect, planning board, traffic engineer and the planning board engineer. And

[12:20] whereas, the montgomery township purchasing agent has determined and certified in

[12:25] writing that the value. I'm sorry, just making sure the value of the services over the

[12:30] course of the contract is anticipated to exceed $17,500. And whereas the new jersey

[12:37] local public contracts law njsa 40 a colon 1101 authorizes the award of professional services

[12:45] contracts without competitive bidding. And whereas the chief financial officer has certified

[12:49] that sufficient funds are available for the aforesaid services in accordance with the

[12:54] amount set forth in the 2026 temporary budget, with performance of said services

[12:59] after march 31st, 2026 being subject to the township's amendment of the 2026 temporary

[13:06] budget and or adoption of the final 2026 budget. Now, therefore, be it resolved by

[13:11] the planning board of the township of montgomery as follows. And the chairman is

[13:16] hereby authorized and directed to execute a proper agreement with the following the law.

[13:21] excuse me. Office of karan casey, llc as our planning board attorney clerk. Caton.

[13:29] hence, as our planning board planner and just. Thank you and clarke caton hintz, as well as

[13:40] our planning board landscape architect, tnm associates as planning board, traffic

[13:45] engineer and environmental resources, inc as planning board engineer. This contract

[13:52] is awarded for a period of one year for the amount set forth in the contract and without

[13:56] competitive bidding as professional services under the provisions of the local public

[14:01] contracts law. Njsa 40, a colon 11 51a as contracts for services to be performed by

[14:10] persons authorized by law. To practice recognized professions that are regulated by law, and

[14:15] because the services to be performed are not susceptible of quantifying in bid

[14:21] specifications. Everyone got all that these contractors have completed and filed with

[14:27] montgomery township a campaign contributions affidavit as required by njsa 19. Colon 44

[14:35] 20.2 certifying they have not made any prohibited contributions to a candidate

[14:39] committee or municipal committee representing the elected officials of the

[14:44] township. A copy of this resolution, the certificate of contract value, the campaign

[14:50] contributions affidavit and the executed agreement shall be placed on file in the office of

[14:54] the planning board. The notice of this action shall be published once in the official

[14:59] newspaper, as required by law and performance of services under the terms of these

[15:04] contracts and payment for services is subject to the certification of availability

[15:08] of funds by the chief financial officer. Okay, do I have a motion to approve this part of

[15:16] the resolution? So moved. Do I have a second second roll call, please? Dara blodgett yes yes

[15:26] yes yes yes roberts. Yes. Yes. Singh. Yes. Taylor. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Dara. Okay. Next is

[15:40] public participation for items not on the agenda. I do not believe we have anyone from the

[15:46] public. So I will skip that. And next item is a resolution. It's a resolution adopting the

[15:56] 2025 stormwater management element as an amendment to the montgomery township master plan.

[16:02] do I have a motion to approve? So move. Do I have a second? Second roll call, please? Dara

[16:13] khan yes. Yes. Roberts. Yes yes yes yes yes okay. Next is an extension request. This is case

[16:26] pb oh 323. The applicant is harlingen associates llc. It is for block 6001. Lots 3334 34.01,

[16:38] 35, 35.01 and 36 route 206 montgomery township. It's an extension of preliminary and

[16:45] final major subdivision site plan approval to january 8th, 2027, and for the applicant,

[16:54] richard johnson, attorney. Good evening. Good evening. Here to get an extension of vested

[17:00] rights under njsa 40, column 55 d hyphen 52. We got preliminary and final site plan,

[17:09] subdivision and bulk variances, design waivers, exceptions on. January, the resolution was

[17:24] adopted on january 8th, 2024. So our time is up for vested rights as of january 8th of

[17:31] this year. Was approved by the planning board in november of 2023. This is the application

[17:39] for two story, two story, affordable market rate mix housing apartment buildings

[17:46] with 18 apartments, 11 of which are affordable. As your third round obligation on the mount

[17:54] laurel. Seven of market rate at 36 three bedroom townhouses. You recall that this is one

[18:02] where we're doing extra work for the township, for sanitary sewer, to bring the sewer line

[18:12] across down the rutland road to the manhole, and then the township then will decide to

[18:20] connect to the properties in harlingen village, which have failing septic systems, which

[18:28] have been failing since I came to town about 50 years ago. So it's it's a real boon to the

[18:36] town. Beside being your third round obligation. So what have we? What have we been doing in

[18:42] the last two years? We got somerset planning board approval on august 9th, 2025.

[18:51] we got somerset union conservation district approval on site on june 4th, 2025, we

[18:59] got new jersey dep approval for the stormwater discharge general permit on site approved

[19:05] on january 26th, 2021. We have somerset union soil conservation district for the

[19:11] all on site soil, sediment sediment control certification on june 30th, 2025. That's for

[19:19] the sewer line we got doing dnr canal commission approved certificate of approval

[19:26] received on october 15th, 2025 fret freshwater wetlands statewide general permit number

[19:34] two for force for the force main crossing, the fox brook gp. General permit number six for

[19:41] filling up the swale and a gp ten a for a driveway crossing and a transition area waiver

[19:49] averaging. It was submitted by our environmental consultant, environmental sciences on

[19:55] 862024. I've been advised that it should be approved within a month. We got approved njd p

[20:05] approval for the flood hazard area verification method six on september 16th, 2025 we got

[20:15] njdep approval for freshwater wetlands. A letter of interpretation approved on

[20:22] january 7th, 20222020. The nj permit for flood hazard area verification was approved on

[20:32] august 29th, 2022. Let's see what else. We've done. Various easements and other things in

[20:43] order to. Get our plans approved, which are being reviewed by mr. Darcy's office.

[20:53] revised plans. We've had comments and so did mark herman, your engineer. And let's see

[21:01] for that. We got the cross easement approved on the november on october. Sorry,

[21:17] november 11th, 2025. We got the municipal services agreement approved on on december 15th,

[21:28] 2025. We got the drainage easement for the open space lot approved on october 29th, 2025.

[21:37] we got the driveway easement because if you recall on this one there, the driveways

[21:45] crossed into the common area, and that was a condition of the resolution drawn by miss casey

[21:50] that was approved on july 9th, 2025 open space dedication. There's open space lands. We

[21:58] submitted our environmental audit was approved by miss wasikowski. We have to clean up

[22:07] some garbage, which we agreed to do. We completed the construction sequence agreement,

[22:12] the affordable housing agreement. The deed restriction for affordable housing was done

[22:18] today. Was approved today. I did a contract for a temporary construction access easement

[22:28] for your public works. That's the offsite sewer that's being reviewed by mr. Herman and miss.

[22:37] mrs. Quiroga. A temporary construction access agreement between montgomery and the ems,

[22:44] the first aid squad, which is finally signed. Let's see what else we have. And we sent in

[22:57] our homeowners association papers last week through mark herman wanted a certain

[23:07] restriction on the stormwater. Stormwater facilities. We said that in he's reviewing that and

[23:19] that's about it on this one here. The long pause was because for the off site

[23:26] easement that we had to get from richard meier for the sewer took for a long time,

[23:33] because you had to get an appraisal and you went back and forth and back and forth with

[23:38] mr. Myers attorney. And that was only done on may. The easement was dated on may 25th

[23:46] at 2025, and that prevented us from going on to his property and doing soil testing, in

[23:53] which delay the sewer, which we now have. We do have the sewer. Bids in approved by mr. Herman,

[24:04] your engineer. I drew a contract for that. I had to draw another contract for that.

[24:11] he's. He and miss quiroga is are doing for your public works access. Because we have to put

[24:19] the sewer line on that and the also the agreement for sewer capacity for the. Pipe plant.

[24:34] so that's what we've done. We need a little bit more time, probably within a year to

[24:39] complete everything. Again, the big hold up on this one was getting mr. Meyer to agree to

[24:47] the easement finally, by the township committee. And and you're you're comfortable that

[24:54] a year is you're comfortable with the year extension. You feel you feel comfortable with

[24:59] that. That should do it. Okay. Okay. As you can see we did a lot of work on this one. Oh

[25:07] yeah. Look this is a this is a this is a pretty this is an involved. The offsite sewer.

[25:14] yeah. Across the fox brook go under the fox brook. And you know it took a long time. Yep.

[25:22] okay. Given that we do not have public comment, we'll go right to board, question discussions.

[25:28] any questions? Yeah, I have a question. Mr. Saltzman, can you divulge what was involved in

[25:38] the agreement with ems? I'm sorry, what was involved in the agreement with ems? You made

[25:48] reference to an agreement with ems. Oh, we're we're not giving them a line, but we're giving

[25:57] them a lateral up to the foundation so that the only thing they have to do is get a

[26:03] plumber to hook up to the lateral so they can get rid of their septic system. Okay.

[26:10] thank you. And then what we're doing is we're originally going to only do a lateral a line,

[26:18] put a sewer line. And they were going to put a lateral in but they cried poverty. And so

[26:25] we're putting the lateral into the foundation. So all they have to do is get a plumber to

[26:30] hook it up and to whatever facility they want to hook it up to. Thank you. Any other

[26:39] questions? No. Okay then. Oops. Sorry. Then let's do I have a motion to approve the the

[26:50] extension request. Do I have a second? Second? Roll call please. Dara. Sorry. Yes, yes,

[27:01] yes. Khan. Money. Yes. Roberts. We lost. Roberts. Schuldiner. Yes. Thing. Yes. Yes. Loffler.

[27:15] yes. Sharma. Yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you. You're all set. Okay. Next item is approval of the

[27:27] minutes of the december 8th, 2025 regular meeting. Do I have a motion to approve? Do I have

[27:33] a second, please? Second. Roll call please. Dara. The first I didn't hear. Sorry about that.

[27:42] okay. Yes. Yes, honey? Yes. Singh. Yes. Taylor. Todd. Yes. And khan. Yes. Okay. Future

[27:52] agenda items. This is a this is a addition this year that we're going to have. Yes. At least

[27:59] once a month where we're going to put on the agenda what we believe future agenda items are

[28:05] going to be. So if anyone from the public does come, they will hear things that are coming up.

[28:12] so it's again, just another way of letting the public know about potential things coming

[28:17] in front of us. So we have two future agenda items. One is the 23 orchard road redevelopment

[28:25] plan, and the other is the amended affordable housing plan element. Before I go to future

[28:33] meetings, I just would like to welcome our newest board member, mr. Sharma. Welcome, welcome.

[28:39] yes. Thank you and should be as much fun as we had last year. So I think we welcome mr. You

[28:50] know I just I'm I'm you think marvin. Yeah I mean I've been looking at I've been looking at

[28:55] marvin on boards for you know 15 years. So marvin schuldiner welcome back. It was like I

[29:00] hadn't even left because this last application was part of it. I handled it at the beginning.

[29:07] so yeah, it's, you know, like nothing. It's still going on for years and and. Exactly

[29:13] right. So, marvin, are you good with it? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Sorry about that. Yes. Welcome

[29:20] back. Thank you. Okay. Future meetings january 26th will be a planning board meeting. If we

[29:26] have items, as far as we know, we don't know yet. And then february 3rd is the site plan

[29:33] subdivision committee meeting at 8:30 a.m. Via zoom. February 9th is a planning board meeting.

[29:39] and february 23rd, our scheduled planning board meetings as well. Do I have a

[29:45] motion to adjourn? So moved. Do you have a second? Second? All in favor? Aye, aye. All right.

[29:55] thanks, everybody.

Jan 12, 2026 Planning

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