Redevelopment Agency - Regular Meeting

Okay. The following is the agenda for the regular meeting of the Pont Lakes Redevelopment Agency. The meeting is to be held at the municipal building at 25 Lennox Avenue on Tuesday, March 20th, 2025, beginning at 7:30 p.m. For more written advanced notice as required by NJSA 10:4-1 has been provided this meeting at least 48 hours in advance of today given the time, day, location, and the and to the extent known the agenda of this meeting. Such notice stated that formal action may or may not be taken. This notice was one posted out on the bulletin board outside the offices of the municipal clerk reserved for this notice from announcements. Two provided to the suburban trans designated by the bur council to receive such notices and three filed with the clerk of the borrow clerk. Please stand for pledge allegiance. I pledg 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. Thank you. Um okay. Uh before we begin, uh just uh want to make two quick announcements. Glenn is not going to be here tonight. Glenn is our executive director of course. his daughter was playing lacrosse and blew out her knee and they're on their way to the hospital. And very sadly, uh you all heard just now that u Andy is not going to be here cuz his mom had passed away. So uh I believe the funeral the wake is tomorrow at Scanland's at uh 48 48 and then the funeral is at St. Mary's on Saturday 11:30ish. All right. Sorry to hear that. It's a tough thing when you lose a parent. Yes. May we have a roll call, please? Yes.

Uh, Mr. Kriley here. Miss Novak here. Mr. Ross here. Mr. Kimberlin. Uh, uh, Mr. Sinki here. Uh, Mr. Lava Lavasi here. Is that how you pronounce it? Lavasi. Lavasi. And welcome. Thank you. And Mr. uh Oh my god. Okay. And we will not have any uh the engineer of the plant will also not be here tonight. Pretty easy night. Yes. Well, thanks for coming out. We appreciate y'all. I'm sorry. Uh now have a motion to approve the minutes of the reorganization meeting of February 6. Please, did we get those? We were those minutes. I didn't print them. I left them. There's a copyright. I'll make a motion. Okay. Thank you, Matt. A second, please. Second. Ken. Thank you very much. All in favor? I opposed. Abstain. Okay. Have a motion to accept the regular meeting minutes from February 6. Motion. Ken. Second. I'll second. All in favor? I opposed. Abstain. So moved. One present, right? Mr. Oh, Mr. Do you know how that works with the president stuff like that? Okay, great. Um, thank you. Okay, something new which this sounds I don't know who brilliant idea this was, but they want to vote on the bills we're submitting. And no offense, Joe. It's for the lawyer and for the professional services. We have copies of the bills. We don't know if they're

accurate or not, but um we vote on them and then the council then authorizes payment for something. The council will not it would be um once it's uh the PL will be issued. We vote if approve or not to approve and then um the department head will sign off on them. The department head's the building inspector s. So, if you're not comfortable voting yes, you don't have to. It's gone. I don't know. I'm going to take a vote and we're going to see where it goes. And I'll say that if there's any questions about our statement, I'll be happy to answer them if I can. Don't hesitate to ask them. Uh, and if I can't answer him, uh, Andrew will when he when he starts. So for now eating so I just that's there in life how does S app prove it but he has no idea what we do here. So I it's a flawed system from the getgo. I can't believe they put it through anyhow but that's what happens. So um you have any suggestions for us on this that Joe? Have you ever heard of language? Well, not exactly, but uh with uh another entity we represent that is under the eegis of the board of commissioners, they have the right to veto the minutes of the Morris County MUA. So, bills are approved at the meeting, but then they have to we have to wait for the for the board of commissions to decide whether they're going to veto or not. It's a little bit different, but is the issue here that you haven't seen the bills? Well, we just don't know how to reconcile. Oh, yeah. We just now came through. They came through on the email. They came You should see the bills before you approve them. Yeah, they came through, I think, in the in the second

email, right? Yeah. Because this was just just recently. So you want to So I'd say they may want us they may want us to approve these because ultimately these are going to be built against escros. Right. Right. Ultimately got charged to the developers. So we may have to be approving them because charged to the escrow. You're not you don't control the escrow. That's controlled by the or the burrow. Is that is that the issue? I can Yeah, I can control. So there's two couple there's a couple wishes here. when you need to see the bills before you vote on them, you have right to do that. If there are any questions for after looking at them, they're open opportunity. So, the bills for Mayiti, there is four bills and if they start the T that's coming from their escrow. So, those are are um ones that came to the board already. For instance, 2011, a QF, that's a POS snip project. And the next page, you'll see details of why what the charges are, correspondence, um agreements, um all to do, uh redevelopment plan with uh Kristen Russell. Um I guess these are all correspondence and that's how the bill came for that particular account for pumpkin Smith. Yes, we we itemize on our bills uh the time it takes to do those functions you just mentioned. So I will say that my experience in generally reviewing attorney bills is there's no way to like you're you're taking them on their word. Death validate deaths. It's a trust situation. you're you're kind of giving them a reasonable smell test. Um, and you know, me personally looking at them, I think they're reasonable, you know, customary and reasonable for what they're looking to do. Um, they'd be

built against the escrow, I think, except for the first one, which is the regular, the admin. Yeah. The like administrative overhead, right? Um, so I would personally be okay with these, but certainly if Well, thank you for that. Appreciate that. That's helpful. That is helpful. All right. A motion to approve Marazi Falcon LLP bill uh invoice for [Music] $2,467.30. I'll make that motion. M second, please. I I'll second it. Abby. Thank you very much. All in favor? I opposed. Abstained. Okay. Uh motion to approve Cay's Engineering and Design Professional Services in the amount of $928.75. Okay. So, let's just look at $928.75 and what and uh so I see the invoice, but what is it? Does it tell us what it's for? So, these two um you I sent you the the first cover and then I sent you what the in detail of what the the bill is. So these are for two escros. One is for um escrow 4201 if you lab again from Collier's engineering. uh it's uh coordinates with the bureau prepare uh comments um and I guess from the meeting uh preparation for the master plan for 2011 Monikue and then the second one was 60 Wik um hold on let me check this backwards no that's right it's 2011 is $92 right 60 is like 61 or you have is $836 all coming out of their escrow. Um and then 61 AQ in detail is uh

coordination with the burrow prepare the master plan consistency that's the one that we had um right the the red redevelopment and went to the council council went to planning planning but factory redevelopment okay so so that so this is all coming out their their correct okay motion to approve I'll make that motion Abby a second I'll Matt. All in favor? I I opposed and abstain. Abstain. Okay. Thank you very much. Roll call, please. I just had all voted. So that was the roll call. Yeah. I said this was the first time. So I I was just following Yeah. Follow me. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Uh, as far as correspondence is concerned, there's a memo from uh, Liz Brand as the mun clerk uh, letting us know that Riverdale has a uh, redevelopment plan for um, North Park by the Riverdale School. Oh, so that's exciting for them. We know what it is or not? No, I I think it's just a plan. No, we don't have any. There's no, right, no plan. I think it's the old public service yard across you know where you know where the public service yard is. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. It's it's that lot. Okay. In front of like there's a power substation and then it kind of goes deep next to it. Oh, the back lot. And it I looked at it today. It's it's for allowing like a apartment campus almost like multiple buildings in an apartment style with walkways between them. Um yeah, so they're looking to get some affordable

housing units on that in that area. So all right. It actually was a pretty good plan like and Collers did it. So it was a pretty good whole encompassing plan for that site. So it was a plan. That was okay. Yeah, it was a draft plan. It's in the Riverdale. It's on the Riverdale website. Yeah, it's in their minutes or it's in their packet for their board. Okay. From their 20 from their latest meeting, the PSDG order is coming down. Uh I don't know what's coming down, but it's it's that's what they're okay. Probably like Longburg building, I think, is is probably coming down. So, all right. Uh moving along the next memo from uh Elizabeth Brandis deport uh regarding uh land development in Wayne. Um I didn't read this. Does anybody have to read this one? Uh these are just correspondence for you to get familiarized with the surrounding towns and what's in the happenings. Yeah. And so I think a lot of it was about um they were lowering the maximum height restrictions. I do remember that somewhat to what do you know? It was all based on different zoning. One of them I remember was like from 25 uh stories down to three stories. Oh. So they really made some of them. Some were from four to three and a half from four to 2.5 from 50 ft to 35 ft. Yeah. I do that accessory structures 15 ft max. Um are we supposed to discuss this stuff or just be aware of that major information? Correct. So we certainly can discuss. Well, I think it's interesting that they're lowering their their maximum.

Well, we're not addressing that. I think we ought to be addressing that on this board. I mean overall we don't have a design plan and we arbitrarily in my opinion uh give out um variances and we're doing that over there on 61Q Avenue on this particular we're going from I think two stories to four stories and we're eliminating retail. So I mean we need a design plan. I keep on saying that after 10 years. Yeah. Well I think the design plan I think two things we do have a plan. We have a master plan. We are also like if you look at the um I think we readressed in 2017 or 18 the overall 17 the the um the overall plan and it did warn us not to do this willy-nilly to have design concepts and to not not give variances out you know just from like shooting from the hip. We should have a plan. We should stick to it. And if we're going to uh make a change to the plan, it should be for um we should methodically think it out and have a logic reason why we're doing it. Putting a four-story building over on 60 um Q Avenue when there's only twotory buildings there right now having no, you know, it it doesn't there's no tree line or anything. It's fitting of this big building on this small little lot. I'm just pointing that one out. there's other areas who are doing the same thing and we need to be aware that like it looks like Wayne I've seen Wayne a lot of people talking on different uh social media that um their their constituents their residents are pushing back on the the um over over um development the high density units that are being put in Wayne and uh Pmpton Lakes is a smaller town you should be sensitive to the fact that a lot of people are not thrilled And so just keep that in mind. And I think we should have a plan so this can

be talked about and and um in a public forum. Um it used to be back in the like 19 um late 1990s early 2000s when we were going to put in high density housing in the flood plane of uh Joe Field. We would get this whole area packed and then out, you know, all the way out to the Lennox Avenue. People would be out there um wanting to voice their opinion. It seems that since social media and uh co have uh transpired that we have uh constituents that are not comfortable um voicing their opinion in in a in a setting like this. But if you read the social media in for Pmpton Lakes, you can see that there's an overall lack of enthusiasm for some of the highdensity housing that we're doing. And so I think if we're going to do it, which we are doing it, um we should have a really good reason why we're we're having um we're we're making changes to our or our plans that exist already. And without a design plan and a concept, um I think that it's hard to explain. I will say this regarding social media that you mentioned, I stopped reading it because it seemed always negative, never positive. And quite honestly, I recognized six or seven names on the last one that moved out decades ago. Right. So feedback here. Look at look at here's another meeting and there's nobody here. So but unfortunately when there's when there's nobody here, that is an affirmative. It's an affirmative. We take it that way. Well, we have to take it that way, right? We do have to take it that way. Well, what I'm saying is since we're not getting like we're not getting the input that we used to get like a couple decades or a decade ago, I think that planning is really even more important than it ever was. That's my thought. That's good thought. Okay. Anything else on that? Moving along. Memo number three is about Jason.

Welcome aboard, Jason. Thank you. Glad to have you here. Uh memo number four from Liz is about um what's this about? 612. Oh, 61. Yes, it is indeed uh amending the uh downtown redevelopment plan. Uh that was in your packet. And the last memo is regarding um authorizing the uh payment of taxes. This is also for 61 Avenue. So the pilot plan that we don't authorize the the mayor and council does. Yeah. There'll be no executive records report tonight because as I mentioned Glenn is not here. No presentations, no applications, no resolutions. Any new business? Maybe this is new business. I see oath of office to be administered. Well, that that would be Jason, the new guy, but he got sworn in last night. Oh, you did? I was going to volunteer to appreciate that. Thank you. Thanks. Good catch. Uh, we have no executive session. I'll open up to the public. I will close it to the public. Motion to Well, that was fast. and Matt and In and out. Go in and out. How we do things here?