Planning Board - Regular Meeting

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come to order February 27 2025 it's now 6:30 um please stand and salute the flag to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all in accordance with the open public meetings act it is hereby announced and shall be entered into the minutes of this meeting the adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by the f following posted on the bulton board of the office of the Township Clerk posted on the bulon boards within the municipal center Municipal complex printed in the home News Tribune in Cranberry press on December 27 2024 posted on the Monroe Township website and sent to those individuals who have requested personal notice Laura can you take the role Mr Rothman Miss brosky here Mr Manesh Patel Miss D an here Mr slavich here Mr weiner Dr Kenzie here councilwoman Cohen mayor's representative Mr Patel here chairman Gaffrey here okay uh Lura earlier this week or last week actually circulated the minutes of the previous meeting on January 23 2025 um does anyone have any questions or comments on the minutes hearing none is there a motion to accept the minutes second okay all in favor I I opposed abstain yeah I have okay we have uh two applications on the agenda tonight and we're going to take them in the order that they're

listed on the agenda so the first one is pb11 9417 700 Highway 33 LLC request for a preliminary and a final site plan with bulk variances Council good evening chairman members of the board Dante alfery on behalf of the applicant 700 Highway 33 LLC the property address is can you put the mic closer certainly thank you you hear me yeah certainly thank you that it's block 8.01 Lots 12.2 and 12 or 2.12 and 2 .3 um it's an existing site with um storage IT services the Extreme Machines dealership which is technically located in Millstone um we're here seeking the board's approval with relation to the installation of a uh 7,000 squ foot uh storage unit so I have three individuals to provide testimony tonight I do have a principal of the applicant who's going to provide some testimony with relation to um the operation of that area in the rear um I do have our engineer who will touch on the engineering side and we do have a planner as well so without further Ado I'm going to have uh my client come up and just lay out what the use is right and Mr chairman as they're coming up just for the record I've reviewed the Affidavit of mailing and publication and the board has jurisdiction to hear this matter if I could have you raise your right hand you swear that any testimony you provide is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth yes if you could state your name spell your last name give us your address for the record please Michael rinetti Rees c n TI 67 Sandpiper Drive man alapin New Jersey 07726 and you are a principal of the

applicant yes so with relation to the application um if you could just explain to the board how this site fits into your operations on the millstone site um we're a motorcycle dealership and the uh the motorcycles and ATVs that we sell when they come in they come in from uh you know shipping containers they come in crates and we when they come in we offload them and we store them in the shipping containers until they're assembled and put on the floor for sale so in the these uh storage area in the rear uh you have some shipping containers which you're proposing to remove after the construction of this 7,000 ft storage unit yes and in this 7,000 ft storage unit you're proposing to take those vehicles and other um parts and uh any other equipment you may have and you're going to place it into that 7,000 foot area yes um do you utilize the existing area for any outside storage yes and what what would be stored outside um people that have uh bigger vehicles um people own boats with trailers so those are typically stored outside and and I know we're talking about storage this is temporary this is just from yes point A to point B this is just they're in either they're new and they're delivered so they have to there's a waiting period before we have the time to assemble and put them on the floor and same thing with the service Vehicles they come in it'll be there for a little while until we repair them and then they leave um with regards to servicing Vehicles this storage area is not going to be utilized for servicing the vehicles you use that in the main building correct correct the storage building is just for storage our our main facility is where we do all the repairs that there's no further questions I have for my client okay thank you Mark do you have any

questions I just wasn't clear about the outside storage are you eliminating the outside storage or what are you storing outside this building after it's built so the outside storage is going to remain there's going to be some um as my client indicated there are some larger vehicles that when they come in they'll be stored for a temporary period of time till they can be moved into the front location or um sold uh the storage the storage containers that are existing now will be removed and the items that would otherwise be stored in there would be then stored in that that warehouse I don't sorry not a warehouse storage so that's like parts that you're putting you Knowles together Vehicles yeah the motorcycles they come disassembled in crates and the ATVs so we We uncrate Them assemble them and we put them on the showroom floor for sale okay and the larger Vehicles why are they stored out there because people bring like you bring your your boat in it's on a trailer it's easier just to park it out in in a spot than uh put it in there I mean you do boat repairs also we we do personal watercraft I call them boats but they're the the smaller the jet skis okay so no com in on trailers yeah we sell them sell and repair I guess yes okay thank you I have to understand outside storage of these vehicles um how how long are they stored on the site it's it could be a day an hour it could be two weeks it depends on um the workload Parts availability things like like that so someone could bring their their ski in on a trailer so you know we park it outside we have the parts for it may come in that day and leave if we have to order parts it may be there for a week or so until the

parts come in the the reason I bring it up and I'll have um chairman um you know the I mean outside storage of materials is not permitted in Monroe Township so is this is this mostly going to be in Millstone and is that been approved by milstone or is it going to be in because I know the site is split right so we want to make sure it's is it in the Monroe side I just want to clarify it's on the Monroe side it's not equipment it's the vehicles themselves so it it's there's not going to be Parts outside there's not going to be anything along those lines it's going to be a jet ski on a trailer for a short period of time which would then be serviced and then removed okay uh we would like that area to be shown where it is because currently on the side plan it's not shown where are you storing these vehicles cuz in front of the warehouse It's just grass area right there's no pavement or anything where you going to store these vehicles sorry I'm asking you maybe we'll wait for the engineer to talk about this but um we want to be clear what is being stored where yeah in front of the warehouse or in the prosed um storage facility it's paved there now but there's nothing there that's just used to get in and out of the yard okay all right thank you any questions from the board y uh currently we're open 9:30 to 6 uh p.m. Tuesday through Friday and Saturday 9:30 to 4 4:30 we're close Sunday and Monday in this rear area there's no access to the public this is just for

your employees correct there's no Public Access back there many employees uh 30 employees 30 so you don't change oil in a dealership we do so it we recycle it yeah there's a company that comes and they pump it out but it's not in Monroe no no Extreme Machines is in Millstone and none of that none of the oil will be stored in this um storage area correct correct no oil it's just Vehicles any other questions no thank you you're welcome thank you um I'm going to have our engineer come up Mr Rob Civ as your right hand you swear the testimony going to provide us the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth yes I do you can state your name spell your last name and give us your address for the record please Robert Civ SIV is in Victor E 100 right Drive in Millstone I'm a license professional engineer and professional planner in the state of New Jersey testifying tonight as a professional engineer I have over about 30 years experience now I testified before this board as well as numerous board Jersey satisfy my qualifications yeah it's acceptable thank you thank you chairman I do have an aerial exhibit that I can mount on the board and I also have handouts I can ask them out if that's all right give me one second hopefully that'll help clarify some

you want it on that side yeah you put the easel to your right or left that way the camera can pick it up you're good this will be A1 A1 thank you thank you and P you want to just call it a colored colored aerial and this is colored aerial rendering of the site and the surrounding area as you can see on exhibit one that was just handed out the red outlined area is the property and there's a lighter line that goes through a diagonal from the upper right corner of the lot across the green hatched area that is the municipal boundary line so the property on the bottom of the sheet or to the South is the millstone property which contains the extreme machine building which is about a 34,600 ft building the parking for the site and the majority of the stormm

waterer management the triangular piece behind that is the first lot in Monroe and that's tax lot 2.13 and that has about 83 acres and then there's a large tract which is lot 2.2 which is about 10.3 acres and there's no development proposed on that lot so as you can see from that aerial the area that is brown is the proposed building and the area that is green is proposed to be grasped but that whole area right now is paved it's been paved for about the last 20ish years what we're proposing to do is remove the pavement in the green area and then propose the 7,000 foot storage building in that remaining pavement area with the rest of the paved area to remain for the storage of the jet skis and equipment that you heard you can see some of them in the aerial how they're stored right now that is the application that's being proposed tonight um just as a little bit of a history this property received site plan and variance approval in 2001 for the extreme machine building I believe they got it from Millstone and Monroe as well and it was built in about 2003 2004 that rear paved area was paved in about 2005 2006 and there's a 10-ft high fence that goes around that area that's part of one of the variances that the planner is going to testify to tonight is the height of that fence but that fence is there it has the white slats I believe in it to protect the view and that is the storage area that Mr rinetti was talking about earlier in the testimony the only other item that is being proposed tonight is in Millstone and that is there's six Park there's actually eight parking stalls on the west side of the extreme machine building the applicant is proposing to extend those parking stalls an additional length he's proposing that CU

he some times gets machines in from customers where they bring their own vehicle and their own trailer and they have a hard time parking sometimes so you're extending the length of those six stalls so what when those customers come they would park there unload and then they can leave so those six stalls are just really for customer convenience as opposed to not having them right now that is the application Mr rimo I don't know if you want us to go through your report if there's questions before we do that you have a question I have chairman yes um you're talking about the the people bringing their boats or something like that are they boats that they're going to keep like say during the winter storage I don't believe it's the store winterizing of boats it's just the repair okay you should come in on the jet skis we do winterization and winter storage but not the larger boats so they no they just have a short uh visit there yes in other words okay and the trailers they bring their own trailers or yeah the boats are on the trailers that's how they transport them around so usually we'll just pull the whole trailer into the shop when we work on it and then pull it back out versus pulling the ski off and putting it on a dolly or some sorts okay so you have Machinery in there that lift the boat inside the storage or outside uh how do you get the boat inside so we leave it on the trailer and we just bring the trailer Inside yeah or we have a uh a hoist where we lift the boat off of the trailer and put it on a dolly to bring it in either one of those options okay thank you I just wondered

if it was stored during the winter there as a follow-up question to that where do you store those winterized items they'd be in the yard right where the the green laser pointer is along the fence there okay thank you thank you excuse me Mr chairman I do want to kind of raise an issue over here um Mr Alfieri I don't think the outside storage was mentioned earlier anywhere in the application and from what I'm hearing tonight it is almost sounding like outdoor storage of materials um I don't know if you have to I mean I think the idea that was presented to us was that the warehouse is being proposed to store everything inside and there there is going to be some display items in the front yard but I don't think outdoor storage of these boats and what whatever else I'm hearing has been you know mentioned before yes um I can speak with my client about that um but we we can continue with uh Mr shiv and I'll talk to him in a minute okay I mean if if that's not permitted I don't think you're before the correct board honestly understood yeah good yeah so I've confirmed with my client and we we'll ensure that those items are stored within that 7,000 foot facility or in the front building which is in Millstone

so there's going to be no outdoor storage no okay great all right you have any questions okay okay well to clarify what we what was testified earlier was that there are items that get pulled in stored temporarily for services and then but we're talking about long-term storage where it's not going to be on that Park so what's longterm yeah I mean hey we're we're we're slicing this real thin all sudden I mean we're going to have items there who this is going to become an enforcement nightmare with what's where and how long has it been there um I mean we can we can put a two-e cut off on them it was simply that because again a lot of it's just dealing with uh the servicing of the the boats all right here's the problem like based on the site plan that was submitted and on record it's there's some parking a area in front on the side the larger parking that we thought was I at least in my memo thought it was you know unloading loading that's being used for trailers and then there's the one-story Warehouse in the Monroe site that's that that about it the question I W I was going to raise tonight is what is all this pavement doing on the side and now we get to know that that's where parking is going to be you know of these RVs or vehicles I mean The Way Monroe ordinance is defining it just saying outdoor storage of materials so you do sell RV vehicles and you know what have you is isn't that part of the material rather than I guess you could Define it that

way but I I I think Those portions themselves aren't for sale it's more for service so those are they're I don't think do you have it well I mean do we want to take a five minute I'm sorry chairman but like if you guys want to talk and then we can also just a quick question for clarity does the ordinance Define the difference between vehicles and materials no it doesn't it just say materials outdoor storage of materials that's why you know when it's being being presented tonight till now at least I didn't hear if somebody else can correct me that there's going to be some kind of storage Outdoors okay so which is what become if the board doesn't mind we we would request a 5 minute recess so we can just clarify exactly what the testimony is going to be thank you thank you e

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we just need them to actually get to the microphone our understanding thank you for your time um so uh we we discussed it and it's my client's um view that at some point this was a permitted I don't want to say permitted but it was permitted in the zone at the time so I think this was existing for the for a period of time I don't have the Zone when it changed so I can't really give you any supporting evidence on that at this point um and they don't have a certificate of non-conformity pursuant to section 68 correct no okay so I mean so in the absence of that so I we what I what I would suggest is we carry the application at this point all right um just because we would like to do a little bit more research into this before we make a determination as if we're going to come back or um go to the zoning board okay um do a carry to a date specific yeah okay um do do you have a short turnaround because I don't this is not going to be a we'll carry it to to next month's meeting so it's it's the fourth Thursday March 27th without notice yeah so this will be carried to March 27th 2025 at 6:30 p.m. in this room no further notice is going to be required to the app thank you for your time tonight thank okay uh Council you ready for uh pb1 1265 d25 Costco Wholesale courp request

for preliminary and final site plan with all variances yes chair good evening members of the board members of the public my name is Jennifer maway M A Za a w y I'm a partner with K&L Gates law firm in New York New Jersey on behalf of Costco Wholesale Corporation um we are here this evening with regard to 10 Costco Drive block 79 lot 20.1 we are in the L um Li light industrial district where fully enclosed wholesale distributive or storage establishments are permitted um we have been before this board in the past as recently as about a year ago um and we're going to talk about a little bit about that approval from last year and um how that's changed in the application that we have before you this evening so this evening we're seeking preliminary and final major site plan approval uh in order to um for four discrete projects all on the same property one is to construct an approximately 3,739 foot building addition to the cold existing cold storage building this is to um add um environmentally um um efficient uh chillers and that is a similar application to what this board heard last year we'll talk a little bit about what's changed um the second uh project is to construct an additional truck entrance Lane which will include two guard houses um and that additional truck entrance Lane will be for Costco trucks to um more easily get in and out of the site which will alleviate any uh queuing or traffic uh lineup along uh in in front of the site uh the third project is to add approximately 1,42 square feet to an existing break room in one in the Cross Dock building on the site and the fourth is to add an

approximate 5,400 ft mezzanine area to the existing cross do building um notice of this evening's hearing was published in the February 16th home News Tribune and was mailed to property own owners within 200 ft of our property on February 14th 2025 in um relation to this evening's um application we do have um an existing variant for uh parking for vehical parking that we're asking the board to um I don't know if re-approve is the right word but uh to um acknowledge um and as well as uh a couple of other non-conforming conditions that still exist that are existing to remain a front yard setback for landscaping for of 50 ft uh where the ordinance requires 100 ft and a maximum impervious coverage on the site of 64.99 per where the ordinance permits 60% and 65% exists currently um in uh for this evening's hearing I have three Witnesses um I have John Alvarado who is the director of real estate development for Costco he's actually sitting to my right now and we'll call him first we also have our engineer um Ed wils from where Malcolm and we have um our site architect claudo breida also from we Malcolm and if the board is ready I can call my first witness go ahead if you could raise your right hand for me do you swear the testimony you're going to provide us the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth I do if you could state your name spell your last name and give us your address please for the record uh members of the board uh my name is John alvorado I'm director of real estate development with Costco Wholesale or our address is 4940 hesho Drive sweet 150 surland Virginia 2166 I going to spell my last name a l v

a r a o and uh if I can give my my business card if it's easy for you so thanks John um could you talk to the board a little bit about the just talk a little bit about the project the purposes behind the different discrete projects that we're proposing this evening okay so as Jennifer mentioned we have little projects on the different buildings that we have on the side and we decide to compile in one so to make an easier process so we don't have to come back here like five times and present different projects to you guys um so the first one is the cold store expansion um so the if I'm not mistaken that was the project that was already approved previously for you guys and when we order the equipment that are going to be in that building the equipment is too big and we need a little bit more room to install um this equipment that is actually three chillers for you know for the co storage so that's the whole purpose of that additional square footage that we need in that building um the second project is the by bypass line lane installation so um as you will see when the engineers present we have those gar boots when the trucks are coming into the facility will check in and we have one lane that is dedicated for the Costco trucks so we have we receive Costco trucks that we operate and we also receive uh trucks or trailers from our vendors and this is going to be basically dedicated so it's going to be we call it a fast fast path I mean it's kind of an easy pass that they have attack open the gate and you can go through so the intention with this is to Mo mobilize all these trugs quicker to avoid any future I mean any queing that that can happen you know like we open in the morning and bunch of trucks get there and while you process them you end up sometimes I mean getting a little bit of queing the is to avoid if that have I mean to avoid that in so

that doesn't happen uh break room expansion uh we're just going to give a little bit of breakroom a bigger break room for our employees and we're going to have U we're going to put our gym Wen room and have I mean a better amenities for our employees uh the other one is in what we call the CWI cwy building um is going to going to be a Ming expansion and what we're going to be doing there is uh we're going to get all all our boxes that are like you know um not assemble is going to get there of there storage it assemble it and then pass it to the line can you repeat that so boxes like when when we ship stuff right like we get an order receive the order so we need to assemble the Box you know so we can uh ship the products so that's what we're going to be doing there an era to assemble the boxes that we have and uh so John will any of the improvements that we're talking about this evening result in an increase in employee count at the No No we're going to keep the same number of employees is just you know give give better am manage to employees for the breakroom as I say okay thank you and will any of these proposals that we are um applying to the board for will they result in additional traffic additional trucks additional cars coming onto the site now basically uh now is the same I mean if you see the expansion is not to host more uh more area for shipment is just um accessory accessory uh uses that we have in the existing uh square foot facility and you know better as I said a better break room for employees and uh the additional Lane is to you know enter in the facility thank you John I have no further questions

chair do you have any questions um thank you Mr alberado just one question to clarify the mezzanine expansion you said area to assemble the boxes on the orders you get so it's almost like um you're delivering it to households the boxes is that what it is basically I mean some orders that that we have you know to we call it mdo that is uh part of some warehouses and you know that it's like U like an Amazon right that you just put you know the merchandise that when we need to right there's some merchandise that stores that that we have here that doesn't need a you know like maybe a TV you know we don't need a box for a TV but some other items yes no understood so you're basically packing it up to give it send it to the households who asked for the shipping corre now um I heard your test no employee expansion to be clear there's no you know just like you quoted the Amazon like there's seasonal delivery drivers or anything that it would result in you know having these packages removed from the no because there's an existing that's an existing uh operation that we have okay it's just we're going to you know relocate it to I mean to make it the facility function better okay thank you thanks any question yes quick question um and opening statement you said something about coolers oh chillers chillers chillers oh I'm sorry yeah no I mean because uh we receive produce products that needs to be you know temp I mean uh temp control right one of those buildings already a cold storage right like for example juggers or you know milk that that we reive get to that building and the building has to be you know with the right temperature so this building that was approved already we

was hosing the the upgrades to that building for the mechanical equipment and it's called chillers like the you know called the I mean make make the building colder and uh they're too big for what was approved so that's why we seeking the additional square footage okay so they're not noisy outside the neighbors here that's that's what building that's all I was concerned about thank you correct anyone else oh call your next witness thank you very much thank you I'd like to call um Ed wils sorry if you could raise your right hand do you SAR the testimony going to provide us the truth the whole truth and nothing but truth I do if you could state your name spell your last name and give us your address please for the record sure uh Ed wils w i l KES uh my address is uh 110 Edison Place Suite 303 New York New Jersey 07102 and and Mr RS you've appeared before this board before right I have and your credentials were approved right they are current okay you can go forward and just for the record your credentials have not been detrimentally affected since last you appeared been so qualified they have not perfect thanks great thanks thanks Ed um do you want uh if you can please uh walk the board through the current existing conditions and then the proposed conditions for each of the discret projects that we're here to discuss sure and um I might just get there if the board would like the the um the materials or the exhibits that uh Mr wils is going to be sharing we're part of our submission package so you tell me if you'd like us to mark it as an exhibit anything that the board already has does not need to be marked okay perfect so you can just if you don't mind Ed when you're talking about your

sheet just let the board know what sheet you're you're testifying to yeah sure okay um I'm going to start by describing the existing conditions um so what we have up here is sheet C 2.0 that was included in the site plan application um that you see it is an overall existing aerial map so essentially it's aerial imagery is the mic not working you might make sure it's green is it working now yes way different um so say that again or did you hear me okay great so it's an overall existing aerial map so it's aerial imagery current aerial imagery with the uh survey overlay on top of it all right so property itself is block 79 uh lot 20.1 it's 67.0 4 Acres identified as 10 Costco Drive um kind of in the northwest corner of the township so just surrounding this property and for the purpose of this conversation North is basically plan up so makes things simple um to the North and to the east is actually the burrow Jamesburg uh to the South is a rail rideo and to the West are additional um industrial developments uh there's about 2,300 linear feet of Frontage along posum Hollow Road it's in the LI District um and currently the site is occupied by uh two existing Warehouse facilities and a guardhouse um totaling 1,291 Square fet uh there are 861 car parking spaces and there's 1,22 trailer spaces I do want to touch on there was a discrepancy um on the plans I think they had said there's 835 trailer spaces um that really happened because a year ago when we were preparing this originally um the site was still under construction under the 2020 project that was approved and it was actually a lower a lot here that has

been constructed since and so that number of 835 was reflected of the the old number long story short there was a resolution granted for a variance for 1,22 trailer spaces and there's 1,22 trailer spaces on there today um and then the only other item I want to point out is related to the proposed conditions I want to point out the location of each of the projects unless there are questions about the existing conditions okay so we're going to start with project one project one is the the cold storage expansion Lane that's located located on the Center Drive Lane right across from CostCo Drive that's where all the trucks enter and go through the guardhouse uh project three is is on the Northern building in the southwest corner that's the employee break room expansion and then project four is what we're calling the CWI mezzanine uh that's in the northeast corner the CWI section of the northern Warehouse I go through flip it yeah so I'm going to go my intent is to go through real quick each of the little subject areas so you get an understanding what's going on I'm actually going to start not with with on the screen but project area 4 which is a mezanine expansion and that's easy for me as a civil engineer because it's all internal so I don't have a plan to show you about what's happening cuz it's all happening inside um I think you heard a good explanation that's where they're assembling boxes and then ultimately you know providing uh those boxes down onto the um manufacturing line there or the um assembly line um just for the edification of the board the reason why we're in front of you is because that's a 5,400 ft like expansion of area um

there's a separate application sent to the building department directly for the improvements that are made relative to that mezzanine they're actually putting equipment below it and that's why they need the space above it that's all been gone through we pulled out the mezzanine component of that because it was an increase in Gross square footage and based on our conversations with the town they said you should go to the planning board so that's there we do have an an architectural plan that you can see it later but I won't be speaking towards that cuz it's everything's inside so what I have up here is uh sheet C 4.6 of the site plan set that was uh submitted this is uh project area one the cold storage expansion this should look familiar to some of you um 4.0 4. oh 4.0 sorry 4.0 this should look familiar to some of you because it looks very similar to what we showed you a year ago the biggest difference is the as uh Mr Alvarado had alluded to is that the equipment was actually a little bigger than we thought so um this actually ended up needing to be 3,739 sare ft I think previously it was 2,200 now we're at 3, 739 Square ft one you know fun fact that that we mentioned last year that I should repeat here is what they're doing is they're actually changing over their systems it's um right now it's a I believe it's a the fluid that they're using it's a R22 refrigerant um Costco is going around the country kind of environmentally friendly changing their systems over they're moving to a glucose-based refrigerant identified as r513a so it's in the idea of being a little more efficient being a little more green um so yeah so so it's 3,739 ft expansion um on the northwest corner of the building and then ultimately what you can't see here is there is a set of uh metal stairs that are being added to the northern part of that expansion um essentially to be able to walk up to the roof or there'll be some equipment for

maintenance um and that'll be shown on the archite uh when the architect testifies Y and then this area also includes the relocation of some infrastructure that's actually below the building that's a gas line um and some roof leaders all of these improvements are happening in impervious areas so there's no new improv being added the next sheet we have up is a c 4.1 of the site plan application package um and this is is Project area number two what we're calling the bypass lane and what you see here is we're adding a 14t wide additional Lane for for Costco owned trucks that come through I think it was described very well when when Mr Alvarado called it an Easy Pass right um those Vehicles can come through and get into the gate without stopping and being checked in um there are two guard booths being added uh I'm pointing to one I'm pointing to the other they're small 50 square fet each um they're going to be on Center islands and that's really to be you know friendly to the employees allow them to be inside during the weather conditions and be a little safer um than just kind of sitting in the middle of a of an asphalt area um these modifications uh required us to essentially relocate that existing grass median that you see here um we slid it down a little bit South uh into the the parking area that was being used for trailers um and we did that for the sole purpose of ensuring that we're not going to be adding a bunch of impervious coverage um by doing that we ended up being able to reduce the impervious coverage by 185 Square ft in this area um those modifications also include the relocation of an existing fence uh that fence exists today but as you move the island the fence needs to move with the

island um and then we're taking down two two trees and in compliance and in accordance with your tree replacement uh ordinance we're going to be planting uh four new red cedars in that area um go to the next one and then this is Project area number three uh this is sheet C 4.2 of the uh site plan set and um really this this break room area expansion is is a combination of two small expansions um totaling 1,42 Square ft uh one of the areas is going to be used for storage the other area is going to be used for a a wellness room and some training desks and you'll be able to see those floor plans from the architect shortly um as part of these improvements we actually obviously have to provide egress in and out of these areas um the southern expansion requires ADA access um and so we're proposing an ADA ramp as well as stairs up to the up to the doorways um in doing so we had to relocate some utilities there's a a water line below there and again some storm water hookups just have to make sure we're putting those back in where they were um and then there's some metal stairs being proposed for the other expansion um what I didn't mention and I should just bring up is lighting um we are adding essentially the building right now has lighting going around the entire thing um and as we've bumped out certain areas we're continuing that lighting so in total between the two between the break room expansion area we're adding five lights in that area and then in the cold storage area we're adding four LED lights those are singleface you know downward facing LED fixtures 15 ft High um just building mounted lighting building mounted

building mounted yes sorry um and then the last important item to touch on as it relates to this area is there's an existing sign in um in the southwest corner here it says Fleet we are basically relocating that sign onto the new facade so we're not changing it we're just moving it with the new face of the wall and yeah I think go into yep review letters or yeah yeah you want to touch on the review letters or I have questions that questions okay perfect so um uh one comment from the review letter had to do with landscaping and you did mention that we're going to be replacing Landscaping in uh the um the project that has the new bypass truck lane correct we G be replacing landscaping that's being lost because of this um that's correct yeah so we're we're building the bypass lane and doing so we're taking out some green space and a couple trees and we're essentially replacing that Landscaping with four new trees Pursuit into the replacement ordinance and we'll agree to work with the township engineer uh with regard to that Landscaping to be to the township engineer satisfaction correct correct um are there any new utility connections needed for any of the projects that we're proposing there are none there will all be service from internal connections and um is it intended that the bypass lane will um result in additional trucks or um trips to the warehouse to the depot excuse me no the the the I think Mr alado said it said it well before it's really to ensure queuing doesn't occur right now if every vehicle is getting stopped and checked right there's the opportunity for the Costco vehicles that don't need to get checked to get stuck behind them and that can in turn during a peak time end up resulting in cues out of the property so this will allow them to have their

dedicated Lane to go around no new trucks will be coming to the site um the building coverage so there was a a comment in the planner's letter with regard to building coverage um in the current application it is identified as 16.2% um oh was in a previous application was was identified as 16.2% and now it's um identified as 17.73% so can you talk a little bit about that discrepancy sure the make a long story short once we started doing um projects in various areas across the campus we had a new survey done and based on the new survey um that's the the actual building coverage number is 17.73% so that prior number was based on some record documents we appeared before you a year ago we were relying on Old documentation so this is the most current information based on the current survey um and then can you touch on the Storm order management system at the at the Depot and whether we're proposing any changes to that I believe there was also a comment in the engineers letter with regard to quarterly maintenance reports and onm manual sure so the proposed improvements overall are going to result in a reduction in total impervious coverage of minor um 185 square feet but essentially all of the existing systems are going to continue to function as is um you you mentioned one of the comments that came across um during the in the review letters is to provide uh I think it's quarterly maintenance logs to make sure that things are are being cleaned out things are working like they're supposed to be and ultimately we agree to um provide those we've been doing a form of that maintenance already but that hasn't been making it to the town so we're going to make sure that that gets to the town great thank you I have no further

questions thank you Mr chairman so you're agreeable to meet the comments there remaining comments in my February 20th 2025 review which was the way wait if I can just pull that up did did your does your review letter have the waiver for the environment Al impact statement that was the only one that we were going to request so with regard to that um the environmental commission is an outside agency that's included in my review letter and I would say that uh that's acceptable subject to you appearing before the environmental commission and meet whatever requirements they want and I believe we we agreed to that in our last application and then did not have to appear before the environmental commission that I I I believe we did not have to appear but we agreed to do so and we would agree to do so again this evening it'll be up to them it's a new application so uh you'd have to apply to them that's fine but I have no objection to that waiver okay and I think every other comment we can I have oh you I have it over here yeah yeah we can agree to the other comments okay so um I was just going to um reiterate one that's not in there um you have prior approval so I would just say conditions of all the prior approvals would carry forward if they're applicable um particularly uh the condition and the prior approval uh for your preliminary final site plan PB number 1225-d an inspections report for the downstream Channel that's uh before it goes under gats uh Avenue it's along I believe Courtney Road um it's where your outfall is and it runs through a stone line channel that that you had um installed under previous uh approval so I would just uh

want to make sure that that's carried forward and that um that I get reports we we haven't gotten any in a couple of several years I think so okay understood and with that they say you have a traffic uh engineer we do not have a traffic engineer okay we do not have a traffic engineer because the nature of this application wasn't impacting traffic so after you saying that one of my comments talks about with the guard house how is this what does this do to the traffic on Costco Drive entering your site so there there's issues and in the past we've had problems with trucks backing up waiting to get in through gate and and uh how how is this going to help that or is it going to help it and and how yeah so good good question so absolutely it's going to help it um right now I think we're aware that during the peak entrance times you know specifically in the morning um many trucks come to the site many trucks have to be checked in and they end up queuing onto the public roadway there and so the idea of this bypass lane so this that problem isn't isolated to just Monroe New Jersey right they have Depot all over the country and so what they found now is that by putting this bypass lane in which allows all of the vehicles that are Costco owned to just skip this line you're alleviating the potential for a percentage of those trailers to get queued up so they can come in like Easy Pass go right through the gate go right to where they're supposed to go because they know where they're going whereas all these other vendors have to get checked in they stop they wait they get told where to go and that's what's causing the queuing is that check-in point so by minimizing the amount of vehicles have to wait in that checking Point you're actually going to help get

get these trucks off the road during peak times great so um leaving the site so there was also issues that we've had over the years with the trucks leaving the site with their um tailgates open um because my understanding is some type of inspection from your your guards leaving the site but um but then they they pull over on Costco Drive where there's no parking and they're closing their Gates is that is that being accommodated now on site with this new Improvement I might have to confirm that with Mr Alvarado my understanding is That's supposed to be happening onite before they exit is that yeah so what happen is as soon as they get checked in they sorry so the procedure that they supposed to do um is they check out right obviously they need to open to to make sure that they don't taking anything out from the facility that's when they check out they close it and they they should leave so uh what I can do is I want to make sure that that's happened and talk to the managers in the facility so they don't exit Park and they close the the doors but that's the procedure so is is there an area for them to pull over after the guardhouse on site yeah so there is an area for a pull off um I'll point to it on the plans here where they can pull to the side here and allow other vehicles to pass so this I don't know how many trucks can fit here but there's several trucks that that could fit there so they can pull off and take care of that could we uh add some signage to uh point out to the drivers that they should pull over there to close their Gates and and do what they got to do yeah okay thank you Mr chairman nothing else um thank you Mr chairman um Mr wilkus uh just referring to CME memo uh dated February 21st 25 um just as a

blanket you're mostly complying with most of the items raised in our memo is that that's as a blanket yes correct um two clarification points um regarding the impervious coverage just to make the record clear the previous the last year's application that was not the correct impervious coverage what is you've been granted is 65% based on the 12 5520 and what you're coming in today you're reducing it by 64.99 that that's correct and that that discrepancy was something that was supposed to be taken care of as part of resolution compliance with the last application because it never moved forward we never kind of finished that cycle but existing 65% we're reducing by 185 Square ft so it's a nominal decrease but it you know moves in it a little bit thank you and in terms of the parking I know um I heard that it's re-approval of the variance I just want to clarify because of the square footage of the building the requirement is increasing I understand you were approved last time for these many spaces but um you know the the requirement is increased I and heard the testimony that you're not going to increase the number of employees and everything but I would consider that wein so if you want to just very briefly touch upon that testimony and sure clarify that point so so we're adding a total square footage of 10,641 square ft of building um your code requires a a space for every 800 square ft so technically we would need 14 additional parking spaces um as it exists today there's 861 spaces you'll see in the application that we're actually showing in the proposed case that there's going to be eight more and so um to make a long story short as part

of a a building department um approval we're adding more Ada spaces it's not part of this application it's something that's already been approved they're going to restripe so by the time this application comes through you can actually thank you Juan for shooting that you can actually see some of those spaces here that are being added and the note says per I can't read the note clearly but it references that zoning permit that was approved so those eight spaces are were just getting striped anyway so long story short you know the new number is uh 860 869 will be there so arguably we have only added eight spaces we need 14 um so there's a deficiency of six spaces that we're seeking relief for and just to clarify on that Mr wil so the improvements to the site that we're proposing will not bring additional traffic to the site correct that's correct will not bring additional employees to the to the site correct yes correct um at least one the um proposals that we are um before the board will will provide for better flow of traffic throughout the site is that correct correct and the break room will be in will result in increased amenities for the staff as well that's right okay thank you we' ask the board to grant that variance to the extent that it's needed and I do recognize that it's needed okay thank you um and Landscaping I know other than that area where you're adding the additional um trees what was approved from the original site plan is going to be maintained and remain as is in terms of landscaping thank you and no new fencing is being proposed no new fencing just the relocation of the existing um chain link fence that's on that island today okay and because of the new Chiller is there a new mechanical equipment that's being going to be located anywhere there is some equipment associated with that expansion it'll be on the roof um I'll

pass that question off to the architect okay thank you thank you Mr chair thank you any questions from the board thank you Mr thank you thank you I'd like to call claudo breida and we we will have exhibits correct yes for this we will have exhibits because we have we do have a couple of renderings to share with the board good evening if I could just have you raise your right hand quickly do you swear the testimony you're going to provide is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth yes I do if you could state your name spell your last name and give us your address for the record please sure uh Claudio Brea that's b r da uh I'm with where Malcolm located at 110 Edison Place Suite 303 in Newark New Jersey and Mr Raider you appeared before this boort before yes I was here before been approved before yes and no no changes no credentials okay you're approved thank you Pro Council thank you okay Claudia what um if you don't mind can you share with the board uh why don't we go through the three I think there's three um portions of this project that maybe have architecture related to them sure yeah let me start off with um the Garwood I guess that's what we're calling the all four then I didn't yeah yeah I'm just going to high LEL I won't repeat what Mr wils and Mr Alvarado spoke to but just High LEL from architectural perspective so essentially the what what is currently now the look this it's not working there it is so it is now currently the center lane we're building um an island if you will and and within this island we're putting you two gar boots um and these are prefab units you can see here an example here on the

right hand side uh one is a great and one is slightly elevated just to show context but essentially these are preat gar boots and they literally come on the flat B truck and they'll just be dropped into the the center aisle and I mean essentially they just get bolted to the ground uh and power just connects to it everything already comes pretty much from the factory I mean it's has heating has cooling as lighting and as everything already incorporated into these prefab units um essentially they'll be raised on this island you can see here an example and the reason why they rais if you think about the process between the Costco employeer and the truck driver you know there's a high difference with the tractor trailer so for the convenience to pass the papers through we'll have to raise them um within this platform that's why you see there uh some steps leading up to it so that's the g bo and and this sheet that you're speaking to this was part of the application packet for for the board okay great thank you so this is the second project which is the the mezanine um as noted earlier we're building this mezzanine within the existing uh Depot for um assembly of um of carbo boxes if you will um right now the process is being done uh at the ground level and it's becoming very cumbersome and inefficient in the and the way they're they're packaging so essentially we're building this mazine to assemble all the C cardboard boxes excuse me you can see here it's probably hard to tell but there are some openings within the mezine that they're going to have conveyor belts so once the boxes are fully assembled essentially they go down the conveyor belts and that's what starts the the packaging process so that's the mezanine project yeah that's just a blow up of

the Meine I think we could skip that one so this is the third project which is the the breakroom expansion as Mr Alvarado alluded to um we're essentially doing two small additions just to create better efficiency in amenities for the Costco employees um you can see here with the color uh we're adding a piece on the the left and then a small piece here on the right you can see the top plan which is the existing conditions you could compare both of them uh where we're adding the pieces so essentially it's here and it's here you can see here with this piece with my pointer is that's where the current uh accessibility ramp ster is located so as a result of the addition as Mr wils noted we have to relocate this which we're putting right now in the front of the new addition to accommodate the the accessibility requirements from the elevations perspective uh we're you can see the darker tone just that just to highlight the pieces that we are adding to the building uh we're just matching the same exterior materials which is currently uh a metal siding which a combination of white and red which are the Costco colors and this one is going to be a new exhibit which was not presented before so we could label this as we can mark this as A1 whoops we we can we might be able to exactly please stand by A1 please

so essentially this is just a 3D rendering series showing the overall uh building massing uh which obviously it's hard to tell where the additions are but essentially it's this piece here on the left where we're adding and then obviously this piece here in the front with the new steering accessibility ramp as Mr wils noted earlier we do have some new uh building Mount Delight fixtures which you can see here and this is the the signage for the fleet which is essentially just being relocated you know for adding this this signage was further back now with the addition we're just pulling it forward so I think the last one so last but not least is the refrigeration expansion so as noted earlier this was previously approved but um we changed the specifications for the the chaer manufacturer as a result result of that they increased in size so we have to increase the size of the addition as well um but as we noted last time when we're here this current what we're calling the motor room there's currently chillers in there now so as Mr wil said we're putting in new chillers just to be more environmentally friendly because the R22 refren is being phased out of the country so in order to keep the coold depot up and running without any interruptions we have to build this new addition putting the new chillers in place before we decommission the existing ones uh so like that there's no disruptions with the cooling process of of all the the products that we're storing the addition not only increased in sizewise or footprint if you will but

also increased in height um these chillers are um taller so as a result the addition also had to increase in height um as Mr wils noted we're also having a new exterior stair and this is just to provide access to the roof to service the which you can see here so these are the rooftop condensing units that serve the trailers they are existing and they are scheduled to remain um they're still and good operating function so they will remain but we're just providing new stere to access them and provide provide better maintenance and I think we just have one more sheet one more sheet which will be A2 so this is the the last exhibit which is A2 this was not uh previously submitted but essentially just shows the the rendering exterior view of the new edition and you can see they're increas in size uh as well as height uh but essentially it's the same as it was before it's a Concrete uh masing unit exterior walls and we're just matching what was there previously which is essentially in the background of this uh it's two tones which matches the the overall building of the current motor room and Claudio that roll up door that larger door is that where the chillers will enter the building because the size of the chillers as you can imagine these are pretty massive so it needs a large opening uh to bring them in and set them in place and also to obviously to remove them the all ones from the motor room that's behind us okay thank you I have no other questions just fing up on just following up on my

earlier question regarding mechanical equipment where would that be located so if you think of of refrigeration like in your own house right you have what we call split system right you have indoor units which in this case we're calling the chillers so they're going to be housed within this right that's the chillers and then there's the condenser units those are Up on the Roof which is not depicted here because the building's so tall but they're further back the condensing units are existing and they are going to remain we're not changing them okay so they currently exist and they are set back from correct yeah again our new addition is is taller but they are further back yeah you can see them from this perspective um the other question I have is the guard house the elevated guard house you mentioned today what's the height of it the height of the Guard house itself yeah the total height with the elevation so the the height to the the platform is about 3 ft if I recall correctly but the the the G house itself it's again it's a prefab unit it's it's about 7 ft so it's as long as it's within the it's going to be maximum of 15 ft right yeah yeah and keep in mind that they're actually going to be house within the existing canopy that's there already because there's an existing canopy so there there house under that thank you nothing further Mr any questions from Bor um with the guard houses are there two that's correct yes one is for the employ employees no so both so both of these carouses are for non Costco employee or truck drivers if you will so the the Easy Pass Lane as Mr Alvarado noted this is purely for Costco Fleet drivers these two lanes over here are for non Costco drivers so essentially

this is the current or existing gous of fuel right so there's a checking process here there's a window here there's another window here so there's two checkpoints here already so we're adding another two checkpoints which is this one and this one so essentially we're going to have four checkpoints to alleviate the bottlenecking that that we spoke about for the non Costco drivers okay thank you anybody else yeah about the condenser units which are on the rooftop which are the same but you're bringing a little front of the parking lot no no they're staying exactly in the same spot we're not touching them okay the chiller units which are in side it is house where there no noise additional noise will not no from a a noise perspective they're they're about the same as the ones that are currently there in the motor if not a little bit quieter actually they're more efficient thank you anyone else thank you thank you chair I have no further Witnesses this evening okay um that's fine I'm going to let any members of the public that wish to be heard on this application to come forward okay if I stay here would you like me to stay here or S you can you can stay good evening sir if I could just swear you in quickly in case you make any comments so do you swear any testimony you provides the truth old truth and nothing but the truth yes I do if you can state your name spell your last name and give us your address please for the record sure it's Adam Bushman that's bu M an I live at 2 gatzmer Avenue Jamesburg New Jersey 08831 I think I was here I was here the last time and if I could I'd like to just borrow one of your displays the overall the the

aial the first she yep that's onello no it was now is it on there we go okay now I just um just want to be clear um because I already had a impromptu discussion with some of the Costco people and I have to thank Mr Mark razy moitz I well lots of vow or lack of vows there maybe but um for just bringing up the fact that I think Costco is going to be working on maintaining the spillways and everything but that's always been a contention I live on this side near these Retention Ponds this is on gatzmer Avenue and if you notice the two Retention Ponds actually spilled down on to gatzmer Avenue and I used to be on the Zoning Board in Jamesburg back in 2005 when Costco first put the application and to build this Warehouse that's over a million square feet at the time we were assured that these Retention Ponds were going to prevent any possible flooding and also at the time there was some contention about who was responsible for that Spillway after the water has left Costco's property H I kind of had the indication tonight from the testimony that Costco would be responsible for making sure that spillways maintained but at the same time I had a quick discussion with the Costco real estate representative that said he's not responsible for the water once it leaves Costco's property

so I just want to if we could go on record to ascertain who is responsible for that water once it leaves the property so that's just one of the issues I'd like to raise and also I don't think this is going to work but back in 2021 if I could approach the this is some of the flooding uh you're not going to be able to see the flooding pictures but just so people can see well on Costco or on gatzmer Avenue we had a number you know feet of water that inundated the roadway causing emergency vehicles to have to come in and actually evacuate us and this was because of some of the flooding and my swimming pool was also filled with water and fish and debris so I just wanted to bring it to everyone's attention that this is an ongoing problem I'm not faulting the people here from Costco they have every right to build and do whatever they want with their property I just want to make sure that either Monroe Township's engineering department James's engineering department and the Engineers all talk to each other and do the best within their ability to make sure all the spillway and the waterways are maintained cuz right now it's kind of overgrown there's a lot of debris and a lot of other garbage that's in there that's going to impede the flow of water and that's all I just wanted to say so Mr chairman that the U the downstream channel from the uh that that flows out from the outfall beyond the fence that Costco has there uh that channel is actually on Costco's property right up to gats smir Avenue they own that land so uh in the past um when there was a large flood event that that devastated that that neighborhood and and this resident um Costco came out and

they they cleaned up the channel uh I believe they they lined it with stone and that was my comment about the prior condition in the previous approve in one of the prior approvals of they they were supposed to be regularly monitoring that and providing me inspection reports and photos to ensure that that channel was functioning properly uh and again it is their property it's outside of their fence but it's still their property and and that was an agreed to condition previously I asked for that tonight and the applicant has agreed to um start doing that again again it's stopped along the way uh a one of their prior Engineers was providing those reports but now you know he's not here um I'm not sure who would be doing that on your behalf whether it's your engineer in-house engineer but uh we need to get that going again I'll that okay so to to be on the record as a company we are implementing a world a worldwide I would say no a nationwide program to make sure that all our pwns are maintained and are track so this will be part of that as well and we want to make sure that I mean that um I don't know who engineer is going to be doing this but we're going to be providing what is required to make sure that the town and our neighbors know that we maintaining the that includes the regular reporting right yeah exactly that that's that's exactly what I'm saying so and and Mark is there a term so I mean Mr chairman you know I I don't want to hear about National policy and what you're going to do Nationwide I'm only concerned about this facility Monroe Township yeah that's what I'm saying is like I don't want to wait for some something you're going to do nationally I mean this needs to be done frankly starting once you get approved here yeah

yeah and it should have been going on all along so what I'm saying is that yes we're going to be providing those records and the part that we've seen in some other parts similar issues we implement this to make sure that we keep track of everything and we're on top of it so that's why I'm not saying that because we're doing a national we're going to forget about it no I'm I'm trying to say is because it's an program that is going to take care of all facilities I mean so this doesn't happen and I do want to just know for the record having spoken with my client I believe the inspections are taking place yes we may have not been providing the required reporting of that but I I don't want the board to to believe that we that these inspections have not been occurring they have been occurring um we simply may have not been um providing the appropriate amount of reporting back to the township that we should have and we will and I I recognize that was a condition in 2020 we accepted that as as a continuing obligation to us this evening and to the extent that the um the portion that the gentleman is speaking about is beyond the fence but is on Costco's property then that is on that's Costco's responsibility correct Mr chairman I just asked our attorney to have some wording in there uh on this U condition that we've been discussing so that our zoning officer could uh follow up with it if if it's not taking place if we're not getting those reports I will make sure that is it included in the resolution should the board approve it thank you thank you anybody else from the public wish to come forward good evening if I could swear you in quickly if you could raise your right hand for me do you swear any testimony you're going to provide us the truth all truth and nothing but the truth I do if you could state your name spell your

last name and give us your address please for the record Barber Bushman 280 gatzmer Avenue Jamesburg New Jersey okay I just have one question since I've been coming here for 20 years now they now say they're going to monitor what's happening my question is God forbid we ever do get a flood again who is going to be responsible to help us because we physically cannot do it again because when we get water we get this much water within 30 minutes my basement gets wiped out my home gets destroyed and nobody has ever helped us so if it happens again who is responsible to help us I don't know that I can answer that question without knowing what's occurred so uh I mean it's a hypothetical question that we would need to see I mean if there was liability then then obviously it could be pursued but I mean I don't know that anybody has an answer to every meeting and we've talked about it for 20 years now so now okay it's going to get monitored but if it happens again even though it's been monitored who is going to help us why is Costco has never done a thing for us is what I want to know I mean Mr chairman I mean like like our attorney said it's sort of hypothetical if if if it if it gets flooded what's causing a flooding you know there's a pipe underneath the road it's a County Road the county maintains that pipe there's Downstream beyond the county road um you know so you know it's hypothetical I don't depends on what's causing it what actually caused it we know what's causing it the retention Pond is 200 yards from my home it

doesn't hold the water it overflows it was faulty the first time and we have it videotaped we have it videotaped it happening so everybody had not here because you weren't here at the time but nothing was done about it so I'm just concerned that I know it's getting monitored but if it happens again who is going to help us or perhaps engineering wise what could be done to prevent such a yeah you need you need to be with the microphone sorry or or perhaps he's under oath still I'm still under roath or perhaps what can be done to prevent such a reoccurrence is it possible for Monroe's engineer Jamesburg engineer Costco's engineer to have a little meeting all three of them Costco is a $200 billion company I would think that they could possibly spare an Engineers few hours to take a look at the problem and between the capabilities of Monroe's Engineers Jamesburg engineers and Costco's Engineers they could look at it and say yeah there are some improvements that could be made and make sure that make sure those improvments are actually implemented because right now just purely monitoring and cutting the grass around the spillway doesn't seem to work when we get a torrential rain so no it doesn't and saying you're going to monitor it what happens when it occurs again the damage to my home over all these years as nobody has ever helped us Mr chairman part of the monitoring is ensuring that it's functioning properly so um to go look at it and say I looked at it is not not what we're asking for here the prior resolution um talked about certifying

that its functioning in the way it was designed for the outfall of of the site um as far as far as any looking at this on how to solve some potential future problem this this was the solution in the prior approval to get this channel cleaned out get it lined and to monitor it and make sure it's functioning properly and and those reports were coming in um they they're not um additionally middle sex county has um a regional storm water study that they're uh working on um this is this is not a Monroe Township issue a Jamesburg issue this is this is regional and the county has recognized that and is looking at um at all their at all these streams and um especially in this area the the James ber and help hel meta um where there's traditionally some some large flooding especially in heleta so so the county is looking at this study for this this whole region uh to come up with a plan to help uh prevent future flooding um that that that's all I have from the county at this point no I understand they're like looking but my concern is nobody helping us and as far as you said in the beginning somebody was supposed to it's never ever been monitored my neighbor that lives next door is home 24 hours a day and looking out the window and she's like nobody's ever been there to clean out anything it's never been done chairman I'll take it a step further I'd ask the applicant to uh engineer or the applicant to uh arrange a meeting with my office and and their engineer to go look at this channel uh similar to what we've done you know a few years back

when it got cleaned out it may need to be cleaned out again maybe relined with stone and to ensure that it's functioning properly so I'd ask that uh that be part of any approval that condition and it's not even a matter it well that it is a matter of that it is a matter of it being cleaned out but the problem is when we have a major storm there's nowhere for the water to go because it used to be all dirt mines and Forest and now it's all asphalt and concrete and buildings there's nowhere for the water to go and they just keep building and building and building and we just keep getting more water so that's my concern I understand everybody wants to monitor it but that's not helping us that's not stopping the problem it's not fixing the damage to my home chairman there's no new impervious coverage being built as part of this application slightly reduced or or the same um previous construction out there that was just finished up I believe when they uh did the parking areas made some improvements to the upper basins to more efficiently handle the storm water runoff that's all I have to say thank you thank you thank you we have no objection to the condition uh uh proposed by the board's engineer with regard to a meeting with the Costco's engineer board's engineer and to go uh inspect together the uh the area that we're talking about and determine what whether or not it's operating properly we have no objection to that thank you thank you anybody else wish to be heard

you could raise your right hand for me do you swear any testimony you're going to provide is the truth all truth and nothing I do George gunkelman 5 kill Court Monroe g n k l m um I'm not too sure how much the the discussion about the water has to do with this particular application you know but you know clearly the original design uh parameters are that the outflow of water from the site should not exceed what it was prior to development so that the detention ponds that were built were supposed to be or intended to be uh designed to be of a capacity that it would release it at no higher rate than the previous level now weather conditions have changed which is why Mark was pointing to the regional study that's being done but it well may be that those those ponds need to have some increased capacity and while it's not part of this application um there should be some gesture of willingness on Co Costco's part to participate in any solution ution that the township and the county and Costco's Engineers might come up with and maybe that could be part of the of of the the thing but because for whatever reason and it's probably just increased we've it's not the only place in in the township that's experienced flooding uh for the first time in areas uh but you know it's a problem and it shouldn't be passed on to neighbor homeowners it's just not right or Fair um and that's that's all I have thank you thank

you anybody else wish to be heard okay uh is there a motion to close the public I'll make a motion to close public portion second second all in favor I okay council is there anything else no we would just ask the board's consideration of our application this evening which we think will uh be benefit to um the community benefit to the employees for Costco will better the circulation at the site and alleviate any particular traffic concerns that may be existing today uh overall we think it's a very positive project and we hope the board will look favorably Upon Our application and and subject to the meeting that subject to the conditions that have been discussed this evening both in the the in the reports of the board's professionals and discussed specifically as it relates to those storm water management issues that have been talked about part of your application you're six parking spots shy and you're looking for so the six we are we're six parking spaces shy of what the additional um what our project this evening would require as far as number of parking spaces so we are seeking a variance okay I just want be clear what you're asking yes we are seeking a variance from the board for that and we Al also seeking um um recognition of the pre-existing non-conforming um conditions that are at the property including the Landscaping buffer and the um and the and the impervious cover amount okay is there is there a motion anybody had I'll make a motion to approve second second okay is there any further discussion second second okay is there any further discussion on the border with the

professionals hearing none ready Miss brosky Miss brosky yes Miss Damani yes Mr slavich yes Dr Kenzie yes mayor's representative Mr catel yes chairman Gaffrey yes thank you very much thank you for your time this evening we appreciate it thank you for the time okay I'm moving moving on on the agenda um under memorialization I don't see any um going to a public portion is there any member of the public that wish to be heard on any topic he keep you keep you hearing none is there a motion to close the public portion so moved is there a second second okay all in favor I I okay discussion items I don't see any on the agenda is any discussion items people wish to raise hearing none I see no correspondence so we move to adjourn is there a motion to adjourn move a second okay all in favor I I okay we're adjourned