Planning Board

1 1 CITY OF UNION CITY HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY 2 PLANNING BOARD 3 : REGULAR MEETING : TRANSCRIPT OF 4 : --------------------: PROCEEDINGS 5 6 Union City High School Media Center 7 2500 Kennedy Boulevard Union City, New Jersey 8 Tuesday, January 25, 2022 9 Commencing at 6:12 p.m. 10 M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: 11 12 DIANE CAPIZZI, Chairperson ALEJANDRO VELAZQUEZ, Vice Chairperson 13 BRIAN T. STACK, Mayor CELIN J. VALDIVIA, Commissioner 14 YDALIA GENAO, Mayor's Designee ALICIA MOREJON 15 FRANKLIN MEDINA JOSE GUARENO, Alternate #1 16 HECTOR OSEGUERA, Alternate #2 17 18 M E M B E R S A B S E N T: 19 CAROLINA FERNANDEZ 20 A L S O P R E S E N T: 21 BRIAN CHEWCASKIE, ESQ. 22 Board Counsel 23 CARLOS VALLEJO, Board Secretary 24 SUSAN BISCHOFF, CCR, RPR 25 449 Columbia Blvd., Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 201-933-8220 SBischoffccr@yahoo.com  2 1 I N D E X 2 PAGE 3 CALL TO ORDER 3 4 SALUTE TO FLAG 3 5 ROLL CALL 3 6 ADOPTION OF MINUTES 5 7 HEARINGS/APPLICATIONS/EXTENSION 6/8 8 ADJOURNMENT 10 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  3 1 MR. VALLEJO: Please take notice that on 2 Tuesday, January 25, 2022, at 6 p.m., a regular 3 meeting is scheduled for the City of Union City 4 Planning Board to be hold in the Union City High 5 School, located at the 2500 John F. Kennedy 6 Boulevard, Union City, New Jersey. 7 Opening statement. This is a meeting 8 called in compliance with Chapter 231, Public Law 9 1975 of the Open Public Meeting Act. Adequate 10 notice of this meeting has been provided as 11 follows: Notice of this meeting setting forth the 12 time, date, location, and the agenda, to the 13 extent known, was forwarded to The Jersey Journal, 14 The Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has been 15 posted on the bulletin board in City Hall and has 16 been made available to the public in the Office of 17 the Municipal Clerk. 18 Before we call roll for this evening, 19 will everybody please rise to salute the flag. 20 21 (The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.) 22 23 ROLL CALL: 24 25 MR. VALLEJO: Roll call for tonight's  4 1 meeting. Mayor Brian P. Stack. 2 MAYOR STACK: Here. 3 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Capizzi. 4 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Here. 5 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Velazquez. 6 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Here. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Commissioner Celin 8 Valdivia. 9 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here. 10 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 11 MS. GENAO: Yes. 12 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 13 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 14 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 15 MR. MEDINA: Here. 16 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 17 MR. GUARENO: Here. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 19 MR. OSEGUERA: Here. 20 MR. VALLEJO: Let the record indicate 21 there are nine present, we have a full quorum for 22 tonight's meeting. 23 24 25  5 1 ADOPTION OF MINUTES: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: Adoption of the regular 4 meeting held on November 23, 2021. Can I have a 5 motion? 6 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I make a 7 motion. 8 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Velazquez. 9 MR. GUARENO: Second. 10 MR. VALLEJO: Second by Mr. Guareno. 11 Roll call on the motion. Ms. Capizzi. 12 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 13 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Velazquez. 14 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 15 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 16 MS. GENAO: Yes. 17 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina was absent, 18 sorry. Mr. Guareno. 19 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 20 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 21 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 22 MR. VALLEJO: Five in favor, motion 23 carries. 24 25  6 1 HEARINGS: 2 Liberty Park at Union City, LLC 3 649-651 38th Street: 4 5 MR. VALLEJO: First hearing on tonight's 6 agenda is an extension, Liberty Park at Union 7 City, LLC, 649-651 38th Street. Mr. Chewcaskie. 8 MR. CHEWCASKIE: All right. So on this 9 application, there was an application for an 10 extension of time, documents were submitted and 11 reviewed. We received the letter today from Mr. 12 Lopez indicating that he would not be at the 13 meeting tonight and requested that the matter be 14 adjourned until the February meeting. That being 15 the case, and since this is a request for 16 extension, the applicant can certainly request the 17 adjournment. I would recommend that the matter be 18 adjourned until the February meeting. 19 MAYOR STACK: I'll make the motion to 20 adjourn. 21 MR. VALLEJO: Motion to adjourn to 22 February 22, 2022, by Mayor Stack. 23 MR. OSEGUERA: Second. 24 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Mr. Velazquez. 25 On the motion to adjourn the extension  7 1 application, Mayor Stack. 2 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 3 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Capizzi. 4 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 5 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Velazquez. 6 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Commissioner Celin 8 Valdivia. 9 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 10 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 11 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 12 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 13 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 14 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 15 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 16 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 17 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Eight in favor, motion 19 carries. 20 21 22 23 24 25  8 1 HEARINGS: 2 2. 613 39th Street, LLC 3 613 39th Street 4 5 MR. VALLEJO: We're moving to number 6 two. And this is another extension, 613 39th 7 Street, LLC, 613 39th Street. Mr. Chewcaskie, 8 please. 9 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Yes. Thank you, Mr. 10 Vallejo. This was another request for extension 11 that was placed on this agenda. We had received 12 all the documents and reviewed them. 13 Approximately 4:00 today, I did receive an email 14 from the attorney for the applicant, Ms. Perez, 15 who indicated that her children are sick and she 16 did not want to attend the meeting tonight and she 17 would not have time to send in a letter. 18 I indicated that I would raise that with 19 the Board and recommend that the matter be 20 adjourned to the February meeting. 21 MAYOR STACK: I'll make a motion to 22 approve. Normally, on that short notice, I would 23 not, but being that her children are sick, of 24 course, we're going to accommodate the attorney 25 and the applicant.  9 1 MR. VALLEJO: Motion to adjourn to 2 February 22nd, 2022, by Mayor Stack. 3 MR. OSEGUERA: Second. 4 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Mr. Oseguera. 5 Roll call on the motion to adjourn this 6 application to February 22nd. Mayor Stack. 7 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 8 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Capizzi. 9 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 10 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Velazquez. 11 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 12 MR. VALLEJO: Commissioner Valdivia. 13 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 14 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 15 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 16 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 17 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 19 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 20 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 21 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 22 MR. VALLEJO: Eight in favor, motion 23 carries. 24 We don't have a resolution on tonight's 25 agenda.  10 1 ADJOURNMENT: 2 3 MAYOR STACK: I'll make a motion to 4 adjourn the meeting. 5 MR. VALLEJO: Motion to adjourn the 6 meeting by Mayor Stack. 7 MR. GUARENO: Second. 8 MR. VALLEJO: Second by Mr. Guareno. 9 All in favor? 10 (All Board Members indicate in the 11 affirmative.) 12 MR. VALLEJO: The ayes have it. Thank 13 you and good night. 14 15 (Whereupon the meeting was adjourned at 16 6:19 p.m.) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  11 1 C E R T I F I C A T E 2 3 4 5 6 I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a 7 true and accurate transcript of the testimony and 8 proceedings as taken stenographically by me at the 9 time, place, and on the date hereinbefore set 10 forth. 11 12 13 ____________________________ 14 SUSAN BISCHOFF, CCR, RPR LICENSE NO. 30XI00233700 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25