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 9 Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Commencing at 6:03 p.m. 10 11 M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: 12 13 DIANE CAPIZZI, Chairperson ALEJANDRO VELAZQUEZ, Vice Chairperson 14 ALICIA MOREJON FRANKLIN MEDINA 15 M E M B E R S A B S E N T: 16 BRIAN T. STACK, Mayor CELIN J. VALDIVIA, Commissioner 17 YDALIA GENAO, Mayor's Designee CAROLINA FERNANDEZ 18 JOSE GUARENO, Alternate #1 HECTOR OSEGUERA, Alternate #2 19 20 A L S O P R E S E N T: 21 BRIAN CHEWCASKIE, ESQ. Board Counsel 22 CARLOS VALLEJO, Board Secretary 23 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 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS (NONE) 9 ADJOURNMENT 10 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  3 1 MR. VALLEJO: May I have your attention. 2 Please take notice that on Tuesday, May 3 24, 2022, at 6 p.m., a regular meeting is scheduled 4 for the City of Union City Planning Board to be 5 held in the Union City High School, 2500 John F. 6 Kennedy Boulevard, Union City, New Jersey. 7 This meeting is called in compliance 8 with the Chapter 231, Public Law 1975 of the Open 9 Public Meeting Act. Adequate notice of this 10 meeting has been provided as follows: Notice of 11 this meeting setting forth the time, date, 12 location, the agenda to the extent known, was 13 forwarded to The Jersey Journal, The Record, and 14 The Hudson Reporter, has been posted on the 15 bulletin in City Hall and has been available to 16 the public in the Office of the Municipal Clerk. 17 Before we call roll for this evening's 18 meeting, can everybody kindly rise and salute the 19 flag, please. 20 21 (The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.) 22 23 ROLL CALL: 24 25 MR. VALLEJO: Thank you. Roll call for  4 1 tonight's meeting. Mayor Brian P. Stack, absent. 2 Ms. Capizzi. 3 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Here. 4 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Velazquez. 5 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Here. 6 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Celin Valdivia is 7 absent. Ms. Genao is absent. Ms. Morejon. 8 MS. MOREJON: Here. 9 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Fernandez is absent. 10 Mr. Medina. 11 MR. MEDINA: Here. 12 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 13 MR. GUARENO: Here. 14 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 15 MR. OSEGUERA: Here. 16 MR. VALLEJO: Let the record indicate 17 there are six present. 18 * * * * 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  5 1 ADOPTION OF MINUTES: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: Adoption of minutes of the 4 regular meeting held on April 26, 2022. Can I 5 have a motion? 6 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I make a 7 motion. 8 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Velazquez. 9 MR. OSEGUERA: Second. 10 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Mr. Oseguera. 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. Morejon. 16 MS. MOREJON: Abstain. 17 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 18 MR. MEDINA: Abstain. 19 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 20 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 21 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 22 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 23 MR. VALLEJO: Four in favor, two 24 abstained. Motion carries. 25 * * * *  6 1 HEARINGS: 2 PBG REALTY, LLC 3 2207 Summit Avenue: 4 5 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Okay. So the next one 6 is a hearing, request for an extension, PBG Realty 7 2207 Summit Avenue. 8 I did receive a call about quarter of 9 six that the attorney for the applicant had a flat 10 tire, the flat tire was being changed in Secaucus. 11 And she's on her way. However, if the board wants 12 to proceed, I have no issue with the extension 13 being granted. But as I did more research into 14 the project, it's in the Roosevelt Stadium 15 Redevelopment Zone. I would suggest if the 16 extension is granted that it be subject to the 17 execution of a redevelopment agreement, which will 18 set forth the time table for development of the 19 project. 20 We did grant an extension, as the Board 21 is aware, there has been statutory law that as a 22 result of COVID, there were automatic extensions 23 given. I would suggest that at this point in 24 time, that we would grant a one year extension 25 till, let's say, June 1, 2023, subject to the  7 1 applicant entering into a redevelopment agreement. 2 MR. VALLEJO: 2022? 3 MR. CHEWCASKIE: 2023. That's my 4 suggestion. I mean as a result of it's a 5 redevelopment plan, there's been -- A 6 redevelopment zone, there's been no change in 7 zoning. So when I reviewed everything earlier 8 today, as I said, I have no hesitancy in 9 recommending the extension. Of course, it's at 10 the Board's discretion. But since this is a 11 redevelopment plan, the plan was actually amended 12 in 2020 and the City still expects this 13 development. 14 MR. OSEGUERA: Motion to adopt subject 15 to the conditions laid out by Attorney Chewcaskie. 16 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I second. 17 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Oseguera to 18 grant the extension, seconded by Mr. Velazquez. 19 Roll call on the motion. Ms. Capizzi. 20 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 21 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Velazquez. 22 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 23 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 24 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 25 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina.  8 1 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 2 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 3 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 4 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 5 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 6 MR. VALLEJO: Six in favor, motion 7 carries. 8 * * * * 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  9 1 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: We don't have any 4 resolution on tonight's agenda. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  10 1 ADJOURNMENT: 2 3 MR. CHEWCASKIE: And I believe that the 4 next meeting, Carlos, we have another 5 redevelopment project that was deemed complete, 6 correct? 7 MR. VALLEJO: That's correct. On 8 June 28th, we have 2704 Kennedy Boulevard. 9 MR. CHEWCASKIE: That, so far, is our 10 only case, correct? 11 MR. VALLEJO: Yes, that's the only case 12 so far. 13 MR. CHEWCASKIE: All right. 14 MR. VALLEJO: There being no other 15 application on tonight's agenda, can I have a 16 motion to close tonight's meeting? 17 MS. MOREJON: Motion. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Ms. Morejon. 19 MR. GUARENO: Second. 20 MR. VALLEJO: Second by Mr. Guareno. 21 Roll call on the motion. Ms. Capizzi. 22 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 23 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 24 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 25 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon.  11 1 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 2 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Velazquez. 3 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 4 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 5 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 6 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 7 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 8 MR. VALLEJO: Six in favor, motion 9 carries. Let the record show that the meeting has 10 ended and thank you. Good night, everyone. 11 12 (Whereupon the meeting was adjourned at 13 6:10 p.m.) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  12 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