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, NOVEMBER 22, 2022 Commencing at 6:04 p.m. 10 11 M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: 12 ALEJANDRO VELAZQUEZ, Chairperson 13 YDALIA GENAO ALICIA MOREJON 14 FRANKLIN MEDINA JOSE GUARENO 15 HECTOR OSEGUERA, Alternate #2 16 M E M B E R S A B S E N T: 17 BRIAN P. STACK, Mayor 18 CELIN VALDIVIA, Commissioner CAROLINA FERNANDEZ 19 A L S O P R E S E N T: 20 BRIAN CHEWCASKIE, ESQ. 21 Board Counsel 22 CARLOS VALLEJO, Board Secretary 23 SUSAN BISCHOFF, CCR, RPR 24 449 Columbia Blvd., Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 201-933-8220 SBischoffccr@yahoo.com 25  2 1 I N D E X 2 PAGE 3 CALL TO ORDER 3 4 SALUTE TO FLAG 3 5 ROLL CALL 4 6 ADOPTION OF MINUTES 5 7 HEARINGS/APPLICATIONS/EXTENSION (NONE) 8 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS 6/8/10 9 ADJOURNMENT 11 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, November 22, 3 2022, at 6:00 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 Opening statement: This meeting is 8 called in compliance with the Chapter 231, Public 9 Law 1975, of the Open Public Meeting Act. 10 Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided 11 as follows: Notice of this meeting, setting forth 12 the time, date, location, 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 Municipal Clerk. 18 Before we call roll for tonight's 19 meeting, could everybody kindly rise to salute the 20 flag, please. 21 22 (The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.) 23 24 MR. VALLEJO: Thank you. 25 * * * *  4 1 ROLL CALL: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: Roll call for tonight's 4 meeting. Mayor Stack, absent. 5 Mr. Velazquez. 6 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Here. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Commissioner Celin 8 Valdivia, absent. 9 Ms. Genao. 10 MS. GENAO: Yes. 11 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 12 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 13 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Ms. Fernandez is 14 absent. 15 Mr. Medina. 16 MR. MEDINA: Here. 17 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 18 MR. GUARENO: Here. 19 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 20 MR. OSEGUERA: Here. 21 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Let the record indicate 22 there's six present. Those absent tonight are 23 Mayor Stack, Commissioner Celin Valdivia, and Ms. 24 Fernandez. 25 * * * *  5 1 ADOPTION OF MINUTES: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: Adoption of minutes. 4 Regular meeting held on July 26, 2220. Can I have 5 a motion? 6 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I make a motion. 7 MS. MOREJON: Second. 8 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Velazquez. 9 Seconded by Ms. Morejon. Roll call on the motion. 10 Mr. Velazquez. 11 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 12 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 13 MS. GENAO: Yes. 14 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 15 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 16 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina abstains, 17 right? 18 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 19 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 20 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 21 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 22 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes 23 MR. VALLEJO: Five in favor, one 24 abstained, motion carries. 25 * * * *  6 1 RESOLUTIONS: 2 (1) H&A Developer, LLC. 2704-2710 Kennedy Blvd. 3 Block: 156 Lots; 2, 3, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 & 8. 4 Proposed a six (6) story mixed-use building. 5 Consisting of 70 residential units, 2 commercial 6 spaces, and 137 parking spaces. Lot 8, two family 7 dwelling. Approved 8 9 MR. VALLEJO: We have three resolution 10 on tonight's agenda, we don't have any hearings. 11 Resolution number one, H&A Developer, 12 2704-2710 Kennedy Boulevard. This application was 13 approved on July 26, 2022. 14 Can I have a motion to adopt the 15 resolution. 16 MR. GUARENO: Motion. 17 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Guareno. 18 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Second. 19 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Mr. Velazquez. 20 Roll call on the motion. 21 Mr. Velazquez. 22 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 23 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 24 MS. GENAO: Yes. 25 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon.  7 1 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 2 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina abstains. 3 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 4 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 5 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 6 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 7 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 8 MR. VALLEJO: Five in favor, one 9 abstained. Motion carries. 10 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Carlos, what I'll do is 11 I'll revise the resolution to get you the 12 corrected signature page. I'll get you that 13 tomorrow. 14 MR. VALLEJO: Okay. 15 * * * * 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  8 1 (2) resolution appointing the planning board 2 secretary for the year 2023 3 4 MR. VALLEJO: Move to resolution number 5 2. 6 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Appointing the planning 8 board secretary for the year 2023. May I have a 9 motion? 10 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Motion. 11 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Velazquez. 12 MR. OSEGUERA: Second. 13 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Mr. Oseguera. 14 Roll call on the motion. 15 Mr. Velazquez. 16 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 17 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 18 MS. GENAO: Yes. 19 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 20 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 21 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 22 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 23 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 24 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 25 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno.  9 1 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 2 MR. VALLEJO: Six in favor, motion 3 carries. 4 * * * * 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  10 1 (3) resolution to approve the planning board 2 schedule for the year 2023. 3 4 MR. VALLEJO: Resolution number 3, 5 resolution to approve the planning board schedule 6 for the year 2023. Can I have a motion? 7 MR. GUARENO: Motion. 8 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Guareno. 9 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Second. 10 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Mr. Velazquez. 11 Roll call on the motion. 12 Mr. Velazquez. 13 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 14 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 15 MS. GENAO: Yes. 16 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 17 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 19 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 20 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 21 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 22 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 23 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 24 MR. VALLEJO: Six in favor, motion 25 carries.  11 1 ADJOURNMENT: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: Motion to adjourn? 4 MR. GUARENO: Motion; 5 MS. MOREJON: Second. 6 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Guareno, 7 seconded by Ms. Morejon. All in favor? 8 9 (All Board Members indicate in the 10 affirmative.) 11 12 MR. VALLEJO: The ayes have it. Six in 13 favor. Thank you. Let the record show that the 14 meeting has ended. 15 16 (Whereupon the meeting was adjourned at 17 6:10 p.m.) 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