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, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023 Commencing at 6:00 p.m. 10 11 M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: 12 ALEJANDRO VELAZQUEZ, Chairperson YDALIA GENAO 13 ALICIA MOREJON FRANKLIN MEDINA 14 JOSE GUARENO, Alternate #1 HECTOR OSEGUERA, Alternate #2 15 M E M B E R S A B S E N T: 16 BRIAN T. STACK, Mayor 17 CELIN J. VALDIVIA, Commissioner CAROLINA FERNANDEZ 18 A L S O P R E S E N T: 19 BRIAN CHEWCASKIE, ESQ. 20 Board Counsel 21 CARLOS VALLEJO, Board Secretary 22 DAVID SPATZ, P.P. 23 24 SUSAN BISCHOFF, CCR, RPR 449 Columbia Blvd., Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 25 201-933-8220 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 4 6 ADOPTION OF MINUTES 5 7 HEARINGS n/a 8 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS 6/8 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? 3 Please take notice that on Tuesday, 4 September 26, 2023, at 6:00 p.m., a regular 5 meeting is scheduled for the City of Union City 6 Planning Board to be held in Union City High 7 School, located at 2500 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, 8 Union City, New Jersey. 9 Adequate notice of this meeting has been 10 provided as follows: 11 Notice of this meeting setting forth the 12 time, date, location, to the agenda to the extent 13 known, was forwarded to The Jersey Journal, The 14 Record, and The Star Ledger, has been posted on 15 the bulletin board in City Hall, and has been made 16 available to the public in the Office of the 17 Municipal Clerk. 18 Before we do roll call for tonight's 19 meeting, can everybody kindly rise to salute the 20 flag, please? 21 22 (Whereupon the Pledge of Allegiance was 23 recited.) 24 25 MR. VALLEJO: Thank you.  4 1 ROLL CALL: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: Roll call. Mayor Stack is 4 absent. Mr. Velazquez. 5 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Here. 6 MR. VALLEJO: Commissioner Celin 7 Valdivia is absent. 8 Ms. Genao. 9 MS. GENAO: Yes. 10 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 11 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 12 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Fernandez is absent. 13 Mr. Medina. 14 MR. MEDINA: Yes, here. 15 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 16 MR. GUARENO: Here. 17 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 18 MR. OSEGUERA: Here. 19 MR. VALLEJO: Let the record indicate 20 there are six present. 21 * * * * 22 23 24 25  5 1 ADOPTION OF MINUTES: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: We're going to regular 4 meeting held on July 25, 2023. Can I have a 5 motion to adopt the minutes? 6 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I make a motion. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Velazquez. 8 Any second? 9 MS. GENAO: I second. 10 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Ms. Genao. 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. Medina. 17 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 19 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 20 MR. VALLEJO: Four in favor, motion 21 carries. 22 * * * * 23 24 25  6 1 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS: 2 1. Shaista, LLC, 522-524 31st Street. Block: 170, 3 Lots: 41 & 42. The applicant proposes to demolish 4 two structures. Re-subdivide the property and 5 construct a new four (4) story mixed use structure 6 on each lot; consisting of commercial space on the 7 ground floor and three residential units above on 8 each new lot. Denied 9 10 MR. VALLEJO: Moving to the resolution 11 number one, Shaista, LLC, 522-524 31st Street. 12 The application was denied at the previous 13 meeting. Can I have a motion to adopt the 14 resolution? 15 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I make a motion. 16 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Velazquez. 17 MR. OSEGUERA: Second. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Mr. Oseguera. 19 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Before the roll, Mr. 20 Velazquez, Ms. Genao, Mr. Medina and Mr. Oseguera 21 are eligible to vote. 22 MR. VALLEJO: Thank you. Roll call on 23 the motion by Mr. Velazquez, seconded by Mr. 24 Oseguera. Roll call on the motion. 25 Mr. Velazquez.  7 1 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 2 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 3 MS. GENAO: Yes. 4 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 5 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 6 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 7 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 8 MR. VALLEJO: Four in favor, motion 9 carries. 10 * * * * 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  8 1 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS: 2 2. Jersey Property Holdings, LLP, 1113 Bergenline 3 Avenue, Block: 53, Lots: 15 & 16. The applicant 4 proposes to construct a four-story mixed-use 5 buildings on each of the above note two vacant 6 lots; commercial space on the ground floor and 7 three-bedroom unit on each of the second, third 8 and fourth floor of both buildings. Five (5) 9 parking will be provided on lot 15 and no parking 10 will be provided on lot 16. Denied 11 12 MR. VALLEJO: Resolution number two, 13 Jersey Property Holdings, LLP, 1113 Bergenline 14 Avenue. This application was denied at the July 15 meeting. Can I have a motion to adopt this 16 resolution? 17 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I make a motion. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Velazquez. 19 MR. OSEGUERA: Second. 20 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Mr. Oseguera. 21 MR. CHEWCASKIE: And the same 22 individuals are eligible to vote. 23 MR. VALLEJO: Thank you. Roll call the 24 on motion. Mr. Velazquez. 25 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes.  9 1 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 2 MS. GENAO: Yes. 3 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 4 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 5 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 6 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Four in favor, motion 8 carries. 9 * * * * 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  10 1 ADJOURNMENT: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: There being no other 4 application on tonight's agenda, can I have a 5 motion to close tonight's meeting? 6 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I make a motion. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Velazquez. 8 MS. GENAO: Second. 9 MR. GUARENO: Second. 10 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Mr. Guareno. 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. Medina. 17 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 19 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 20 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 21 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 22 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 23 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 24 MR. VALLEJO: Six in favor, the motion 25 carries. Let the record show the meeting has  11 1 ended. Thank you and good night, everybody. 2 3 (Whereupon the meeting was adjourned at 4 6:04 p.m.) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 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