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, April 23, 2024 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 (Via phone) YDALIA GENAO 13 ALICIA MOREJON FRANKLIN MEDINA 14 JOSE GUARENO, Alternate #1 15 M E M B E R S A B S E N T: 16 BRIAN T. STACK, Mayor CELIN J. VALDIVIA, Commissioner 17 CAROLINA FERNANDEZ HECTOR OSEGUERA, Alternate #2 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 23 SUSAN BISCHOFF CCR CO. 24 449 Columbia Blvd., Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 201-390-0583 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 6 8 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS 8/10 9 ADJOURNMENT 12 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 April 23, 2024, at 6:00 p.m., a regular meeting is 5 scheduled for the City of Union City Planning 6 Board to be held in Union City High School, 7 located at 2500 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Union 8 City, New Jersey. 9 Opening statement: This meeting is 10 called in compliance with Chapter 231, Public Law 11 1975 of the Open Public Meeting Act. Adequate 12 notice of this meeting has been provided by 13 setting forth the time, date, location, and agenda 14 to the extent known, was forwarded to The Jersey 15 Journal, The Record, and The Star Ledger. Also 16 has been posted in the bulletin board in City Hall 17 and on the website of the City of Union City, 18 ucnj.com. 19 Before we do roll call for tonight's 20 meeting, can everybody kindly rise to salute the 21 flag, please? 22 23 (The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.) 24 25 MR. VALLEJO: Thank you.  4 1 ROLL CALL: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: Roll call for tonight's 4 meeting. Mayor Stack is absent. 5 Mr. Velazquez. 6 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Here. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Commissioner Valdivia is 8 absent. 9 Ms. Genao. 10 MS. GENAO: Yes. 11 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 12 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 13 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Fernandez is absent. 14 Mr. Medina. 15 MR. MEDINA: Here. 16 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 17 MR. GUARENO: Here. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera is absent. 19 Let the record indicate there are five present. 20 21 22 23 24 25  5 1 ADOPTION OF MINUTES: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: All right. Adoption of 4 minutes of March 26, 2024. Can I have a motion? 5 MR. GUARENO: Motion. 6 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Guareno. 7 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Second. 8 MR. VALLEJO: Second by Mr. Velazquez. 9 Roll call on the motion. 10 Mr. Velazquez. 11 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 12 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 13 MS. GENAO: Yes. 14 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 15 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 16 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 17 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 19 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 20 MR. VALLEJO: Five in favor, motion 21 carries. 22 23 24 25  6 1 531 32ND STREET, LLC - 2 525-531 32ND STREET: 3 4 MR. VALLEJO: Now, we're moving to item 5 number one on the agenda, that's 531 32nd Street, 6 LLC. Mr. Board Attorney? 7 MR. CHEWCASKIE: All right. Alex, can 8 you hear me? 9 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 10 MR. CHEWCASKIE: So the hearing 11 scheduled for tonight, 531 32nd Street, LLC, 525 12 to 531 32nd Street, we received correspondence 13 this afternoon withdrawing the application. 14 What would be appropriate would be for a 15 motion to dismiss the application and then we can 16 do a resolution confirming same at our next 17 meeting. Do we have that motion? 18 MR. GUARENO: Motion. 19 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I make a motion. 20 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Guareno. 21 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Second. 22 MR. VALLEJO: Second by Mr. Velazquez. 23 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Then we would need a 24 roll call. 25 MR. VALLEJO: Roll call on the motion to  7 1 dismiss this application. 2 Mr. Velazquez. 3 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 4 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 5 MS. GENAO: Yes. 6 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 7 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 8 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 9 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 10 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 11 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 12 MR. VALLEJO: Five in favor, motion 13 carries. 14 * * * * 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  8 1 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS: 2 1. The Board of Commissioners of the City of 3 Union City on September 6, 2023, adopted a 4 resolution authorizing the City of Union City 5 Planning Board to undertake a preliminary 6 investigation of property identified as fallow: 7 Block 229, Lots 4, 5 and 6 - 540 39th as 8 identified on the Official Tax Map of the City of 9 Union City (the "Study Area") to determine if the 10 property qualifies as an area in need of 11 redevelopment. Approved 12 13 MR. CHEWCASKIE: All right. Next order 14 of business is the adoption of resolutions. We 15 have a resolution confirming the determination of 16 the planning board to recommend that the property 17 located at Block 229, Lots 4, 5 and 6 - 540 39th 18 Street be qualified as an area in need of 19 redevelopment. This is the Silk Mill. 20 Everyone here is eligible to vote on 21 that resolution. Do we have a motion? 22 MR. GUARENO: Motion. 23 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I make a motion. 24 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Velazquez, 25 seconded by Mr. Guareno. Roll call on the motion.  9 1 Mr. Velazquez. 2 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 3 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 4 MS. GENAO: Yes. 5 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 6 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 8 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 9 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 10 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 11 MR. VALLEJO: Five in favor, motion 12 carries. 13 * * * * 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  10 1 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS: 2 2. Michael Szczesny. 912 Palisade Avenue. Block 3 186 Lot 33. Applicant proposes to demolish an 4 existing two-story frame dwelling, and construct a 5 new three family home. The approval resolution 6 was memorialized on May 25, 2021. Applicant is 7 requesting a 1-year extension. (Second extension) 8 Approved 9 10 MR. CHEWCASKIE: The next resolution, 11 this was acted upon at the last meeting, was the 12 extension for the property located at 912 Palisade 13 Avenue. We've provided in the resolution that no 14 further extensions and that no construction shall 15 be conducted on this property between May 15th and 16 September 15th, when the Union City pool is open. 17 Can I have a motion on that? 18 MS. MOREJON: Motion. 19 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Ms. Morejon. 20 MR. GUARENO: Second. 21 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Second. 22 MR. VALLEJO: Second by Mr. Guareno. 23 Roll call on the motion. 24 Mr. Velazquez. 25 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes.  11 1 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 2 MS. GENAO: Yes. 3 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 4 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 5 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina. 6 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 8 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 9 MR. VALLEJO: Five in favor, motion 10 carries. 11 * * * * 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  12 1 ADJOURNMENT: 2 3 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Just a motion to 4 adjourn. 5 MR. VALLEJO: Can open to the public? 6 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Sure, you can. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Anybody from the public? 8 Seeing none. There being no other application on 9 tonight's agenda, can I have a motion to close 10 tonight's meeting? 11 MR. GUARENO: Motion. 12 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I make a motion. 13 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Guareno. 14 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Second. 15 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Mr. Velazquez. 16 MR. GUARENO: Sorry, Alex. 17 MR. VALLEJO: Roll call on the motion to 18 close tonight's meeting. 19 Mr. Velazquez. 20 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 21 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 22 MS. GENAO: Yes. 23 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 24 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 25 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Medina.  13 1 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 2 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 3 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 4 MR. VALLEJO: Five in favor, motion 5 carries. Let the record show that the meeting has 6 ended. Thank you and good night, everyone. 7 8 (Whereupon the meeting was adjourned at 9 6:05 p.m.) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  14 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