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, June 25, 2024 Commencing at 6:01 p.m. 10 11 M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: 12 ALEJANDRO VELAZQUEZ, Chairperson (phone) YDALIA GENAO 13 ALICIA MOREJON JOSE GUARENO, Alternate #1 14 HECTOR OSEGUERA, Alternate #2 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 FRANKLIN MEDINA 18 19 A L S O P R E S E N T: 20 BRIAN CHEWCASKIE, ESQ. (Phone) Board Counsel 21 CARLOS VALLEJO, Board Secretary 22 23 24 SUSAN BISCHOFF CCR CO. 449 Columbia Blvd., Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 25 201-390-0583 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 9 ADJOURNMENT 8 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. Please take notice that on Tuesday, 3 June 25, 2024, at 6:00 PM, a regular meeting is 4 scheduled for the City of Union City Planning 5 Board to be held in the Union City High School 6 located at 2500 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Union 7 City, New Jersey. 8 Opening statement: This meeting is 9 called in compliance with chapter 231 public law 10 of 1975, Open Public Meeting Act. Adequate notice 11 of this meeting has been provided as follows: 12 Notice of this meeting setting forth the time, 13 date, location, and the agenda to the extent known 14 was forwarded to The Jersey Journal, The Hudson 15 Reporter, and The Record, has been posted on the 16 bulletin board in City Hall and has been made 17 available to the public in the office of the 18 municipal clerk, and also the website of the City 19 of Union City. 20 Before we call roll for tonight's 21 meeting, can everybody kindly rise to salute the 22 flag? 23 24 (Whereupon, the Pledge of Allegiance is 25 recited.)  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 is absent. 15 Mr. Guareno. 16 MR. GUARENO: Here. 17 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 18 MR. OSEGUERA: Here. 19 MR. VALLEJO: We have five members 20 present. 21 22 23 24 25  5 1 ADOPTION OF MINUTES: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: Let's go to minutes of 4 April 23, 2024. Can I have a motion? 5 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Motion. 6 MS. MOREJON: Motion. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Velazquez, 8 seconded by Ms. Morejon. 9 Roll call on the motion. Mr. Velazquez. 10 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 11 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 12 MS. GENAO: Yes. 13 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 14 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 15 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 16 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 17 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 18 MR. OSEGUERA: Abstain. 19 MR. VALLEJO: He abstained. Four in 20 favor, one abstained. Motion carries. 21 22 23 24 25  6 1 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS: 2 1. 531 32nd St, LLC, 525-531 32nd Street. Block: 3 1225 Lots: 15, 18 and 46. The applicant requests 4 an opportunity to amend the approval to permit the 5 use of siding on the rear and side elevations. 6 The front facade remain brick. The approved 7 resolution was memorialized on 04-28-2015. 8 Withdrawn. 9 10 MR. VALLEJO: We don't have any 11 applications on tonight's agenda. We're moving 12 now to adoption of resolution. 13 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Mr. Vallejo, board 14 members, this is just confirming a withdrawal of 15 the application for 531 32nd Street, LLC, the 16 address is the same as the name, 531 32nd Street. 17 All members present, except for Mr. Oseguera, can 18 vote on this resolution. As I indicate, it just 19 confirms the withdrawal of this application. So 20 we need a motion and a second and roll call. 21 MR. VALLEJO: Thank you. Can I have a 22 motion? 23 MS. MOREJON: Motion. 24 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I make a motion. 25 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Velazquez,  7 1 seconded by Ms. Morejon. 2 Roll call on the motion. 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: Ms. Morejon. 9 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 10 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 11 MR. OSEGUERA: Abstain. 12 MR. VALLEJO: Abstain. Four in favor, 13 one abstain. Motion carries. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  8 1 ADJOURNMENT: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: All right. We're moving 4 now -- there being no other application on 5 tonight's agenda, can I have a motion to close 6 tonight's meeting? 7 MR. OSEGUERA: Motion. 8 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Oseguera. 9 MS. MOREJON: Second. 10 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Ms. Morejon. 11 Roll call on the motion. Mr. Velazquez. 12 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 13 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 14 MS. GENAO: Yes. 15 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 16 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 17 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 18 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 19 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 20 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 21 MR. VALLEJO: Five in favor, let the 22 record show the meeting has been ended. 23 Thank you and good tonight, everyone. 24 25 (Whereupon the meeting was adjourned at 6:06 p.m.)  9 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