Planning Board - Planning Board Meeting

1 CITY OF UNION CITY HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY PLANNING BOARD : TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDED REGULAR MEETING : : PROCEEDINGS ____________ ____________: City Hall 3715 Palisade Avenue Union City, New Jersey Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Commencing at 6:10 p.m. M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: YDALIA GENAO, Mayor’s Designee ALICIA MOREJON CAROLINA FERNANDEZ FRANKLIN MEDINA ALEJANDRO VELAZQUEZ, Alternate No. 1 JOSE GUARENO, Alternate No. 2 JEANNE KOEHLER, Vice Chairperson DIANE CAPIZZI, Chairperson M E M B E R S A B S E N T: BRIAN P. STACK, Mayor CELIN VALDIVIA, Commissioner RUDY RIVERO A L S O P R E S E N T: CARLOS VALLEJO, Secretary to the Board REGINA I. RODRIGUEZ, ESQ., Attorney for the Board  2 I N D E X PAGE CALL TO ORDER 3 SALUTE TO FLAG 3 ROLL CALL 4 APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES 8 RESOLUTIONS 10/13 ADJOURNMENT 15  3 1 MS. DILLON: Okay, Carlos. 2 On the record. 3 THE SECRETARY: Let me lay that -- I don't 4 -- Mr. -- 5 Okay. 6 Ready? 7 MS. DILLON: Go ahead. 8 THE SECRETARY: Please take notice that on 9 Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016, at six p.m., a 10 Regular Meeting is scheduled for the City of 11 Union City Planning Board to be held in the 12 Municipal Chamber of the City Hall, 3715 Palisade 13 Avenue, Union City, New Jersey. 14 Can everybody kindly rise to salute the 15 flag, please? 16 17 (Whereupon, the Pledge of Allegiance was 18 said by all.) 19 20 THE SECRETARY: Thank you. 21 This is a meeting called in compliance with 22 Chapter 231, Public Law of 1975, the Open Public 23 Meetings Act. 24 Notice of this meeting has been provided as 25 follow:  4 1 Notice of this meeting, setting forth the 2 time, date, location and the agenda, to the 3 extent known, was sent to The Jersey Journal, The 4 Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has been posted 5 on the bulletin board in City Hall, and has been 6 made available to the public at the Office of 7 Municipal Clerk. 8 9 ROLL CALL: 10 11 THE SECRETARY: Okay. Roll call for 12 tonight’s meeting. 13 Mayor Brian P. Stack? Absent. 14 Ydalia Genao? 15 MS. GENAO: Yes. 16 THE SECRETARY: Commissioner Valdivia? 17 Absent. 18 Alicia Morejon? 19 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 20 THE SECRETARY: Diane Capizzi? 21 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Here. 22 THE SECRETARY: Carolina Fernandez? 23 MS. FERNANDEZ: Yes. 24 THE SECRETARY: Rudy Rivero? Absent. 25 Franklin Medina?  5 1 MR. MEDINA: Here. 2 THE SECRETARY: Jeanne Koehler? 3 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Here. 4 THE SECRETARY: Alejandro Velazquez? 5 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Here. 6 THE SECRETARY: Jose Guareno? 7 MR. GUARENO: Present. 8 THE SECRETARY: Let the record indicate 9 there are seven (sic) present. Okay. So, we 10 have a Board made up of seven (sic) members. 11 Okay. First item is approval of previous 12 meeting minutes. 13 Approval of previous meetings from October 14 25th, 2016. 15 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: There’s eight people. 16 THE SECRETARY: Eight? 17 MS. DILLON: Eight. 18 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Eight. 19 THE SECRETARY: Okay. 20 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Right? 21 THE SECRETARY: Yes. Let’s make the 22 records clear there’s eight members. 23 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Right? 24 One, two, three, four, five -- 25 THE SECRETARY: Yes, eight.  6 1 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: -- six, seven, eight. 2 MS. RODRIGUEZ: Seven. Six, seven, eight. 3 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Okay? 4 THE SECRETARY: Yeah. Right. 5 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: No? 6 MR. PRICE: Alicia wasn’t here. 7 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: But she’s here now. 8 MS. MOREJON: Oh, no. We’re talking about 9 now. 10 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: I’m talking about -- 11 MS. MOREJON: Today. 12 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: -- right now. 13 MS. MOREJON: He’s talking about today. 14 THE SECRETARY: Yeah. 15 MS. MOREJON: I know I wasn’t here. 16 THE SECRETARY: We are -- we are eight. 17 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: He’s taking roll 18 call. 19 THE SECRETARY: We are -- 20 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: I wanted to make sure 21 the record -- 22 MR. PRICE: Oh. 23 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: -- was clear -- 24 THE SECRETARY: We are -- we are -- 25 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: -- that there’s eight  7 1 of us here. 2 THE SECRETARY: Yes. Eight. 3 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Okay? 4 MR. PRICE: Yes. 5 THE SECRETARY: Thank you, Mrs. Capizzi. 6 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: You’re welcome. 7 * * * 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  8 1 APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES: 2 3 ( 1) Approval of previous meeting minutes from 4 October 25, 2016. 5 6 THE SECRETARY: All right. 7 Can -- can I have a motion to approve the 8 previous meeting minutes from October 25 th, 2016? 9 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Make a motion. 10 THE SECRETARY: Motion by Mrs. Capizzi. 11 Second by? 12 Any second? 13 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Second. 14 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Koehler. 15 MS. MOREJON: Were you here at last 16 meeting? 17 THE SECRETARY: Roll call on the motion. 18 Mrs. Genao? 19 MS. GENAO: Yes. 20 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Morejon? 21 MS. MOREJON: Will abstain. 22 THE SECRETARY: Abstain. 23 Mrs. Capizzi? 24 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 25 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Fernandez?  9 1 MS. FERNANDEZ: Yes. 2 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Medina? 3 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 4 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Koehler? 5 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Yes. 6 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 7 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 8 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Guareno? 9 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 10 THE SECRETARY: Seven in favor, one 11 abstain. 12 Motion carries. 13 * * * 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  10 1 RESOLUTIONS: 2 3 ( 1) Benjamin Solof - 512 4th Street, Block 16, 4 Lot 26. Proposing to demolish two existing 5 houses and build a new three family house. 6 Approved 7 ( 2) 133 Madison Street, LLC - 3600-3612 8 Kennedy Boulevard, Block 218, Lots 1, 55-57. 9 Propose a one story retail building. Approved 10 ( 3) Jolanta Zielinska - 633 38th Street, Block 11 260, Lot 44. Construction of a new three family 12 dwelling; four stories with one story for 13 parking. Approved 14 ( 4) N.I.U. Trust - 1713 Bergenline Avenue, 15 Block 91, Lots 6 & 7. Construction of a three 16 story addition at a rear and a two story addition 17 at front on top of an existing structure. 18 Approved 19 20 THE SECRETARY: All right. 21 We have four Resolutions from the previous 22 meeting. 23 Benjamin Solof, 512 4th Street. 24 Number 2, 133 Madison Street, LLC, 3600- 25 3612 Kennedy Boulevard.  11 1 Number 3, Jolanta Zielinska, 633 38th 2 Street. 3 And number 4, N.I.U. Trust, 1713 Bergenline 4 Avenue. 5 Can I have a motion to adopt these 6 Resolutions? 7 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: I’ll make a motion. 8 THE SECRETARY: Motion by Mrs. Capizzi. 9 MR. VELAZQUEZ: I second. 10 THE SECRETARY: Second by Mr. Velazquez. 11 Roll call on the motion. 12 Mrs. Genao? 13 MS. GENAO: Yes. 14 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Morejon? 15 MS. MOREJON: Abstain. 16 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Capizzi? 17 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 18 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Fernandez? 19 MS. FERNANDEZ: Yes. 20 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Medina? 21 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 22 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Koehler? 23 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Yes. 24 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 25 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Yes.  12 1 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Guareno? 2 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 3 THE SECRETARY: Seven in favor, one 4 abstain. 5 Motion carries. 6 * * * 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  13 1 RESOLUTIONS: 2 3 ( 5) Resolution to approve the Planning Board 4 Schedule for year 2017 5 6 THE SECRETARY: Okay. 7 The next -- we have one Resolution for 8 schedule of 2017. Resolution to be -- to approve 9 the Planning Board schedule for the year 2017. 10 Can I have a motion? 11 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Make a motion. 12 MS. MOREJON: Second. 13 THE SECRETARY: Motion by Mrs. Capizzi. 14 Second by? 15 MS. MOREJON: Second. 16 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Second. 17 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Morejon. 18 Roll call on the motion. 19 Mrs. Genao? 20 MS. GENAO: Yes. 21 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Morejon? 22 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 23 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Capizzi? 24 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 25 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Fernandez?  14 1 MS. FERNANDEZ: Yes. 2 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Medina? 3 MR. MEDINA: Yes. 4 THE SECRETARY: Mrs. Koehler? 5 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Yes. 6 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 7 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 8 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Guareno? 9 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 10 THE SECRETARY: Eight in favor. 11 Motion carries. 12 * * * 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  15 1 ADJOURNMENT: 2 3 THE SECRETARY: There being no other 4 application on tonight’s agenda, can I have a 5 motion to close tonight -- 6 MS. MOREJON: Motion. 7 THE SECRETARY: -- tonight’s meeting? 8 MS. MOREJON: Motion. 9 THE SECRETARY: Motion by Alicia Morejon. 10 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Second it. 11 THE SECRETARY: Second, Mrs. Koehler. 12 All in favor? 13 14 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 15 16 THE SECRETARY: The ayes have it. 17 Thank you, everybody. 18 MS. MOREJON: Thank you. Happy 19 Thanksgiving. 20 THE SECRETARY: And have a beautiful night. 21 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Have a happy 22 Thanksgiving, everyone. 23 THE SECRETARY: Let the record show that 24 the meeting has ended. 25 MS. MOREJON: Enjoy your turkey.  16 1 MR. GUARENO: Happy Thanksgiving, all. 2 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Do we have a December 3 meeting? 4 THE SECRETARY: No, ma’am. 5 Enjoy. 6 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Then Merry Christmas, 7 Happy New Year. 8 9 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 10 at 6:16 p.m.) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  17 1 STATE OF NEW JERSEY : 2 : 3 COUNTY OF ESSEX : 4 5 6 I, DEBRA A. KASZNIAK, assigned transcriber, 7 do hereby affirm that the foregoing is a true and 8 accurate transcript in the matter of the REGULAR 9 MEETING of the UNION CITY PLANNING BOARD held on 10 Tuesday, November 22, 2016 and digitally 11 recorded. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Monitored and proofread by: Deborah Dillon