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, February 25, 2020 Commencing at 6:08 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 RUDY RIVERO, Arrived at 6:15 p.m. 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 FRANKLIN MEDINA A L S O P R E S E N T: CARLOS VALLEJO, Secretary to the Board BRIAN M. CHEWCASKIE, ESQ. Attorney for the Board DAVID SPATZ, Consultant, Community Housing & Planning Associates, Inc.  2 A P P E A R A N C E S: BIANCA P. PEREIRAS, ESQ., Attorney for Applicant, Lilian Leon BIANCA P. PEREIRAS, ESQ., Attorney for Applicant, 732 32nd Street, LLC  3 I N D E X PAGE CALL TO ORDER 5 SALUTE TO FLAG 5 ROLL CALL 6 ADOPTION OF MINUTES 8 HEARINGS Faraouk Sheikh 9 Lilian Leon 11 733 32nd Street, LLC 13 RESOLUTIONS 47 REVISED/AMENDED RESOLUTION 50 ADJOURNMENT 54  4 I N D E X 733 32nd Street, LLC - 733 32nd Street WITNESS PAGE Manuel Pereiras 14 SWORN PUBLIC Larry Price 36 Norman Machel 38  5 1 THE SECRETARY: May I have your attention, 2 please? 3 Please take notice that on Tuesday, 4 February 25th, 2020, at six p.m., a Regular 5 Meeting is scheduled for the City of Union City 6 Planning Board to be held in the Municipal 7 Chambers of the City Hall, 3715 Palisade Avenue, 8 Union City, New Jersey. 9 This is a meeting called in compliance with 10 Chapter 231, Public Law 1975 of the Open Public 11 Meeting Act. 12 Adequate notice of this meeting has been 13 provided as follow: 14 Notice of this meeting, setting forth the 15 time, date, location, the agenda, to the extent 16 known, was forwarded to The Jersey Journal, The 17 Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has been posted 18 on the bulletin board in City Hall, and has been 19 made available to the public in the Office of 20 Municipal Clerk. 21 Can everybody kindly rise to -- 22 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 23 THE SECRETARY: -- salute the flag, please? 24 25 (Whereupon, the Pledge of Allegiance was  6 1 said by all.) 2 3 THE SECRETARY: Thank you. 4 5 ROLL CALL: 6 7 THE SECRETARY: Roll call for tonight’s 8 meeting. 9 Mayor Brian P. Stack is absent. 10 Ms. Capizzi? 11 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Here. 12 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Koehler? 13 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Here. 14 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Genao? 15 MS. GENAO: Yes. 16 THE SECRETARY: Commissioner Valdivia is 17 absent. 18 Ms. Fernandez? 19 MS. FERNANDEZ: Here. 20 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Rivero is absent. 21 Mr. Medina is absent. 22 Ms. Morejon? 23 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 24 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 25 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Here.  7 1 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Guareno? 2 MR. GUARENO: Here. 3 THE SECRETARY: Let the record indicate 4 there are seven present. 5 We have a full quorum for tonight’s 6 meeting. 7 * * * 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  8 1 ADOPTION OF MINUTES: 2 3 V. Regular Meeting Held on January 28, 2020 4 5 THE SECRETARY: Adoption of Minutes. 6 Regular Meeting held on January 28, 2020. 7 Can I have a motion? 8 Motion by Ms. Capizzi. 9 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Second. 10 THE SECRETARY: Seconded by Ms. Morejon. 11 Roll call on the motion. 12 Ms. Capizzi? 13 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 14 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Koehler? 15 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Yes. 16 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Genao? 17 MS. GENAO: Yes. 18 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Morejon? 19 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 20 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 21 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 22 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Guareno? 23 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 24 THE SECRETARY: Six in favor. 25 Motion carries.  9 1 Faraouk Sheikh - 912 Palisade Avenue: 2 3 THE SECRETARY: We are going to the first 4 hearing on tonight’s agenda. 5 Faraouk Sheikh, 912 Palisade Avenue. 6 Mr. -- 7 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Certainly. 8 THE SECRETARY: -- Chewcaskie? 9 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Yes. 10 Board members, we received an email, or I 11 should say Mr. Vallejo received an email this 12 afternoon indicating that this application is 13 being withdrawn. 14 You recall this matter has been adjourned 15 several times. The applicant’s attorney, Mr. 16 Alonso, was advised that if the application did 17 not proceed this evening, it was to be dismissed. 18 The Board extended a courtesy the last meeting. 19 I spoke with Mr. Alonso and indicated what 20 choices he had, and he consulted with the 21 applicant, and they are withdrawing the 22 application. 23 We will do a Resolution at the next 24 meeting, but we would need a motion to accept the 25 withdrawal without prejudice.  10 1 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: I’ll make a motion. 2 THE SECRETARY: Motion by Ms. Capizzi. 3 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Um hum. 4 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Second. 5 THE SECRETARY: Seconded by Mr. Velazquez. 6 Roll -- roll call on the motion. 7 Ms. Capizzi? 8 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 9 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Koehler? 10 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Yes. 11 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Genao? 12 MS. GENAO: Yes. 13 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Fernandez? 14 MS. FERNANDEZ: Yes. 15 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Morejon? 16 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 17 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 18 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 19 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Guareno? 20 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 21 THE SECRETARY: Seven in favor. 22 Motion carries. 23 * * * 24 25  11 1 Lilian Leon - 1608 New York Avenue: 2 3 THE SECRETARY: Next application on 4 tonight’s agenda, Lilian Leon, 1608 New York 5 Avenue. 6 Ms. Pereiras, please? 7 MS. PEREIRAS: Good evening. 8 May it please the Court, Bianca Pereiras, 9 on behalf of Lilian Leon. 10 As I was mentioning to counsel earlier, 11 this application, we’ve modified it 12 significantly, to the point that we are now 13 requesting a use variance. 14 So, I’m respectfully requesting to withdraw 15 it from this Board, so that we can apply in front 16 of the appropriate Board. 17 MR. CHEWCASKIE: What would be appropriate, 18 Board members, is similar to the first 19 application, is to accept the withdrawal, and if 20 there would be a motion to that effect. 21 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: I’ll make a motion. 22 THE SECRETARY: Motion by Ms. Capizzi. 23 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Second. 24 THE SECRETARY: Seconded by Mr. Velazquez. 25 Roll call on the motion.  12 1 Ms. Capizzi? 2 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 3 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Koehler? 4 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Yes. 5 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Genao? 6 MS. GENAO: Yes. 7 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Fernandez? 8 MS. FERNANDEZ: Yes. 9 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Morejon? 10 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 11 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 12 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 13 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Guareno? 14 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 15 THE SECRETARY: Seven in favor. 16 Motion carries. 17 MS. PEREIRAS: Thank you very much. 18 THE SECRETARY: Thank you. 19 (Whereupon, there was a pause in the 20 proceedings.) 21 * * * 22 23 24 25  13 1 733 32nd Street, LLC - 732 32nd Street: 2 3 THE SECRETARY: Next application on 4 tonight’s agenda, 733 32nd Street, LLC. 5 Ms. Pereiras, please? 6 MS. PEREIRAS: Thank you. 7 Bianca Pereiras, on behalf of the applicant 8 for 733 32nd Street, also known as Block 174, Lot 9 18. 10 I previously submitted my jurisdictional 11 proofs to counsel. 12 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Yes. I had the 13 opportunity to review the notices provided by Ms. 14 Pereiras, and same are in appropriate form and 15 therefore, the Board has jurisdiction to proceed 16 this evening. 17 MS. PEREIRAS: Thank you very much. 18 The property is located in the CN 19 neighborhood commercial zone. Currently, onsite, 20 we have a mixed use building, consisting of 21 commercial space on the ground floor, and one 22 residential apartment above. 23 We’re looking to provide an addition that 24 would allow us to expand the commercial space 25 onto some of the second floor, as well as provide  14 1 two additional units, for a total of three and 2 commercial. 3 We have one expert to testify before the 4 Board this evening; that is our architect, Mr. 5 Manuel Pereiras. 6 MR. DILLON: Please raise your right hand. 7 Do you swear the testimony you’re about to 8 give this Board is the whole truth? 9 MR. PEREIRAS: I do. 10 MR. DILLON: State your name and spell it 11 for the record. 12 MR. PEREIRAS: Manny Pereiras, 13 P-E-R-E-I-R-A-S, with Pereiras Architects 14 Ubiquitous, 1116 Summit Avenue, Union City. 15 MR. DILLON: Thank you. 16 MS. PEREIRAS: For purposes of the record, 17 Mr. Pereiras has -- 18 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 19 MS. PEREIRAS: -- testified. 20 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 21 MS. PEREIRAS: Thank you very much. 22 Mr. Pereiras, are you familiar with the 23 property at 733 32nd Street? 24 MR. PEREIRAS: I am. 25 MS. PEREIRAS: And did you prepare the  15 1 drawings that are before the Board this evening? 2 MR. PEREIRAS: I have. 3 MS. PEREIRAS: And would you kindly 4 describe the project for the Board? 5 MR. PEREIRAS: Be very happy to. 6 Hello, everyone. 7 Nice to be here. 8 We are dealing, first and foremost, with an 9 owner occupied building. I think that’s 10 important to understand what we’re presenting. 11 It’s an existing two story building on the 12 corner of 32nd and Summit Avenue. This is the -- 13 the southern corner, southeast corner of Summit 14 and -- and 32nd. 15 The current building occupies the entire 16 lot, as you could see. This being 32nd, this 17 being Summit Avenue. 18 The front half of the building is a two 19 story area, where there’s an apartment up on the 20 second floor. 21 And let me just walk you through all those 22 existing conditions. 23 By the way, for purposes of the record, I 24 am noting on the easel the same drawings that 25 were submitted to the Board, without any changes.  16 1 This sheet, which is sheet Z02, explains 2 the existing conditions. We have an existing 3 cellar. We have the ground floor, which is all 4 commercial. We have four commercial spaces 5 currently on that ground level. And then, we 6 have the apartment on the floor number two. 7 What we’re proposing to do is to make a two 8 story addition across the entire building, so 9 that it’s uniform and clean, three story 10 building. We are cleaning up the -- the 11 commercial spaces on that ground floor, and 12 taking over the existing apartment that’s on the 13 second floor, as part of the commercial spaces. 14 So, the offices are currently there. They 15 need a little bit more commercial space. So 16 they’re just basically taking it as is and using 17 the rooms that are there as part of their offices 18 on the ground floor. 19 And then, what we’re doing behind, in the 20 remaining space, and on the floor above, is three 21 apartments, as is, recommended in our Master Plan 22 and our Zoning Ordinance. 23 And the way we’re designing those three 24 apartments is so that each of the three 25 apartments are duplex apartments.  17 1 You walk into the apartment. You have 2 living room, dining room, kitchen space, with a 3 half bath on the second floor. And then, there’s 4 an internal stairwell that takes you up to the 5 third floor, where you have two bedrooms on this 6 one, two bedrooms on the second one, and the 7 three bedroom apartment on the third one, so that 8 we have two two bedrooms and one three bedroom 9 apartment, very simply designed as a duplex. 10 We’re also creating the opportunity of 11 having balconies on each of the apartments, which 12 creates a lot of architectural interest on the 13 façade, so that -- and -- and this is a very 14 important corner, I think. I think it’s very 15 prominent since you have the Kennedy Center 16 parking lot. So there’s a lot of visibility. 17 So, we wanted to take a lot of concern into this 18 façade. And we created a very simple vertical 19 elements, and recessed it so that these portions 20 that I’m looking at now are balconies, recessed a 21 little bit back into the building. Creates a 22 little architectural interest, creates some 23 balconies, nice different -- differences in 24 colors between the spaces. 25 So, this would be color A, and then these  18 1 -- the -- the inner spaces would be color B. 2 We’re creating a small cornice along the 3 commercial space so that we have a nice 4 attractive building, that really fits into our 5 Master Plan and our current Ordinance. 6 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Is that brick on the 7 front? 8 MR. PEREIRAS: So, no, it’s not brick, it’s 9 siding above. We’re dealing with an existing 10 building that doesn’t have any brick below. So, 11 we’re keeping the existing condition below, we’re 12 just repairing it. It’s stucco right now and 13 we’re going to be cleaning up that stucco, and 14 then siding above it. 15 MS. MOREJON: There’s no parking? 16 MR. PEREIRAS: The -- there is no parking. 17 As I said, we’re dealing with an existing 18 building. There -- it’s occupying a hundred 19 percent of the lot. Parking is a variance that 20 we’re seeking for here. There’s no opportunity 21 to create parking on this site. It’s a 25 by 100 22 site, with no opportunity for parking. 23 We have a few existing non-conformities, as 24 far as variances are concerned. We have rear 25 yard, side yard, and building -- and building  19 1 coverage. And we’re technically expanding on the 2 side yard and rear yard because we’re going up 3 the second and third story. 4 5 (Whereupon, Rudy Rivero arrived at 6:15 6 p.m.) 7 8 THE SECRETARY: For the record, let’s -- 9 MR. PEREIRAS: And parking. 10 THE SECRETARY: -- reflect that Mr. Rivero 11 joined the meeting, 6:15. 12 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Um hum. 13 THE SECRETARY: Thank you. 14 We have eight members now. 15 MR. PEREIRAS: I’m open for questions and 16 I’ll -- 17 MR. CHEWCASKIE: If -- 18 MR. PEREIRAS: -- dive into whatever -- 19 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Yeah. 20 If I may, Mr. Pereiras, I’m looking at the 21 apartments, and I guess, duplex apartment one has 22 the kitchen on the second floor. 23 MR. PEREIRAS: Um hum. 24 MR. CHEWCASKIE: I’m just trying to get a 25 breakdown.  20 1 So, on the second floor, we have the 2 commercial space, duplex apartment one, which has 3 a living room and a powder room on that level. 4 Duplex apartment two has the living, dining room, 5 kitchen and a powder room. And duplex apartment 6 three is of -- is similar. It has the living, 7 dining and kitchen. 8 MR. PEREIRAS: Yes. 9 MR. CHEWCASKIE: So, the only change on the 10 third floor is there are bedrooms for the units 11 on the third floor, except there’s also a kitchen 12 for apartment one. 13 MR. PEREIRAS: That is correct. 14 MR. CHEWCASKIE: And then, apartment one 15 has three bedrooms, and apartments two and three 16 have two bedrooms. 17 MR. PEREIRAS: That is correct. 18 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Okay. I just wanted that 19 to be clear. 20 MR. PEREIRAS: It’s a good clarification. 21 MR. CHEWCASKIE: And what is the -- and I 22 apologize, you may have said this, what’s the -- 23 how many bedrooms are in the existing unit? 24 MR. PEREIRAS: The existing unit is two 25 bedrooms currently. And they’re just going to be  21 1 used as an office space, not as a -- as 2 residential. 3 MS. MOREJON: On the first floor. 4 MR. PEREIRAS: On the second floor. 5 MS. MOREJON: On the second floor. 6 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Is it occupied? 7 MS. MOREJON: I don’t think -- 8 MR. PEREIRAS: I’m not sure if it -- is the 9 apartment occupied? 10 MS. MOREJON: I don’t think so. 11 A VOICE: Yes. 12 MR. PEREIRAS: It’s rented right now. 13 MR. VELAZQUEZ: And the tenants are going 14 to be displaced? 15 MS. PEREIRAS: Are you -- 16 MR. VELAZQUEZ: The tenants? 17 MS. PEREIRAS: Are you going to be able to 18 relocate the tenants? 19 (Whereupon, there was a pause in the 20 proceedings.) 21 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Maybe he should come 22 up. 23 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Yeah. We’ll have -- we’ll 24 have him come up. 25 MS. PEREIRAS: It’s currently occupied.  22 1 The tenants have a year lease. They’re not 2 looking to do any work until about at least six 3 months. 4 (Whereupon, there was a pause in the 5 proceedings.) 6 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: What is that on -- on 7 the side of the building? What is that? 8 MS. MOREJON: It’s access. Isn’t that 9 access stair. 10 Right? 11 MS. PEREIRAS: It’s an insurance and -- 12 MS. MOREJON: Insurance. 13 MS. PEREIRAS: -- tax office on the ground 14 floor. 15 MS. MOREJON: Did they used to have a 16 church? A little church in the back there. They 17 used to have a church there. 18 MS. PEREIRAS: Did they? Yeah. I think 19 it’s a -- 20 MS. MOREJON: Linda (phonetic) was the 21 owner. Linda, Linda. You know Linda. 22 MS. PEREIRAS: -- a real estate office and 23 an insurance office. 24 MS. MOREJON: Linda, used to be the owner 25 of the building. For years -- 20 years.  23 1 MR. PEREIRAS: The textiles lady, right? 2 MS. MOREJON: Right. Right. 3 MR. PEREIRAS: Yes. I remember her. 4 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: So, what is that 5 currently? 6 MR. PEREIRAS: So, there’s a tax office in 7 the front. 8 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: No, no. I mean, the 9 -- the material. 10 MR. PEREIRAS: Oh, it’s -- it’s siding. 11 There’s stucco on the ground floor and siding on 12 the floor above. And we’re keeping the same 13 thing. We’re not -- we can’t -- the problem, and 14 I would love to do brick. The problem is, we 15 can’t because the building is sitting on the 16 property line. Brick is four inches thick and 17 one inch of air space behind the brick. And if I 18 were to do that, I’m over the property line and 19 we simply can’t do that in the City of Union 20 City. 21 And I would, if this was -- if Union City 22 didn’t have an ordinance specifically outlawing 23 -- 24 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Um hum. 25 MR. PEREIRAS: -- thin brick, I would do  24 1 thin brick. But it’s -- 2 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Right. 3 MR. PEREIRAS: -- specifically outlawed 4 here in Union City. So, I don't have an option. 5 And you know me, I push brick on every single one 6 of my buildings. 7 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Um hum. 8 MR. PEREIRAS: But we don’t have an option 9 here. 10 MS. MOREJON: But if I may? 11 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Um hum. 12 MS. MOREJON: -- I’m -- I’m just -- 13 (indiscernible) -- that I have, you see what’s 14 going on on 32nd street now. 15 Right? 16 MR. PEREIRAS: I designed all of them. 17 MS. MOREJON: Are you aware -- 18 MR. PEREIRAS: So, yes. 19 MS. MOREJON: -- of that? 20 MR. PEREIRAS: I know. 21 MS. MOREJON: You did the building across 22 the street from the bank? 23 MR. PEREIRAS: I did every single one. 24 Yeah. 25 MS. MOREJON: The gas station. There’s a  25 1 lot of thing going on on 32 nd. A lot of thing 2 that the City is going to be doing also. 3 So, I think if you did the building across 4 the street from Capital One, I just want to say 5 congratulations. It’s a very nice building. 6 MR. PEREIRAS: Thank you. 7 Thank you. 8 MS. MOREJON: So maybe we can do -- 9 MR. PEREIRAS: It’s taken up a lot of time 10 over the past year -- 11 MS. MOREJON: -- something similar? 12 MR. PEREIRAS: -- year and a half. 13 MS. MOREJON: To this corner. That is 14 stucco? 15 MR. PEREIRAS: But there’s a big difference 16 between that one. 17 Number one, it’s a huge building. We were 18 talking a lot of units and it’s a -- it’s a very 19 different site. 20 This is a preexisting building. I can’t 21 tear it down and rebuild it. It’s just not 22 feasible. 23 MS. MOREJON: You can come up with 24 something different. 25 MR. PEREIRAS: Well, I -- I’d be happy to.  26 1 This Board could give me permission to do thin 2 brick. We do thin brick. There’s nothing wrong 3 with using thin brick. 4 The problem is that there was a building 5 that was done in Union City, incorrectly, where 6 thin brick was popping off the building, because 7 it was done wrong. And therefore, the Mayor 8 said, oh, thin brick pops off the building. It’s 9 dangerous. No more thin brick in Union City. 10 MS. MOREJON: No more thin brick in Union 11 City. 12 MR. PEREIRAS: But if it was built 13 uncorrectly and done the right way, without -- 14 you know -- you know, cutting corners, it would 15 be a perfectly fine material. 16 That’s the only thing I could do here. I 17 can’t tear the building down and push it back 18 four inches or five inches, really, that I need. 19 MR. CHEWCASKIE: What would you need to do 20 in order to do traditional brick? 21 MR. PEREIRAS: Okay. If I wanted to do 22 traditional brick, I would have to have the City 23 grant us what’s called, I guess, a franchise 24 ordinance, so that we could go over the property 25 line, and we could build the brick on that, over  27 1 the property line. 2 Okay? 3 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Because I don't think this 4 Board has the authority, if there’s an ordinance 5 that presently exists, to provide for thin brick. 6 MR. PEREIRAS: Um hum. 7 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Right. 8 MR. CHEWCASKIE: The only recommendation 9 the Board can make is that the preference would 10 be brick, and to obtain the license agreement 11 from the City to utilize it. But that would 12 require, in your opinion, from what I heard you 13 say, at least the five inch incursion into the 14 right-of-way. 15 MR. PEREIRAS: Yes. And it would mean 16 cutting the sidewalks, also, which -- 17 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Okay. 18 MR. PEREIRAS: -- and cutting into the 19 sidewalks -- 20 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: So, we -- we don’t 21 want to do that. 22 MR. PEREIRAS: -- we need to create a 23 footing for the -- 24 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Right. 25 MR. PEREIRAS: -- brick.  28 1 MR. CHEWCASKIE: For the brick. 2 MR. PEREIRAS: So, we’d have to dig down -- 3 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: So, you’re going to 4 put stucco and siding. The stucco, is that 5 painted on the bottom? 6 MR. PEREIRAS: So, it’s -- it’s -- it would 7 be Roman stucco that has a color mixed into it. 8 And that’s how we would design it. 9 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: What color? 10 I mean, what are you -- what is he 11 thinking? I don't know what the owner’s 12 thinking. 13 In order words, it looks a little messy, 14 let’s put it that way. 15 MR. PEREIRAS: Okay. 16 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: So, if we’re going to 17 grant this -- 18 MR. PEREIRAS: Um hum. 19 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: -- we don’t want a 20 mess, a big mess. It just doesn’t look right. 21 And as Ms. Morejon said -- you know -- 22 MR. PEREIRAS: Um hum. 23 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: -- there’s a lot of 24 improvement on that street. So, we want to keep 25 it high.  29 1 MR. PEREIRAS: I agree completely. And one 2 of the things that we could stipulate is that I 3 could submit a color rendering elevation to Mr. 4 Spatz, your professional, for his review. And 5 just so that the Board would be comfortable with 6 the colors, granting this application. 7 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: To clean it up. 8 MR. PEREIRAS: And -- and I could say that 9 -- I mean, they’re going to be earth tone colors, 10 brick -- 11 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Right. 12 MR. PEREIRAS: -- in nature, so it matches 13 the rest of the block. 14 And by the way, we have a few more 15 buildings coming. 16 CHAIRPERSON MOREJON: I know. 17 MR. PEREIRAS: There’s applications we 18 have. And then, we have the Mi Bandera site, 19 right across the street that’s coming. 20 MS. MOREJON: Mi Bandera site. 21 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Right. 22 MR. PEREIRAS: I’ve been working on that 23 for the -- 24 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Right. 25 MS. MOREJON: Wonderful.  30 1 MR. PEREIRAS: -- past month or so. So, 2 yes, there’s a lot coming and that’s a very 3 important corridor. And I think that this site, 4 in particular, is very important. And that’s one 5 of the reasons this application, in my opinion, 6 should be approved, because we want to make this 7 a nicer, good looking building. And that’s 8 exactly why the applicant’s here, to make that 9 happen. 10 MS. MOREJON: It’s a corner property. I 11 think you have to look at a lot of details. 12 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZI: Right. 13 MS. MOREJON: Because it’s going to -- 14 MR. PEREIRAS: Yup. 15 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: So, I see one sign. 16 Are there going to be more signs? 17 MR. PEREIRAS: So, each of the businesses 18 has to have their own individual sign -- 19 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: And what -- 20 MR. PEREIRAS: -- along the bottom. 21 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: -- kind of signs? 22 Are they going to be consistent? 23 MR. PEREIRAS: They’re going to match the 24 Ordinance of Union City, which is very, very 25 specific.  31 1 We’re -- my recommendation to them is to 2 use one inch flat lettering, again on board. 3 Very beautiful, very elegant. And it matches the 4 Union City Ordinance, Sign Ordinance. 5 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: So can we -- 6 MR. PEREIRAS: And if they wanted -- 7 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: -- can we stipulate 8 -- 9 MR. PEREIRAS: -- to deviate from that in 10 any way -- 11 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: -- that every -- 12 every sign matches? 13 MR. PEREIRAS: Yes. 14 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: So it doesn’t look 15 like -- 16 MR. PEREIRAS: We could stipulate that, 17 yeah. 18 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: -- a mish-mosh. 19 MR. PEREIRAS: Yeah. 20 MS. MOREJON: Are you going to do the same 21 thing with building that building and Capital 22 One? 23 MR. PEREIRAS: Yeah. You -- 24 MS. MOREJON: The lighting? 25 MR. PEREIRAS: -- haven’t even seen the  32 1 signs, yet. The signs are coming. They’re 2 beautiful. 3 MS. MOREJON: I’m talking about the 4 lighting. The lighting. 5 MR. PEREIRAS: Yeah. 6 MS. MOREJON: You going to put -- you’re 7 going to do something similar in that corner? 8 MR. PEREIRAS: Similar. But Capital One, I 9 have a canopy coming out. Okay. And that canopy 10 is being covered with metal right now. And then, 11 I have signs standing at the edge of that canopy 12 I designed for each of the businesses. 13 This is a little different because we’re 14 not going over and extending. So, we have the 15 sign flat against the building and keep it 16 uniform for all the stores. 17 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Lighting. 18 MR. PEREIRAS: So, for this in particular, 19 I would recommend gooseneck lighting. We could 20 do a gooseneck light fixture so -- 21 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Um hum. 22 MR. PEREIRAS: -- that they hit the sites. 23 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Um hum. 24 MR. PEREIRAS: It’s very elegant, very 25 nice.  33 1 Beyond that, I would have no other lighting 2 because we’re on the property -- 3 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Right. 4 MR. PEREIRAS: -- on the property line, and 5 we don’t want to have any light pollution either. 6 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Light pollution. 7 MR. PEREIRAS: Light pollution’s -- 8 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Right. 9 MR. PEREIRAS: -- a big thing. 10 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Not in Union City. 11 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: And where’s the 12 garbage? 13 MS. MOREJON: Well, it’s a basement. 14 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Where is the garbage? 15 MR. PEREIRAS: They have a basement over 16 here, where they store the garbage currently. 17 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Currently. 18 MR. PEREIRAS: Currently and they’ll -- 19 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: But now you’re -- 20 MR. PEREIRAS: -- continue to do so. 21 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: -- going to have all 22 these apartments. 23 MR. PEREIRAS: But it’s a large enough 24 space that they could fit it all. 25 MS. MOREJON: So, they’re going to be one  34 1 bedroom apartments. 2 MR. PEREIRAS: No. We’re going to have two 3 -- 4 MS. MOREJON: Two bedroom. 5 MR. PEREIRAS: -- two bedroom apartments, 6 and one three bedroom apartment, -- 7 MS. MOREJON: And one two bedroom. 8 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Right. 9 MR. PEREIRAS: -- all within this envelope 10 of three stories. 11 MR. GUARENO: So, you’ll be building up. 12 MR. PEREIRAS: Yes. We’re building up. 13 Three stories total for the whole site. 14 MR. GUARENO: And the second floor is going 15 to have the two one bedroom apartments. 16 MR. PEREIRAS: So, they’re all duplex. All 17 three are duplex. 18 MR. GUARENO: Okay, that’s what I’m trying 19 to figure it out. Okay. 20 MR. PEREIRAS: Yeah. It’s a little 21 complicated, because every apartment is on two 22 floor plans. 23 Just to go over it again. 24 If you look at apartment number three and 25 apartment number two, when you walk into each of  35 1 them, you have the living room, dining room, 2 kitchen areas for both of them. And then, 3 there’s a stairs within each one that takes you 4 upstairs, and upstairs, you have two bedrooms. 5 For apartment number one, it’s the nicer 6 apartment, it’s probably going to be the owner 7 occupied apartment, and that’s going to be you 8 walk in and you have a -- kind of like a sitting 9 area, living room area, on that ground floor 10 level, with its half bath. 11 And then, you take the steps upstairs, and 12 you have the kitchen, dining room, living room, 13 and then, three bedrooms all along that top 14 floor. 15 And all the access -- you know, you can’t 16 get to this floor unless you enter this area. 17 And you can’t get to these bedrooms unless you 18 enter there. There’s no exterior stair for the 19 top -- the third floor. 20 So, it’s confined. There’s no way of 21 making it into more apartments. It -- it is what 22 it is. 23 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Anybody have a 24 question? 25 The public?  36 1 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Yeah. We might as well 2 open to the public. 3 MR. PRICE: Larry Price, 1006 Palisade 4 Avenue. 5 What is the parking requirement currently? 6 MR. PEREIRAS: I would say that for this 7 building, based on -- 8 MR. DILLON: You need to -- 9 MR. PEREIRAS: -- 300 square feet per 10 commercial unit -- commercial space -- 11 MR. DILLON: Mr. Price? 12 MR. PEREIRAS: -- and the apartments -- 13 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Swear you in -- 14 MR. DILLON: Mr. -- 15 MR. CHEWCASKIE: -- also. 16 MR. PRICE: Say again? 17 MR. PEREIRAS: Raise your right hand. 18 MR. CHEWCASKIE: I want to swear you in, 19 also. 20 MR. DILLON: Do you swear the testimony -- 21 the testimony you’re about to give this Board is 22 the whole truth? 23 MR. PRICE: I do. 24 MR. DILLON: Thank you. 25 MR. PRICE: And you already have my name  37 1 and address. 2 MR. DILLON: Yeah. I got it. I got your 3 name. 4 MR. CHEWCASKIE: We -- we got it. 5 MR. PEREIRAS: So, based on 300 square feet 6 per -- one parking space per 300 square feet, for 7 all the commercial space, the ground floor and 8 the one on the second floor, and 2.1 parking 9 spaces per apartment, we are required 18 parking 10 spaces. 11 MR. PRICE: That’s the new. What’s the 12 existing? The existing -- 13 MR. PEREIRAS: Oh, the existing demand. It 14 would be 14 parking spaces existing. 15 So, the current demand is 14, we’re 16 expanding four parking spaces for the two -- the 17 three units. 18 No, no. I’m sorry. Twelve. Twelve and 19 six. 20 MR. PRICE: Twelve. Okay. 21 MR. PEREIRAS: Twelve and six. 22 MR. PRICE: Six -- six. 23 MR. PEREIRAS: Six. 24 MR. PRICE: So, and the site can’t provide 25 any.  38 1 MR. PEREIRAS: The site -- there’s a 2 hardship there. 3 MR. PRICE: Okay. 4 Thank you. 5 MR. DILLON: Please raise your right hand. 6 Do you swear the testimony you’re about to 7 give this Board is the whole truth? 8 MR. MACHEL: I do. 9 MR. DILLON: State your name and spell it 10 for the record. 11 MR. MACHEL: Normal Machel. Last name 12 M-A-C-H-E-L. 13 I’m the owner of 729 32nd Street, which is 14 basically two doors away. And the owner of 3140 15 Summit, which is next to this property. 16 If I could just show you on the sketch that 17 he has here? 18 MR. DILLON: I prefer you stay close -- 19 close to the microphone, but -- 20 MR. MACHEL: Okay. 21 I guess my concern is my driveway. 22 THE SECRETARY: Can we move that closer to 23 him? 24 MR. MACHEL: Is that -- 25 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Right.  39 1 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Let’s move the -- so we 2 can see what Mr. Machel is referring to. 3 (Whereupon, there was a pause in the 4 proceedings.) 5 MR. MACHEL: Let’s see. Okay. 6 So, this is my building here, on -- on 32nd 7 Street, my office, as well as my apartments. And 8 then, on Summit Avenue, here, this is my building 9 here and my driveway going in behind his 10 building. 11 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Um hum. 12 MR. MACHEL: And I guess -- I guess, just 13 my concern would be, if we’re going -- two 14 things, I guess, if we’re going up, what, three 15 -- two more stories, any impact on my property, 16 in terms of my ability to get in and out of my 17 driveway, and whether or not that impacts me 18 somewhere later on, if I decide I want to develop 19 my property in some way, shape or form, is there 20 any -- any encumbrance on his part into my 21 property here that he’s requesting? 22 MR. PEREIRAS: As the design professional, 23 I can tell you no. Absolutely not. 24 The property -- we don’t overlap a property 25 line in any way.  40 1 MR. MACHEL: Um hum. 2 MR. PEREIRAS: What we do on our property 3 doesn’t effect what you could build from a zoning 4 standpoint, from a construction standpoint, in no 5 way whatsoever. 6 MR. MACHEL: Okay. 7 MR. PEREIRAS: And it doesn’t hinder or 8 encumber you in any way. 9 MR. MACHEL: Okay. 10 So, no construction work that will be done 11 on that building will change my property line -- 12 MR. PEREIRAS: Nope. 13 MR. MACHEL: -- in any way, shape or form? 14 MR. PEREIRAS: None whatsoever. 15 The only thing I would say that you would 16 be coordinating with our client is during 17 construction itself. 18 For example, he’s going to be putting 19 siding up on the building. For those moments, 20 the brief moments that he need to put a ladder up 21 there to lay the siding down, that’s something 22 that you coordinate, a few hours on a day. 23 Beyond that, absolutely nothing, sir. 24 MR. MACHEL: I don't have a problem with 25 that, as long as it’s not going to be overdone.  41 1 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Um hum. 2 MR. PEREIRAS: Doesn’t effect you. 3 MR. MACHEL: The other question I had, 4 then, would be if we’re going up, where we have 5 any kind of people trying to get out of the 6 building in an emergency. 7 MR. CHEWCASKIE: You mean, like fire 8 escapes or whatever? 9 MR. PEREIRAS: That’s -- that’s very 10 important to understand. 11 MR. MACHEL: Correct. 12 MR. PEREIRAS: So, the property facing -- 13 the -- the wall facing you, and the wall facing 14 towards the east, both those walls are completely 15 blind walls, meaning I have no windows in those 16 areas. 17 And just for your safety, they are required 18 to be two hour fire walls. So, there -- it’s -- 19 it’s basically a jargon for saying that it’s 20 going to be very safe, from a fire standpoint, 21 that fire can’t go from one side of the wall to 22 the other. It has layers of sheathing that’s 23 fire rated between the two. So, it’s very well 24 protected. 25 MR. MACHEL: Okay.  42 1 That’s all I have, then. 2 Thank you. 3 MR. CHEWCASKIE: All right. 4 MS. PEREIRAS: Thank you, sir. 5 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Thank you. 6 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Just a -- 7 MR. PEREIRAS: Thank you. 8 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Just a couple comments, 9 sir. 10 This Board cannot alter property lines or 11 the like. 12 MR. MACHEL: Understood. 13 MR. CHEWCASKIE: So, you know, if there is 14 construction to occur where they may need to 15 access your property, they will need your 16 permission. 17 MR. MACHEL: Understood. 18 MR. CHEWCASKIE: With respect to this 19 building now, there -- it’s a clean slate. So 20 now, they’re going to comply with the existing 21 building and fire codes that are there, which are 22 more stringent than I’m sure when any of these 23 buildings were built. 24 So, and those are the standard conditions 25 of approval for any type of construction.  43 1 MR. MACHEL: Just a quick question. 2 If I were -- and I don't have -- I’m not 3 contemplating doing it, but -- doing it, but if I 4 were to, in the future, decide to tear down my 5 six family house, I have garages in the back, 6 space, driveway, et cetera, and I wanted to build 7 on my property, where would I be limited by 8 distance to this property? 9 MR. CHEWCASKIE: It -- it depends on the 10 zone. In the CN zone, we have no front yard. We 11 -- do we have a rear yard, Manny? 12 MR. PEREIRAS: There’s a rear yard. 13 MR. CHEWCASKIE: There’s a rear yard, -- 14 MR. PEREIRAS: It’s 25 percent. 15 MR. CHEWCASKIE: -- but side yards. 16 MR. PEREIRAS: And no side -- side yard. 17 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Right. 18 MR. PEREIRAS: So, you could build right up 19 against this building. 20 MR. MACHEL: Okay. Okay. 21 Thank you. 22 MS. PEREIRAS: Thank you. 23 MR. VELAZQUEZ: This project’s going to 24 start in one year, though, right, with the tenant 25 with the lease and all that.  44 1 MS. PEREIRAS: Right. They would not 2 displace the tenant. 3 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Okay. 4 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Do you have any 5 question? 6 MR. CHEWCASKIE: I have no further 7 questions. I have the -- I have the conditions 8 if the Board -- 9 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Okay. 10 MR. CHEWCASKIE: -- is inclined to approve 11 it. 12 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Okay. 13 I would make a motion to -- to approve this 14 -- 15 Oh, I’m sorry. Did you have a question? 16 MS. MOREJON: No. 17 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Okay. Do you want to 18 make -- make a motion? 19 MS. MOREJON: Diane made a motion. 20 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yeah. I’ll make a 21 motion to -- 22 MS. MOREJON: Second. 23 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: -- approve. 24 MR. SPATZ: Diane made the motion. 25 THE SECRETARY: All right. Make a motion  45 1 to -- 2 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 3 THE SECRETARY: -- approve the application 4 by Ms. -- 5 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 6 THE SECRETARY: -- Capizzi. 7 Seconded by Ms. Morejon. 8 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Right. 9 And before the roll call, my understanding 10 that in addition to the standard conditions, a 11 color rendering -- color rendered elevation will 12 be provided to Mr. Spatz for review and approval. 13 The signage will conform with the Ordinance, and 14 every sign will match with a consistent size and 15 material for each tenant. And that the lighting 16 fixtures to be provided on the building will 17 gooseneck. 18 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 19 THE SECRETARY: Motion on the table, with 20 the conditions, by Ms. Capizzi. 21 Seconded by Ms. Morejon to approve this 22 application. 23 Roll call on the motion. 24 Ms. Capizzi? 25 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes.  46 1 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Koehler? 2 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Yes. 3 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Genao? 4 MS. GENAO: Yes. 5 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Fernandez? 6 MS. FERNANDEZ: Yes. 7 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Morejon? 8 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 9 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Rivero? 10 MR. RIVERO: Yes. 11 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 12 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 13 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Guareno? 14 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 15 THE SECRETARY: Eight in favor. 16 Motion carries. 17 MS. PEREIRAS: Thank you all very much. 18 THE SECRETARY: Thank you. 19 MS. PEREIRAS: Thank you. 20 MR. PEREIRAS: Thank you everyone. 21 MS. PEREIRAS: Good night. 22 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Good night. 23 * * * 24 25  47 1 RESOLUTIONS: 2 3 ( 1) Resolution of the City of Union City 4 Authorizing and Directing the City of Union City 5 Planning Board to review the Roosevelt Stadium 6 Redevelopment Plan. Approved 7 ( 2) 208 18th Street, LLC, 208 18th Street, 8 Block 176, Lot 10. Legalization of existing 9 three families dwelling on Lot 11 and new three 10 family dwelling building on Lot 10. Withdrawn 11 ( 3) Rocha Builders, LLC, 1305 Palisade Avenue, 12 Block 63, Lot 3. Applicant proposes the 13 construction of a new three family. Approved 14 15 THE SECRETARY: We are going now on 16 adoption of Resolutions. 17 We have four Resolution on tonight’s 18 agenda. We are going to do the first three 19 Resolutions. 20 First Resolution. 21 Resolution of the City of Union City 22 Authorizing and Directing the City of Union City 23 Planning Board to review the Roosevelt Stadium 24 Redevelopment Plan. 25 Resolution number 2.  48 1 208 18th Street, LLC, 208 18th Street. 2 And Resolution number 3. 3 Rocha Builders, LLC, 1305 Palisade Avenue. 4 Can I have a motion to adopt these 5 Resolutions? 6 Motion by Ms. Capizzi. 7 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Second. 8 THE SECRETARY: Seconded by? 9 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Second. 10 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 11 Roll call on the motion. 12 Mr. Velazquez? 13 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 14 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Capizzi? 15 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 16 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Koehler? 17 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Yes. 18 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Genao? 19 MS. GENAO: Yes. 20 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Morejon? 21 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 22 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Rivero? 23 MR. RIVERO: Yes. 24 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Guareno? 25 MR. GUARENO: Yes.  49 1 THE SECRETARY: Seven in favor. 2 Motion carries. 3 * * * 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  50 1 REVISED/AMENDED RESOLUTION: 2 3 ( 4) 720 Eighth Street Redevelopment Plan. 4 5 MR. CHEWCASKIE: There was -- 6 THE SECRETARY: Resolution number 4. 7 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Yeah. If -- if I may, Mr. 8 Vallejo, on this one? 9 This was an add on. This is with respect 10 to the 720 Eighth Street Redevelopment Plan. 11 Apparently, there’s been some litigation. 12 The governing body, the Board of Commissioners, 13 adopted, readopted the redevelopment plan last 14 week and referred it to the Planning Board for a 15 review and recommendation. 16 This has been before the Board before. Mr. 17 Spatz did prepare the document. I consulted with 18 Mr. Spatz earlier. My understanding is there’s 19 no change from the previous document that was 20 provided. 21 Is that correct, Mr. Spatz? 22 MR. SPATZ: That -- that’s correct. 23 I think there was some minor changes to it, 24 but nothing of substance as to the type of 25 development that would be permitted on that  51 1 property. 2 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Right. 3 So, what I did is I prepared a Resolution. 4 I reviewed the redevelopment plan, and when I 5 reviewed that redevelopment plan, I thought there 6 were two items regarding that plan that should be 7 eliminated. 8 And I will thank Mr. Price for raising that 9 in his litigation, because I actually agreed with 10 Mr. Price. 11 One was with respect to the parking 12 requirements. This redevelopment plan had very 13 distinct parking requirements for what was 14 proposed. And there was a reference to 15 adjustments, pursuant to the provisions of the 16 Residential Site Improvement standards. I 17 suggest that that come out. 18 There was also a provision that seemed to 19 indicate that the redevelopment area could be 20 expanded by additional properties. 21 I disagree with that. That has to go 22 through a process. If we’re going to have 23 additional properties, it’s up to the Board of 24 Commissioners to refer it to the -- to this body 25 to amend.  52 1 So, the Resolution that you have in front 2 of you will recommend the approval of that plan, 3 with the elimination of those two sections. 4 Those are identified in the Resolution. 5 That’s what’s before you this evening. 6 So, I don't know if anyone has questions of 7 myself or Mr. Spatz, but when I reviewed it, I 8 did discuss it with Mr. Spatz. And I believe 9 those suggestions are appropriate, under the 10 circumstances, because as I -- as I indicated, 11 you have paragraph eight, about expanding the 12 redevelopment area and Paragraph 3A about 13 changing the height requirements. 14 So, those were the revisions that I 15 suggested, with the review and recommendation of 16 the redevelopment plan. 17 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Okay. 18 I’ll make a motion. 19 THE SECRETARY: Motion to adopt the 20 Resolution -- 21 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 22 THE SECRETARY: -- by Ms. Capizzi. 23 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 24 THE SECRETARY: Seconded by Ms. Morejon. 25 Roll call on the motion.  53 1 Ms. Capizzi? 2 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 3 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Koehler? 4 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Yes. 5 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Genao? 6 MS. GENAO: Yes. 7 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Fernandez? 8 MS. FERNANDEZ: Yes. 9 THE SECRETARY: Ms. Morejon? 10 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 11 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Rivero? 12 MR. RIVERO: Yes. 13 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 14 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 15 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Guareno? 16 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 17 THE SECRETARY: Eight in favor. 18 Motion carries. 19 * * * 20 21 22 23 24 25  54 1 ADJOURNMENT: 2 3 THE SECRETARY: There being no other 4 application tonight’s agenda, can I have a motion 5 to close tonight’s meeting? 6 Motion by Ms. Capizzi. 7 Seconded by Ms. Morejon. 8 All in favor? 9 10 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 11 12 THE SECRETARY: The ayes have it. 13 Let the record indicate that the meeting 14 has ended. 15 Thank you. 16 Good night, everyone. 17 18 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 19 at 6:45 p.m.) 20 21 22 23 24 25  55 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 heard on 10 Tuesday, February 25, 2020 and digitally 11 recorded. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Monitored by: Kevin Dillon, Jr. 25 Proofread by: Deborah Dillon