Planning Board - Special

1 1 CITY OF UNION CITY HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY 2 PLANNING BOARD 3 : SPECIAL 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 11, 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 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 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, RPR 24 449 Columbia Blvd., Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 201-933-8220 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/APPLICATIONS/EXTENSION N/A 8 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS 6/8/10 9 ADJOURNMENT 11 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  3 1 MR. VALLEJO: Please take notice that on 2 Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at 6:00 p.m., a special 3 meeting is scheduled for the City of Union City 4 Planning Board to be held in Union City High 5 School, located at 2500 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, 6 Union City, New Jersey. 7 This meeting is called in compliance 8 with Chapter 231, Public Law 1975 of the Open 9 Public Meetings Act. Adequate notice of this 10 meeting has been provided as follows: 11 Notice of this meeting setting forth the 12 time, date, location, and the agenda to the extent 13 known, was forwarded to The Jersey Journal, The 14 Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has been posted 15 on the bulletin board in City Hall, and has been 16 made 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 for tonight's 4 meeting. Mayor Stack is absent. Mr. Velazquez. 5 CHAIRMAN VELAZQUEZ: Here. 6 MR. VALLEJO: Commissioner Celine 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 is absent. 14 Mr. Guareno. 15 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 16 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 17 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Let the record indicate 19 there are five present. 20 * * * * 21 22 23 24 25  5 1 ADOPTION OF MINUTES: 2 3 MR. VALLEJO: We're going to adoption of 4 minutes, regular meeting held on March 28, 2023. 5 Can I have a motion to adopt? 6 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: I make a motion. 7 MR. VALLEJO: Motion by Mr. Velazquez. 8 MS. MOREJON: Second. 9 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by Ms. Morejon. 10 Roll call on the motion. Mr. Velazquez. 11 CHAIRMAN VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 12 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Genao. 13 MS. GENAO: Yes. 14 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 15 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 16 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 17 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 18 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Oseguera. 19 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 20 MR. VALLEJO: Five in favor, motion 21 carries. 22 * * * * 23 24 25  6 1 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS: 2 1. 15th Street UC, LLC, 814 15th Street. 3 4 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Chewcaskie. 5 MR. CHEWCASKIE: So the next order of 6 business i s the adoption of resolutions. There 7 are three resolutions, these are three matters 8 that can dealt with at the March 28, 2023, 9 meeting. 10 The first resolution is 15th Street UC, 11 LLC, 814 15th Street. This was the remand from 12 the Superior Court, it was the second remand. It 13 was sent back to the Board for deliberations. A 14 resolution was prepared and circulated to the 15 Board. It indicated the reasons that the Board 16 denied the application and incorporates the 17 findings and conclusions from the prior 18 resolutions, which were adopted on September 22, 19 2020, and October 26, 2021. 20 Everybody here this evening is eligible 21 to vote as they were present at the last meeting. 22 So it would be appropriate for a motion at this 23 time. Do we have a motion? 24 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Make a motion. 25 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Motion by Chairman  7 1 Velazquez, and I believe we have a second by Ms. 2 Morejon, okay. 3 Chairman Velazquez. 4 CHAIRMAN VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 5 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Ms. Morejon. 6 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 7 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Ms. Genao. 8 MS. GENAO: Yes. 9 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Mr. Guareno. 10 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 11 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Mr. Oseguera. 12 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 13 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Okay, five in favor. 14 * * * * 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  8 1 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS: 2 2. 613 39th Street, LLC - 613 39th Street: 3 4 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Our next resolution is 5 a resolution for an extension. It was 613 39th 6 Street, LLC, 613 39th Street. This was a second 7 extension. The Board granted the extension from 8 January 28, 2024, and no further extensions should 9 be granted. Do we have a motion? 10 CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Motion. 11 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Let me get the names 12 correct, Mr. Medina? 13 MR. VALLEJO: Mr. Guareno. 14 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Mr. Guareno. 15 MR. VALLEJO: Seconded by? 16 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Sorry. 17 MR. VALLEJO: Ms. Morejon. 18 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Mr. Velazquez. 19 CHAIRMAN VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 20 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Ms. Genao. 21 MS. GENAO: Yes. 22 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Ms. Morejon. 23 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 24 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Mr. Guareno. 25 MR. GUARENO: Yes.  9 1 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Mr. Oseguera. 2 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 3 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Five in favor. 4 * * * * 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  10 1 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS: 2 3. Michael Szczesny - 912 Palisade Avenue: 3 4 MR. CHEWCASKIE: The third resolution is 5 a also resolution for extension for one year, 6 Michael Szczesny, it is 912 Palisade Avenue. And 7 all conditions of the prior resolution are 8 included. Do we have a motion? 9 MS. GENAO: Motion. 10 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Ms. Genao. 11 I'm going to get this right this time. 12 Mr. Guareno was the second? 13 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 14 MR. CHEWCASKIE: All right. 15 Mr. Velazquez. 16 CHAIRMAN VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 17 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Ms. Genao. 18 MS. GENAO: Yes. 19 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Ms. Morejon. 20 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 21 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Mr. Guareno. 22 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 23 MR. CHEWCASKIE: Mr. Oseguera. 24 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 25 * * * *  11 1 ADJOURNMENT: 2 3 MR. CHEWCASKIE: And that's it. The 4 next action to be a motion to adjourn. 5 CHAIRMAN VELAZQUEZ: Motion. 6 MR. VALLEJO: We don't have to open to 7 the public, right? 8 MR. CHEWCASKIE: There's no public here. 9 We can note no public is here, so no public 10 session. 11 MR. OSEGUERA: Second. 12 MR. CHEWCASKIE: All in favor? 13 (Whereupon, all Board Members indicate 14 in the affirmative.) 15 MR. VALLEJO: Let the record indicate 16 that the meeting has ended. Thank you and good 17 night, everyone. 18 19 (Whereupon the meeting was concluded.) 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 7 transcript of the AUDIO RECORDED proceedings in 8 their entirety, as taken stenographically by me, 9 is a true and accurate transcript of the 10 proceedings as recorded, and to the best of my 11 ability. 12 13 14 ____________________________ 15 SUSAN BISCHOFF, CCR, RPR LICENSE NO. 30XI00233700 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25