Transcript for Piscataway Planning meeting on June 10 2026

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Jun 10 2026 · Planning

Brenda Smith (Chair)Hello. Can, can't hear.

Speaker 1Hello?

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Hello. Can you? Hi, Carol.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Hi, Carol.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Alright, so we're together now.

Speaker 1It was giving a hard time letting me in.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Really?

Speaker 1Yeah. Yeah. I dunno why. You know what though? My Yahoo, since they changed it, it goes, it doesn't act right? The email.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Oh gosh. There always something. Okay. Still? Yep. All right. Lemme let everybody in. Mr. Atkins. All right. Okay. You ready for a really, really, really long meeting?

Speaker 1Yes.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Our three minute, three to five minutes. That's good.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Okay.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Let's see. I'm blurred out if I don't sit next to you blur,

Speaker 1Because I need to watch the game.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)I do enough of these. I'm good.

Speaker 3Oh, we wanna see you.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)You'll definitely hear me. Yeah. All. So as long as we have a quorum, we'll do some votes. Yeah. I don't know where Mr. Barlow is. Ms. Corcoran. I know Dawn's calling in. Hello,

Speaker 3Madam Chair. How are you?

Brenda Smith (Chair)How are you? Good to see you. Fine.

Speaker 3Good to see both of you and Carol.

Speaker 1Yes.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Good to be seen. I know here. Yes.

Speaker 1Right,

Speaker 3Phil. I see Phil too.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Sorry for being off camera guys. I'm on a, a train home from DC right now. Yes. There's Alex. We are good. Yeah, the TV people are here. They're trying to figure out why are meetings having wonky. So they're playing with the cameras now. Hopefully we'll figure it out. Where's the hang last year? Hopefully get it fixed. I know.

Speaker 1Hello everybody.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Hi. How are you? Hello. How

Speaker 1Are you?

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Okay,

Speaker 5Good evening. This is the PCTV control room. Three minutes to broadcast. Laura, I'll give you the start as soon as I can. Thank you.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Good evening everyone.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Good evening. Hi Tom. How are you? Good.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)On mute.

Speaker 3Yep. Mr. Barlow. Good evening. Sounds awesome. Evening, Reverend. How are you? Well, fine. How are you? Oh, living the dream.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Looks like we meeting. Good for you.

Speaker 3Looks like we got a nice short meeting this evening. Good

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Short meeting. You're welcome.

Brenda Smith (Chair)So we can be ready for the game at seven 30. 8 30, 8 30.

Speaker 1Yeah.

Speaker 3Eight 30. Eight 30. Yeah.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Eight 30. Yeah.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)I'm not a huge, I like sports. I'm not a big basketball fan, but yes, I have been

Brenda Smith (Chair)Watched. Yeah. Even this can catch your toes. It get you excited.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)I've been watching.

Speaker 3Yeah, I've been watching it too. Yeah. See what happens. But they closed everything off in New York. They can't, can't say it about the the garden. Yeah. Yeah.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)A shame. Yeah. Well

Brenda Smith (Chair)Be somewhere. They won't be far from the garden though. They can't stay at the garden, but they'll be other place. Okay. They can't, I can't keep a good fan down.

Speaker 1I hope they behave their self tonight.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)So I gotta flip back. Yeah.

Brenda Smith (Chair)There's always gonna be somebody who's gonna spark some, you know? But I think yes, the police got him. I think they got 'em under control. Yeah,

Laura Buckley (Clerk)They got 'em.

Speaker 1I couldn't believe that they did that to a fan of San Antonio. Like, first I thought it was just some, you know, something made up and then I was like, oh my goodness. When I seen it on the news, I was like

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Horrible.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Can't be surprised at anything these days.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)No. Sporting a bit like, have fun one or loose. We have, oh, one minute.

Speaker 3You got another car today?

Laura Buckley (Clerk)I have my car back. Oh,

Speaker 3You got it back. I think it's different.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Yeah. It's back. Next time. I'll tint it out and we'll, will it be line? Thanks more recording in progress. Okay. I'm just waiting for PCTV to just give him one second. And you could start Madam Chair.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Okay. Let me know

Speaker 3When, when you're driving your driving your husband's pickup truck. They get outta your way. He said this woman with this pickup truck. Let me get outta the way.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)You know it's funny. Hey, Laura, you can start. Okay. Thank you. Step.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Okay. Ready?

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Yep. We're ready. Madam Chair,

Brenda Smith (Chair)The Piscataway Township Planning Board meeting will please come to order the Piscataway Township. I said that already meeting will please come to order. The at adequate notice of this meeting was provided in the following ways. Notice published in the Courier News notice posted on the bulletin board of the municipal building notice available to the township clerk notice sent to the Courier News and the star ledger. Ms. Buckley, would you please call the role

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Mayor Wahler. Present Councilwoman Caho.

Speaker 1Here.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Ms. Corcoran? Here. Ms. Saunders? Here. Reverend Kinneally? Here. Mr. Atkins? Here. Mr. Ahmed. Mr. Echeveria

Speaker 1Here.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)And Madam Chair here.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Mr. Barlow, would you please read the Open Public meeting? Notice?

Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Certainly Madam Chair. And keeping with the Department of Community Fair Guidelines, we're doing this via virtual meeting platform. The login information was available to anybody that wanted to log in. And I believe we have done our best to comply with the DCA guidelines and the Open Public Meetings Act.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Thank you. I, I see we have a picture of the American flag on our screen today, and there's also one overhead over my shoulder. So can we all recite the Pledge of Allegiance in unison? Please?

Speaker 1Pledge. Pledge. Allegiance to the

Brenda Smith (Chair)Flag. To the flag of the United.

Speaker 1The United States of America. America. And to the Republic,

Brenda Smith (Chair)Which is

Speaker 1Stands?

Brenda Smith (Chair)One Nation. Nation. One Nation Nation. Under God. Under God. Individual. With liberty.

Speaker 1With liberty and justice for all.

Brenda Smith (Chair)And we have the swearing end of the professional's place.

Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Madam Chair, I don't think we need to do that this evening as we're not hearing any matters. No.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Okay. We do. Do we have any changes to our agenda? I do note that there's a postponement.

Thomas W. Barlow (Planning Atty)Yes. Madam Chair number 10 26 PBO four two Johnson Avenue LLC. Been postponed to the September meeting. The applicant will re-notice. So if anyone's on the call for this, you'll receive a new notice in the mail. It won't be heard this evening. That's the only change. Madam Chair.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Thank you. Can I get a motion to pay the duly audited bills

Speaker 1Motion?

Brenda Smith (Chair)Do I have a second?

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Second. Be County

Speaker 1Carol's.

Brenda Smith (Chair)The first one. The first motion. Motion was by

Speaker 1Councilwoman Cahill. Councilwoman

Brenda Smith (Chair)Cahill.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)And Kinneally.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Roll

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Call please. Mayor Wahler. Yes. Councilwoman Cahill.

Speaker 1Yes. Ms.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders?

Speaker 1Yes.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Reverend Kinneally. Yes. Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Ahmed? Yes. Mr. Echeveria and Madam Chair?

Brenda Smith (Chair)Yes. Item number eight, adoption of the resolutions. Ms. Madam Saunders. Okay.

Speaker 1Madam Chair. And I like to memorialize the action taken on May 13th, 2026, meeting application 26 PV dash zero six slash zero seven VM, Ms. N Pharmaceuticals, Inc. For preliminary and final site plan With both variance.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Is there a second? Mr. Atkins? A second. Thank you. Roll call please.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Mayor Wahler? Yes. Ms. Corcoran?

Speaker 1Yes.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Ms. Saunders?

Speaker 1Yes.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Reverend Kinneally. Yes. Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Ahmed? Yes. And Madam Chair?

Brenda Smith (Chair)Yes. Item number nine, adoption of the minutes.

Speaker 1Madam Chairman, I'd like to adopt the minutes from the regular meeting of May 13th, 2026.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Do we have a second?

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Reverend Kinneally? I'll

Brenda Smith (Chair)Second. Thank you. Roll call please.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Mayor Wahler? Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders?

Speaker 1Yes.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Reverend Kinneally? Yes. Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Ahmed? Yes. And Madam Chair?

Brenda Smith (Chair)Yes. Item number 10 has been adjourned. As noted before, there is no number 11.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Number eleven's adjournment.

Speaker 1Adjournment.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Wait, that's 12. Okay. Alright. As a reminder, before we get to the adjournment, there's this, our street fair is this coming Saturday, June 13th. Workshop meeting is on June 24th, and our next regular board meeting is July 8th. Our 250th American Revolution celebration is on July, July 4th. And I would remind everybody to have a good time, but please be safe. And now I'll accept a motion if there are no other reminders for an adjournment.

Speaker 1Motion. Madam Chair. But thank you for those words. Yeah. Yes.

Brenda Smith (Chair)Thank you. Thank you. Any opposers to the adjournment? I guess not everyone. Be safe. Thank you.

Speaker 1Thank you everybody. Have a good night.

Laura Buckley (Clerk)Fun.