Transcript for Piscataway Planning meeting on December 10 2025
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Speaker 0 00:00:01 Away. Township planning board meeting will please come to order. Adequate notice of this meeting was provided in the following ways. Notice published in the Coer News notice posted on the bulletin board of the municipal building notice made available to the township clerk notice sent to the Coer News and the star ledger, Ms. Buckley, will you please call the roll? Speaker 1 00:00:20 Mayor Wahler. Present Councilwoman Cahill Speaker 2 00:00:25 Here. Speaker 1 00:00:26 Hi. Yeah. Ms. Corcoran. Speaker 2 00:00:32 Sorry. Here. Speaker 1 00:00:34 Ms. Saunders. Here. Reverend Kinneally. He's here. He is not working again. Speaker 3 00:00:43 He's waving. Speaker 1 00:00:44 Mr. Atkins Speaker 3 00:00:46 Here. Speaker 1 00:00:46 Mr. Foster. Speaker 3 00:00:51 Oh, this isn't working. Speaker 1 00:00:52 All right. I gotta tell them. They, they fixed it today. They said. I'm sorry. Mr. Ahmed here and Madam Chair Speaker 0 00:01:00 Present. Can we all recite the pledge allegiance? The flag is visible over my sh over my head. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic. Republic. For which it stands? It stands One Nation Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and Justice for All. Can we, oh, Mr. Barlow, would you read the open public meeting Notice? Speaker 3 00:01:36 Certainly. Madam Chair, in keeping with the Department of Community Affairs guidelines on virtual meetings, we are going forward on this Zoom platform and everyone that wishes to be heard will be as if they were present in person. Thank you. Speaker 0 00:01:53 Are there any changes to our agenda tonight, Mr. Barba? Speaker 3 00:01:56 There, there are quite a few. Madam Chair number 10, which is the discussion of the redevelopment plan for 30 Knight Bridge Road will be carried to the January 14th meeting. Item number 11, which is the discussion on the ordinance amendment, will be carried to the January 14th, 2026 meeting. Number 14, which is the courtesy review for the Board of Education, for the Fellowship Farm School project will be carried to the January 14th meeting. Those are the Speaker 0 00:02:37 Changes. Those are for the record. Those are the adjournments for those items? Yes. Okay. Item number eight. No. Item number seven. Can I have a motion to pay the duly audited bills? Speaker 4 00:02:54 Madam? Motion Madam Chair, to pay the dually bills. Speaker 0 00:02:59 Okay. Do I have a second Speaker 5 00:03:00 Decking? Carol Saunders. Speaker 0 00:03:02 Thank you. Roll call please. Speaker 1 00:03:04 Mayor Wahler? Yes. Councilwoman Cahill? Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally? Speaker 4 00:03:12 Yes. Speaker 1 00:03:13 Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Foster? Yes. Mr. Ahmed? Yes. And Madam Chair? Speaker 0 00:03:20 Yes. Item number eight, resolutions to be memorialized. November 12. Ms. Saunders, Speaker 5 00:03:28 Madam Chair, I'd like memorialize application 25 PB zero nine slash 10 V solar landscape, LLC. Preliminary and final site plan. Speaker 0 00:03:40 Do I have a second? Speaker 6 00:03:42 I second it. Speaker 0 00:03:43 Roll call please. Speaker 1 00:03:45 Mayor Wahler? Yes. Councilwoman Cahill? Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally? Speaker 4 00:03:53 Yes. Speaker 1 00:03:53 Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Foster? Yes. Mr. Hammed? Yes. And Madam Chair? Speaker 0 00:04:01 Yes. Speaker 5 00:04:02 Madam Chair, I'd like to memorialize application 25 PV dash zero seven slash zero eight V for solar landscape, LC preliminary final site plan for block 45 0 1 lot 1.03 on one 50 old New Brunswick Road. Speaker 0 00:04:19 Do I have a second? Second. Speaker 4 00:04:22 Reverend Kinneally. I'll second it. Speaker 0 00:04:24 Thank you. Roll call please. Speaker 1 00:04:25 Mayor Wahler? Yes. Excuse me. Councilwoman Cahill? Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally. Speaker 4 00:04:34 Yes. Speaker 1 00:04:34 Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Foster? Yes. Mr. Ah Hammed? Yes. And Madam Chair? Speaker 0 00:04:42 Yes. Speaker 5 00:04:43 Madam Chair. I'd like to moralize application 25 PB dash 12 slash 13 V Eastern Lift Truck Company, Inc. Preliminary and final site plan with both variances. Speaker 0 00:04:54 Do I have a second please? Speaker 4 00:04:58 Reverend Kinneally. I'll second it. Speaker 0 00:05:00 Thank you. Roll call. Speaker 1 00:05:03 Mayor Wahler? Yes. Councilwoman Cahill? Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally? Speaker 4 00:05:11 Yes. Speaker 1 00:05:11 Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Foster? Yes. Mr. Ahmed? Yes. And Madam Chair? Speaker 0 00:05:19 Yes. Speaker 5 00:05:21 Madam Chair, I'd like to memorialize 1690 South Washington Avenue Block 57 0 1 lot 2.01 for consideration of modification of condition of approval. Speaker 0 00:05:35 Do I have a second? Speaker 6 00:05:37 Second. Speaker 0 00:05:39 Roll call please. Speaker 1 00:05:41 Mayor Wahler? Yes. Councilwoman Cahill? Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally? Speaker 4 00:05:49 Yes. Speaker 1 00:05:50 Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Foster? Yes. Mr. Ahmed? Yes. And Madam Chair? Speaker 0 00:05:57 Yes. Item number nine, adoption of minutes. Speaker 5 00:06:01 Madam Chair, I'd like to adopt the minutes from the regular meeting of November 12th, 2025. Speaker 0 00:06:07 Do I have a second? Speaker 1 00:06:09 Reverend Kinneally? I'll second it. Speaker 0 00:06:12 Roll call please. Speaker 1 00:06:12 Mayor Wahler? Yes. Councilwoman Cahill? Yes. Ms. Corcoran? Yes. Ms. Saunders? Yes. Reverend Kinneally? Yes. Mr. Atkins? Yes. Mr. Foster? Yes. Mr. Hammed? Yes. And Madam Chair. Speaker 0 00:06:29 Yes. At this time I'll turn the balance of the agenda over to Mr. Barlow and recuse myself on the other items that are on the agenda. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:06:37 Thanks Brenda. Speaker 3 00:06:40 So, as we've said before, item 10 is postponed the redevelopment plan for 39th. Bridge number 11 is a postponed to January 14th, which is the ordinance review. And number 12 is the Board of Education Matter courtesy review for block 6 0 0 3 lot 10.01 for 100 Beamer Road as in the past. This is a courtesy review pursuant to statute, the Board of Ed, and come and make a presentation if they have a projects that they're going to do, which I believe they have several in the works. So this is for the Piscataway High School, and I believe Mr. Kza is here and he is, I believe, the board of Ed's architect. Speaker 7 00:07:23 Yes, that is correct. Mr. Barlow. Speaker 3 00:07:26 Okay. Start with the high school. Speaker 7 00:07:29 Absolutely. So good evening, members of the planning board. Thanks for the opportunity to present today. My name's Justin Ozick. I'm the Senior project manager with s Sp Architectural Group. As Mr. Barlow mentioned, we are the architect of record for the Piscataway Board of Education and we're here to discuss two projects with you tonight. Our goal is to provide a clear overview of the project, address any questions you may have, and we do appreciate your time and consideration. I am going Speaker 3 00:07:57 Mr. Mr. Kza, since you're gonna just be giving architectural testimony just out of an abundance of caution, I'm just gonna have Ms. Saunders swear you in. Sure. Okay. Thank you. Can you Speaker 5 00:08:07 Please, can you please raise your right hand? Do you swear that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth and nothing but the truth? Speaker 7 00:08:13 Yes. Speaker 5 00:08:14 Thank you. Speaker 3 00:08:16 Proceed. Speaker 7 00:08:18 Okay. Thank you. I'm going to share my screen. Bear with me. Okay. Everyone seeing my screen? Speaker 3 00:08:31 Yes. Yes sir. Okay. Speaker 7 00:08:32 Alright. Thank you. So vol, take upgrades at Piscataway High School. The board of Education recently decommissioned one of the existing solar arrays that was originally installed at the high school roof in originally installed in 2010. The, the district is now proposing an installation of a new solar array of equivalent system capacity, both a more efficient design and a reduced overall footprint on the roof's surface. The original installation covered the majority of the 2007 addition, as well as majority of the Susan B. Anthony Wing at the high school, as well as significant portions of the George S. Patton Wing. The proposed installation will be located exclusively this new installation on the Susan B. Anthony Wing of the high school. The total system size will be approximately 1.1 megawatts and will consist of 2023 solar modules. Inverters for the system will be positioned on the roof surface and the solar disconnect panel board and interconnection will be installed on the rear side of the Susan Van Anthony Wing behind the existing air cooled chiller units. This location matches the, a location of the existing devices, devices that were removed as part of the decommissioning process, and we'll ensure that the equipment is only visible from the access road at the back of the school, minimizing the visual impact. So at this time I'm going to move to exhibit DOE 0.2. As I mentioned, the existing system covered portions of the George s patent wing, which is shown in this northern part of the plan here, as well as this interconnection building that was built in two 2007. Speaker 7 00:10:30 The existing Susan B. Anthony Wing, which is shown here in Gray, was also had the existing solar removed, but that will be the location of the proposed new full voltaic install. Going to move to exhibit DOE 0.3. This is the proposed panel layout on the roof surface. As I mentioned earlier, the interconnection panel and disconnect devices, which will be installed on the exterior wall, are on the backside of the building behind these existing air cooled chiller units. There is an access road which goes behind the high school, which is only accessible by district staff, not the public. So the location is out of the way, the public view and in a conspicuous location. Mr. Barlow, should I proceed to the Quibble Town project or should I hold here for comments on the high school? Speaker 3 00:11:40 Yeah, if that's your presentation as to the high school, I think it would make sense if any of the board members have any questions about this project before moving on or comments. I don't know if Ms. Corcoran has any comments or if anyone else, I don't have any comments, Tom. Okay. Okay. Speaker 8 00:12:04 I I just have one, one minor, one. Madam Chair. Does the architect know, is this part of, did you get any federal grant money for this towards this? Or is this being before they expire next year? Speaker 7 00:12:19 The intent is, the intent is to get the, the funds before they expire. Speaker 8 00:12:25 Yeah. That, that's what I kind of figured. So Speaker 7 00:12:29 That is correct. Yes. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:12:34 Anyone else from the board have any questions about the Piscataway High School Solar Project? No. You wanna, you wanna, Speaker 1 00:12:47 Do you wanna open up to the public? Mr. Barlow Speaker 3 00:12:51 Is there? Yeah, certainly. Speaker 1 00:12:55 Anyone from the public have any questions or comments You can either speak, I gave your permission if you're on a phone, star six. If not, you could raise your hand. No. And Mr. Barlow. Speaker 3 00:13:10 All right. That being said, public has closed as to that. You wanna move on to the second one, Mr. Ick? I think that's Quibble Town Middle School. Speaker 7 00:13:19 Absolutely correct. Yeah. So this is the full take upgrades at Quibble Town Middle School. At this building, the Board of Education is planning to decommission the existing solar array, which is still in place, and it was originally installed on the school roof in 2011. They're also proposing an installation of a new solar array of equivalent system capacity and similar overall overall footprint on the roof surface. The proposed installation will be located on the original school building as well as the 1990s addition, the total system size will be approximately 315 kw and will consist of approximately 3 635 solar modules. Inverters for the system will be positioned on the roof surface and the solar disconnect panel board in interconnection will be installed in the same location as the existing devices adjacent to the existing parking. Lot of the original building construction, the devices are currently protected and will remain protected from the parking area by existing bollards. That will remain as part of the proposed work. Moving on to exhibit DOE 0.2, as I mentioned earlier, the installation will be on the roof area shaded in gray, so the majority of the roof surface. And I'm going to move to exhibit DOE 0.4, the inverter, I'm sorry, the disconnect interconnection are gonna be located in the same existing location as they are now along the parking lot of the existing building. Speaker 7 00:15:09 And that is all I have for this project. Are there any questions, Speaker 5 00:15:17 Any, Speaker 3 00:15:17 Any members of the board have any questions for Mr. Coza? Speaker 8 00:15:22 It just, real, real briefly, what is it the credits have, are expiring on the current panels or they not being efficient enough and thus replacing Speaker 7 00:15:32 The, the credits have expired on the existing panels? That is correct. Speaker 8 00:15:36 Yeah. Yeah, that's what I figured. So thank you. Speaker 3 00:15:42 Anyone else have any questions from the board? See Dawn shaking her head. Anyone from the public have any questions or comments about the Quibble Town Middle School Solar Project? Speaker 1 00:15:59 No one, Mr. Barlow. Speaker 5 00:16:01 Okay. Speaker 3 00:16:02 Well, I think I speak for the board. Mr. Kozy, thank you very much for taking the time to come out this evening and perform the courtesy review. And I know the board members really appreciate it when they get informed by the Board of Ed as to what's going on. And thank you again for your presentation. Speaker 5 00:16:19 We'll see. Absolutely. Speaker 7 00:16:21 I really appreciate the, the board's time as well. And I'm looking forward to presenting again on January 14th for Fellowship Forms. Speaker 3 00:16:30 See you next year. Speaker 7 00:16:31 All right. See you next year. Thank you all. Speaker 3 00:16:36 I'm gonna turn it over to Reverend Kinneally now and let him look, let him wrap things up as the vice chair. I don't think there's anything else on the agenda. Speaker 1 00:16:49 No, we just have to do the adjournment. Speaker 3 00:16:54 I'm gonna bring in the closer for that. Speaker 5 00:16:56 Someone had a question. Oh, I see a, yeah, I see a Q and a. It says it's one. Speaker 1 00:17:03 Oh, no, there was somebody, they had asked me a question, I already got Speaker 5 00:17:05 Back. Oh, okay. Yes, no, thank you. Speaker 3 00:17:07 Just said Understood. So I guess it was answered. Speaker 4 00:17:11 Okay. I guess we're at the end of our meeting that, yep. Have a motion for adjournment. Speaker 5 00:17:19 Reverend Kinneally, this is Carol SI make a motion for adjournment. Second, i a second Council. Councilwoman Cahill. Okay. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Speaker 4 00:17:32 Happy mer. Happy holiday. Speaker 5 00:17:35 Happy holiday everybody. Holiday. Happy. Happy Speaker 3 00:17:37 Holidays holiday. Stay safe. Speaker 5 00:17:39 Yes. Happy New Year. Speaker 4 00:17:41 Stay well with South River by Speaker 5 00:17:43 Hometown. Speaker 3 00:17:45 Not nearly as, not nearly as well. Run as Chris Getaway. Speaker 5 00:17:50 Take care everyone. Bye everyone. Byebye. Bye everyone.