Planning Board

Duties
The Plan­ning Board has a wide range of respon­si­bil­i­ties among which is the respon­si­bil­ity of mak­ing many impor­tant deci­sions. Plan­ning Boards are directly respon­si­ble for gen­er­at­ing and updat­ing a Municipality’s Mas­ter Plan, and are involved in devel­op­ing and effec­tu­at­ing broad land use poli­cies for guid­ing the growth of the munic­i­pal­ity. An inte­gral part of a municipality’s deci­sion mak­ing process is the Mas­ter Plan. With­out the land use ele­ment of the Mas­ter Plan, a munic­i­pal­ity can­not have a valid Zon­ing Ordinance.

The Plan­ning Board has spe­cific author­i­ties over sub­di­vi­sion con­trol and site plan review, the Offi­cial Map, Zon­ing Ordi­nances and Cap­i­tal Improve­ments Pro­gram. More­over, it has been vested with quasi-judicial power in that when review­ing sub­di­vi­sion and site plan appli­ca­tions, it can decide “C” Vari­ances and estab­lish pro­ce­dures for the review of such applications.

The Plan­ning Board may also become involved in the review of other State or Fed­eral pro­grams or plans, assem­ble data for plan­ning pur­poses and per­form other advi­sory duties as assigned to it by the Gov­ern­ing Body, to aid them in plan­ning process.Mem­bers

• Obie O’Brien — Chairman
• Robert Hochswinder — Vice-Chairperson
• Rob Cata­nia
• Tim­o­thy Brown
• Michael Gab­bianelli
• Frank Caligiuri
• Dan Kozak
• Tom Crane
• V. J. Agnesino
• James Muth — Alternate
• W. Larry Cooper — Alternate

Pro­fes­sion­als

• Slot­nick & Schwartz — Solicitor
• T & M Asso­ciates — Engineer
• J. Tim­o­thy Ker­nan — Planner

Police Depart­mentl Liaison

• Patrol­man Jim Kelly

Clerk Tran­scriber

• Ninette Orbaczewski

Admin­is­tra­tive Secretary

• Dawn Far­rell

Coun­cil Liaison

• Frank Caligiuri

Meet­ings

The Plan­ning Board meets the 2nd and 4th Thurs­day of each month at the Munic­i­pal Build­ing. Meet­ings are held at 7:30 inside the sec­ond floor con­frence room.All meet­ings are open to the public

Min­utes

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