[I. ROLL CALL]
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          IS THE MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP PLANNING BOARD, MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, SOMERSET COUNTY, NEW JERSEY. REGULAR MEETING OF OCTOBER 12TH, 2026. IT IS THE PLANNING BOARD'S INTENTION TO CONCLUDE THIS MEETING NO LATER THAN 10 P.M. AND THE TIME IS 703. THE OPENING STATEMENT UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS ACT AND PL 2025 C 72 NOTICE OF THE TIME AND PLACE OF THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTED IN THE MUNICIPAL BUILDING AND ON THE MUNICIPAL WEBSITE. CAN WE HAVE A ROLL CALL? YES. KHAN. YES. TAYLOR. TODD. YES. LOFFLER. YES. SHARMA. 
          YES. CASEY. HERE. SALUTE TO THE FLAG! I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION FOR ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA, SUBJECT TO THE DISCRETION OF THE CHAIR. WE RESPECTFULLY ASK MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO LIMIT THEIR COMMENTS AND OR Q&A TO FIVE MINUTES WHEN PROVIDING COMMENT FOR ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA OR FOR AN APPLICATION, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND SPELL YOUR LAST NAME FOR THE RECORD. IF YOU PREFER NOT TO PROVIDE YOUR ADDRESS, PLEASE ADVISE WHICH MUNICIPALITY YOU LIVE IN. YES, 
          [III. RESOLUTION]
WE CAN MOVE ON. ITEM NUMBER THREE. RESOLUTION CASE PB DASH 09-26. APPLICANT IS MONTGOMERY PLACE BUILDING FOR BLOCK 5023. LOT 2.01. FINAL MAJOR SITE PLAN. BOARD MEMBERS, YOU HAVE A CLEAN COPY OF THE RESOLUTION IN FRONT OF YOU, BY WHICH I MEAN IT NO LONGER SAYS DRAFT ON IT. TWO VERY MINOR CHANGES WERE MADE. THE DATE OF ONE OF THE PLANS HAS BEEN CORRECTED, AND THE SPELLING OF THEIR ARCHITECT'S NAME, MR. APPEL, HAS ALSO BEEN CORRECTED. OTHER THAN THAT, IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE DRAFT THAT WAS CIRCULATED TO YOU. OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? SO MOVED. SECOND. OKAY. ROLL CALL PLEASE. KHAN. YES. YES. YES. LOFFLER. YES. 
          [V. RESOLUTION ADOPTING MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP’S COMPREHENSIVE MUNICIPAL FARMLAND PRESERVATION PLAN” DATED AUGUST 2026]
SHARMA. YES. OKAY. ITEM NUMBER FOUR. RESOLUTION. ADOPTING MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP'S COMPREHENSIVE MUNICIPAL FARMLAND PRESERVATION PLAN DATED AUGUST 2026. BEFORE WE MEMORIALIZE, IS THERE ANYBODY WHO HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS? I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE DEFERRED IT TO THIS MEETING. FINE. YOU'RE GOOD. NO, I, I, I WAS JUST SAYING THAT. 
          SORRY. YEAH, YEAH. SO IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS FROM ANYBODY OF THE BOARD MEMBERS. 
          NO, NO. TONY. NO NO QUESTIONS. I GUESS. PAT, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? PAT? NO. OKAY. OKAY. 
          THEN WE CAN MEMORIALIZE. AND SO ANY PERSON WANT TO MOVE THE MOTION. SO MOVED. SECOND. 
          SECOND. ROLL CALL PLEASE. CONN. YES. YES. TAYLOR. YES. LOFFLER. YES. YES. OKAY. ITEM NUMBER 
          [VI. PERIODIC REEXAMINATION OF THE TOWNSHIP MASTER PLAN BACKGROUND & STATUS UPDATE – TARA KENYON, PP, AICP, PLAN4HEALTH PLANNING CONSULTANT]
FIVE. PERIODIC REEXAMINATION OF THE TOWNSHIP MASTER PLAN. BACKGROUND AND STATUS UPDATE. 
          HI, EVERYONE. HOW ARE YOU? TARA KENYON AGAIN. I'M FROM KENYON PLANNING AND I'M WORKING ON THE UPDATE OF THE REEXAMINATION REPORT, WHICH IS REALLY CALLED THE 2026 PERIODIC REEXAMINATION OF THE MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP MASTER PLAN AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS. I'M JUST GOING TO KEEP REFERRING IT TO IT AS THE RE EXAM OR THE REEXAMINATION REPORT. SO JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME QUICK BACKGROUND, THE BACKGROUND OF THE THE UP THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE MASTER PLAN IS THAT A MASTER PLAN IS A LONG RANGE PLANNING DOCUMENT. IT'S ADOPTED BY THE PLANNING BOARD. 
          AND IT'S THE INTENTION IS TO KIND OF GUIDE THE DEVELOPMENT IN THE MUNICIPALITY AND TO FORM A VISION AND GOAL FOR THE MUNICIPALITY MOVING FORWARD. MONTGOMERY'S MASTER PLAN WAS FIRST ADOPTED IN 1972, AND SINCE THAT POINT, IT'S BEEN REEXAMINED NUMEROUS TIMES, WITH THE MOST RECENT ITERATION BEING IN 2017. SO THAT'S THE MASTER PLAN REEXAMINATION THAT WE'RE 
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GOING TO BE UPDATING WITH THE NEW DATE OF 2026. AND AS YOU ALL ARE AWARE, MASTER PLANS INCLUDE MANY ELEMENTS THE REQUIRED LAND USE ELEMENT, WHICH IS GOING TO BE UPDATED AS PART OF THE PLAN FOR HEALTH NEW JERSEY PROJECT. BUT WE ALSO HAVE THE FARMLAND PRESERVATION PLAN, WHICH YOU JUST ADOPTED, NATURAL RESOURCES INVENTORY, HOUSING PLAN, STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PLAN, AND MANY MORE. SO A REEXAMINATION REPORT IS REQUIRED TO BE DONE AT LEAST EVERY TEN YEARS. AND IT HAS TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING WHICH ARE ON YOUR SCREEN. THESE ARE GOING TO BE LISTED IN THE REPORT. AND THEY BASICALLY SERVE AS KIND OF THE OUTLINE FOR THE PLAN MOVING FORWARD. AND FOR THIS TIME AROUND, WE'RE GOING TO BE INCLUDING WHAT WE'VE LEARNED FROM THE PLAN FOR HEALTH NEW JERSEY PROJECT. SO BRIEFLY, AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE LOOKING AT MAJOR PROBLEMS AND OBJECTIVES. THE EXTENT TO WHICH THOSE PROBLEMS AND OBJECTIVES HAVE BEEN REDUCED OR HAVE INCREASED. IS THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THE ASSUMPTIONS, POLICIES AND OBJECTIVES FOR THE MASTER PLAN? IS THERE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE NEXT UPDATE OF THE MASTER PLAN OR DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS OR REGULATIONS AND THEN ANY REDEVELOPMENT? AND AGAIN, THIS IS GOING TO BE SINCE THE 2017 ITERATION. SO THE 2017 REEXAMINATION REPORT SET FORTH THE PRINCIPLES THAT AGAIN ARE ON YOUR SCREEN. THERE'S MANY OF THEM, BUT BASICALLY THEY'VE KIND OF BEEN CARRIED OVER SINCE THE INITIAL MASTER PLAN ADOPTION. AND THEY REALLY DO STILL RING TRUE TODAY. WE'RE GOING TO ADD IN, YOU KNOW, SOME MORE VISION ABOUT PLANNING FOR HEALTH, BUT THESE REALLY DO ARE STILL SIGNIFICANT AND STILL RELEVANT. SO AGAIN, MAINTAINING THE RURAL CHARACTER, PRESERVING THE IDENTITY AND INTEGRITY OF THE TOWNSHIP, MAKING SURE WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE CONSERVING NATURAL RESOURCES. SO THESE AGAIN, ALL RELEVANT AND WILL ALL BE INCLUDED IN THE UPCOMING REEXAMINATION. SO THIS IS THE NEW PART, WHICH IS HOW IS THE PLAN FOR HEALTH MONTGOMERY PROJECT GOING TO INFLUENCE THE RE EXAM. SO I THINK THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE WE SPOKE ABOUT THIS. BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU A QUICK BACKGROUND, THE PLAN FOR HEALTH NEW JERSEY PROJECT WAS RUN BY THE AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION'S NEW JERSEY CHAPTER THROUGH A GRANT THAT WAS RECEIVED FROM ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON, AND THE GOAL WAS TO ADVANCE HEALTHIER, EQUITABLE COMMUNITIES ACROSS NEW JERSEY BY INTEGRATING PUBLIC HEALTH INTO LAND USE PLANNING AND LOCAL DECISION MAKING. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO WITH THIS RE EXAM, IS WE'RE GOING TO BRING THE PLAN FOR HEALTH PRINCIPLES INTO IT. 
          MONTGOMERY WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MUNICIPALITIES AWARDED A GRANT THROUGH PLAN FOR HEALTH NEW JERSEY. THERE WAS ONLY FIVE CHOSEN TO BEGIN WITH, AND MONTGOMERY WAS ONE. SO MONTGOMERY RECEIVED A $50,000 GRANT. AND WHAT IT'S BEING USED FOR IS TO PREPARE THE REEXAMINATION REPORT TO UPDATE THE LAND USE ELEMENT, WHICH WILL BE USING THE RE EXAM REPORT AND THE DATA WE FOUND. AND TO DEVELOP A CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED HAZARD VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT, WHICH IS REQUIRED UNDER THE MUNICIPAL LAND USE LAW FOR ANY UPDATES TO LAND USE ELEMENT. AND THAT'S BASICALLY GOING TO IDENTIFY WHERE ARE THE VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND CRITICAL FACILITIES. AND ARE THEY LOCATED IN AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED HAZARDS? AND IF SO, HOW CAN THAT BE MITIGATED TO PROTECT THEM TO ACHIEVE THE PROJECT? WE'VE DONE A DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE IN DETAIL, AND THAT'S A KIND OF A SEPARATE DOCUMENT. AND IT REALLY GOES THROUGH THE CENSUS DATA AND MANY DIFFERENT POINTS OF DATA TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS THE CURRENT DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE IN THE TOWNSHIP. WE JUST HAD OUR LAST COMMUNITY LISTENING SESSION ON OCTOBER 8TH, AND WE DID A VIRTUAL SESSION FOR THE COMMUNITY. WE DID A MAP SURVEY, WHICH ALLOWS THE USER TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND HIGHLIGHT AN EXACT LOCATION ON A MAP. WE ALSO DID A COMMUNITY SURVEY, WHICH WE JUST CLOSED AND GOT THE RESULTS IN FOR. SO WE'RE USING ALL OF THAT TO SUBSTANTIATE THE DATA. AND WE'RE USING PLAN FOR HEALTH NEW JERSEY'S RESOURCES, WHICH CONSISTS OF TOOLKITS, SAMPLE MASTER PLAN, LANGUAGE REDEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES, A MAPPING TOOL, CASE STUDIES AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. SO THIS IS JUST A TABLE THAT SHOWS THE HARD DATA WE'VE COLLECTED. JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA. SO WE'VE LOOKED AT THE CENSUS THE DEP DATA PLAN FOR HEALTH DATA, WHICH I'M GOING TO GO INTO MUCH MORE LATER. I KIND OF TALKED ABOUT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ALREADY, BUT JUST, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, LET YOU KNOW THAT WE'VE DONE A LOT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND GONE THROUGH A LOT OF INFORMATION TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE SUBSTANTIATING WHAT WE FOUND. SO THE NUMBER ONE CONCERN THAT WE FOUND THROUGH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IS RELATED TO MOBILITY. SO RESIDENTS RESPONDING TO ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT HAVE ALL CITED THAT GETTING IN AND OUT AROUND MONTGOMERY IS DIFFICULT WITHOUT ACCESS TO A PRIVATE VEHICLE, AND THAT WE REALLY NEED TO KIND OF FOCUS ON MAKING EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION IMPORTANT. THAT'S ALSO IMPORTANT WHEN LOOKING AT BICYCLE AND 
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PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY, AND ALSO MAKING SURE THAT ANY WAYS TO GET PEOPLE AROUND MONTGOMERY, SUCH AS EXISTING TRAILS OR SIDEWALKS, THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO CONNECT THOSE AND THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO EXPAND THOSE WHERE POSSIBLE. OTHER CONCERNS RELATED TO HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, WHICH IS ACROSS NEW JERSEY, AGING IN PLACE AGAIN ACROSS NEW JERSEY AND AIR AND WATER QUALITY OVER TIME DUE TO OVERDEVELOPMENT. AND AGAIN, THAT'S THAT'S A NEW JERSEY PROBLEM AS WELL. THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF MAPS ON AIR AND IN CONNECTION WITH ALL OF OUR DATA REVIEW, I'VE BEEN ABLE TO BASICALLY PUT TOGETHER TEN PRIORITY CLUSTERS. AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL WORKING ON THIS AT THIS POINT. BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, THIS IS A MAP THAT SHOWS. SO BASICALLY I WORKED WITH MONTGOMERY'S G. I S DEPARTMENT AND WHAT THEY DID WAS REALLY ACTUALLY REALLY COOL, WHICH WAS WE HAD THE MAP RESULTS, WHICH IS A DIFFERENT ONLINE TOOL. THEY WERE ABLE TO OVERLAY ALL OF THE RESPONSES WITH THE CENSUS TRACTS. AND IF YOU CLICK ON ANY OF THESE DOTS, THIS IS A STATIC IMAGE. BUT IF YOU GO TO THE PLATFORM, THE RESPONSE WILL POP UP FOR EACH OF THESE RESPONSES. AND THEN WE WERE ABLE TO CLUSTER THEM. SO WHAT YOU SEE IN THESE BOXES ARE PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ANSWERED THAT THERE WAS A POTENTIAL ISSUE WITH HOUSING MOBILITY AND WITH ENVIRONMENT. SO THAT KIND OF SHOWS US THE PRIORITY AREAS THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO FOCUS ON FOR THE RE EXAM. SO THE OUTLINE. SO I JUST WANT TO KIND OF SHOW YOU WHAT I'M WORKING ON. SO TO TO GIVE YOU A STATUS OF WHERE I'M AT RIGHT NOW, LIKE I SAID, ALL THE DATA IS DONE, ALL THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IS DONE. THIS IS BASICALLY MY OUTLINE OF THE PROJECT. AND NOW I'M GOING TO BASICALLY BE WRITING IT AND FILLING IT IN WITH ALL THE INFORMATION. SO IT'S SET UP A LOT LIKE THE PREVIOUS MASTER PLAN. THERE'S AN INTRODUCTION, THE NEXT SECTION IS NEW, AND THAT'S GOING TO BE IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH THROUGH LAND USE PLANNING. AND THIS IS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO DESCRIBE EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED WITH THE PLAN FOR HEALTH PROJECT. EVERYTHING WE LEARNED AND KIND OF GIVE THE READER AN EASE INTO, THIS IS WHY YOU'RE GOING TO START SEEING WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IN THE UPCOMING RE EXAM. WE TALK ABOUT THE MAJOR PROBLEMS AND OBJECTIVES FROM THE TIME OF THE 2017 REPORT. WE THEN TOOK. 
          THIS IS CONTINUED. THESE ARE ALL FROM THE EXISTING 2017 REPORT. SO IT'S REQUIRED THAT WE GO THROUGH AND LOOK AT EVERYTHING THAT WAS STATED IN THE MUNICIPAL IN THE RE EXAM FROM 2017 AND ADDRESS WHAT THE STATUS IS RIGHT NOW. SO WE GO THROUGH AND I'M GOING TO SHARE THESE SLIDES AFTERWARDS. SO YOU CAN REALLY DELVE IN AND GO THROUGH, BUT KIND OF WENT THROUGH AND GAVE A STATUS. AND I'M GOING TO WORK WITH LORI AND KIND OF GET ANYTHING THAT I'M NOT SURE OF KIND OF PUT TOGETHER. THE NEXT PART IS SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN ASSUMPTIONS, POLICIES, AND OBJECTIVES. SO HERE'S WHERE WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT PLAN FOR HEALTH, NEW JERSEY. AGAIN, THERE WAS AN UPDATED LEAD CHECKLIST THAT THE TOWNSHIP DONE. THERE'S BEEN SOME CHANGES AT THE COUNTY LEVEL. LIKE THEY'VE REDONE THEIR PRESERVATION PLAN. THEY'VE UPDATED THEIR ALL HAZARDS MITIGATION PLAN, AND THEY HAVE THEIR NEW BIKE HIKE AND WALK PLAN. AND AT THE STATE LEVEL, THE STATE DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT PLAN WAS JUST RE ADOPTED IN 2025 SINCE THE FIRST ONE, WHICH WAS 2001. SO WE'LL INCLUDE THAT. WE'LL INCLUDE ANY UPDATES THAT WERE DONE TO THE MUNICIPAL LAND USE LAW, AS WELL AS MONTGOMERY'S PARTICIPATION WITH THE SUSTAINABLE JERSEY PROJECT. WE THEN GO THROUGH AND TALK ABOUT SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS. SO AGAIN, THIS IS MOBILITY ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY HOUSING. AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE PROPOSED NODES THAT WERE IN THE 2017 RE EXAM. AND LORI AND I HAVE TO DISCUSS THAT TO KIND OF JUST SEE WHERE WE WANT THAT TO END UP. BUT A LOT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE GOING TO COME FROM THE PLAN FOR HEALTH NEW JERSEY PROJECT HERE. SO THE BASIC OUTLINE AGAIN WE'RE CONTINUING IN THE RE EXAM. 
          WE'RE REQUIRED TO TALK ABOUT THE LAND USE ELEMENT. SO IN THE PAST RE EXAMS THERE WAS A LOT OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU KNOW THIS PART OF THE LAND USE ELEMENT WE WANT TO WORK ON OR THIS IS YOU KNOW STILL STANDS. THIS PART OF THIS RE EXAMINATION IS REALLY GOING TO DISCUSS HOW THE LAND USE ELEMENT IS BEING UPDATED. IT'S GOING TO INCLUDE THIS CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED HAZARD VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT, AND REALLY KIND OF JUST SET IT UP FOR THAT UPDATE, YOU KNOW, SO IT'LL BE A LITTLE LESS IN DEPTH THIS TIME BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE BRAND NEW COMING UP SOON. AND THE LAST PART IS THE INCORPORATION OF REDEVELOPMENT PLANS WERE REQUIRED TO PUT THIS IN HERE. I WILL COORDINATE WITH LORI AND THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT TO KIND OF SEE WHERE ALL THE REDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY IS AT THIS POINT. SO WE CAN ADD THAT IN. SO THIS NEXT PART, AGAIN, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, THIS IS MY OUTLINE FOR IT. SO I INCLUDED ALL OF THEM. I'M GOING TO SHARE ALL OF THEM WITH YOU SO YOU CAN LOOK THROUGH THEM. I WON'T GO THROUGH ALL OF THEM TONIGHT JUST FOR TIME'S SAKE. BUT BASICALLY THESE ARE THE POLICIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS, AT LEAST TO START OFF THAT ARE RECOMMENDED. SO THE NUMBER ONE THING IS DEVELOPING AN INTERCONNECTED BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN NETWORK. AND THAT INCLUDES SIDEWALK AND TRAIL CONNECTIONS, BIKE LANES, COORDINATING WITH THE COUNTY'S BIKE HIKE AND WALK PLAN. WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT COMPLETING THE LOCAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND ACTION UNDER SUSTAINABLE JERSEY. WE'RE ABOUT 50% OF THE WAY THERE WITH WHAT WE'VE DONE. 
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THAT GIVES YOU 25 POINTS TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE JERSEY. SO REALLY ALL THAT'S LEFT TO DO IS ENACT THREE OF THE ACTIONS, AND THEY CAN BE SMALL OR BIG. SO WE'RE ON OUR WAY THERE. AND AS PART OF THIS PROJECT, WE COMPLETED THE LOCAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT ACTION WORKSHEET THAT'S REQUIRED FOR SUSTAINABLE JERSEY AND HANDED THAT IN. SO THAT'S ALL GOOD. ANOTHER REQUEST FROM THE PREVIOUS PLANNER WAS TO UPDATE THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION PLAN ELEMENT, AND SHE GAVE ME SOME IMPORTANT ADDITIONS FOR ADDING HISTORIC SITES AND AREAS TO THE LIST. WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE AND LOT COVERAGE ALLOWANCES UNDER ZONING. THAT PLAYS INTO HOW MUCH IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE, HOW MUCH DEVELOPMENT, HOW MUCH NON POINT END POINT SOLUTION RUNOFF. THERE'S BEEN SOME RECOMMENDATIONS TO LOOK AT THE LAND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW CHECKLIST TO INCLUDE MORE LEED AND GREEN DEVELOPMENT AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, DARK SKY GUIDANCE, AND THOSE CLUSTERS THAT I SHOWED YOU BEFORE. A LOT OF THEM INCLUDE SPECIFIC INTERSECTIONS. AND I HAVE THOSE IN A DATABASE THAT I'M ALSO GOING TO SHARE. AND SO WE CAN GO THROUGH INTERSECTIONS AND MAKE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SAFETY MEASURES THEIRS. AND THAT CAN BE, YOU KNOW, SIGNALING, AUDIO AND VISUAL SIGNALING, WIDENING STRIPING. SO WE'RE GOING TO PUT ALL OF THAT IN THERE AS WELL. WE'RE LOOKING TO CREATE A DATABASE FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS. THIS ACTUALLY ALSO WILL PLAY RIGHT INTO THE CREATION OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED HAZARD VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT. THAT'S BASICALLY THE CRUX OF THAT DOCUMENT. SO HAVING THIS HERE WILL REALLY HELP THE OTHER CONSULTANT WORK ON THAT. MOVING FORWARD, WE RECOMMEND STUDYING THE TREE CANOPY COVER AND AND MAYBE LOOKING AT THE GOAL AND FOCUSING WHERE TREE PLANTINGS ARE IN SPECIFIC AREAS THAT ARE LACKING TREE COVER. SO WE'RE WORKING ON THAT, COMPLETING GOALS THAT HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED IN THE OPEN SPACE PLAN AND THE FARMLAND PLAN. SO WE ALREADY HAVE THAT IN PLACE, AND IT'S EASY ENOUGH TO KIND OF REACH TO MAKE THOSE GOALS WORK. 
          WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE CONNECT EXISTING HOUSING TO PUBLIC WATER AND SEWER. THIS CAME UP A LOT IN OUR IN-PERSON AND IN OUR VIRTUAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SESSION IS LOOKING AT EXISTING DEVELOPMENT AND SEEING CAN THEY BE CONNECTED TO PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE? YOU KNOW, NOT JUST SEEING THAT NEW DEVELOPMENT GETS DONE THAT WAY. SO THAT'S SOMETHING TO LOOK AT. 
          GUIDING NEW DEVELOPMENT OUT OF FLOOD ZONES AND ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSTRAINED AREAS, AND ALSO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE REVIEWING THE RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS TO PERMIT ACCESS TO HUMAN SERVICES. SO LOOKING AT INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES LIKE ALLOWING TEMPORARY PARKING FOR MOBILE FOOD PANTRIES AND FARMERS MARKETS, ALLOWING OPEN SPACE SET ASIDES AND CLUSTERINGS TO BE COMMUNITY GARDEN OR, YOU KNOW, SMALLER OR LIKE GRANDPARENTS PARKS, LIKE REALLY EXPANDING WHAT, WHAT IS ALLOWED THERE? INSTEAD OF JUST SAYING YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN OPEN NATURAL SPACE AND ALLOWING FOR LIFE CYCLE HOUSING. AND THEN THE LAST PART HERE IS WE'RE GOING TO INCORPORATE THE DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE INTO THE RE EXAM REPORT, THE LAND USE ELEMENT AND THE CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED HAZARD VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT. ALL THAT DATA WILL GO TO THE NEXT CONSULTANT AND THEY'LL BE ABLE TO USE THAT AS WELL. I REVIEWED THE AGE AGE FRIENDLY MONTGOMERY REPORT, WHICH WAS EXCELLENT. AND I LEARNED A LOT FROM THAT REPORT. IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO READ THAT, I RECOMMEND IT. IT WAS REALLY GOOD, BUT THEY ACTUALLY RECOMMEND PUTTING AN AGE FRIENDLY CHECKLIST IN FOR THE LAND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, WHICH I THINK IS A GOOD THING FOR THIS AS WELL, AND LOOKING TO DEVELOP LONG TERM PLANS FOR MUNICIPAL SERVICES THAT ADDRESS THE CURRENT DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS, WHICH WE NOW HAVE. SO AND ANOTHER GREAT TOPIC THAT CAME UP IN OUR LAST LISTENING SESSION WAS TO MAYBE INVESTIGATE SHUTTLE OR BUS SERVICE COMING FROM MERCER COUNTY, WHICH IS STOPPING IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF MONTGOMERY, MAYBE WORKING WITH MERCER COUNTY TO EXPAND THAT. SO IT GOES ALL THE WAY THROUGH THROUGH MERCER COUNTY. AND THE LAST PART IS AMENDING, POTENTIALLY AMENDING BULK STANDARDS. THIS CAME FROM THE PREVIOUS PLANNER, WHICH WAS AMENDING BULK STANDARDS OF SPECIFIC RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS TO PERMIT SOLAR PANELS AND FRONT YARDS ON PROPERTIES, FIVE ACRES OR MORE, SO THAT I HAVE TO DO A LITTLE DIGGING INTO TO SEE WHAT THAT RECOMMENDATION ENTAILS. BUT THAT WAS ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS. AND IT'S ON LARGER PROPERTIES, ALLOWS MORE GENERATION OF CLEAN ENERGY. SO I THINK THAT'S GREAT. SO THE NEXT STEPS, LIKE I SAID, IS WE WILL BE I WILL BE FINISHING THIS REPORT. I HAVE THIS OUTLINE I'M GOING TO BE NOW FILLING IN EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE GATHERED TOGETHER. WE'RE LOOKING TO COMPLETE THE RE EXAM BY THE BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER. AND I THINK WE SAID GETTING IT ON A MEETING FOR BEGINNING OF DECEMBER, I THINK WAS THE NEXT MEETING, I BELIEVE, AND THEN IT WILL BE DEPENDING ON IF THERE'S COMMENTS OR WHATEVER. EVERYTHING HAS TO BE ADOPTED BY MARCH 2027. SO MAYBE THIS WILL BE ADOPTED FIRST. HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE. BUT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE DONE BY MARCH OF 2027 BECAUSE OF THE GRANT. SO I AM INTENDING ON GETTING MY WORK TO THE NEXT CONSULTANT SO THAT THEY CAN DO THEIR WORK BY BY MARCH 2027. AND I I'M, I KNOW I LIKE RAN THROUGH THAT, BUT I'M 
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GOING TO SHARE THE SLIDES AND THIS WAY YOU CAN REALLY DELVE INTO IT. BUT THAT'S IT. SO YES, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM. YES. THANK YOU. FIRST THING IS IT'S VERY GOOD. COMPREHENSIVE. OH THANK YOU. THANKS FOR THAT. THANK YOU. SINCE THIS IS A TEN YEAR PLAN, RIGHT? YES. DO YOU ALSO INCORPORATE TWO THINGS? ONE IS FUNDING FOR EACH OF THESE PROJECTS OR RECOMMENDATIONS, THE SOURCE OF FUNDING, HOW MUCH WE HAVE, HOW MUCH WILL BE RAISED BECAUSE TEN YEARS WE MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN THAT. NOW THAT'S THAT'S ONE THING. THE OTHER THING IS MILESTONE FOR THOSE TEN YEARS, NOT EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ACHIEVED IN ONE YEAR OR TWO YEARS OR THREE YEARS. SO DID YOU PUT THOSE COMPONENTS TOGETHER? I HAVE NOT, YEAH, SO I HAVEN'T, BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT I CAN'T DO. I MEAN, I DEFINITELY NEED HELP FROM THE TOWNSHIP JUST BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW THOSE INNER WORKINGS. BUT I CAN DEFINITELY LEAVE A SPACE IN THE TABLE AND MAYBE WE CAN THINK ABOUT DOING THAT LIKE A, A POTENTIAL TIME FRAME, A POTENTIAL. I MEAN, YEAH, WE COULD ABSOLUTELY DO THAT. YEAH. I DON'T THINK THAT WOULD BE DIFFICULT. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE WAYS OF IMPLEMENTING THE MASTER PLAN IN TERMS OF LAND USE IS ZONING ORDINANCE. HOW DOES THIS PLAN INTERSECT WITH AREAS IN NEED OF REDEVELOPMENT, WHERE THE ZONING IN EFFECT IS SET ASIDE? RIGHT. 
          SO THE RE EXAM MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IF ZONING SHOULD BE AMENDED OR IF THE ZONING IN PLACE IS, YOU KNOW, WILL WORK FOR WHAT'S PROPOSED. SO WHEN I REALLY GET INTO THE REDEVELOPMENT PORTION OF IT, I DO NEED TO WORK WITH THE TOWNSHIP CLOSELY ON THAT BECAUSE AGAIN, I'M NOT 100% LIKE I'M NOT HERE EVERY DAY. SO I'M NOT, YOU KNOW, FULLY AWARE OF THOSE INNER WORKINGS. BUT WE CAN MAKE THE RECOMMENDATION THAT ZONING THERE SHOULD BE AMENDED TO ACCOUNT FOR THESE TYPES OF CONDITIONS. OR WE CAN SAY IT LOOKS GOOD FOR THESE TYPES OF CONDITIONS. SO THE RE EXAM KIND OF REALLY HELPS TO INFORM WHERE THE ZONING ORDINANCE, YOU KNOW, IS STILL INTACT OR SHOULD POTENTIALLY HAVE AMENDMENTS MADE TO IT. 
          OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NO. SO FOR SOME OF THE SLIDES THAT YOU WERE SHOWING, YOU SAID WE CAN THERE'S AN INTERACTIVE, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU CAN DRILL DOWN TO THE DATA. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO SHARE TO SHARE THE DATA FROM THE ONE OF THE SLIDES, I THINK IT WAS REFERRING TO THIS CLUSTERS FOR. OH, YES. YEAH. SO AS I MEAN, AS LONG AS IT'S UP TO LORI. BUT I MEAN, WE HAVE THE PLATFORM, IT WAS MADE THROUGH MONTGOMERY. SO YEAH, I'M ASSUMING IT'S A SECURE PLATFORM. OH YEAH. YEAH. IT'S LIKE A ARCGIS ONLINE. SO YEAH, ANYONE CAN USE IT. IT WAS VERY, VERY GOOD. I HAVE TO SAY IT REALLY WAS GOOD BECAUSE. SO PLAN FOR HEALTH. NEW JERSEY GAVE US THE MAP TOOL, WHICH WAS GREAT BECAUSE IT. BUT IT GAVE US LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE. AND SO IT WAS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WHERE IT REALLY WAS. SO WHEN I WORKED WITH MONTGOMERY'S GIS, THEY CAME UP WITH THE IDEA TO OVERLAY IT, WHICH MADE IT PERFECT. SO IT WAS GREAT. YEAH, IT WAS VERY INTERESTING. FROM BASED ON THE MAP DEPICTION OF WHERE THE CLUSTERS WERE. YES, YES. EXPECTING RESPONSES FROM OTHER AREAS AS WELL, BUT I DIDN'T. 
          YEAH. IS YOU COULD REALLY SEE THE CLUSTERS FORMING. WHEN YOU REALLY LOOK AT ALL OF THE RESPONSES TOGETHER, IT REALLY AND THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW, WHERE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE FEELING AND LIVING THE SAME WAY. SO OKAY. OKAY, I THINK WE'RE GOOD. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, 
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THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. OKAY, BACK TO OUR AGENDA ITEM. SO THE MINUTES OF THE AUGUST 10TH, 2026 REGULAR SESSION. ANYBODY HAS ANY CORRECTIONS? OKAY. YES. MOTION TO APPROVE. SO MOVED. 
          SECOND. OKAY. ROLL CALL PLEASE. CONN. YES. LOFFLER. YES. SHARMA. YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. FUTURE 
          [IV. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS]
AGENDA ITEMS. THE SPRING POINT AT MONTGOMERY AND THE MONTGOMERY PROMENADE. PHASE TWO SUBDIVISION. AND THE 23 ORCHARD REDEVELOPMENT AND THE ECON DEVELOPMENT CORP AT 199 GRANDVIEW ROAD. THESE ARE IN THE SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS. I GUESS FOR THE YEAR. WE HAVE GOT 2 OR 3 LEFT FOR THE YEAR, PROBABLY THREE AT LEAST. YEAH, TWO, TWO IN NOVEMBER AND ONE IN PROBABLY IN DECEMBER. OKAY. AND THE FUTURE MEETINGS ON NOVEMBER 3RD, WE HAVE THE SITE PLAN AND THE SUBDIVISION MEETING NOVEMBER 9TH AND NOVEMBER 23RD, THE PLANNING BOARD MEETING, I'M 
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ASSUMING 23RD IS STILL ON. YEAH. OKAY. GOOD THANKSGIVING WEEK. SO WE'LL HAVE TO SEE. YEAH, I KNOW I'M JUST A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED ABOUT NOVEMBER 23RD MEETING. WE'LL SEE. WE'LL TAKE A POLL BECAUSE I NEED TO RESCHEDULE THAT. OKAY. YEAH, YEAH. SO MOTION TO ADJOURN. SO MOVED. SECOND. OKAY. SO THE TIME IS 730.
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