Zoning board reviews Berenato app.
Page 4 • Wednesday, July 2, 2014 • The Hammonton Gazette
ZONING, from Page 2
pecially for the rear portion of the property.
“We have discovered that the material
that was located on site consisted of asphalt, glass, stone, basically street sweepings. We characterized that material
through laboratory analysis and identify
PAHs and metals that were in the material
and that were above NJDeP [New Jersey
Department of environmental Protection]
standards. We performed additional analysis on the material to confirm that the material did not partition and had no chance of
impacting groundwater. We have prepared
all our investigative reports, our proposed
remedial plan and our proposed d-notice.
that has all been submitted to the DeP,”
Brady said.
Brady stated they have placed monitoring
wells on site to determine if groundwater is
still impacted by the historic gasoline release of the constituents. All environmental
impacts were discussed during Brady’s testimony, including a deed notice and street
sweepers, which could contain contaminants on any paved road. the potential contaminants were considered no concern
during this portion of the testimonial.
“the contaminants present on an asphalt
highway are identical and in higher concentration that are present on the site,” Brady
said.
Cuviello, the architectural and planning
representative of the application, addressed
the variances requested for the preliminary
and major site plan. She discussed the positive and negative criteria for the
different types of variances.
“the first variance we are requesting is for the outside storage,
and that is where the d-variance
comes into play. Your HB zone
does not allow for the outside storage. that d-variance has a different
standard approved than the other
variances do. for the d-variance,
we have to demonstrate that we
meet the positive criteria that promote the purpose for zoning to advance the purpose of the municipal
land use law,” Cuviello said.
there are different factors that
make the site unique in the HB
zone, according to Cuviello. the
historical use and conditions of the
property have resulted in the capping of the majority of the site.
“Because of the capping that has
occurred because of the street
sweeping debris that is on the property, the reuse of this property in
accordance with the HB zone becomes difficult and not as practical
because you can’t lift the cap of the
buildings on this property. the rear
portion of the properties becomes
unusable, expect for storage on top
of this cap. Because of the environmental restraints that