Tractor Supply application pushed to Aug. plan bd. mtg.
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was postponed again until the August 5
planning board meeting. This particular application has been pushed back on several
occasions due to issues such as obtaining a
Pinelands Certificate of Filing.
The first agenda item presented to the
board was a minor subdivision, waiver of
curb and sidewalk application from
Francine Cioffi, seeking a minor two-lot
subdivision and development of one singlefamily dwelling for a R-3 (residential) zone
at 715 Fourth St. Cioffi was being represented by Bill McManus, a licensed land
surveyor and licensed planner in New Jersey.
The lot is unusually shaped, according to
McManus, and it creates an acute angle
coming off of Fourth Street. In respect to
the subdivision, he said there weren’t a lot
of details to present, as there were no variances, no waivers and it meets all the ordinance requirements.
“We have an application for a waiver,
though. We are requesting a waiver of curb
and sidewalk. We understand this is a fairly
new ordinance. Unfortunately, our time of
the application was after this ordinance was
adopted,” McManus said.
McManus pointed out to members of the
board that there are currently no sidewalks
on this particular property’s side of the
street from Walnut Street to Fourth Street
and towards the Hammonton Schools (Warren E. Sooy Jr. Elementary School and
Hammonton Early Childhood Education
Center). He didn’t think installing
curb and sidewalk on the residential lot would be practical.
“There is intermittent curbing
and intermittent sidewalks. The
chances of sidewalks being extended from the school to our property, I believe, is slim because of
the wetland issue we have. I
pointed out where the wetlands are
in this diagram, and the wetlands
are very close to the right away,
where the road drops off significantly right off the edge of the
paving. Of course, we are in the
Pinelands so any subsequent buffer
that the Pinelands would require
would have to [be] compromised in
order for the sidewalk to be put in,”
McManus said.
Planning board member and
councilman Thomas Gribbin spoke
about curb and sidewalk on Fourth
Street, close to school property.
“Curb and sidewalk on Fourth
Street, I think we all agree, is important because Fourth Street runs
to two of our schools in our community. I see it as needed in that
Police officers
escape injury
INJURY, from Page 1
caped injury, Salvatore said.
A passenger in the vehicle driven
by Suarez-Zavala was also arrested,
Salvatore said. Jose Solori, 24, of
Hammonton, was charged with
possession of marijuana under 50
grams, Salvatore said.
Salvatore said Solori was released on his own recognizance by
Officer Jared Baglivo.
In other police news, at 9:56 p.m.
on July 16, shortly before the beginning of the fireworks display for the
Feast Day of Our Lady of Mt.
Carmel, a 12-year-old child was
struck by a car on the 400 block of
Grape Street after he ran out from
behind parked cars, Hammonton
Police Captain Nick Salvatore said.
The victim, Gillian Reid, 12, of
Margate was treated for injuries not
believed to be life-threatening, Salvatore told The Gazette.
Joshua Gallo, 24, of Hammonton
was driving a 2008 black Kia SPE
and was charged with driving with
a suspended license, Salvatore said.
Other charges are pending, Salvatore added.
AtlantiCare EMS responded to
the accident, Salvatore said.
Officer David Reustle is investigating the accident, according to
Salvatore.
area. It is of importance to the town, and
certainly to council, given its proximity to
the schools,” Gribbin said.
In board engineer Robert Vettese’s report,
he noted a low area of the property along
the fence line on the existing lot.
“For the new lot that they will be building
on, they should supply a grading plan to
make sure any kind of additional pervious
surfaces created does not impact the exiting
lot (60),” Vettese said.
Board solicitor Michael Malinsky and
members of the board had a lengthy discussion in regard to action to consider on the
waiver of curb and sidewalk portion of the
application.
The applicant was requesting to pay
some of the potential recreation fee for curb
and sidewalk in the short term and the remaining amount later.
“Mrs. Cioffi isn’t saying she doesn’t want
to fulfill her responsibilities to pay for what
the ordinance says, but she wants the flexibility to pay some now and some when she
gets money after she sells the lot … We are
not asking to be absolved of our responsibilities,” McManus said.
Malinsky made a motion to approve or
deny the waiver of curb and sidewalk with
a yes or no vote.
“First and foremost, we have to see if the
board is going to require installation of curb
and sidewalk, or if they will be allowed to
waive it with the deed requirements. It is all
a moot point if the board doesn’t waive
curb and sidewalk,” Malinsky said.
The majority of the board denied the
waiver of curb and sidewalk, so the applicant will be required to install curb and
sidewalk during a two-year period. That installation period was agreed upon at the
conclusion of the testimony. but the applicant was granted permission to postpone
the contribution of the recreation fee until
time of the application of building permits,
and not the time of the signing of filing of
deeds.
“She [Cioffi] is looking to get a buyer
once the house gets built. Once she gets a
buyer that certainly frees up finances and
revenue for her, whatever she has t