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promote the free flow of traffic while discouraging location of such facilities and routes which result in congestion or blight;

  • To promote a desirable visual environment through creative development techniques and good civic design and arrangement;
  • To promote the conservation of historic sites and districts, open space, energy resources, and valuable natural resources in the State and to prevent urban sprawl and degradation of the environment through improper use of land;
  • To encourage planned unit developments which incorporate the best features of design and relate the type, design, and layout of residential, commercial, industrial, and recreational development to the particular site;
  • To encourage senior citizen community housing construction;
  • To encourage coordination of the various public and private procedures and activities shaping land development with a view of lessening the cost of such development and to the more efficient use of land;
  • To promote utilization of renewable energy resources;
  • To promote the maximum practicable recovery and recycling of recyclable materials from municipal solid waste through the use of planning practices designed to incorporate the State Recycling Plan goals and to complement municipal recycling programs.

Any resubmissions in response to this report should be accompanied by a point-by-point response to all items, with revisions on the plans clouded or highlighted to indicate changes. In order to facilitate the Board’s decision-making process, Applicants are strongly encouraged to resolve as many items as possible prior to the hearing on this matter.

As always, Board members, Applicants and their professionals should feel free to contact me in our Toms River office if they have any questions or require additional information.

God Bless America,

REMINGTON & VERNICK ENGINEERS

Ernest J. Peters, Jr., P.E., P.P., C.M.E.

Board Planner

EJP/MMG:mr

cc: Mr. Robert Shea II, Esq. - Board Attorney

Ms. Patty Warren, Paralegal

Mr. Doug Klee, PE - Board Engineer

South Hope Chapel, LLC – Applicant/Owner Lot 12 ( cbrownstein@horizprop.com)

MWNJ 18 LLC – Owner Lot 13 ( cbrownstein@horizprop.com)

MWNJ 24 LLC – Owner Lot 14 ( cbrownstein@horizprop.com)

Mr. Yosef Portnoy, P.E. – Applicant's Engineer ( yportnoy@civilcoreconsulting.com)

Mr. Salvatore Alfieri, Esq. - Applicant's Attorney ( salfieri@cgajlaw.com)

Mr. Scott Kennel – Applicant’s Traffic Consultant (skennel@mratraffic.com)