Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Township Committee next will consider whether to go along with Planning Board's partial endorsement of plan.
Eighteen months of hearings on Millington Quarry's plan for "rehabilitating" its property on Stonehouse Road to become usable residential property after quarrying ceases ended on Tuesday night with the Planning Board's partial endorsement for the proposal. The plan calls for the creation of a 50-acre lake and a meadow area that someday could be turned into a residential neighborhood. The next step is for the quarry plan to go before the Bernards Township Committee, where the governing body can go along with the Planning Board's recommendation, reject the plan or set its own conditions. Township Mayor Carolyn Gaziano, who also has sat on the Planning Board since the hearings began in November 2011, said she wasn't sure when the plan would …
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Millington Quarry has given the Planning Board an extension until May 7 meeting to approve recommendation.
A special Planning Board meeting that had been scheduled for Tuesday night with one item on the agenda — passage of a resolution outlining the board's recommendation on the Millington Quarry's plans to rehabilitate the facility after closure — has been cancelled. The next scheduled Planning Board meeting is at 7:30 p.m. next Thursday, April 25. A major item on the agenda that night is the return of the discussion regarding the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge application for a mosque in Liberty Corner, said Planning Board secretary Fran Florio. However, Florio said that the quarry resolution is not expected to be brought before the board next week. The Planning Board, after discussing the application, is expecting to pass along a …
Monday, March 25, 2013
April 2 meeting canceled, but meetings still on for this Thursday, March 28, and April 25.
The Bernards Township Planning Board's busy schedule faced upcoming revisions as of Monday, with this Thursday's meeting still on with a set agenda, and another firm meeting date set for April 25, when the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge is due to return. However, the Planning Board's regularly scheduled meeting that would have been held next Tuesday, April 2, has been canceled, board secretary Fran Florio said on Monday afternoon. At the last hearing on the proposed mosque in Liberty Corner, the discussion continued to focus on what would be the appropriate number of parking spaces for the 4,200 structure that is planned on Church Street. Meanwhile, the Planning Board's deliberations on the Millington Quarry application for …
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Planning board members spend more than three hours outlining 'deficiencies' in Millington Quarry's application for post-closure plan.
Almost a year and a half of expert testimony, questions and many exhibits led the Bernards Planning Board members to a point on Tuesday night where those members eligible to vote agreed 5-0 to recommend approval of a part of the Millington Quarry's plan for "reclamation" of the 179-acre property after all quarrying stops. The board does not actually vote to accept the plan, but passes its recommendations along to the Bernards Township Committee, which retains the right to make a final decision. The boards also attached conditions to some of the parts of the plan that it will recommend that the governing body approve, such as specifying a schedule of water quality testing for a proposed 50-acre lake on the quarry property off Stonehouse …
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Fifteen months of presentations, testimony and questions before the Bernards Twp. Planning Board now rest on final deliberations.
Following 15 months of hearings, the Bernards Township Planning Board — with a reduced number of members eligible to vote — must decide whether to recommend that the Bernards Township Committee should approve the Millington Quarry's application for a closure plan as presented. The Millington Quarry's plan for how 180 acres or so on Bernards' eastern border would be rehabilitated for future use after quarrying stops received a first look before the Planning Board in November 2011. The case before the Planning Board finally rested on Jan. 31, following many long evenings filled with detailed testimony, expert witnesses, detailed reports and questions — lots of questions — from the Planning Board and also the public. The board is scheduled to…
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Last night of public comment includes disputed documents about previous 'dump' fees advertised for quarry.
Following more than a year of Planning Board hearings, final public comments were presented Tuesday on the Millington Quarry's proposal to "reclaim" the quarry for future residential use, part of which involves bringing in soil to prepare the land for anticipated development. But those speakers from the public objected to the approval of any plan that would bring in additional fill, especially soil that would come from sources paying to dispose of it at the quarry property off Stonehouse Road. Referring to the past acceptance of soil at the facility which in some cases turned out to include contamination, resident Carol Bianchi told the Planning Board, "Ignoring history guarantees it will repeat itself." The night began when even the …
Monday, November 26, 2012
Major application for mosque scheduled for Wednesday, quarry put off until December.
Along with causing fallen trees and power outages, Sandy disrupted the Bernards Township Planning Board's agenda in the past month. The board is planning to resume its first scheduled meeting this week since the last public meeting was held on Oct. 25. The Islamic Society of Basking Ridge is set to return for a continuation of a public hearing at a special meeting that was prescheduled for 7:30 p.m. this Wednesday night, according to the township website and Planning Board Clerk Frances Florio. That date was set at the Oct. 25 meeting, when the Islamic Society presented a traffic consultant to testify about the impact of the proposed mosque in the surrounding area of Liberty Corner Village. The traffic consultant representing the Islamic …
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Those who have waited for months to speak offer detailed critiques of quarry plan for closure.
Residents who live in the vicinity of the Millington Quarry on Tuesday offered varying reasons why they oppose the quarry's proposal for closing and preparing for redevelopment, which has been the subject of hearings before the Bernards Planning Board since last November. But they all agreed on one point: No more fill should be allowed to enter the 100-year-old quarrying operation on Stone House Road, now on the verge of final closure. Steve Yglesias of Valley Road, saying he was making his first appearance before the board, said he agreed with those who seemed "dubious" that only clean soil and fill materials would be brought in to smooth over and prepare for development a portion of the approximately 180-acre property. The quarry's …
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Public testimony on Millington Quarry's plan to prepare spent quarry for future is detailed and specific.
Residents who offered their opinions on the Millington Quarry's so-called rehabilitation plan for the future of the deeply quarried property off Stonehouse Road offered detailed suggestions at Tuesday's Planning Board meeting — and they have more to say. Resident Bill Allen, also a former Township Committeeman, read three parts of his own plan envisioning how the quarry land might be prepared to someday house a neighborhood on the banks of a recreational lake. However, he also asked the board of a couple of hours to present a plan to move fill from the south side of the quarry to build up a more gradual incline for cliffs that would run along a proposed 50-acre lake on the property. Allen said the "two to one" slope he would like to see on…
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Board's own professional consultant offers some differing views from resident who says plan for monitoring incoming soil won't work in real life.
An expert testifying on behalf of Bernards Township said publicly that a plan for bringing soil into the Millington Quarry transform the quarry site into usable land someday will make sure that soil is uncontaminated and safe for the public — as long as the plan is followed. The testimony came from Jennifer Wollenberg, a professional environmental consultant specializing in risk assessment, at Tuesday's Planning Board meeting — and her comments were followed by those from a citizens' version of an expert, who disagreed with at least some of her conclusions. Jeffrey Cappola, who also is a resident, said that in his years of working closely with redevelopment projects in New Jersey, soil importation plans are unlikely to be followed without …
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3:56 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
Am I crazy? This quarry has brought in polluted fill to Basking Ridge. And now our Planning Board is allowing a plan for them to import even more????? Don't they know they old adage, "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice....." I am a member of the Planning Board!!! We should require no more truck traffic!!!!!! Haven't they listened to the community at all???? more ›