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Council records March 7 denial and affirms June 7 reconsideration that approved site plan with deviations
Summary
At a Clark Township meeting, councilors voted to memorialize a March 7 planning-board denial and separately approved a resolution recording a June 7 reconsideration that granted preliminary and final site-plan approval with specified deviations. The motions were moved by Steinberg and seconded by Jacobson.
The Clark Township Council voted to adopt two resolutions that document the planning board’s earlier actions on a contested site-plan application.
One resolution memorialized the planning board’s March 7 denial of the application; a second resolution memorialized a June 7 proceeding in which the applicant’s motion for reconsideration was granted and the planning board approved the preliminary and final site plan with deviations. A staff member explained the procedural point to the council: “So it’s a yes vote is, that you are accepting the resolution as drafted, not whether or not the application should have been granted or should have been denied.”
The motion to proceed was moved by Mister Steinberg and seconded by Mister Jacobson. In roll-call votes read by the clerk, Mayor Bonacorso, Councilman Munitti (also referenced as Menitti in the record), Mister Altman, Mister Steinberg and Mister Jacobson voted yes to adopt the memorializing resolution of the March 7 denial. The council then voted to adopt the memorializing resolution of the June 7 reconsideration approving the site plan; the minutes record Mayor Bonacorso, Councilman Menitti, Mister Altman, Mister Jacobson and Mister Steinberg voting yes. No aye/no/abstain votes were recorded in the transcript for these items.
A staff member earlier summarized the sequence for the council: the planning board initially denied the application on March 7; the applicant filed for reconsideration; at a hearing on June 7 both the motion to reconsider and the site plan (with deviations) were granted. The staff member cautioned that the council’s vote simply accepts the text of the resolutions as drafted and does not reopen the underlying merits of the planning board’s prior actions.
No specific conditions, deviation details, resolution numbers or next administrative steps were read into the record during the session. The clerk recorded the roll-call results and the council moved on to public session.
