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Residents and some council members press Sayreville for transparency after renderings circulate; attorney previews Sunshine Biscuit plan change
Summary
Council members questioned how architectural renderings for a local building circulated before broad council review and whether staff-authorized spending was appropriate; borough attorney previewed a January ordinance to amend the Sunshine Biscuit redevelopment plan, including a smaller-footprint proposal by Hanover and green-building goals.
Several council members raised concerns at the December meeting about architectural renderings that have circulated in the community and asked why the drawings were produced and who authorized them.
Councilwoman Novak said she did not know renderings had been produced and asked why the professional work had been shared outside the council before the item came to the governing body. "We never discussed sending this to an architect to do any kind of rendering," she said, adding she had heard residents were seeing images she had not been given.
Councilman Zembrowski and others suggested renderings were still in draft form and urged greater transparency: "Since those renderings seem to be circulating, why don't we post…
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