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Votes at a glance: Montgomery Planning Board reorganization and routine approvals
Summary
At its 2025 reorganization meeting the Montgomery Planning Board elected officers, adopted 2025 meeting dates, approved professional-service appointments and memberships, memorialized a minor site plan for Princeton Orthopedic Associates, approved PSE&G submission waivers for a subdivision, approved minutes, and adjourned.
The Montgomery Township Planning Board completed its 2025 reorganization and approved routine administration and land-use items in a single meeting.
Key outcomes
- Officers: The board held nominations and closed nominations for chair, vice chair and secretary; officers were affirmed and the meeting was turned to the presiding chair. (Nominations and roll-call votes recorded.)
- Recording secretary: The board approved the appointment of Dara (recording secretary) by motion and roll call.
- 2025 meeting schedule: The board adopted regular meeting dates (second and fourth Mondays, starting at 7 p.m.) and a reorganization meeting scheduled for 2026-01-12; the municipal building at 100 Community Drive in Skillman is the stated meeting place.
- Committees and liaisons: The board confirmed the Master Plan/Land Development committee membership (including Patricia Taylor Todd and Greg Kaganowitz) and set the Site Plan/Subdivision Committee dates and membership; the board named liaisons to the Transportation Advisory Committee (Brian Hamilton) and the Economic Development Commission (Arun Mani).
- Memberships and professional services: The board approved renewal of the New Jersey Federation of Planning Officials membership ($185) and adopted Resolution 01-2025 appointing professional services (planning board attorney Karen L. Casey, planner Clark, Kate & Hintz, BrightView Engineering as traffic engineer, Richard Bartalone as landscape architect, and Environmental Resources as planning board engineer) under pay-to-play and local public contracts law provisions.
- Princeton Orthopedic Associates (PBD-06-24): The board memorialized a minor site plan for Princeton Orthopedic Associates at 862 Route 518 to convert a 15,180-square-foot office building to an orthopedic surgical center; the board approved the memorialization by motion and roll call.
- PSE&G (PBD-07-24): The board granted submission waivers for PSE&G (Block 4001 Lots 26 & 28) to allow a minor subdivision to proceed with the condition that wetlands LOI and board-of-health approvals be obtained as conditions before site-plan approval; the vote passed with one abstention (Roberts).
- Minutes and adjournment: The board approved minutes for 08/12/2024 and 12/09/2024, confirmed future meeting dates, and adjourned at 7:49 p.m.
The board recorded motions and roll-call votes on each item; members and applicants were advised to follow the recorded conditions (for example, applicants must obtain LOI and board-of-health approvals as required) as the next steps in the review process.
