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High Numbers of Egg Masses Discovered in Bass River, Washington and Woodland with 2,623 Acres Targeted for Initial Spray By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer
WO O DL A N D —T h e N e w J e r s e y Department of Agriculture (NJDA) has completed gypsy moth egg mass surveys in three Pinelands municipalities affected by a gypsy moth outbreak earlier this year and is recommending that some 2,623 acres of land in Bass River, Washington and Woodland townships receive at least one round of pesticide treatment in the spring. The NJDA is also recommending that 2,200 of the 2,623 acres targeted for initial spraying get a second application of pesticide due to “high numbers of egg masses” in those areas, or that the department’s 2022 Gypsy Moth Aerial Suppression Program cover a total of 4,823 acres in the three Burlington County municipalities. However, it is the decision of each one of those municipality’s governing bodies whether they would like their township to be included in the program, as outlined in separate letters sent to Bass River, Washington and Woodland townships from Joseph W. Zoltowski, director of the NJDA’s Plant Division, later obtained by this newspaper through an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request. The Pine Barrens Tribune previously reported that gypsy moths in May defoliated large amounts of trees in the three towns, including a several mile-wide area between Sooy Place Road, County Route 563 and Route 72 in Woodland. Another hardhit area ran from County Route 563 to
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When a LeisureTowne Resident Contacted the Pine Barrens Tribune About Revised Rules That Appeared to Limit the Amount of Firewood Homeowners Could Store on their Lots, the Board of Trustees Gave No Hint It Would Give an Inch, Let Alone Admit to a Blunder
By Bill Bonvie Staff Writer
SOUTHAMPTON—In an unexpected turn of events, a homeowners association described by its own attorney as being rather “strict” about enforcing its rules, after giving no indication that it was amenable to any sort of policy revision, has acknowledged that one of those edicts, which had caused a
number of its residents to become extremely distressed, was a mistake that would be immediately rectified. The concession came this past week at LeisureTowne, the 2,250-home 55-plus “active adult community” in Southampton Township, after the Pine Barrens Tribune began looking into a complaint it received from a homeowner there in regard to the
enforcement of rules that had been newly adopted by the LeisureTowne Board of Trustees modifying how firewood could be stored at any house in the community. What followed were conversations this newspaper had with that resident and several others – none of whom wished to be identified for fear of retribution See FIREWOOD/ Page 8
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Tabernacle’s Administrator Calls It Quits After Two Decades in Post and Total of 34 Years of Service to Township, Including Leading DPW
Tabernacle Township Administrator Douglas Cramer.
By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer
TABERNACLE—Douglas Cramer, a 34-year employee of Tabernacle Township, with two decades spent as the municipal administrator, is officially hanging up his hat and retiring from the municipality on Dec. 1. Cr a m e r, k now n for h i s st e a d fa st leadership in the community for more than three decades, announced his retirement during an October Tabernacle Township Committee meeting, with his replacement selected during a special Nov. 8 session. Perhaps Cramer’s tenure could be best summarized by a remark this newspaper has heard uttered before by locals in tune with township politics – “Doug Cramer is Tabernacle.” Cramer, in a recent interview with this newspaper following his retirement announcement, disclosed that he moved to Tabernacle in November 1978. “I grew up in Vincentown,” he said. “My family had a farm in Tabernacle. It was the Cramer Homestead at one point in time back in the 1800s. So, I always had roots here.” Working for municipal government, he said, “was not on my radar in college.” Instead, he envisioned entering “the business world” as he came to know his family’s business while growing up. But as life would have it for him, Cramer began serving on the municipality’s Planning Board, about a year before landing a regular job for Tabernacle Township. He had also served a stint on the township Zoning Board. “We brought Tabernacle Township into compliance with the Pinelands National Reserve,” he said of one of the most memorable accomplishments while being involved with the municipality. “We worked very hard on that as a board at the time.” Cramer remembered the exact date – March 18, 1987 – when he became supervisor of the Department of Public Works for Tabernacle. “I ultimately moved up from ‘supervisor’ to ‘director,’ and that was really just a title change when I got my certification as Certified Public Works Manager,” Cramer told this newspaper. “That happened somewhere in the ‘90s.” Then, in June 2001, he became the township’s administrator/director of Public Works. “I hope that my lasting legacy is that I took care of the residents of Tabernacle Township, and I handled them fairly and handled their
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DePetris Family is ‘Prepared to Move Forward’ with Supermarket at Village of Taunton Forge, Moving Center’s Revitalization Ahead
Planning Board Chair Says He Would Be ‘Derelict in His Duties’ to Vote in Defiance of Court Order, Noting Boards That Have Were Taken Over By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer
MEDFORD—After nearly 17 years of development applications, legal proceedings, and several amendments to a consent order, a project to build a townhouse development on a 29.39-acre wooded parcel, located in Medford Township, appears to be finally moving forward. The Medford Township Planning Board on Nov. 15 gave Orleans Conservatory Group Partners, L.P. preliminary and final major site plan approval to build a 30-unit townhouse development, consisting of five separate buildings, on the eastern side of the intersection of Mill Street and Himmelein Road. The decision is scheduled to be memorialized on Dec. 20, Deputy Township Clerk Dawn Bielec later told this newspaper. Of the 30 units to be constructed, five of them are to be affordable housing units. The project, according to Township Planner Scott Taylor during a planning board hearing on the project that began on Sept. 22 and was continued to Nov. 15, was originally initiated by a different developer (Medford Walk, Inc.) in 2004. That initial developer, he said, ultimately initiated litigation against Medford (which fought both its affordable housing obligation and asked to have the townhouse project turned down). In 2006, the “township entered into a consent order,” Taylor noted, for a 29-unit townhouse development to be built on the site at issue with five of them affordable units, Taylor pointed out. That consent order, according to Taylor, was then amended in 2012. “A court granted approvals to provide for 29 townhouses, five of which were to be affordable units with two drives (entrances) on Mill,” Taylor recounted. “The prior applicant was then granted extensions to that approval in 2016, but that (approval) has since expired.” Since that time, according to Taylor, the “current applicant” has “worked with the township” and Fair Share Housing Center, an affordable housing advocacy organization, “to continue to provide for the court-mandated affordable housing” in Medford, and effectuate a “new settlement agreement” with the Fair Share Housing Center, which includes “for there to be 30 townhouse units, with five of them affordable” at the intersection of Mill Street and Himmelein Road. “That is the short version,” Taylor maintained. “The consent order has been amended again, and the new applicant,
Orleans, is now here for new approval because that 2012 approval did expire.” T he Me d ford Tow n sh ip Pla n n i ng Board gave what essentially amounted to re-approval for the project on Nov. 15, over the objections of numerous residents who spoke out over the course of the two meetings, voicing various concerns about the project, particularly about the potential traffic impact in the area. However, according to Jack Hartwig, chai r man of the Medford Tow nsh ip Planning Board, while the board members get to technically vote on the application, the board members had no real choice in how they had to vote due to the outcome of litigation. “Mill Street is three-quarters of a mile long,” pointed out resident John Wolgamot on Nov. 15, whose 64 Mill Street home is directly across the street from the proposed project site. “I counted 36 houses. In 100 yards, you are going to double that. Think about that – you are going to add another 30 houses … you are almost going to double the number of cars and people on that street, which is only three-quarters of a mile long.” Wolgamot called it “ridiculous” for one to think that doubling the number of homes on Mill Street is “not going to effect the traffic” on the roadway. “There are going to be traffic problems,” he maintained, pointing out that there are already backups in the morning both at the intersection of Mill Street and Himmelein Road as well as at the intersection of Mill and Main Streets. He added the traffic congestion is an issue even without accounting for the approximately 30 school buses that come and go from Medford Memorial Middle School, which has a driveway that intersects with Mill Street. “I am sure all of you live in nice houses in nice neighborhoods,” said Wolgamot to the planning board members. “I urge you to treat this as if the building is going to be at the end of your driveway. Because it is at the end of my driveway.” Nathan Mosley, a traffic engineer with Shropshire & Associates, representing O rle a n s, m a i nt a i ne d whe n t he new application was first presented to the planning board on Sept. 22 that he had prepared a traffic study and that the “projected traffic increase is typical for any new development” with a “trip generation analysis” anticipating “15 additional total trips during the a.m. peak” and “20 additional total trips during the p.m. peak.” See TOWNHOUSE/ Page 10
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MEDFORD —The DePetris fam ily, which operates one of the most prominent community shopping centers serving the Medford area at the intersection of Taunton and Tuckerton roads in Medford Township, declared during a Nov. 15 Medford Planning Board meeting that they are now “prepared to move forward with a supermarket” at the site, expressing optimism that by again having an anchor store there, it will “take us to the next level for the shopping center.” As an applicant before the planning board, the DePetris family is seeking final major site plan and amended preliminary/final phasing plan approval for the “renovation” and “expansion” of the “existing supermarket bu i ld i ng ” at 2 0 0 Tu c ke r t on Ro a d , according to Greg Elko, an engineer with the Doylestown, Pennsylvania firm Langan Engineering, Environmental, Surveying, Landscape Architecture, and Geology D.P.C, who provided testimony during the Nov. 15 hearing on the application. The existing super market building currently sits vacant, last occupied by Murphy’s Marketplace in 2014. Prior to that, the building was the site of a Shop N Bag. An approval of the supermarket building’s expansion would allow the DePetris family to once again lease the space to a grocery store – with a return of a supermarket to the Village of Taunton Forge long desired by area residents. “This shopping center has been here for a longtime, and since 1978 the Village of Taunton Forge has very much been a part of the community,” pointed out James DePetris, representing the DePetris family during the hearing. In 2014, he noted, the planning board gave approval to a prior application for “various renovations and expansions” that “led to the revitalization” of the shopping center. “At that time, we were 60 percent vacant,” James DePetris said. “We have come a long way and got a lot of new tenants, but we still have a ways to go. It was always our intention to have a supermarket. We could have leased that building to other uses, but today we stand prepared to move forward with a supermarket.” The renovations to the shopping center that have been approved by the planning board over the course of the last seven years,
according to James DePetris, have led to the shopping center now only being “30 percent vacant.” “And putting this supermarket in will take us to the next level for the shopping center,” he declared. Elko revealed through his testimony that the expanded supermarket would be 21,159 square feet. Exterior renovation work proposed for the supermarket building, Elko said, includes adding exterior freezers and coolers in the rear, putting in a loading area back there as well, and extending an existing vestibule in the front. Also included as part of the project, the engineer said, would be the addition of new light poles both in the back and front of the supermarket building, creation of a driveway connection in the rear of the supermarket building, and adding 12 parking spaces behind the facility, as well as other overlay work. Elko added that some 180 parking spaces in the front of the supermarket building would restr iped, w ith some of them dedicated for temporary, handicapped and electronic vehicle parking. The addition of crosswalks and guardrails to improve safety are also planned. The façade and architecture of the retail strip containing the supermarket building, Elko noted, would also be “brought up to the current conditions,” matching the recent renovations of the other retail strips in Village of Taunton Forge, which include Illiano Cucina Mediterranea, Fond Memories, Taco El Tio and Medford TrueValue. A “preliminary approval” of the plan that had been given, according to Elko, called for “clearing of the underbrush and selective clearing” along the frontside of the shopping center on Tuckerton Road. In seeking final approval, Elko said the DePetris family would now only like to do “selective clearing between a height of only “3 and 7 feet above the ground,” in select areas along Tuckerton Road to increase visibility for the supermarket and other tenants. Elko noted he found that request to be “more reasonable” than what had been previously approved for vegetation clearing in the next phase, and that it still “gives some consideration to give some views into the See SUPERMARKET/ Page 11
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Structural Issues Result in Emergency Closure of Medford Span With Several Weeks of Repairs Expected Before it Can Reopen
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MEDFORD—The Jackson Road bridge spanning Birchwood Lake was ordered immediately closed by the Burlington County Engineer’s Office on Nov. 23 for repairs of structural issues that were expected to require “several weeks to complete,” with work set to begin as soon as the necessary materials are obtained, according to a news release issued by the county. County Spokesman David Levinsky told the Pine Barrens Tribune that the emergency closure was the result of several of the supporting piles on the bridge appearing to be damaged above the water table, reducing the span’s bearing capacity and the load it could accommodate. The unsafe condition of the bridge was first discovered during an inspection the previous
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assistance from the U.S. Forest Service to possibly provide up to a 50 percent reimbursement of spray costs for the 2022 aerial suppression program.” But as Washington Clerk Lisa Hand pointed out during a recent Washington Township Committee meeting, Zoltowski uses the word “possibly,” meaning there is no sure guarantee of any reimbursement, though Washington Mayor Daniel James said the township has been provided with such grants in the past. The NJDA identified that 1,328 acres in Washington qualify for the initial spray and that 1,283 of the 1,328 acres should be treated twice, for a total of 2,611 acres. The Washington Township Committee ultimately decided to participate in the state program, though with the condition that the township’s Chief Financial Officer Kristin Manning had to review the cost and confirm that the funds are actually available. Manning noted she would need to speak with the “auditors” for Washington before giving such a confirmation. However, she noted that Washington could probably pull from what it has reserved in its fund balance. This newspaper previously reported that Bass River, Washington and Woodland all recently received full Payment-in-Lieu-ofTaxes (PILOT) funding payments from the state this year, following nearly a decade of reduced payments. Ja m e s , wh e n l at e r a ske d by t h i s newspaper for his reaction to the unexpected reinstatement of funds, and how Washington might use them, replied “gypsy moths.” Zoltowski, in his letters, notes that the “anticipated treatment cost could range” between $55 and $60 an acre. Hand, who used the “high-end” figure to determine the worst-case scenario for Washington ($60 times 2,611 acres), said the total cost for the municipality could be as high as $156,650. “We are working on the problem because it is going to be a rough one next year,” declared James, pointing out that the areas of greatest concern in Washington include Wading River, Lower Bank and the vicinity of Bulltown Road. The Woodland Township Committee d e c id e d to a l s o p a r t i c ip at e i n t he state program, though the Woodland committeemen said they would decide at a later date whether to authorize a second application of pesticide for the 700-acre area. Woodland Clerk Maryalice Brown said the Woodland committee could decide to “do the double spray or single spray” once it “finds out if it got the grant” from the U.S. Forest Service. “The reason being that 700 acres will need two applications is because gypsy moths are so heavy in the area,” pointed out DeGroff in recognizing that the NJDA recommended a total of 1,649 acres be sprayed in Woodland (when accounting for the double application
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of pesticide). The “worst-case maximum price” for Woodland, Brown pointed out (by doing $60 times 1,649 acres), is $98,940. “You are just committing ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to participate in the program,” said Brown of the Woodland committee having until Nov. 30 to decide on whether to participate in the program. “You are not (yet committing to) how many acres.” DeGroff noted that a possible future consideration for the Woodland committee is that a large section of the 700-acres recommended for double spraying covers the dirt road portion of Sooy Place Road. That area of Sooy Place Road is sparsely populated. “My feeling is to say we want the spraying, get all the paperwork in by Nov. 30, and then we will have time to decide (on how many acres), and see how much the grant is for and if we want to go with two sprayings. I don’t want time to go by, however.” Ma rk Her ndon, de put y m ayor of Woodland, asserted, “Yes— definitely commit to the spraying.” In Bass River, the NJDA identified that 346 acres there qualify for the initial spraying and that 217 of the 346 acres should be treated twice, for a total of 563 acres. “It has been about 12 years since they last sprayed here,” pointed out Bass River Mayor Deborah Buzby-Cope during a recent Bass River Board of Commissioners meeting. “… In past, they said, ‘We have been good,’ but this year we had a lot of complaints. So, we had them come out and they said, ‘Yeah, you are due.’” Buzby-Cope added that about $30,000 is “probably what we are looking at” to do double spraying in Bass River ($60 times 563 acres is $33,780). She maintained that the last time the treatment was done, it cost $20,000, so the difference more than a decade later, despite inflation, was “not too bad,” especially considering how long the prior treatment appeared to have lasted. Nicholas Capriglione, a member of the Bass River Board of Commissioners, pointed out that the Spotted Lanternfly has recently been sighted in the area. The Spotted Lanternfly causes serious damage, including oozing sap, wilting, leaf curling and dieback in trees, vines, crops and many other types of plants. The NJDA has placed Burlington County in a quarantine (for wood products) as a result of the invasive pest’s arrival in the area. Capriglione recommended that Bass River officials check with the NJDA to see if the gypsy moth pesticide that the state will use in the aerial treatments, Bacillus thuringiensis, “will help with the Spotted Lanternfly.” “If not, could it be altered, or put in as an additive, so we can do (treat) both at once?” Capriglione asked. “Let’s see if we can do both of them, and maybe we can save money See MOTHS/ Page 9
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– which indicated that the rule change in late October had taken these individuals completely by surprise, as did letters sent out by the board threatening some of them with penalties for violating the new rules. A copy of such a violation letter, dated Nov. 3., was emailed to this newspaper by the original complainant, who said it had been sent to her both via certified and first-class mail, claiming that it had come to the board’s attention “that you have an excessive amount of wood stored on your front porch and in your rear yard which must be removed” by Nov. 17. The letter, she alleged, was “the first notice to anyone” of the firewood rule changes, which she contended had neither been previously provided to residents nor posted on the LeisureTowne website. (While the letter also specified that recipients had 14 days to request an “Alternate Dispute Resolution Meeting, which the resident said she and some of her neighbors had requested, it was her feeling that “if this matter is made public … hopefully positive changes will be made.”) Especially disturbing to those homeowners was their having already ordered or obtained up to a cord of firewood, assuming the rules previously adopted were still in force, in order to heat their homes this coming winter using either their woodstoves or fireplaces. Changing the rules, they maintained, was no minor inconvenience with fuel prices expected to be extraordinarily high and given the likelihood of continued power outages, which they claim to have experienced all too often. Among those interviewed was a woman with two jobs, who said her husband depends on the dry heat generated by their fireplace for relief from his arthritis and believed that they would have so little available under the new rule that they would be forced to constantly replenish it during the cold weather. The original complainant alleged that before purchasing her home in 2015, she had called the office and was told that she could use her woodstove. She also noted that the community had no rules in regard to firewood storage until the first ones were adopted in May of this year that limited each home to one cord in the back yard and some additional wood in a rack on the porch, and that if the rules made it no longer a viable option to use her woodstove as a primary heat source, she would be forced to sell her home. Those May rules had previously allowed each home to store one free-standing stack of wood “not to exceed one cord measuring 8 feet long, 4 feet wide and 4 feet high,” in addition to a stack in a metal log holder on the front porch “no larger than 4 feet long, 1 foot wide and 4 feet high,” whereas the revision limited the amount of firewood that could be kept on an individual property to
WWW.PINEBARRENSTRIBUNE.COM two stacks, “2 feet high X 4 feet long X 2 feet deep,” with one in the rear yard and the other inside a metal log holder on the front porch, with any mention of a cord having been dropped. (It should be noted that while those two stacks, added together, would amount to a cord of wood, dividing that cord in the manner described would pose considerable difficulty for homeowners.) Both sets of rules specified the firewood in the rear yard should not be visible from the street. Noting that her wood was delivered in late September, the resident who contacted this newspaper accused the board of having “waited until everyone had a good supply of firewood on hand” before changing the rules and demanding its removal. After talking to enough residents to become convinced that the issue was indeed generating serious concern within the community, the Pine Barrens Tribune endeavored to get in touch with members of the LeisureTowne Board of Trustees to ascertain its rationale for having changed the rules involved. The newspaper was initially referred to an individual named Tom Haluszczak, an attorney who described himself as the board’s “compliance enforcement guy,” adding that “before I was a trustee, I was a prosecutor.” After indicating he would not answer any questions unless other board members were present during the inquiry, Haluszczak invited this newspaper to call back a couple days later, on Nov. 11, when the trustees would be convened for a meeting, “so we can put you on speaker and respond to you officially.” When the call into the meeting was made as he suggested, Haluszczak, noting that he was now surrounded by his “chain of command,” including Board President Larry O’Rourke, said he had been informed that “we are going to have our lawyer send you a letter” and asked for the mailing address of the reporter with whom he was speaking, which was provided with the caveat that he was acting in his official capacity as a Pine Barrens Tribune staffer, and asking whether the newspaper itself would also receive a copy of the letter as well, which Haluszczak indicated it would. At that point, a second board member entered the conversation, asking “what prompted the necessity to write such an article,” and when he was told that a resident had contacted this newspaper expressing concerns about rule changes that were imposed on people living in LeisureTowne without their previous knowledge, resulting in considerable inconvenience, and that others living in the community had echoed her dismay, the person on the phone said he was not sure he understood “why a resident or residents would reach out to you to adjudicate or resolve a concern or issue between them and a private community.”
By way of reply, he was informed that one of the traditional roles of a newspaper was looking into matters that affected the lives of people living in the area and attempting to do so in an impartial manner by reporting the views of all parties involved. It was also pointed out that the reason for the call was to query the board about the rationale for the new rule. Haluszczak, however, noting that he had re-entered the conversation, said that while he appreciated the explanation about “what prompted all this,” the board was “not here to answer questions” and that the board’s attorney “will advise you of our position,” adding that the newspaper would “not be getting anywhere barnstorming our position.” A few days later, such a letter did arrive at the home of this reporter, who had made the call, (with no copy having been received by the newspaper itself by press time) from attorney Gregg A. Shivers, of the Cherry Hill firm of Hill Wallack, LLP, who said he represented LeisureTowne Homeowners Association and that the board had advised him “that you intend to write a column about the association’s wood storage rules and that you have requested access to the membership meetings and certain association documents.” “You must know that LeisureTowne is a private, non-profit corporation and the meetings and internal documents are not for public consumption beyond the membership,” noted Shivers, who appeared to have been misinformed about the actual nature of this reporter’s request (which was not for any internal documents, since they already had been provided to the newspaper with copies of the revised and previous rules, nor for access to association meetings). The attorney further wrote that “the association respectfully declines to provide you with such access.” “Regarding the wood storage rules that you indicated at least one LeisureTowne resident is opposed to, I can tell you they are similar in language and intent (to) the wood storage rules of many community associations across the state,” the letter continued. “Additionally, if you were to research local township ordinances, you would find that many public entities also have such restrictions. One that I recently dealt with was from Glen Ridge and is available online.” (When this newspaper subsequently accessed the Glen Ridge Borough wood storage rules online, as the letter suggested, it discovered that it “shall not be stacked higher than six feet” and that storage piles “shall not exceed two cords in an exposed area.”) Shivers’ letter further contended that the LeisureTowne board is “one of the most thorough and transparent community association boards I have had the pleasure of working with,” and that he had spent “many hours reviewing the rules of similar associations,” and sent out proposed rules
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for “membership feedback.” As for the firewood rule, it was one that “strikes a very reasonable balance between a member’s right to store firewood versus the community’s right to restrict conditions that attract insect and rodent infestation and create fire hazards,” as well as complying with “the board’s obligation to monitor and maintain the aesthetic consistency of the community.” Finally, while contending that its recipient had “no right to this information,” Shivers’ missive asserted that the actual number of violations involved “can be counted on two hands,” most involving improper storage on the porch, and suggested to this reporter that he “may want to reconsider the newsworthiness of your proposed article,” adding that the board “is confident that the wood storage rules are fair and reasonable, that they do not unduly burden any of the residents,” and, from Shivers’ perspective, “were legally passed and thoroughly enforceable in a court of law.” In a subsequent call this newspaper placed to Shivers on Nov. 19, however, the board attorney’s tone seemed to have softened considerably from that in the letter, and his response was both cordial and accommodating when it was pointed out to him that this reporter had never gotten a chance to pose his questions to the board, which had remained unaddressed in his letter as well. The lawyer promised to take those questions up with the board the very next day and get back to this newspaper with answers. Shivers did, in fact, do as promised, but what he now had to say after consulting with the board was totally unexpected, especially in light of the somewhat strident rhetoric that had preceded it. He first noted that the policy adopted back in May had entitled residents to store a cord of wood on their property, and contended that in October, the board’s intent had been merely “to tweak that policy” for the purpose of actually increasing the amount of wood they were permitted to keep on their porches. But “whoever did it, misprinted it,” he maintained, “so what people saw on the website, I see why they were upset, because it limited them to a very small amount,” whereas they are actually allowed to keep a cord of wood on the property, some of which can be stored on the porch in a steel log holder 4 feet long by 2 feet wide by 4 feet high. Asked about residents having been threatened with fines for exceeding the amount in the misprinted rule, Shivers replied that he didn’t think anyone had gotten a letter saying they were being fined, but if they had “all they need to do is contact the office,” which was in the process of “posting the proper rules” on the LeisureTowne website. He added that everyone would be sent a notice “and it allows a full cord of wood to be stored on See FIREWOOD/ Page 9
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the property, which is the same that the rule was back in May.” “So, if anyone ordered more than a cord this fall, they were already in violation of the rule that was passed back in May, so they had plenty of advance notice,” the attorney contended. Another question that had been put to Shivers concerned the allegation that firewood storage constitutes a fire hazard, which one resident had called ridiculous, pointing out the initial difficulty of getting a piece of firewood to ignite – an opinion corroborated by a knowledgeable source, Brian Kieffer, of Pine Tree Forestry in Clementon, who when contacted by this newspaper, said he didn’t consider stacked firewood “in and of itself to be any more risky than having a house built on the property.” As for creating “insect and rodent infestation,” while Keifer acknowledged that small animals, as well as insects, might be attracted to a woodpile while seeking shelter, he added that “it is not going to bring more bugs or rodents than what are already on the property, and that he thought some
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board members might be apt to raise such objections because they simply consider stored wood to be an eyesore. While the lawyer said he did not have the opportunity to raise those points with the board, he concurred that the rules might in part be intended to minimize the visibility of woodpiles out of aesthetic considerations. Finally, when asked about LeisureTowne residents having expressed fear of possible reprisals if they dared to complain and not wanting their names mentioned in this article for that reason, Shivers replied, “What I will tell you is I have not heard one example of any retribution against anyone who has complained.” He added that if this newspaper could come up with an instance in which a resident was retaliated against for complaining, “I would be glad to take a look at it.” Shivers did, however, acknowledge that “this board has been more strict in enforcing the rules” than previous ones, but “that’s their prerogative.” “That is what they were elected to do,” Shivers declared. “It is one of the things they ran on. They redid all the rules and regulations, so they were clear and fair, and they went about enforcing them equally and fairly. That is how you keep communities nice.”
The lawyer further pointed out that “there have been five seats (on the board) open in the last two elections that nobody ran for,” and added that if residents have concerns about the way the community is being run, “they should be willing to get more involved.” A few days after that conversation, the homeowner who originally called this newspaper forwarded an email she had just received from O’Rourke “with some clarifying information surrounding our firewood rules.” “Based on recent feedback at past Open Board Meetings, the board and SPG (Strategic Planning Group) re-evaluated the firewood rules as were adopted in May of this year. We recently clarified the rules and adopted them at October’s Open Board Meeting. The newly clarified and adopted rules were handed out to a few residents and posted on our website so as to be available while we arranged for printing and distribution as required by our governing documents. “An inaccurate draft was mistakenly posted for just few days; it was immediately removed, and the correct version is now available. To further clarify and to be crystal clear – homeowners may have up to a total of one (1) full cord of wood (that’s 128
cubic feet) stored on their property. Of that one cord, only ¼ of a cord (that is 32 cubic feet) may be stored on the front porch in a single steel log holder; the remainder must be stored in the rear of the house, not visible from the street. The dimensions of the stacks and log holders can be found in the actual rule language. Paper copies of the rules will be available in the office. “Hopefully this clears up any confusion or ambiguity surrounding firewood. The intention was always to allow for a full cord of wood per home and to allow a reasonable amount to be stored safely and neatly on a front porch, if so desired.” The message goes on to wish the recipients “a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving,” and (much like the conclusion of a political ad) to note that the board “approved this message because we wrote it.” Asked if she had any response to the message, the resident who forwarded it replied, “I laughed when I read this, because they realized they really stepped in the fire this time.” “But what’s even more interesting, they never mentioned the violation letters, which they issued, indicating that they clearly understood what they were doing at the time they did it,” she declared.
spray operation itself,” but that department staff “will not be available for the placement of marker balloons in the spray blocks” and that the municipalities are “responsible to supply the personnel to perform this action and pay the full cost of the aerial treatment.” He added in his correspondence that Bacillus thuringiensis will be the “only insecticide used in the program.” Horace Somes, co-owner of Wading River Christmas Tree Farm in Washington and a member of the Society of American
Foresters, pointed out during the recent Wash ington com m ittee meeting that the gypsy moths began spreading in the local area back in the early 1970s after an individual brought them to Massachusetts in an attempt to “raise the moths for silk.” The NJDA, on its website, notes the gypsy moth is the “most destructive forest insect pest to infest New Jersey’s forests” and that “repeated defoliation by the gypsy moth represents a serious threat to New Jersey woodland and shade tree resources.” The
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Dave Fleming, of Marathon Engineering, who s er ve s a s the proje ct eng i ne er representing Orleans, pointed out in his Sept. 22 testimony that “one access driveway has been eliminated” and that “the one remaining driveway has been relocated as far away from Himmelein Road as possible.” While Mosley acknowledged “existing delays” at the intersection of Mill Street and Himmelein Road, he contended “new traffic impacts on the level of service will have deminimous (under one percent) change” in the area, and that it is his “professional opinion” that the proposed development “will have minimal impact on the surrounding traffic conditions.” Resident Sean Kilpatrick, during the planning board’s Nov. 15 meeting, asked if Medford could conduct its own traffic study, concerned that a developer could possibly have one done in such manner “to get the results that they want.” “We need a truly independent study that is funded on our side,” Kilpatrick maintained. “Because the results we heard at the last meeting just do not ring true. … What can we do to have a real traffic study performed, one that is truly independent and not bought and paid for by a developer who just wants to come in and simply make a quick buck?” Kilpatrick, a resident of Trimble Street, which intersects with Mill Street, called the latter “an absolute death trap” in its present state “with people flying down the street” and maintained that motorists use Trimble Street as a cut-through with “drag racing a major problem too.” “It is completely out of control,” said Kilpatrick of the traffic situation already in the area without ground even broken for the proposed development, pointing out there is also no crosswalk for a park located near the intersection of Trimble and Mill streets, which is used by a lot of area youth. Kilpatrick, who requested crosswalks and speed bumps in the area, noted that his vehicle “has already been scraped” and that its “mirror has already been hit” by motorists who speed down the “tiny street” of Trimble to avoid traffic congestion at the intersection of Mill and Main streets. “And to be perfectly blunt, I don’t want to look at your ugly buildings,” said Kilpatrick of the proposed buffering, design, façade and aesthetics for the townhouses. “You have all these other developments that when they are built, they are completely buried in trees, where you can’t even see them. You don’t even know that they are there. I don’t understand why that can’t be done here.”
According to Sept. 22 testimony from Laurie Sanders, director of architecture for Orleans, the townhouses will consist of gray and white palette. They will also include gables, board and batten, pitched roofs, shutters and mullions in the windows. She maintained that “green space is planned” between the buildings and roadways. Some of the townhouses, according to Sept. 22 testimony from Larry Dugan Sr., senior vice president of Orleans, will have basements that are unfinished, while others will have ones with an open den. One of the buildings will have a “walkout basement option,” he said. He also noted that “each unit will have an optional rear concrete patio.” As for buffering, Fleming maintained there would be street trees planted along both Mill Street and Himmelein Road “with additional buffering on a berm, which will serve to screen the townhouses.” Several of the planning board members called for greater buffering than what had been displayed in renderings presented by Orleans professionals during the Nov. 15 portion of the hearing, with Hartwig maintaining it was particularly “important” to have increased buffering for the units fronting Mill Street residents. “I am happy to increase the berm to the extent that we can,” said one of the professionals representing Orleans in response. One of several conditions imposed on the applicant, as entered into the record by Taylor, is that the berm must be increased to the “maximum extent possible,” increasing it “2 to 3 feet in height” from what was contained in the renderings, which some of the planning board members said displayed a nearly “flat” plain of sorts. Planti ngs, Taylor re qu i re d of the applicant, must also be “moved up to the top of the berm” with a meandering, threerail fence along it. The trees called for as part of the landscaping plan are to be 6 to 8 feet in height at the time of planting. Bielec later clarified to this newspaper that the “the berm will be about 5 feet, then there will be plantings taking it to approximately 10 feet.” One of the planning board members pointed out that in other area municipalities, many huge trees are used to hide such developments, but Taylor said a berm provides for better “sound attenuation” and are “permanent.” Such townhouse developments under Medford code require a 100 foot by 100-foot play area, but a design waiver was granted on Nov. 15 to the applicant providing for only a 60 foot by 60-foot play area, which Taylor said would “help to preserve more trees.” That came about Board Member Andrea Kornick pointed out that creating
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a play area of the size that had initially been proposed would only result in even more trees being cut down. Township Engineer Chris Noll pointed out on Nov. 15 that the applicant has agreed to keep about 60 percent of the parcel “deed restricted,” with Orleans professionals testifying on Sept. 22 that “only a small portion” of the 23.9-acre site is proposed to be developed, or the part that is considered “uplands.” The remainder of the site, will “remain undeveloped in its natural state” as it is “mostly wooded wetlands.” Other c ond itions i mpos e d on the applicant included slight modifications to the architecture, including more decorative trim and additional windows, and that any exposed concrete for any decks would have to be painted the same color as the siding. Another requirement of such developments under Medford code is that they provide recreational spaces, including playing fields, sports courts and tot lots. The parties reached an agreement, however, as detailed on Sept. 22, that because there are “several municipal parks and schools’ play areas” in the vicinity of the site, Orleans will make a payment to the township’s Recreation Trust Fund in lieu of creating recreational spaces. Hartwig, in declaring that “we all live in this town” and that he is “offended” when people think the planning board members would make decisions in a way as if they didn’t live across the street from a proposed project, maintained that it is also “frustrating when people think we can say, ‘OK, we are not building it’ and can defy court orders.” “I have asked people to learn what happens if the town votes ‘no’ on affordable housing,” Hartwig said. “In recent cases in other municipalities, the court has taken control of the local planning board and per mitted developments approved by the court master and not local township officials.” Har tw ig added that it would be a “dereliction of my duties” to vote opposite of the court order imposed on Medford, with the potential “remedy” likely being “far worse.” “As chairman, and a lifelong resident, do you think it pleases me to approve this project?” he added. No! … The town asked to turn this project down, but the court sided with Fair Share Housing to put these units on that site and supply them with sewage.” Hartwig, however, acknowledged that Orleans “had been reasonable” with the township throughout the current application process. It was pointed out by another Medford official that South Brunswick had its entire planning board process taken over by the court system, which then issued permits for affordable housing, after the municipality thought it could skirt court orders related
to affordable housing.. As for the request by Kilpatrick for an independent traffic study to be done by Medford, Noll maintained that “we don’t do that” in the same vein as “why we don’t do our own landscaping plan, site plan, etc.” and that all of those studies and plans are “submitted by a licensed professional,” which are then reviewed and commented on by the township’s different professionals, who check to see if they are in compliance with the township code and other regulations. It was then pointed out by another Me d ford of fi c i a l t h at t h e l i c e n s e d professionals submitting studies for project applications, such as the traffic study, are “held to an ethical oath just like a doctor” and would be putting their “license on the line” if they fudged the content to favor a development project. “They are not getting paid off,” the official maintained in responding to Kilpatrick’s traffic study concerns. Noll, in further addressing Kilpatrick’s observations of drag racing and speeding, said those matters should be brought to the attention of the township manager and police department, who would then investigate them and “take action accordingly.” As for crosswalks, he said he would review the area to determine whether to add or remove any, and that putting them in is simple, usually just a matter of restriping. Danielle Novak Kinback, of Bisgaier Hoff, representing Orleans, pointed out that the townhouse development is a “permitted use” and the “density is permitted,” adding the “board cannot consider offsite traffic conditions,” though a traffic study was provided. Har tw ig quipp ed that i f residents “want traffic to be considered” as part of the development application process for affordable housing, “call your state representative and ask why it isn’t.” “Let me remind all the residents of Medford that the New Jersey Supreme Court required all municipalities in the state to provide their fair share of the state’s affordable housing needs,” Hartwig asserted. “Medford Township was a party to litigation concerning its share of affordable housing from 1987 to 2025. “As part of that court action concerning Medford Township, Fair Share Housing Center, an affordable housing advocate, was a party to the litigation and reviewed the proposed settlement. … Medford would have been required to build 6,171 units. The township, as part of that litigation, settled for substantially less, having to build 1,200 houses.” The planning board chairman added that “if you don’t like this, you are welcome to yell at the board, but if you really want these projects not to be built in Medford, vote appropriately, and ask questions of your state representatives.”
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Location: Bass River Township Details: The Woods of New Gretna Park and the New Jersey Shore Live Steam Organization provide train rides for all each Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The small steam locomotives, and other trains, wind their way through the beautiful park. The rides are provided by a group of dedicated follow us on volunteers who have revitalized the park and laid out the railroadfacebook.com/MedfordUMC track, based on the historical Tuckerton Railroad. The volunteers maintain the railroad and walking trails, and are constantly expanding them. Riding the trains is free, but donations are very much appreciated. The train rides are outdoors.
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Seneca High School Chamber Singers Program Location: Southampton Details: The Southampton Historical Society is hosting the Seneca High School Chamber Singers who will perform a holiday program of songs, as well as some of their favorite traditional ones. Come hear these amazing students from the community! The program will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m., at the Southampton Township Municipal Building, 5 Retreat Rd. A meeting of the Southampton Historical Society will follow the program. For more information, please call 609-859-0524.
December 21 Trip to Casino Resorts
Location: Lumberton/Tabernacle (pick-up locations) Details: The Pinelands Young at Heart Senior Club is sponsoring monthly casino trips to Atlantic City Resorts on the third Tuesday of each month. The price is $30, with $20 back to play at the casinos. The first pick-up is at 8:30 a.m., at the Lumberton Plaza, TD Bank parking lot. The second pick-up is at 9 a.m., at the Old Squad Building on Hawkins Rd. in Tabernacle. Enjoy drawings and Bingo games on the trip. Snacks and water are included. For more information, call JoAnn at 609-268-8951.
December 24 Christmas Eve Candlelight Service Location: Pemberton Details: All are welcome to join the Christmas Eve Candlelight service at Pemberton First Baptist Church, 6 p.m., 59 Hanover St. Enjoy singing carols and reading scripture while celebrating the birth of Jesus.
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site, but maintains trees.” “It is important for visibility of the site, but we also understand trees are important, so it is a good compromise,” Elko maintained. The plan that Elko detailed, however, also calls for the removal of a tree that he contended was “in front of a sign there with the name of the tenants on it.” That tree he said was not only “hindering the visibility” of the sign, but is “posing a safety issue when people driving on Tuckerton Road try to read it.” Initially, the application had called for replacing the tree at issue with two birch trees, but now proposes a “larger, more impactful tree,” either a Maple or Willow Oak tree “to the side of the sign.” “They grow to a significant size,” Elko maintained. “And they don’t have understory to preclude visibility.” However, Mayor Charles “Chuck” Watson, a Class I member of the planning board, who is also its manager, maintained that he had voted against the 2014 application for Village of Taunton Forge renovations because it had allowed a significant portion of the shopping center’s “buffer to be taken down” that fronts both Tuckerton Road and Taunton Boulevard, and that after the application was still approved by the then-planning board, he “promised he would not allow” for more trees to be taken down there in the future “without getting something back.” “Now you are taking down a tree in front of the sign, but that sign was moved, and the tree wouldn’t have been in the way (if you hadn’t moved the sign),” Watson asserted. “I would like to get some of the buffer back.” Jack Hartwig, chairman of the planning board, in agreeing with the mayor, remarked he would like to see the applicant “keep some
of that buffer more permanent.” Elko had noted that the future phases of development at the shopping center call for “additional areas of trees to be removed,” but that “significant areas will remain.” He p oi nt e d out t hat t he or ig i na l application had called for the removal of trees, for example, near a utility area in the rear of the supermarket building, but that it is now being proposed to maintain them, and that it served as an example of the applicant’s commitment to maintain as many trees as possible on the site. Board Member Andrea Kornick pointed out that she was not on the planning board in 2014, but that she knows the prior tree removal had caused some people to become upset, “including myself,” though she “also understands development and the need to have some sort of visibility.” The shopping center hearing, which began after 10 p.m. due to a lengthy hearing that preceded it involving a townhouse development (see separate story), was paused around 11 p.m., and continued to Dec. 20. When the hearing commences again, an architect is scheduled to offer testimony about the planned architectural features for the supermarket building, while a landscaper is expected to provide more specifics about the landscaping plan. “In continuing the application to another meeting, I think we should have a discussion about maintaining the buffer, and the proposed tree clearing,” said Hartwig, noting that he would like to have the buffer maintained in such a way that is “comfortable” for both the applicant and board. Elko, in response, declared that the planning board members are “talking about ‘maintaining’ the buffer” and “I am talking about ‘increasing’ the buffer,” adding that he would be willing to do a “walk through with the township’s professionals to make sure the trees that are supposed to stay, stay.”
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