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‘Disturbing,’ Secret Videos of Carns Family, Children as Well as of Their Property in Medford ‘Fed to Council’
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Carns Family Member Declares ‘Swamp’ Will ‘Get Drained One Way or Another’; Activist: Council, Manager Should ‘Resign’ By Douglas D. M elegari Staff Writer
MEDFORD—An apparent set of secret video recordings of members of the Carns family, their children, as well as some of their guests, in addition to one featuring an individual walking onto the Carns family farm for at least two minutes and filming the family’s belongings, buildings and vehicles, all of which were quietly sent to Medford Township Manager Kathy Burger, who in turn then “fed” them to Medford Council, as a fulfilled Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request reveals, has left members of the Carns family to declare such a pattern of behavior is not only an egregious “invasion of privacy,” but one that is something “that is really disturbing.” And not only has a member of the family, following the discovery, declared that the “swamp,” as he put it, “will get drained one way or another,” but it has led a state First Amendment activist to call on both the township manager and all five township councilmembers to “resign,” maintaining that they are “all guilty of racketeering.” “We want fairness and to be treated as though we live in Medford, New Jersey, United States,” declared Brendan Canavan, husband to Carns family sibling Heather Lou Carns-Canavan, both of whom live at the tree farm with their children. “We don’t live in Nazi Germany, or Communist China, or Putin’s Russia. We live in Medford, New
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Pemberton Twp. Council Designates Fieldstone Associates as ‘Conditional Redeveloper’ of Closed College Campus with Firm Proposing to Build Mixed-Use Residential Housing Comprising Single-Family Homes, Townhouses and Apartments Upon Purchase of Tract Officials Say Attraction of New Residents Will Aid Efforts to Redevelop Downtown Browns Mills by Providing More Consumers to Patronize Businesses; Project to Restore Land to Town Tax Rolls
By Douglas D. M elegari Staff Writer
PE M BE RT ON — “ P r o g r e s s ,” a s Pemberton Township Mayor David Patriarca put it to this newspaper, is happening on the redevelopment front in Pemberton Township with Fieldstone Associates, LP, designated by Pemberton Township Council on May 18 as the “conditional redeveloper” of the former Rowan College at Burlington County
(RCBC) campus (also formerly Burlington County College). The fi r m, pr ior to re c eiv i ng the conditional designation, negotiated with the township administration and submitted a concept plan to the township, one that proposes to demolish the former college campus, located along both the Pemberton Bypass and PembertonBrowns Mills Road, replacing it with “mixed use residential housing” with some
452 proposed units in total that would be either for rent or sale. The 226-acre former college property, said to still be currently in the hands of RCBC, has become an “eyesore” since its May 2018 closure, with once functional educational facilities now dilapidated from years of abandonment and repeated vandalism. Vegetation on the property has See HOUSING/ Page 10
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Ian Smith No Longer Affiliated with Gym Where He Defied Shutdown; Business Partner Blames Candidate’s DWI Arrest for Patronage Drop Maverick GOP Contender Says He Wants to Focus on Winning June 7 Primary, Calls Running Mate Gallagher’s Own Drunk Driving Charge a ‘Private Matter’
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was due to the gym’s having started charging customers again after getting its license to operate restored. BELLMAWR—Ian Smith, the maverick (Trumbetti, in response, estimated that Republican currently seeking to win a threethe gym lost roughly 250 patrons in the way contest in the June 7 GOP primary to two weeks after Smith’s arrest, but only become the party’s official challenger to another 100 or so after it started charging 3rd District Rep. Andy Kim, has ended for memberships on April 15, and that he his active affiliation with the Atilis Gym had “slowly built patronage back up to about in Bellmawr Township, the facility that 350 per day.”) by remaining open in the face of a 2020 As for his partner’s castigating him for Coronavirus pandemic-related shutdown having had anything to drink before getting order by Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, won behind the wheel of his truck on the morning him a sizable, dedicated following that put he received the citations, Smith called that him on the political map. a “personal opinion.” The candidate has “I’m putting an offer on the table to maintained that he wasn’t intoxicated, buy him out,” the gym’s co-owner, Frank had passed a field sobriety test, and that Trumbetti, told the Pine Barrens Tribune in his refusal to take a breathalyzer test was a June 1 phone interview that began with because “the last two years have taught me an attempt to contact Smith for comment not to trust the government.” on the reported arrest more than a month “I have nothing personal against the ago of his running mate, Valerie Gallagher, police officer,” he added. “I who is seeking to become the just disagree with the way he GOP nominee for an open handled the situation and his seat on the all-Democratic assessment. He is accusing Burlington County Board of me of being intoxicated, and Commissioners, on charges I know that I wasn’t.” that included driving while Smith also said he continues i ntox ic ate d and re ck le ss to believe that despite his latest driving. legal problems, he will do well Tr umbetti, when asked in the primary, in which he is w h e t h e r S m i t h ’s o w n running against the county arrest on a DWI charge in GOP organization’s preferred Cinnaminson Township, on candidate, Robert Healey, the morning of March 27, had Jr., a one-time punk rocker been a contributing factor who is now co- chair man to Smith’s parting company of the Viking Group, the with the gym, replied that Bass River Township-based Ian Smith it was, estimating that the yacht-building company founded establish ment’s clientele had by his late father, in addition to Hamilton declined by about 30 percent in the aftermath Township attorney and realtor Nicholas of that episode, which was widely publicized, Ferrara, an admitted long-shot candidate with a court hearing on the charges having who concurs with Smith’s positions on now been rescheduled for June 9. various issues but claims he could do a better “I believe he put myself in a very bad job in Congress. situation, and had a duty to not do that,” “We are blessed with an incredible amount Trumbetti maintained. “He admitted of strong support,” Smith maintained. to having had a drink, then said it was a And as for the Republican party endorsing double. A person with the past that he has Healey, he declared, “I’m not interested in (referring to Smith’s having once served a the support of the GOP; I’m interested in five-year prison sentence for second-degree the support of the voters, and I don’t mean vehicular homicide in the death of a 19-yearthat be snarky.” old man while he was under the influence) He added that he considered Ferrara to and under the scrutiny he was shouldn’t have be a better competitor than Healey, but, “I been behind the wheel if he had anything to would invite him to do better than me by drink at all. We need to be held accountable winning the race.” and learn from our mistakes. In regard to the arrest of his running mate “I can tell you right now, as soon as he by police in Absecon, where she reportedly got that charge, whether he was guilty or told an arresting officer she was trying to not didn’t matter, business in the gym was get home to Moorestown after having spent cut down.” the evening with friends in Hammonton (the In a retu r n cal l to one from th is latter which is about 28 miles west of where newspaper, Smith confirmed that he was she was detained), and believed she was in indeed no longer affiliated with either the Berlin, which is in the opposite direction, gym or his business partner after the two of Smith said, it was “an issue we were entirely them had finished serving a year’s probation unaware of.” for fourth-degree criminal contempt for “We had no idea it happened until the removing a plywood barrier that authorities story broke,” Smith maintained. had erected at the establishment’s entrance But he added that he considered it “a during the shutdown standoff. personal, private matter for her that has “He and I have had business differences absolutely nothing to do with my campaign for a long time, and it’s just time to part for Congress, and she’ll handle it personally.” ways,” Smith declared. “We’ve hit an Ironically, prior to her reported arrest, impasse and that’s it. We knew we would Gallagher was urged by the Burlington reach this point eventually. There are no County Republican Committee to disavow hard feelings on my part, and it’s time to her association with Smith and to refuse to run with him in a Facebook posting by move on to different projects. My main focus the group that since appears to have been right now is the congressional campaign.” taken down. But he cha ra ct er i z e d Tr u mb ett i’s Ac cording to the pol ic e repor t of allegations about the effect of his arrest on Gallagher’s arrest, she was stopped when her the business as being “not entirely accurate.” BMW station wagon appeared to be tilting While acknowledging “there were some toward the passenger side, and subsequently people who were turned off by the DWI” registered twice the legal blood alcohol and might not have returned as a result, he claimed that most of the decline in patronage See CANDIDATE/ Page 6 Staff Writer
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PEMBERTON– DD1 LLC, developer of the new, state-of-the-art, warehouse fulfillment facility at 200 South Pemberton Road, Pemberton Township, will be holding a job fair on Wednesday, June 8, between 12 noon and 8 p.m. The job fair will be held at 1 Clubhouse Road, Browns Mills. Initially, the company will be seeking to interview candidates to fill more than 50 fulltime positions. These positions will range from entry-level warehouse staff to director/ manager-level and will provide benefits comparable with similar positions in the industry. All the positions will be located at the company’s new 462,000 square-foot facility. While some jobs will be blue-collar, eventually others will require a higher level of training for positions involving robotics storage and servicing warehouse management software applications. As the development proceeds, there is a potential for the number of positions to more than double in the very near future. “DD1 is anxious to meet qualified applicants looking for local, full-time positions,” said Roshni Patel, DD1’s staffing consultant. “Part of our agreement with Pemberton Township, upon receiving our local approvals to build our facility, is to provide full-time employment opportunities to local Pemberton Township residents. This responsibility we take seriously, and we are very pleased to be taking applications for these jobs at this time.” Applicants should attend prepared with a resume, or other document, describing previous experience in anticipation of discussing the best options for both the potential employee and how they can fit
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(Continued from Page 1) Jersey, USA. We are proud of that and would like that to continue.” The secret videos were sent to Burger about a week after this newspaper’s initial report detailing how members of the Carns family were the subject of multiple township actions in the span of a few days, all of which occurred after David Carns, one of several family siblings, pursued a payment from Mayor Charles “Chuck” Watson for two cords of firewood that the mayor had delivered to his home, but withheld payment on for some two months – that is until this newspaper contacted him about it, as well as a series of text messages he had sent to the sibling promising payment. That initial newspaper report, as well as others, also detailed how the Carns have been feuding with their neighbors, highlighting allegations that the municipality was taking complaints being made by at least one neighbor and using them in some sort of an alleged attempt to harass and retaliate against the family. During a May 24 council meeting, after David Carns declared “you know this is about firewood – this whole thing is about firewood,” Watson refuted that the circumstances have anything to do with it, with the mayor noting this (at the meeting) is now the “fourth time” he has “apologized” for not making payment in a timely fashion. The mayor also maintained that he did not ask for anyone to do anything in response to the payment request and revelation to the public about his lack of payment. But the circumstances are now leading to new allegations that the neighbor who has filed recent complaints against the Carns, believed to have led to some of the notices
of violation and two citations against the Carns matriarch, Carolyn Carns, as well as who provided the secret video recordings to the township, is being “employed” by the municipality. T he May 19 releas e of the s e c ret recordings, as well as another batch of email communications, also shows that the neighbor at issue has been communicating via text message with Township Zoning Official Beth Portocalis, who initiated the majority of the actions taken to date against the Carns. Portocalis, just hours prior to the May 24 council meeting, as reported by this newspaper last week, was removed from any further investigations involving the Carns, for reasons that have not yet been made public. But her removal follows complaints about how she has conducted investigations in town, particularly recent ones surrounding the Carns, as well as concerns that have been expressed about her impartiality, with other communications between the zoning official and the neighbor previously coming to light that appear to suggest a potentially greater rapport between the two individuals. Burger and Township Solicitor Timothy Prime have now been tasked with handling investigations involving the Carns moving forward. The neighbor who provided Burger with the secret videos, did so through multiple emails sent on April 1, as the records request revealed. Upon doing so, the neighbor advised the township manager that she was “free to edit them.” The secret videos were then forwarded by Burger to every council member via email on April 4, with the township manager including a message that the individual who sent them to her “has requested this video be forwarded to you.” Included in the batch of secret recordings
was one in which an individual filmed CarnsCanavan, sister to David and Brian Carns, apparently driving a red pickup truck on the farm. The person making the recording captures the pickup truck from afar, through a tree line, with heavy vegetation apparently hiding the filming from Carns-Canavan’s view. “Here is He ather, mom!” said an individual heard on the recording. “It is Heather! … That’s Heather!” T he p erson he ard on the foot age acknowledges that Carns-Canavan was simply “driving extremely slow” on the property border. Another video taken through the tree line, from afar, shows more than dozen vehicles parked on the 30-acre tree farm, with individuals walking to an apparent gathering, which Carns-Canavan described on May 24 to council as a “fall church function at the farm,” describing it as a “hayride” for “less fortunate families.” The neighbor who sent the secret video of that gathering to Burger referred to what was depicted as an “annual hayride at their house.” Yet another secret video taken from a distance, this one not only through a tree line, but a fence line, shows individuals, said to be the Carns’ children, riding their quads, but the neighbor informed Burger that the footage depicts the riders when “they patrolled my road on quads.” As the individual is filming, a dog starts barking, with the individual uttering “shhh” to the animal, appearing to do so to avoid detection. There is also a secret video in which Brian Carns is filmed while sitting inside his vehicle parked at a local Wawa. The person filming apparently did so from another vehicle parked in a space that was behind his vehicle. That latter footage, however, is described to Burger by the neighbor as one
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featuring Brian Carns “stalking me from the police station.” In one other secret video, in which the neighbor and Brian Carns interact with each other through their car windows (but unbeknownst to the sibling, right before the windows were opened, a child of the neighbor was directed to “videotape” the encounter), after coming upon each other on a dirt lane, Brian Carns puts a question to the neighbor if she contacted the township about his family’s dilapidated barn that the Carns have received a recent notice of violation over and was the subject of unannounced municipal inspections (including one involving allegations that the family was intentionally misled about its purpose by township officials), maintaining he will file an OPRA to prove it was her who filed the complaint. The neighbor responded by asking a question, “Did you clean up the wood pile you promised to clean up for me?” It was a question that led to tense moments, including an allegation over a goat being stolen by the neighbor. That same neighbor told Medford Council in April that her troubles with the Carns began over a real estate offer for her property with the anticipated sale falling through when the Carns made an offer lower than an initial one after being given a tour of the parcel. One of the longest videos in the set depicts an individual heard stomping their feet as they walk onto the Carns farm, filming the dilapidated barn, as well as some of the commercial tree trucks belonging to David and Brian Carns, co-owners of Cornerstone Tree Service, in addition to various other equipment and trailers belonging to the tree service (the subject of the citations to Carolyn Carns), as well as a family RV, and two other barns. See VIDEOS/ Page 13
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(Continued from Page 1) also become “overgrown” since the closure, with numerous dead trees now also reportedly throughout the property. Paved roads and parking lots throughout the former campus have also purportedly deteriorated to the point that they are now in “bad shape.” The parcel’s condition has been the subject of numerous phone calls to this newspaper over the last several years, and was the subject of a story in a previous edition of this newspaper. Council had previously designated the c a mpus as an “area i n ne e d of redevelopment” in June 2018 under the state’s Local Redevelopment and Housing Law, and in the fall of 2018, also commissioned a redevelopment plan for the tract. According to Patriarca, while the tract still currently belongs to the college, because “we have a redevelopment plan on this,” the municipality “controls the zoning on the property,” as well as the “assigning of a redeveloper.” The proposed mixed use residential development is an approved use under the previously adopted redevelopment plan. Fieldstone is said to also be looking to acquire the property, with Chris Brown, a commercial realtor, who is also a former Burlington County freeholder and state 8th District assemblyman, working with the firm on the project. “Quite honestly, I know Pemberton, and I have been through Pemberton, as I am from Marlton (he is also a former deputy mayor of Evesham Township), and I was also a freeholder here in Burlington County,” maintained Brown to council during its May 18 meeting. “I can certainly tell you that it (the proposal) had to be something that fit into the community’s idea of what you guys are today. It should not be something that would stick out as a sore thumb, but yet fits into the community and enhances the consumer base, creating a product that would be very attractive for the future.” Brown contended to the governing body that he is “in communication with the (RCBC) president quite often” and that the college is “very eager to move this property off their books.” As also a former vice chair of the college’s Board of Trustees from 2016 to 2019, Brown maintained the cost to just maintain a small portion of the campus was somewhere around $600,000 when he previously served on the board. “The purpose of this project is a winwin for ever ybody,” declared Brow n in announcing its details. “It is a win for Pemberton with an influx of a new product coming into your town with single family homes, townhomes, and high-end apartments. The other aspect is the college needs to get this off their books. It is something that they have been dealing with for a longtime.” The conditional desig nation of Fieldstone as the redeveloper, according to a press release from the municipality, is subject to the negotiation and approval of a redevelopment agreement between the township and Fieldstone that details the proposed uses for the property, along with Fieldstone’s purchase of the property from the Board of Trustees. According to Brown, “there are the five buildings that would have to be razed,” calling it a “huge excavation” project. Victor Barr, president and CEO at VLBJR Architects, Inc., who has been selected by Fieldstone as the proposed project’s architect, design planner and engineer, noted that Fieldstone is currently proposing to use 55 of approximately 68 buildable acres of the combined 226-acre tract for the mixed-use residential housing, including
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“reusing” existing developed locations and parking lots. Some 80 single-family homes, he said, are proposed for along Four Mile Road, across from the township’s Imagination Kingdom Playground. Additionally, the concept plan, according to Barr, calls for the proposed building of 110 townhomes, 144 walk-up flats in three-story buildings; 62 walk-up flats with garages in three-story buildings and 56 flats with garages, serviced by elevators, in four-story buildings. I Am That I Am The concept plan, Barr noted, also includes proposed construction of a number Please join us for Ministries, Inc. of “pocket parks” adjacent to the proposed All Are Welcome! In-Person Services buildings, along with a proposed large Sunday Worship Seervice at 11:30 a.m. clubhouse and outdoor pool. 8:15 am | 9:30 am | Pastors Florence and He estimated that somewhere around 11:00 am | or via Russell Webberr 1,000 parking spaces would be required for Facebook Live us on 50 Burrs Mill Roadd, the proposed housing, with somefollow additional Southampton, NJ 08088 parking spaces neededfacebook.com/MedfordUMC for the additional 609 - 847- 4848 proposed facilities. www.iamthatiamministriesinnc.com “For Pemberton, you have a huge influx of new consumers coming into your town,” said Brown of one of the benefits he believes 2 Hartford Road | Medford NJ 08055 medfordumc.org | 609/654-8111 the project carries. info@medfordumc.org The former legislator contended that by the developer proposing to use only 55 of approximately 68 buildable acres, in addition to the way the structures are laid out, “our architectural concept has been very conservative.” 18 Mill St. According to the township press release, the developer is proposing to maintain, in Vincentown, NJ 08088 conservation, the portion of the property Worship: Sundays 10 a.m. that borders the North Branch of the 609-859-2299 Rancocas Creek, which hosts a Burlington County Parks System canoe launch site. Transportation Available “We didn’t go overboard,” Brow n Call 609-859-2883 maintained. “We stayed within 68 acres and a lot of this has active recreation involved too. And it ties in nicely with the Rancocas Creek in the back.” Each lot for the single-family housing, according to Barr, is proposed to be 60 by 100-foot. An initial concept, he noted, has a proposed entrance for the single-family homes off Four Mile Road. The rest of the proposed units are currently proposed to be accessible from Pemberton-Browns Mills Road, Barr noted, with there “likely” being “two combined entrances/exits,” according to Business Administrator Daniel Hornickel. The townhomes, Barr said, would either have two or three bedrooms, and are proposed to be approximately 20 feet wide CREATE YOUR OWN STORY each, backing up to an “existing open space AT STORYBOOK LAND! system.” Most of them would only have onecar garages, he added, but some “end units” are proposed to have two-car garages. The “three types” of “rental apartment flats” that are proposed, he said, are threestory flats, three-story flats with garages and four-story flats with garages, with the latter a “product specifically designed to try to go after ‘move down market,’ or those coming out of single-family houses, or also known as the ‘active adult market.’” The three-story flats without garages, Barr said, would range in size between 800 and 1100 sq. feet,” with “one to two bedrooms.” The three-story flats with garages would also range in size between 800 and 1100 sq. feet with one to two bedrooms, according to the project engineer, “but these happen to offer garages on the first floor of the building.” Barr referred to the “four-story building” as an “elevator building with garages that is pretty much designed to go after the active adult segment of the marketplace.” “The project is designed to fit three or four different types of demographics,” said Art FAMILY OWNED AND FAMILY-OWNED Corsini, principal of Fieldstone Associates. OPERATED SINCE 1955 The proposed townhomes, for example, according to Corsini, are “starter homes” for a “family just starting out,” while the proposed single-family homes are “probably your next step up for ownership purposes.” 6415 Black Horse Pike, Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey 08234 The proposed apartments, he said, are “designed differently” to entice “different Call 609-646-0103 • Visit Us Online www.StorybookLand.com See HOUSING/ Page 11
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(Continued from Page 10) categories of people.” “What that (the targeting of different demographics) does is it helps us with our absorption rate, so that the job won’t take 20 years to build it out,” he said. “We will have more people with different tastes and needs, so we are able to absorb the product much faster.” Corsini noted that the proposed rental apartments “are not going to attract too many children” because of them having a maximum of two bedrooms, but rather believed “most of those who are going to live there are going to be people single, or recently married.” “You are going to have children who live in the townhomes and single-family homes,” he said. “And this will be your population that is going to help the businesses, as well
as retail operations within Pemberton.” Lionel Lee, a member of the Pemberton Board of Education who attended the Fieldstone presentation as the school board’s liaison to the township, later expressed his optimism that the project could help boost the Pemberton Township School District’s enrollment figures, which in turn could help reverse a trend of cuts in state aid, which to some extent has been based on a decline in district enrollment. “Hopefully, it will bring some houses and residents to the district, which hopefully will bring some students to the district,” Lee said. “I hope that project goes forward. That is some good news. Hopefully it works out.” Corsini, during the May 18 council meeting, estimated that it would probably take two to two-and-a-half years to “complete a project like this,” noting that a similar project to build 252 units in Haddon Township, located in Camden County, “was built in about 18
months” and “we absorbed it in 12 months because we had different product types.” The Fieldstone principal noted that the firm was established in 1987, initially known as Fieldstone Partnership, and has “developed and constructed tens of thousands of single-family homes, townhomes and rental apartments” throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. The firm, he added, has been “named a redeveloper in several towns in New Jersey,” with projects either completed or in progress in Evesham Township, Eastampton Township, Haddon Township, Washington Tow nsh ip (Glouc e ster Cou nty), and Glassboro, and therefore is “very familiar with the redevelopment law.” According to Corsini, all of the units proposed for Pemberton would fall under a homeowner’s association (HOA), adding that those who purchase a unit would be assessed an HOA fee, while those who rent would have the fee included in their assigned rental fees. Roads created in the development, according to the principal, would be “maintained by the HOA and apartment owners, which would be us.” In response to a couple of questions posed by residents who attended the Fieldstone presentation asking what the purchase prices and rental fees would be, Corsini replied that “we don’t have a price range yet.” “What the prices will be, I don’t know,” he declared. However, what he was able to share is that in nearby Eastampton, “our one-bedroom apartments went for $1,900, and our two bedrooms $2,400.” Corsini emphasized to those gathered that “we currently own and manage 4,000 units,” in addition to self-storage facilities, a shopping center, and office buildings. “We are here, well-funded, and have never been in any lenders’ work out department, and we never had a bond called, and have an
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impeccable track record,” Corsini declared. “So, I think we would be a good fit for your township and will do a wonderful job if you approve what we want to do.” Corsini added that some 99 percent of the units belonging to Fieldstone are currently occupied and that there are “waiting lists.” He acknowledged, however, that “we have sold some projects,” all single-family homes and townhomes, but the firm “keeps the rentals, owns and manages them.” Fieldstone, he not e d, has arou nd 117 employees who work in property management, referring to his company as a “fairly good size operation.” Brown pointed out that one of Fieldstone’s projects in Evesham was the construction of Barclay Chase at Marlton Apartments, which he contended was “successfully completed.” That project, as this newspaper previously reported, included construction of a retail strip on the bottom floor of the apartments fronting Route 70. But there is “no retail in this project” for Pemberton Township, Brown maintained, and in declaring that “there is a reason for that,” he explained it was because Pemberton has “other, current redevelopment retail areas” that it is “working on now.” “If you were to incorporate retail here, it would absolutely compete with and take over projects that are already starting,” Corsini maintained. “And there is not enough of a consumer base to support retail in this development, plus all the projects currently online as well.” Instead, it was determined, in working in conjunction with Patriarca, also Pemberton’s economic development officer, that the mixed-use residential housing “would be the best consumer-driven plan for Pemberton Township,” according to Brown. “Through our negotiations with retail See HOUSING/ Page 12
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(Continued from Page 11) developers, a common denominator we always run into is, ‘We don’t have enough rooftops, and don’t have enough residents,’” Patriarca explained. “So, our focus has been to redevelop the downtown business district, which we are doing, and we got a lot going on down there, and although it may not look like it, I can tell you there is a lot of discussion in that area. “But in order to entice retail development to come into the area we are trying to develop, we are trying to focus on the housing market – to expand it in the community so that retailers can see we have enough residents to support their businesses.” The “idea,” with a “development like this” proposed for the former college campus, according to Patriarca, is to have the residents who would occupy the housing “drive somewhere to do retail,” and “hopefully they will drive right down the road into our business district (of Browns Mills) and support our local business district.” “So, that was our mindset when looking into redevelopment of certain areas,” Patriarca declared. Corsini, in concurring with that point from the Pemberton mayor, asserted that those who would occupy the proposed housing “will be your population that is going to help the businesses, or the retail operations within Pemberton.” One woman attending the May 18 presentation pointed out that Pemberton only has one grocery store in town, an Acme store located in Browns Mills, maintaining that the lone supermarket was charging prices such as $8 for a pack of butter due to the lack of competition, which she called a “really distressing” circumstance prompting
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her to now “travel out of town to be able to afford to shop.” “So, a question I have for you is with no retail proposed, and with thousands of residents coming in who I know are not going to be happy with Acme, why?” the woman asked. Corsini responded that “typically retail establishments look at demographics” and that when new development projects are completed that cause a significant expansion in populations, reports are generated on a national level to retail stores to entice their interest in expanding in communities. “So, we would hope retail stores come in that are at a better grade than Acme, and hopefully you will attract those types of establishments to create competition,” he said. Corsini pointed out that Westampton “tried to create a downtown area along Woodlane Road” through a redevelopment project, but found “retail very difficult,” only attracting a handful of mom-and-pop businesses. “It did not attract a national brand,” he said, maintaining that the reason was that parking was a struggle. Both Woodland Road in Eastampton, as well as Haddon Avenue in Haddon Township, where another of Fieldstone’s projects are located, Corsini pointed out, are “very busy,” but still the retail operators the firm has there “struggle.” The way to “bring in different businesses into the town,” he maintained, is by “getting households,” with those living in them in turn helping to support them. The woman who asked about the lack of retail in the Pemberton proposal, in noting she moved to Pemberton two years ago, pointed out that she used to live in a community in Ocean County where she “had different choices” to grocery shop. After Corsini pointed out the reason for that is there is “more population” in Ocean County, Patriarca contended that he has
been “trying to bring in another option for Acme” but that the reason “why we are having so much trouble” is that “we need rooftops and residents to entice.” “This is one of the few projects in the queue right now to help us do that,” the Pemberton mayor declared. Another person who moved to Pemberton two years ago, Mike Krause, said he was previously a lifelong resident of Camden County and therefore was “familiar with projects” undertaken by Fieldstone. He contended that the firm took an “abandoned diaper washing facility” that “over the years” generated “a lot of discussion, but nobody seemed to be able to do anything with” and made the property into a “nice looking asset to the community” with a development project. A second Pemberton resident was also elated with the proposal, calling what was proposed a “win-win-win” for the municipality. But not every attendee was content about what was proposed, with Pemberton resident Michelle For man expressing she was “very angry and upset” that the proposal was “sprung on her” following a council discussion “two meetings ago” in which she claimed some residents expressed their desire that the former college campus be turned into a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital “for some residents who need help,” in hopes that it would alleviate the need for them to have to travel to Philadelphia. Brown, when introducing the concept plan, noted that Fieldstone had been negotiating with the township administration since last July. “Nobody mentioned it (the housing plan),” said Forman of when the residents approached council with the idea for a VA hospital. She also declared this is “not a win-win for all the residents who lost a college” as well as “lost a place to go for the education for our children,” with RCBC relocating its
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main operations to its Mount Laurel campus, around a 20-minute drive for Pemberton residents. Patriarca responded that “this council and administration” had no say in RCBC’s decision, and that the “VA is not going to come down here.” Instead, he maintained, of the other developers who have approached Pemberton Township, several have proposed “three times the number of houses, or even warehouses.” “Do you want warehouses on that property?” Patriarca asked. “I don’t think so!” He contended that Pemberton Township must be “practical and realistic when planning projects like this.” “So, we take this as an example of what is going to benefit the town in its totality,” Patriarca declared. “Maybe it won’t be a benefit to every person, or one here or there, but one has to look at the totality of the community and how a project is going to benefit the community going forward. We need residents.” Another Pemberton resident said that while he was satisfied with the presentation, he “just hopes council looks at more options other than houses.” That resident also asked just how many developers have approached the township over the former RCBC campus. “We have been in negotiations and discussions with at least a minimum of a half dozen different developers interested in that site for different reasons, and this is the one we feel has the best fit for the community,” Patriarca replied. “And this is not about ratables, it is about a deficiency in the township – we are deficient in houses, which is causing a problem with bringing in businesses. We are trying to fill the voids with projects. This is one of three major ones in queue right now.” In “another thing I’d like to point out,” Patriarca said that the former college campus “is not on the tax rolls, but once developed, it will become taxable.” He See HOUSING/ Page 20
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(Continued from Page 7) The individual conducting the recording then gains entry inside one of those two red barns on the parcel through an open, unlocked door, and begins filming the interior of the structure before the video is ended. A First Amendment activist, Patrick Duff, who is now speaking out publicly against what has happened to the Carns, slammed both the township and council on May 24, contending there are indications that the barn entry video was in fact “altered,” requesting that the full video be “turned over” by the township. Carns-Canavan, who pointed out she has remained on the sidelines so far and stayed out of the now three-month fray involving the township and family (even though her grooming business was the subject of a township action initiated by Burger over an observed Facebook group posting), noted that she was breaking her silence on May 24 because of the “very disturbing and concerning videos brought to my attention of us going about our normal routines on our property,” or what amounts to an alleged “invasion of privacy at farm.” While David and Brian Carns do not live at the farm with their mom, Carns-Canavan, along with her husband, Brendan Canavan, and children, do. “Videos of us doing nothing wrong,” she declared on May 24, have been sent to the township, leading her “especially over these past few weeks” to “feel like I have to look over my back.” The emergence of the secret videos follows an email previously obtained by the Carns in which Portocalis apparently emailed to herself photographs she took of the commercial tree trucks on the farm around 8:15 a.m. one day in April from a vantage
point purportedly not accessible from the public road, with David Carns pointing out that the zoning official had to take the photographs by “hiding in the woods,” with that incident alone having already led to a previous charge of “invasion of privacy,” as reported by this newspaper last week. “What is more disturbing is not just her (the neighbor) recording, but that (the videos are) being sent over to the township manager, and are then being fed through to the council,” Carns-Canavan declared. “It is beyond anything I could have ever have imagined when I heard this – and I have proof to back it up.” That proof, she maintained, has left her “kind of speechless,” calling the discovery “so upsetting.” And there are concerns about even more videos being taken after a recent incident, according to Heather Carns-Canavan, in which David Carn’s daughters, ages 10 and 12, purportedly ran up to the house, exclaiming, “‘Dad, dad – a lady is down on the lane recording us,’” describing that the individual “poked her head out with her phone to get attention.” “That’s weird and very disturbing,” Carns-Canavan said. “How do I know she is not videoing my daughter and sending this to you? Kathy, as a mom – you are a mom, wouldn’t this be concerning to you? I think anyone listening to this, as a mom, would find it kind of disturbing.” Carns-Canavan maintained that the township manager “has the authority to squash these videos as soon as they come in, but instead sent them to the entire council.” “If you guys don’t see anything wrong with this, I’d just like to request going forward that you discourage accepting videos like this from this crazy woman,” Heather Carns-Canavan declared. Canavan, who also spoke to council on May 24, asserted that he was “equally dismayed that
a neighbor stood up here a couple weeks ago and suggested to council that she was approached by someone in your administration to collect information on their neighbor.” “I think that is really disturbing, and the fact that that it actually happened, with the videos of little girls driving an ATV and of bible school children on a hayride – these are the types of videos that should be shared with the council?” Canavan asked. “I think you should explore your own good conscious and figure out maybe something is not right with this picture. “Maybe there is a vendetta being playing out here. Maybe there is a vindictive administrator who is really overstepping her authority, who is recruiting nosy neighbors to video and trying to get dirt and deliver it to her, so she can then deliver it to you. I don’t think taxpayers want that sort of people working in their township.” Canavan, who “a couple weeks ago” had asked council “to drain the swamp,” declared, “it is going to get drained one way or the other.” He maintained, “I don’t think the people of this town are going to stand for that sort of action,” particularly in light of the written exchange in which the neighbor asks Portocalis to review her council speech on the Carns, in addition to the existence of the email sent to Burger by the neighbor informing her that she was “free to edit” the videos at issue. “It is setting a bad precedent,” Canavan added. “I think it looks ugly.” While Watson later replied to CarnsCanavan that he “heard what you had to say” and “feels really bad you don’t feel comfortable with your kids out on your own property,” Duff took the mayor, as well as his council colleagues (all Republicans) and the township manager to task, maintaining this is a situation with a “person employed by your township to trespass on the Carns’ property,” pointing out that “you all actually
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received that video.” “You received an illegally acquired video!” Duff contended. “And you wrote citations based upon an illegally acquired video, and you did nothing about the illegal act the woman did! You are all guilty! You are all guilty of coercion, conspiracy and if you ask me – this is a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) charge! This is FBI material folks! Think about that – you allowed a woman to trespass on a person’s property and then utilized that information to harm them.” Duff then compared the mayor to a “mafia boss,” declaring, “That’s disgusting man!” The activist then pointed to the mayor, asserting, “You should resign,” before pointing to each of the remaining council members, telling them to do the same. “You should resign surely,” declared Duff as he pointed to Burger. The activist further maintained that the council and township manager “are walking embarrassments to your community,” and that “you allowed a person to trespass – then utilized that video to harm them – and did nothing, and actually you did something, you went ahead and harmed them further.” Duff also excoriated the officials for an email exchange (as previously detailed by this newspaper after being unearthed by the Carns) in which Burger sent Watson and Deputy Mayor Frank Czekay, the day after a council session, the names and addresses of two residents who spoke out against a proposal to ban commercial vehicles in the municipality, and within minutes of doing so, Czekay replied asking for an investigation into one of the resident’s garages, which was then initiated and carried out by Portocalis. “It was a U.S. Marine (the resident investigated) who fought for this country to have the freedom of speech and you utilized it against him,” said Duff as he pointed his finger at Czekay. “You should be ashamed!” See VIDEOS/ Page 16
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they are sorry,” and thereby teach the kids a lesson who may be listening to what is happening, but reiterated that since they all “saw” the video of trespassing on the Carns property, “you are all guilty of racketeering,” which solicited a round of applause from the audience that gathered for the latest council session. “I do want to thank everyone for coming out, we have heard your comments over the past several meetings,” said Councilwoman Lauren Kochan in a later rebuttal. “I do want to reassure commenters that we hear all comments and take all feedback under consideration. I know I have heard
from several commenters that that is not perceived to be the case. But we do.” Donna Symons, the newest member of council who began her term in January of this year, later maintained that during that time “I have never seen any video with any children whatsoever.” “I don’t know about anyone else, but I never have seen any video at all with children,” she declared. However, Symons, nor the rest of the council members notably did not deny being sent the videos, or seeing the one involving the apparent trespassing. “You know this is about firewood – this
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(Continued from Page 13) Then pointing to Watson, Duff recounted the past words of the mayor when the Carns dispute first began, that he could not “‘compel a zoning officer to not write a ticket as it would be illegal.’” “So can you compel a zoning officer to write a ticket?” asked Duff as he pointed to Czekay. “No, you can’t as that is also illegal. What has happened in this town?” Duff also called on the officials to “say
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Mural Created by Pinelands Regional Students Offers Graffiti-like Take on Drunk, Distracted Driving Dangers
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LITTLE EGG HARBOR—A graffitilike mural comprising a montage of colorful messages and images reflecting the very real hazards facing teens once they become licensed drivers was unveiled at a formal ceremony in the main hallway of Pinelands Regional High School on the morning of May 27, attended by administrators, teachers, a Little Egg Harbor Township police sergeant and a group of about 18 sophomores from the school’s driver education class who created it. “STAY ALERT,” reads the letters in the center of one panel under a pair of red eyes, followed by “& DON’T BE A JERK.” In an adjoining panel are various warnings about driving drunk, along with a cartoon of a driver eating fast food behind the wheel, with the accompanying warning, “THIS MEAL COULD BE YOUR LAST.” A third panel focuses on the dangers of being distracted while driving, with illustrations of cellphones and car radios and an admonition to “Stop singing, start seeing.” The project was co-sponsored by State Farm Insurance and the Nikhil Badlani Foundation of West Orange, named for a “bright and talented 11-year-old” who lost his life in a crash in 2011, caused by a driver’s failure to observe a stop sign, and whose mother, Sangeeta Badlani, the foundation’s founder, briefly addressed the students who had collaborated on the traffic-safety artwork project. Badlani told the Pine Barrens Tribune that
the Pinelands Regional mural was the 30th her foundation has sponsored at high schools in New Jersey for students taking driver ed courses, and the first since its work (including public service announcements in partnership with NJ Transit) was interrupted by the pandemic. While they might all convey the same basic messages, she pointed out, they’re very unique in the different perspectives they reflect on the part of the students. Also on hand to address the group was Sgt. John Kelly, a traffic safety specialist from the Little Egg Harbor Police Department, who stressed that “hurtling a several-thousandpound vehicle at high speed” is “one of the most dangerous things that we do, and yet it is so easy for us to get careless” and forget that “you have to be in total control and ready for anything that might happen unexpectedly.” Emphasizing the importance of defensive driving, Kelly pointed out that “you could be just going straight and doing everything right, and someone else runs the stop sign or some kid runs out in front of you.” “And if you’re not ready for that, someone can be hurt or killed,” he added. “You might have had the right of way and been right, but someone’s still dead, and that’s not something you want to live with, whether it’s your fault or someone else’s fault.” The only way to cut down on the risks of encountering such a situation, Kelly noted, is maintaining constant awareness while behind the wheel and not allowing yourself to be distracted by something like a cellphone, because “it only takes a second to look away, and someone’s in front of you.”
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The mural now on permanent display at Pinelands Regional High School makes some graphic statements on what can happen to those who fail to observe traffic safety precautions. On top are some of the driver education students who created it as well as Pinelands staff.
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(Continued from Page 16) wrote to Portocalis, in part, that the “‘cat is now out of the bag’” after learning that her emails were discoverable through OPRA requests and not private as she apparently thought they would be, also writing “‘it will be a war moving forward,’” and to “‘let me know what I can do with the zoning issues.’” “Hmmm … that is interesting,” David Carns declared. Brian Carns, who was previously told by Prime to attend a zoning board meeting to seek clarification on the parking of the commercial tree trucks but was then subsequently told by the zoning board chairman he knew nothing about the issue at hand and couldn’t advise, maintained that it was simply “mindboggling” that his family “is going through this right now.” “Our tree service is being targeted, our farm is being targeted, and it seems like there is nothing to pump the brakes here and slow you guys down,” Brian Carns asserted. “There is one tool or one play in your playbook and that is retaliation. “You are trespassing on my property and using my neighbor as a zoning officer.” Watson later contended that although he knows David Carns “is not going to believe me,” the issue at hand “has nothing to do with firewood.”
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that designated this developer as a conditional redeveloper. We will have to do an amendment to redevelopment plan. There will be discussions about the redevelopment agreement. This is the beginning of the redevelopment process.” As for the suggestion from Forman that residents were “kept in the dark,” he declared it is the “administration’s job to negotiate a contract and then bring it to council,” adding “there is no fait accompli,” with “a lot still having to go forward on this.” Corsini added that “this is the first inning of nine-inning baseball game” where Fieldstone “stops here first” to present to council its concept plan for future redevelopment of the former college campus. Forman – who would later extend high praise upon Patriarca for making excellent
hiring decisions in the municipal offices as well as point out that the mayor and his wife have “never disrespected me,” which she indicated she has come to very much appreciate – declared that “redevelopment is upsetting to me” and is occurring “too fast, too soon,” and has gotten to the point where she may soon “have to move down south where there is ‘country’ everywhere,” but that she also “understands we need money.” “I wish I could figure out a way to do it (to bring in more money and improve the downtown business climate without redevelopment), but I don’t have a better answer for you all,” declared Forman, who also expressed concern with the rising grocery prices at the local Acme. “So, I have to go along with the program, I guess. But I still stand by
every word I said (about redevelopment), even though I am in the minority.” Brown maintained the proposed housing project for the former college campus is a “win-win for everybody,” with Pemberton gai n i ng t a x rat able s, the P i nelands Commission getting development credits to the tune of some $200,000 and the college having the “liability” removed from its books, and in further pointing out that the buildings are now “filled with mold,” kids have been “shooting” from the buildings as well as that there are holes in the rooftops, in addition to the property now overgrown with vegetation, with its roads “there in pretty bad shape,” declared “it’s time” (for the redevelopment project to commence).
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