You’re going to need to have multiple Zoom screens open to follow all the public meetings this week. The Town Council and Board of Education will both meet on Monday at the same time, and the Planning Board will meet on Tuesday.
The Town Council’s meeting starts at 7 p.m. and you can find the agenda and Zoom dial-in instructions here. The agenda includes the public hearing and vote on the rent control ordinance that was introduced at the Council’s last meeting. The Council may also resume its discussion of what Verona can do in the wake of DeCamp Bus Lines suspension of service from Verona to New York City.
The BOE’s meeting, which is usually on Tuesday, will also be on Monday this week, and will also start at 7 p.m. Its agenda and Zoom link are here. The meeting will include the presentation of the Board’s self-evaluation.
The Planning Board normally meets on Thursdays, but this week it will meet on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will continue the review of the preliminary site plan for the affordable housing complex to be built on the site of the Poekel and Cameco properties at Pine and Depot streets near the intersection of Bloomfield Avenue and Linn Drive.
The complex, which will be built by PIRHL Developers, includes a four-story building with 71 apartments (top) and two three-story buildings with 12 apartments each. The development will be a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units. In our area, a property designated as “affordable” needs to be within the budget of people earning between $47,250 and $75,360 a year–people like teachers and first responders. It is not the same as Section 8 housing.
All of the background documents on the PIRHL project can be found about halfway down this page. The agenda and Zoom call-in number are here. You can watch the previous meeting on the PIRHL project in the video below.
