If it is Sunday night, it's time to update the ol' blog.
Our Thursday 2/25 township committee meeting was canceled and rescheduled for Monday March 1.
The only meeting I attended this week was the Wednesday Land Use Board. As a member of the LUB I cannot hear "use variance" applications. Without getting too legal, should a use variance decision made by the LUB be appealed, the appeal goes to the Township Committee. In other words I cannot hear an appeal on a decision I was a part of.. sounds fair? The law thinks so.
At Wednesday's LUB meeting I did decide to approve (so did the Board) to approve a barn apartment on Quakertown Road. Without me present, the LUB heard a use variance for a cellular antennae / tower on Oak Grove Road. That hearing was carried to the next meeting as well. If anyone desires to learn more about this application please pay our township clerk a visit and ask to see the use variance application for the cellular tower on Oak Grove Road.
Our Natural Resource Inventory was supposed to be adopted but due to a mix up in communication the resolution approving the NRI was not yet prepared. Hopefully it will be ready to go at our March meeting.
During the time of the meeting that I could not participate, I caught up on some reading.. I found a collection of township newsletters dating back to 1993. You know the old saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same"? Well, its true. I did enjoy reading the old newsletters and I think it should be required reading for all new committee members.
I was invited to a landowner cocktail party being held by the Pittstown Trail Association. I couldn't make it but they are a great group of equestrian hobbyists who deserve a plug on this blog!
http://pittstowntrailassociation.org/
This week I have township committee on Monday, and Recreation Commission on Tuesday. Check back next week!
Scott
3 comments:
Dear Committeeman Bauman: The "required reading" idea for all new FTC members was followed by me as well in my first year, now long ago. Reading history of the Township is also a valuable resource as well, but there are not too credible "history" books around; I suggest reading Eddie Stout's book that admits it a "fact and fantasy" work, but he put in some swell spin and many historical-reporting articles from the renowned, never-wrong Hunterdon County Democrat newspaper. Over the years when our most notable elected official, August W. Knispel, served on the FTC (36 years elected, Good Grief), the municipality produced a number of brochures about historical subjects and you would enjoy reading them. These brochures are hard to find. I have a set. Also, visit and watch the "movie" narrarated by my missed, old, dear friend, Appellate Judge Jack Fritz that gives a short video tale about life here, now long ago @ www.ruralawareness.org. Judge Fritz had a voice like no other. Oh, how I can digress (which is perrogative of an old-timer). Respectfully, Rob McGeary
Scott, welcome to Franklin.
Thank you Rob for the required reading list. I read Stout's book a few years ago but it is worth a second read. When I first moved into town in 2002 I purchased a copy of the municipal master plan. Now that is good reading!
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And thank you anonymous for welcoming me to Franklin. Perhaps next time you see me you can tell me in person so I will know who you are!
-Scott
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