Jersey City Minutes

Project or ordinance

Site Plan Amendment, 147 Academy Street

Status
Memorialized as of August 25, 2026 · 2026-08-25 5:14:11
Body
Planning Board
Numbers
P2025-0257
Kind
site plan
Plan or zone
Journal Square 2060 Redevelopment Plan – Zone 4
Parcel
147 Academy Street, Block 12309, Lot 3.01, Ward C · source, p. 9
Applicant
LAXMI MA Academy URE, LLC · source, p. 9
Attorney
Charles Harrington, Esq. · source, p. 9
Planner
Matthew Da Silva, AICP, PP · source, p. 9

Hearings and votes

Planning Board, June 30, 2026

Item 19 · carried · Carried · 5:21:16

Planning Board, August 11, 2026

Item 13 · hearing · Approved · 1:35:37
8-0-0 8 ayes, 0 nays, 0 abstentions, roll call at 1:50:31
Roll call read by the secretary from 'Vice Chair Wick?' (1:50:35, word timing), after a motion 'to approve case P2025-0257 as presented to the board tonight with all previous conditions from ... and the staff' (1:50:23 to 1:50:31); mover and seconder not named and no second heard. Every answer 'Aye.' (p 0.92 to 1.00); Gangadin 'Aye.' (1:51:02, p 1.00). 'Motion carries. All in favor.' (1:51:04). No count announced. Little absent. Second record: the memorialized resolution of P2025-0257 on EnerGov (date of hearing August 11, 2026; memorialized August 25, 2026), p. 5: 'VOTE: 8-0-0', Yes for Gangadin, Wick, Patel, Conaway, Capers, Barnaby, Stamato and Kaplan; it approves the final major site plan amendment (p. 4). Little is not listed (absent as heard; the resolution's vote table does not list Commissioner Little).

Planning Board, August 25, 2026

Item 36.8 · memorialization · Memorialized · 5:13:43
6-0 6 ayes, 0 nays, roll call at 5:14:11
Times in this note are word timings. Consent roll call with items 36.1 to 36.8 (eight resolutions read 5:11:09 to 5:14:02). No motion heard apart from the reading; 'Can we get a second? Second.' (5:14:07 to 5:14:09, p 0.99), speaker not named. Roll call from 'Commissioner Barnaby,' (5:14:11): no answer heard in either pass; 'come back.' (5:14:17); Kaplan 'Aye.' (5:14:19, p 0.99); Little, called as 'Councilperson Alana Little.' (5:14:21), 'Aye.' (5:14:23, p 1.00); Conaway 'aye,' (5:14:26; p 0.57 full pass, 1.00 re-transcription); Capers 'aye,' (5:14:28, p 0.99); Stamato 'aye,' (5:14:30, p 1.00); Barnaby, called again (5:14:32): no answer in the full pass, 'Aye.' (5:14:33) at p 0.99 in the re-transcription without VAD of 5:14:04 to 5:14:47: aye as heard in the re-transcription; Wick 'aye,' (5:14:37, p 0.99); Gangadin, called as 'Madam Chair Gungadin,' (5:14:39), 'aye,' (5:14:40, p 1.00). Heard: 8 ayes. Announced: 'okay, seven commissioners voting in favor, one absent.' (5:14:41 to 5:14:44), one aye fewer than heard. Patel absent. The roll call is held: eligibility (only members who voted for the action at the hearing may memorialize) is undecided where an ineligible member answered aye, and the announced count differs from the answers heard; see needs_checking (36.1). Memorialized: RESO P2025-0257 on EnerGov (https://jerseycitynj-energovpub.tylerhost.net/apps/selfservice#/plan/3de4ee77-b06d-4252-8223-3c3e6c1b93ce?tab=attachments), 'DATE OF HEARING: August 11, 2026', 'DATE OF MEMORIALIZATION: August 25, 2026' (p. 5); its vote table ('VOTE: 8-0-0', Little not listed) is the August 11 hearing's roll call. Eligibility: heard August 11, 2026 (planning-2026-08-11 item 13, 8-0-0, published): Gangadin, Wick, Kaplan, Stamato, Conaway, Patel, Barnaby and Capers aye; Little absent. Little answered aye here. Little answered aye but did not vote for the action at the hearing (planning-2026-08-11 item 13 (Approved 8-0-0, t 1:50:31)): not eligible to memorialize, recorded not-voting. Eligibility checked against planning-2026-08-11 item 13 (Approved 8-0-0, t 1:50:31) on Adam Hanford's decision of 2026-10-18. Barnaby, called at 5:14:16 ('Come back') and again at 5:14:32, is recorded absent on Adam Hanford's decision of 2026-10-18, with the secretary's count 'seven commissioners voting in favor, one absent' (5:14:44); the re-transcription's 'Aye' after the second call is not attributed to Barnaby.

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