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BOROUGH OF EDGEWATER
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
55 RIVER ROAD
EDGEWATER, NJ 07020
MINUTES OF THE JANUARY REORGANIZATION MEETING HELD
ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2025.
MEMBERS PRESENT ALSO PRESENT
Chairman Christiansen
Richard Gannon Ms. Travers
Haig Shirinian Ms. Louloudis
Shant Shirinian Ms. Gregory
Manuel Cosme
Dimitrios Nikolaidis
Gianni Delgaudio
OPEN MEETING ACT
ROLL CALL
REORGANIZATION
A motion was made by Shant Shirinian to appoint Mr. Robert Christiansen as
Chairman to the Board for 2026. Seconded by Dimitrios Nikolaidis. No other
nominations made, Mr. Christiansen accepts.
A motion was made by Chairman Christiansen to appoint Haig Shirinian as Vice
Chairman to the Board for 2026. Seconded by Rich Gannon. No other nominations made,
Mr. Shirinian accepts.
A motion was made by Chairman Christiansen to appoint Nancy Hayes as
Secretary to the Board for 2026. Seconded by Vice Chairman Shirinian. All in favor;
none opposed.
A motion was made by Chairman Christiansen to appoint Ms. Denise Travis as
the attorney to the Board for 2026. Seconded by Vice Chairman Shirinian. All in favor;
none opposed.
A motion was made by Chairman Christiansen to appoint Kathryn Gregory as
Board Planner to the Board for 2026. Seconded by Vice Chairman Shirinian. All in
favor.
A motion was made by Vice Chairman Shirinian to appoint Collier Engineering
firm to the Board for 2026. Seconded by Mr. Gannon. All in favor.
The announcement of the meeting dates for 2026, first Wednesday of every month and
also there is a 10 p.m. curfew.
CORRESPONDENCE - None

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MINUTES
Motion was made by Vice Chairman Shirinian to accept the previous minutes;
Vice Chairman Shirinian makes a motion to accept them; seconded by Mr. Gannon. All
present respond in favor; none opposed.
MEMORIALIZATIONS
BADV-24/09. Commonly known as 69 Route 5, Edgewater, NJ. Block #34, Lot 7
Applicant: Victor Choucair. The applicant proposes to construct a (1) family residential
dwelling in the R-3 Multi-Family Zone. Deemed complete on February 23, 2025.
APPROVED.
BADV- 25/06. Commonly known as 17 Garden Place, Edgewater, NJ. Block 65 Lot 4.
Applicant Rock Solid Built, LLC. Request to seek approval for a two-family duplex
dwelling in the R-2 Single and Two-Family Residential District. Deemed complete on
June 6, 2025. APPROVED.
BADV-25/07. Commonly known as 20 and 22 Edgewater Place, Edgewater, NJ. Block
64 Lots 13 & 14. Applicant Carmen Marino and Maria Estela Sabeta, as Co-Trustees of
the Carmen Marino and Maria Estela Sabeta Revocable Trust. Deemed Complete on
August 29, 2025. APPROVED.
Haig Shirinian addresses the chairman regarding members that are within 200’ of an
application, I propose that they can go the meetings because sometimes we have a
problem getting a quorum, but they just cannot vote. Denise, I don’t think there’s an
issue getting a quorum, it actually getting the people in the end to vote. You can come to
a meeting but you can’t sit on the dais and participate in the meeting. HS: Let’s say
there’s 3 members within a 200’ radius, then they’re going to lose votes. DT: Municipal
land use does not permit you to participate. You can be in the audience as a concerned
citizen but you can’t participate in the hearing. Which brings us to completeness.
COMPLETENESS
BADV-25/9. Commonly known as 8 Maple Street, Edgewater, NJ. Block 6 Lot 8.
Applicant Choi Hye Kyung and Alice H. Choi. Request approval to construct a two-
family dwelling in the R-2 Single and Two-Family Residential District. Deemed
complete on December 9, 2025.
BADV-25/12. Commonly known as 440-456 River Road, Edgewater, NJ. Block 85.02,
Lots 4 & 5.01. Applicant North Star Partners Associates LLC. Request approval for an
amended site plan and variance approval for the mixed-use building under construction at
440-456 River Road, which will require “D” and “C” variance approval, located in the
MXD-2 Mixed-Use District. Deemed complete on January 7, 2026.
Ms. Travers advises that she must recuse herself from the application for 440 River Road
as she has a conflict and the board needs to select alternate counsel. Craig Bossong
would be the person to next go to. I will leave it to the board to select alternate counsel.
She asks for it to be on record that she was able to participate in the this as the actual

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deeming of completeness is administrative in nature and the decision was made by the
boards professional Planner and she had no involvement with that.
Mr. Nicholas Wall, from the Weiner Law Group approaches the dais and advises that he
is the alternate counsel for this application. The attorney for the applicant is present as
well, Daniel Steinhagen, representing North Star Partners.
At this point, Ms. Travers and Messrs. Haig and Shant Shirinian (within 200’) step out
during the introductions.
Mr. Steinhagen addresses the Chairman: regarding the newspapers for this construction,
the construction started, there was stop work order, there’s likely to be an objector and I
don’t know how much hearing time you want to take away from residences. Well, why
don’t we put it on the agenda; we’re not going to get to it next month. Is it possible we
can do a Special? Do you have suggestions? Notification is interesting as I’m having
issues getting the 200’ list from the adjacent municipality. Between myself and Mr.
Tombalakian from the Weiner Law Group; I have his schedule. You need 4 for a quorum
but 5 for the vote. He advises that he has availability of February 3rd or 10th. A special
meeting date for 440-456 River Road has been selected for Tuesday, February 10, 2026
at 7:00 PM.
BUSINESS
BADV/25-04, commonly known as 721 Undercliff Avenue, Edgewater, NJ. Block 9 Lot
24. Applicant James O’Mara. Request to seek approval for construction of a 2-family
dwelling in the R-2 Single and Two-Family Residential District. Deemed complete on
July 1, 2025.
Mark Sokolich on behalf of James O’Mara, 721 Undercliff. Notices were sent to all
property addresses and I have some more green cards. Undersized, exceeds required lot
depth, R2 zone, presently used as a one-family. The O’Mara family is present. The
property is unique as the front in on Undercliff and the rear fronts on Lasher. Next door,
723 is a vacant lot with an existing foundation which has an approval already attached to
it to construct a residence very similar to this one and next to that is 725, another
undersized lot is also newly constructed. Similar, undersized lots, short on width. One
front on Undercliff and the other fronts on Lasher. Witnesses are Steve Kolazal, site plan
engineer, unfortunately is ill and was unable to be present. Architect and Project
Manager all present.
Chairman interrupts, this application already starts off with side yard, lot coverage, and
height variances. Where do we go with this? This property is unique with 2 frontages.
Mark – the property is comprised, there is a steep slope condition chairman and this is
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Chairman-ground level on Lasher, ground level on Undercliff. I’m looking at your
overall height, you’re cheating. MS: You’ll hear from the witnesses that when you break
these residences down, you’ll see the height is not different than many of the residences
here in Edgewater. RC: when we’re dealing with Undercliff and heights, we have an
issue, anything that’s on the cliff side, we don’t have an issue with it. Anything that is on
the other side, we have an issue. MS: Understood. If you want to continue with it, it’s
your dime. We would like to start architectural if that’s possible.
Architect and project manager to be sworn in:
Jeffrey Lewis, 277 Ridge St, Newark, New Jersey, I’ve been an architect since 2009,
license is in good standing…the Chair recognizes his expertise.
Martin Moreno, 101 Hudson St. Suite 2106, Jersey City, NJ. (project manager).
MS: So, you’ve worked with Jeff on these plans. Correct. Plans were done by you Jeff?
Correct.
Vice Chairman Shirinian interrupts – are these your plans? No, they were the previous
architects. The plans are not legible as far as sizes, they are too small to read. A
conversation ensues and a decision is made to supply new prints and asks if we can carry
over to February 4th. This application will be first on the Agenda for February 4, 2026 at
7:00 PM. MS: We believe we submitted full size plans for this. HS: only engineering.
BADV-25/10. Commonly known as 647-649 Undercliff Avenue, Edgewater, NJ. Block
27 Lot 32. Applicant 647-649 Undercliff Avenue, LLC. Request approval to construct a
duplex dwelling in the R-2 Single and Two-Family District. Deemed complete on
August 20, 2025.
Mark supplies the affidavit of service for the 200’ property list. The applicant would like
to demolish the existing two-family dwelling and construct a new two-family residential
dwelling. The architect is Mark Martins, the project Engineer, the architect is Anthony
Zampolin of Zampolin & Associates and David Spatz who we probably won’t get to this
evening. So, unless the board has any questions…
Mark Martins, 55 Walnut Street, Norwood, NJ is sworn in.
Mark Sokolich: Edgewater is challenging, between ordinances on height, steep slope
conditions, peculiar shaped properties. Chairman – before we start Mark…10 variances?
The lot coverage is 79%. MS-the lot is undersized, side yard, we’ve had these
challenging issues in the past. 50’ with 3’ side-yards/overhangs, etc.

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Chair: The combination of plans, you can’t see the numbers. MS: The combination of
plans that you aren’t able to see. We want to file plans of the right size, I’m still trying to
figure out how you have that size, but it is what it is. Perhaps they thought smaller plans
would be preferable to the board, less bulky. We would like to carry this over to
February 4th as well. It gives us an opportunity to regroup if that’s acceptable to the
board. Chairman: that’s acceptable. No further notice, waive all time constraints. This
serves as notification to the general public. This application will be carried over to
February 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM.
Open to the Public
Closed to the Public
Motion is made to adjourn by Vice Chairman Shirinian, Shant Shirinian seconds the
motion. Voice vote indicated the end of the meeting.
Sincerely,
Nancy Hayes
Secretary, Board of Adjustment