Planning Board
Members
Kippy Piedici - Chairwoman
Class IV Member
12/31/2025
Class IV Member
12/31/2026
Gary Baumann - Vice Chairman Pro Temp
Class IV Member
12/31/2025
12/31/2023
John Crane
Class II Member
12/31/2023
James Baldassare jr.
Class III Member
12/31/2023
Paul Damurjian
Class IV Member
12/31/2024
Daniel Eorio
Class IV Member
12/31/2024
Lauren Manduke
Class IV Member
12/31/2024
Nicholas Cuozzo
Class IV Member - Alternate #1
12/31/2023
Class IV Member - Alternate #2
12/31/2024
Planning Board
The Planning Board is responsible under state statute for preparing and adopting a Township Master Plan and for reviewing land use development within Bernards Township. The Planning Board is charged with reviewing subdivisions, site plans, planned development, conditional uses and certain variances. The Planning Board also reviews and recommends revisions to land use ordinances to the Township Committee.
Planning Board Staff:
- Board Attorney, Jonathan Drill, Esq.; Stickel, Koenig & Sullivan 973-239-8800
- Board Planner, David Banisch, PP, AICP; Banisch Associates, Inc. 908-782-0835
- Board Engineer, Larry Plevier, PE, CME; Mott MacDonald 732-780-6565
- Township Planner, David Schley, PP, AICP 908-204-3004
- Board Secretary, Cyndi Kiefer 908-204-3026
Residents are welcome to attend the public meetings of the Board and are invited to ask questions and provide comments and statements regarding applications that appear on the agenda. To review copies of applications for development, please contact the Board Secretary at 908-204-3026, Monday thru Friday, 8:30AM to 4:30PM.
As of June 6, 2006, the Planning Board has adopted the following procedure. There will be no new cases heard after 10:00 p.m. and no new witnesses or testimony will be heard after 10:30 p.m.
CONSISTENT WITH THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND THE RELIGIOUS LAND USE AND INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS ACT OF 2000 (“RLUIPA”), BERNARDS TOWNSHIP, THE PLANNING BOARD, AND THE ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT DO NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST RELIGIOUS EXERCISE, OR VIOLATE THE OTHER PROTECTIONS OF RLUIPA.