{"id":7864,"date":"2025-08-22T19:07:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/?p=7864"},"modified":"2025-08-22T19:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:07:43","slug":"shc1803003-final-hearing-bernardsville-somerset-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/shc1803003-final-hearing-bernardsville-somerset-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Hearing&#8211;Borough of Bernardsville, Somerset County&#8211;Diversion to Resolve Encroachments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/plc-public-notices\/notice-2025-bernardsville-disposal-sept-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here for Full Public Hearing Notice<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Applicant:\u00a0<\/strong> Borough of Bernardsville, Somerset County<\/p>\n<p><strong>Park Name:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Claremont Field<\/p>\n<p><strong>Park Location:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">79 Claremont Road<br \/>\nBlock 69, Lot 8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proposed Action:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Borough of Bernardsville, in the County of Somerset, New Jersey has filed a request with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Transactions and Public Land Administration, proposing to dispose of a total of 0.2635 acre of Claremont Field (Block 69, Lot 8) in order to resolve two private encroachments at the park. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">As compensation for this disposal of parkland, the Borough will dedicate approximately 5.505 acres of land located at 271 Mine Brook Road (Block 81, Lot 6.03 and a portion of Block 61, Lot 6.02) for recreation and conservation purposes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">The proposed diversion areas and replacement parcels are depicted on the map here: <a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/plc-public-notices\/shc1803003-reference-map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SHC1803003 Reference Map<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hearing Date\/Time:<\/strong>\u00a0 September 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hearing Location:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">Bernardsville Borough Hall<br \/>\n166 Mine Brook Road<br \/>\nBernardsville, New Jersey 07924<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public Comments Accepted Through:<\/strong>\u00a0 October 13, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Please click the link above for the full public hearing notice, including addresses where written comments should be sent.\u00a0 Emailed comments are preferred.\u00a0 Please include &#8220;SHC1803003 Claremont Field Encroachments&#8221; in the subject line of any comments emailed to the Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click Here for Full Public Hearing Notice Applicant:\u00a0 Borough of Bernardsville, Somerset County Park Name:\u00a0 \u00a0Claremont Field Park Location: 79 Claremont Road Block 69, Lot 8 Proposed Action: The Borough of Bernardsville, in the County of Somerset, New Jersey has filed a request with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Transactions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"dep-wlm-single.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-public-hearing","category-ga-applications","category-plc-public-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7865,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions\/7865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/otpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}