The Livingston Planning Board approved the Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center’s application to provide signage for its cancer treatment center and adjoining structured parking at 94 Old Short Hills Road, during its Tuesday, July 16, meeting. The application was presented by lawyer Douglas Janacek, with Matt Cavalier of Cloud Gehshan Design serving as Janacek’s lone witness.
Work on a signage plan, according to Janacek, is ongoing but, due to the cancer center being set in a different location than the main hospital building, on-site wayfaring signage had to be changed. This resulted in an overhaul of the package, including replacing three monument signs on Short Hills Road and adding a freestanding monument sign to the cancer center. The building will also be renamed Melchiorre Cancer Center afterrecently securing funding for the property.
Cavalier then walked the Board through slides detailing the exterior signage package that will be visible to the public. Notable features included an updated Rutgers Cancer Institute logo andanewRWJBarnabas Health logo, as well as a location plan map showing where each signage exhibit will be placed. The signs include a main pylon sign that would be visible to passing traffic, and smaller vehicular direction signs to help people navigate the building campus. Cavalier’s diagrams also revealed visibility sight lines of signs from different traffic perspectives, as well as day and night renderings of the Melchiorre Cancer Center sign atop the medical center.
Cavalier revealed the building’s canopy letters and proposed monument sign, the latter of which will measure 15 feet in height. Responding to Board questions, he explained that letter heights are based on municipal traffic codes, and visibility concerns were considered to avoid obstruction of vehicles and vegetation. In response, the Board suggested lowering the monument sign’s height so that it would remain close to existing signs on the property. Cavalier then provided the Board with images of the facility’s proposed auxiliary directional signs, and a visual comparison between the proposed and existing monument signs.
Following testimonies, Board member Stephen Santola praised the quality of Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center’s signage over the years, while Barry Lewis and Lauren Tabak-Fass complimented the proposed signs’ aesthetics. After agreeing to lower the monument signs by two feet – cutting it down from 15 to 13 feet – a motion to approve the application passed.
Andrew Teed was named postmaster of Livingston in 1852, and the post office was located in the basement of his house on Mount Pleasant Avenue. In 1869, Amos W. Harrison became postmaster, serving for 46 years, until 1915.
