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Public Hearing is Open to Written Comments thru Jan 30 5:00pm
The Journal News did a great post Public Hearing article that summarizes the meeting held on January 16, 2013. The public hearing is still open to written comments until 5:00 pm on Wednesday January 30th. Overall the key message that ROSA and various speakers raised was the astonishing lack of time to prepare responses for…
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Planning Board Meeting & Public Hearing Wed 01/16/13 to Approve Final Site Plans
WHAT Public Hearing on Application for Final Site Plans for Patrick Farm Condominiums – 314 Market Rate Townhouses and 72 Workforce Flats AND Patrick Farm Volunteer Housing – 24 WHEN Wednesday January 16, 2013 – 8:00 pm WHERE Ramapo Town Hall – 237 Route 59, Suffern NY The public notices are here: 2013-01-07 Notice of Public…
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Condominium and Volunteer Housing Site Plan, Elevations and Floor Plans
On December 27, 2011 the planning board approved the Site Plans for the Condominiums for the Patrick Farm before the town’s own CDRC board (internal reviewers including engineers, planners and building department personnel) had ever even reviewed what the buildings would look like. Judge Walsh agreed with ROSA’s argument that this was a violation of…
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Post DEC Hearing Recap
On Monday (1/7/13) afternoon and evening there were two sessions of a DEC Public Hearing covering the application permits before them regarding the Patrick Farm property and the current planned development. A LOT of people turned out to support our efforts and we really thank every one who came or wrote in comments to the…
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Testifying before the DEC Public Hearing
Thank you… for getting involved in this public hearing. This posting is to help community members prepare written and/or oral statements for the DEC Public Hearing scheduled for January 7th, 2013. There will be two sessions. The 1st session starts at 3:00 pm and the 2nd session starts at 6:30 pm. It will be held…
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Misrepresentation on Army Corps of Engineer Jurisdictional Approval
The federal wetlands on the Patrick Farm property were not confirmed by the Army Corp of Engineers.
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The NYS DEC approves a public hearing on PF permit application!
ROSA volunteers were peddle to the metal getting stuff submitted by the November 26th deadline for comments for the Patrick Farm Completed Applications (see our earlier post for more information) by November 26th. Less than 2 weeks later the decision was announced – the DEC told the developer that a public hearing was required!! ROSA…
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Patrick Farm DEC Permit Applications are In
On October 17th the NYS DEC posted the notice that the Patrick Farm applications were “complete” on the Environmental Notice Bulletin site: http://www.dec.ny.gov/enb/20121017_reg3.html ROSA foiled the NYS DEC for copies of the application and received 3 scans: 2012-03-30 LJA to DEC Permit Applications Supporting Documents 2012-03-30 LJA to DEC Stream Disturbance Permit Application 2012-03-30 LJA…
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Jon Pousette-Dart Benefit Concert: A Special Music & Dining Event to Support ROSA 4 Rockland, Inc.
A special concert & dining event is announced on Sunday, Sept 23rd, 2012 featuring nationally known recording artist and longtime area resident Jon Pousette-Dart to benefit ROSA 4 Rockland to ensure that ROSA can sustain the legal battle to protect the community and the local water supply through the lengthy appeals process. (A ROSA information…
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ROSA and Shapiro Win on Article 78 on Final Site Plans and Final Subdivision
ROSA is pleased to present the following Press Release that was sent this morning to the Journal News and covered later today in this LoHud.com front page article. We will be loading up the decisions and more information in the days to come. Celebrate this win with ROSA at the Benefit Concert at Kruckers on September…