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  • Harriman Meadows/Patrick Farm – Rezoning and Site Plan SEQRA SEIS Scoping Comments Due 12/11/23

    Harriman Meadows/Patrick Farm – Rezoning and Site Plan SEQRA SEIS Scoping Comments Due 12/11/23

    This is an update of a previous post with new dates. The new deadline is Monday December 11, 2023 at 4pm. Comments can be submitted by email to the Town Clerk Sara Osherowitz. Please include “Harriman Meadows Scoping Comments” in the subject line. The Patrick Farm development project has been resubmitted by a new owner…

  • Harriman Meadows/Patrick Farm – Rezoning and Site Plan SEQRA SEIS Scoping Comments Due 11/13/23

    Harriman Meadows/Patrick Farm – Rezoning and Site Plan SEQRA SEIS Scoping Comments Due 11/13/23

    The Patrick Farm development project has been resubmitted by a new owner with the exact same plan for reapproval. The Court overturned the January 2010 decision to adopt findings for the environmental study done ostensibly done for an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan, the Rezoning of portions of the site, the proposed subdivision and proposed…

  • Millers Pond Public Hearing before Town Board re: REZONING [Continued]

    Millers Pond Public Hearing before Town Board re: REZONING [Continued]

    The next public hearing on the Millers Pond Rezoning will be on Wednesday October 25, 2023 at 7pm at Town Hall. On September 13, 2023 the Town Board opened a a public hearing is for a local law to approve the zoning requirements for the Millers Pond development at the site of the Minisceongo Golf…

  • Public Hearing Wed. 1/26/22 at 7:00 in Town Hall re: Comp Plan Amendment & new zoning for Watchtower near Sloatsburg

    Public Hearing Wed. 1/26/22 at 7:00 in Town Hall re: Comp Plan Amendment & new zoning for Watchtower near Sloatsburg

    Overview and History The Town of Ramapo public hearing focuses on the comprehensive plan amendments and a local law needed to enable the Watchtower Audio/Visual campus project. In 2004 the Comprehensive Plan included specific recommendations to change the R-80 zoning for the main site parcel to an RSH zone with specific restrictions to enable a…

  • Northeast DGEIS Public Hearing Monday September 13, 2021 at 7:00 in Town Hall.

    Northeast DGEIS Public Hearing Monday September 13, 2021 at 7:00 in Town Hall.

    On August 11, 2021 the Town of Ramapo Town Board accepted the “DGEIS” as complete and set a public hearing. RAMAPO PUBLIC HEARING DETAILS WHEN: Monday September 13 @ 7PM WHERE: Town Hall at 237 Rt 59. Notices here: http://www.ramapo.org/page/news-7/news/seqra-notice-of-completion-of-dgeis—notice-of-public-hearing-on-comprehensive-plan-amendment-and-updates—-notice-of-public-hearing-on-zoning-amendments—comprehensive-plan-amendment-for-the-northeast-ramapo-development-plan-and-comprehensive-plan-upd-630.htmlAnd here for new town wide zoning for Planned Unit Development :http://www.ramapo.org/page/news-7/news/notice-of-hearing—913–700-pm—introductory-local-law—flex-overlay-planned-unit-development-637.htmlAND here for new town…

  • New Hempstead Rezoning Local Law Public Hearing AUGUST REDUX

    New Hempstead Rezoning Local Law Public Hearing AUGUST REDUX

    This is perhaps a redo of the March 2021 board approvals ROSA provided notice of a public hearing on March 15, 2021 for the purpose of approved a new zoning local law that would rezone vast swaths of the Village of New Hempstead.  (See old ROSA posting.) At that meeting the Village Board voted to…

  • ROSA Clears the Slate, Readies for Return to Drawing Board

    ROSA Clears the Slate, Readies for Return to Drawing Board

    (The following press release led to this Journal Article Article.) Rockland County Supreme Court, Hon. Thomas E. Walsh II decides in favor of Petitioners/Plaintiffs RAMAPO, NY, April 2, 2018: In another win for the rule of law and the environment, on March 30, 2018, Judge Thomas E. Walsh II, presiding in Rockland County Supreme Court, ruled…