Do you live in the Town of Ramapo including the 11 Villages that are within the Town of Ramapo?

Are you concerned about the lack of Comprehensive Planning in the Town of Ramapo?

Do you want the Town Board to update the Comprehensive Plan and look at the totality of the Town and create a town-wide overall strategic plan before working on area specific recommendations? 

. . . Get involved and share your personal concerns and aspirations for comprehensive planning in the Town of Ramapo before it’s too late. 

Join Mon. Jan. 18th at 7pm  – Information Meeting with the Skyview Acre Land Trust and Professional Planner 

• Zoom Link (full details below)

Submit Comments to the Town on Tuesday and Wednesday by Email (see below)

Comment at Wed. Jan. 20th at 7pm – Town Board Workshop/Meeting to approve the Final Scoping Plan

• Town notice page with Zoom Link
• Final Scoping Plan
• Northeast Strategic Plan presentation of January 23, 2019
• 2004 Comprehensive Plan

ROSA 4 Rockland volunteers, followers and supporters are not anti development,  we are pro sustainability.  Universally residents from every part of the Town are concerned about development that does not follow established zoning patterns and substantial changes in zoning patterns without substantial planning studies. We are long overdue for comprehensive planning.

Updates to Comprehensive Plans are recommended to happen every 5-7 years. It has been 17 years (!) since the Town of Ramapo passed the 2004 Comprehensive Plan.  It has been overdue for an update for 10+ years. In 2017, Supervisor Specht ran on an election platform that promised a Comprehensive Plan update. Since then, the supervisor has avoided normal comprehensive planning processes and instead has taken action to increase development in Northeast Ramapo to cater to the golf course developer and commercial developers who have interests in this area.

The Town Board has moved forward on a piecemeal planning effort that is developer centric. Without analysis of the past plan or existing conditions the Town kicked off a process in 2018 designed to target one of the lowest density, most environmentally sensitive area of Ramapo for significantly higher density housing including multi family housing.

ROSA is opposed to the Town Board proceeding with the current segmented process that is being worked on without doing the necessary environmental studies first and without adequate involvement of all the residents of Ramapo. We invite all residents of the unincorporated areas in the northern portions of Ramapo, and in the adjoining villages to pay attention to the Town of Ramapo’s Northeast Strategic Plan efforts – archived documents here.

Get informed. Express concerns. Go to the Town Board Meeting.  Tell your friends and Neighbors.

Do you live in New Hempstead but are concerned about the increase density of home on the Minesceongo golf course property and the introduction of commercial spaces and apartment buildings or do you like that idea?

Do you want more shopping developed near you or do you want to maintain the residential character of your area?

Do you have concerns over typical environmental resources like water quality, wetlands, trees, and animals?

What do you think makes living in Ramapo special? Are you concerned about traffic and road safety?

Are you concerned about our volunteer first responders?

Do you want more affordable housing?  

Do you want more rentals?

More senior housing?

Are you concerned about the sale of open space to developers? 

Then tell your Town officials what you want them to look at during comprehensive planning!

Write a letter and email it to the Supervisor and Town Board – read this Flyer that includes Email Instructions and suggestions and remember to personalize it.

Please donate to support the hiring of professionals to advocate for residents in these processes.

Please support ROSA’s efforts to hire planners and attorney’s to represent existing residents concerned about how they are moving forward with planning please DONATE here.

Directed donations specific to the Northeast Strategic Plan can be made by selecting it from the dropdown.  See screenshot.

Please consider making a monthly donation for the duration of the Town’s planning cycle.

Join the ROSA mailing list here if you want to be kept in the loop of important upcoming Town meetings and hearings.