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Patrick Farm Court Decisions on 2015/2016 approvals
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, on June 30th, Judge Walsh handed down decisions allowing the latest Town Board and Planning Board decisions to stand. The 2015 Town Board decision was related to the Town Board’s refusal to require supplemental environmental review of the project as result of the applicant failing to disclose over 40% of the…
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2017 – 4th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Suffern
SPRING NEWS: ROSA4Rockland Brings Back the Wild & Scenic Film Festival to Majestic Suffern Lafayette Theatre to Celebrate Earth Day 2017 Suffern, NY – April 12, 2017 – ROSA4Rockland Inc. (“ROSA”)– an environmental 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization – is organizing the 4th Annual Earth Day Film Festival at the historic Suffern Lafayette Theater on Thursday April 20th starting at…
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2016 Year-in-Review
Well its the close of yet another year… As we do each year, we try to recap the year and ask you to remember us when figuring out how you will carve out your end of year tax deductible donations. We hope that you will read on and whether the level of details is too much…
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September 1, 2016 ROSA Attorney asks board to rescind January approvals.
One of the things that courts expect is for opposing parties to work things out themselves so when new evidence was available to strengthen ROSA’s opposition to the January approvals we had to make an effort to ask the Town to reasonably withdraw their approvals. At a minimum it enables us to get that information…
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New ULI Wetland Petition Sent to DEC
One of the most time consuming and costliest ROSA projects this year was work spent on coordinating and supporting a new municipal led petition to the NY State DEC to ask that the western wetland system on the Patrick Farm site be added to the NY State DEC Wetland Maps due their Unusual Local Importance (“ULI”). On…
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January 27, 2016 Final Subdivision and Site Plan Approvals
It seems discouraging when the Planning Board rushes through the review process and just approves again plans which are not ready for approval. This was done yet again this past January but remember this isn’t the first time this has happened. ROSA fought the final decision made in 2012 and again in 2013 and both times…
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Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Suffern on Earth Day 2016
SPRING NEWS: ROSA4Rockland Brings Back Wild & Scenic Film Festival to Majestic Suffern Lafayette Theater to Celebrate Earth Day 2016 Suffern, NY – March 21, 2015 – ROSA4Rockland Inc. (“ROSA”)– an environmental 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization – is organizing the 3rd Annual Earth Day Film Festival at the historic Suffern Lafayette Theater on Wednesday April 20th starting at 7:30pm…
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Public Hearing Rescheduled and End of Year News
2016 ROSA KICKOFF NOTICE: TONIGHT’S PLANNING BOARD MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING IS RESCHEDULED! First, we would like to say Happy New Year! Thank you for supporting us throughout 2015. Second, please know there was a tentative planning board meeting schedule for tonight but it has been rescheduled. So please come out on January 26th at…
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Findings Addendum September 17, 2015
At 9:50 am, Bill Weber called Deb Munitz just ten minutes before the Town Board meeting of September 17, 2016 asking if she knew that Patrick Farm was on the agenda. No, nobody knew. Deb Munitz ran over and caught Michael Klein asking why there was no notice and the answer was straightforward, there was no…
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Support ROSA’s Petition for the NYS DEC to Protect the Pond Wetland System
Please sign the petition below. It will generate an email to Commissioner Seggos and Governor Cuomo that ROSA4Rockland@gmail.com will be copied on. Our goal is to get at least 2,000 signatures from Rockland County residents in the next two weeks. Please share this petition by email and social media to all of your New York…