Tonight – February 11th, 2015 – there is a Public Hearing at the Town of Ramapo at 8:00pm regarding a proposed change to the comprehensive plan of the Town of Ramapo to facilitate the rezoning of two properties along Pascack Brook along with a number of other lots in the immediate vicinity. Currently this area of Ramapo was identified in the comprehensive plan for Medium Density housing (3-4 units/acre) because of environmental concerns and the need to transition between the lower density areas and the higher density areas of Ramapo – It’s current zoning is R15. The proposal is to allow for downzoning of this area to MR-12 which allows for multifamily buildings up to 12 units per acre.
We posted information on the development in a prior post. In order not to duplicate information please read through it.
To aid those who want to voice an opinion regarding the downzoning we are publishing the videos of the public hearings from November, December and January as well as the documents we have collected to date.
THIS LINK is to a folder of documents in the public record related to this project. These documents include the Rockland County GML saying NO and the Town of Clarkstown resolution saying NO.
We requested videos of the public hearing and posted them on YouTube. Please look for the following on this page:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsdGYArk07AtTRagEVRqGwg/feed?view_as=public
- 11/22/2014 Part 1 of 2
- 11/22/2014 Part 2 of 2
- 12/10/2014 Part 1 of 3
- 12/10/2014 Part 2 of 3
- 12/10/2014 Part 3 of 3
- 01/14/2015
OTHER DETAILS
There are two project developers requesting a zone change: Monsey Lumber and Collinshaw. The building departments folders are labeled Monsey Lumber and 171 N. Pascack.
Monsey Lumber includes lots:
- 50.19-1-44
- 50.19-1-46
- 50.19-1-47
- 50.19-1-55 through 67
- 50.19-1-70
- 50.19-1-71
- 57.07-1-2
- 57.07-1-2
See:
- 50.19: https://geopower.jws.com/rockland/MapDownload.jsp?id=182982 and
- 57.07: https://geopower.jws.com/rockland/MapDownload.jsp?id=182988
Collinshaw/171 N. Pascack Lot:
- 50.19-1-72
Both are R-15 (3 homes/acre) and are requesting a shift to MR12 (12 units/acre).
These two requests necessitate a change to the comprehensive plan to allow this zone change.