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The board will vote on development of a self-contained community of 637 homes with retail space and parks at the former Minisceongo Golf Course.
The development of 474 homes amid the environmentally sensitive Patrick Farm property in semi-rural Ramapo has resurfaced before town land-use boards.
Activists are taking Ramapo to court over the purported $5.7 million sale of 25 acres dedicated as parkland near the baseball stadium to a developer.
By Kathy Kahn Ramapo residents’ pleas to halt zoning and building code changes to the northeastern quadrant of the town fell on deaf ears last Wednesday, Jan 20, during a hastily arranged Zoom meeting. After all was said and done, the Town Board unanimously voted to continue a process it began in 2018 that proposes to re-zone and re-purpose its semi-rural northeast corridor, making way for future development. One by one, the majority of participants who called in to the “special meeting” asked the town to abandon what they considered to be a poorly assembled Scoping document. Some cal...
By Kathy Kahn It’s a case of the cart being put before the horse, said members of Rockland’s Citizens United to Protect our Neighborhood (CUPON) during a Zoom meeting Monday evening, Jan 18. CUPON was joined by Rockland Organized for Sustainability and a Safe Aquifer (ROSA) and concerned residents in decrying the Town’s plans to move forward with the rezoning of its Northeast corridor without a proper review. That section of Ramapo is home to the former Miniseongo golf course, the Stryker property and other large tracts of land highly coveted by mega-density developers. Ramapo’s nor...