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Special Village Board Meeting, Tuesday January 15 at 7:30 PM at the Chestnut Ridge Middle School, 892 Chestnut Ridge Rd., Spring Valley. This meeting is another continuation of the special hearing on proposed large scale zoning changes.
We want to thank everyone who attended the previous meetings, we had 1000 people at the first and over 600 at the second meeting
We need to attend this meeting because the board is getting close to making a final decision! [Read more…]
Micheal Miller of CUPON Photo by Peter Carr/The Journal News
“A lawsuit seeking to void a town agency’s zoning variance to allow high-density housing off Union Road has passed muster with a judge.
Acting Supreme Court Judge Sherri Eisenpress rejected the developer’s attempt to derail the lawsuit filed by citizen’s group CUPON-Hillcrest and Sharon Doucette, whose property shares a narrow driveway with the project, called the Bluefield Extension.
The property is targeted for development of 15 to 20 units on approximately one acre. It sits across from the massive Bluefield complex of multiple family townhouses. [Read more…]
All CUPON organizations and the public are invited to view this movie. Seating will be limited to about 150 people.
Hillcrest-CUPON Meeting Date: Thursday, August 23rd, 2018
Time: 7:00pm Location: Hillcrest Firehouse, 374 North Main St, Hillcrest, NY
CUPON Members and Friends,
Please save the date and join us for this meeting. The Town is considering changing the Comprehensive Plan to accommodate development of 293 housing units at the Pascack Ridge site in Hillcrest. All Hillcrest, Spring Valley, and Clarkstown residents should be informed of the impact this will have on everyone. [Read more…]
Chestnut Ridge CUPON MEETING tonight (Tuesday Aug 14) at 7:00pm Faist ambulance building. Please park across the street in the strip mall parking lot.
Hilda Kogut of Chestnut Ridge CUPON Photo: Peter Carr/The Journal News
“Neighbors are infuriated by the dismissal of a lawsuit over a three-car garage they claim is a being used as a synagogue.
A lawsuit filed by the religious educational center has been dropped with the village’s support that challenged a Zoning Board Appeals ruling voiding the building inspector’s original certificate of occupancy for the structure on Spring Hill Terrace. [Read more…]
”All politics is local.” Rep. Tip O’Neill
The same spirit that inspired more than a dozen villages to break from the Town of Ramapo has now created the formation of seven CUPON organizations. The initials stand for Citizens United to Protect Our Neighborhoods, and the unifying motivation is to prevent the uncontrolled development and disregard for the law ongoing in the Town of Ramapo.
To find and get in touch with the CUPON in your neighborhood, here are the websites to visit: [Read more…]
Special Chestnut Ridge Board Meeting, Tuesday July 24 at 7:30 PM Spring Valley High School, 361 NY-Rt 59 Spring Valley.
This meeting is the continuation of the June special hearing on proposed large scale zoning changes.
We want to thank everyone who attended last month, we had a tremendous turnout at the June meeting, almost 1000 people showed up to express our concerns about this poorly conceived zoning law. [Read more…]
Micheal Miller, Gordon Wren and Deborah Munitz of CUPON Hillcrest Photo: Peter Carr/The Journal News
Double-barreled legal actions seeking to void a high-density development accuse the town of bypassing a legally mandated county planning review and allowing the Union Road project to move toward final approval without an approved zone change.
The legal actions are asking a state judge to void or block plans for 10 townhouses with 15 to 20 units on 1.05 acres down a narrow driveway behind a four-story building and a single-family house. [Read more…]
The Chestnut Ridge CUPON Monthly Meeting will be held Monday, April 9th @7PM at the Finkelstein Library, 24 Chestnut St, Spring Valley, NY 10977
We apologize for the location change, at this time the Firehouse is no longer available to our group—we are working on a closer, more suitable location. [Read more…]