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Three newcomers will be vying for seats on the School Board in the Suffern Central School District, May 15. The importance of school board positions has become manifestly clear to the residents of the East Ramapo Central School District, and Suffern voters should pay attention to this election and get out and vote.
Here are the candidates—their experience and thoughts on the election: [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…]
“A rabbinical college is preparing to apply for approval for the first phase of its dormitory school in Pomona following a judgment and injunction handed down this week in the nearly decade-old legal tussle.
The judgment forces the village of 3,200 to accept and process the Congregation Rabbinical College of Tartikov’s site plan application to house 250 students and their families along Routes 202 and 306, according to Paul Savad of Nanuet, one of Tartikov’s attorneys. [Read more…]
An important Chestnut Ridge Zoning Board of Appeals meeting will be held at the Chestnut Ridge Middle School at 7:30 Monday night March 19. Here’s the message from CUPON: [Read more…]
“The Board of Trustees has extended the village’s building moratorium for another three months to allow a committee to finish its review of zoning regulations governing development, businesses and houses of worship.
The five-member board left the door open for extending the moratorium for an additional three months in June if needed by the Comprehensive Plan Update Committee. [Read more…]
 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING – March 13, 2018 @ 7:30pm
Draft of Comprehensive Plan Update The Comprehensive Plan will be the basis for the land use policy of the Village and will guide future growth and development. A copy of the Draft Comprehensive Plan will be available for review at the Village Hall offices and is available online. Please click the link below to view and/or download an electronic copy of the draft. Click here to View the Updated Comprehensive Plan Draft. |
“Mayor Philip Gigante has raised the possibility of lifting a restriction on minor home improvements, even as the Board of Trustees considers extending the community’s building moratorium.
The mayor floated the idea of removing the requirement that home-improvement projects greater than 500-square feet obtain a permit. He made the suggestion during a public hearing Tuesday on the moratorium, which drew dozens of residents to Village Hall on Cherry Lane.
More complex projects would continue to require review and permitting by the planning and zoning boards. [Read more…]
Spring Valley Trustee Sherry McGill (Photo: Journal News File)
Mayor Alan Simon cursed out Trustee Sherry McGill before a meeting on Wednesday, leading critics to say such bullying is what got Simon removed as a judge by the state courts.
Simon went off on McGill after she questioned his decision to arbitrarily dismiss and also curse at the village’s after-school program director during a discussion about the program, residents said, repeating what McGill told the public.
“The fact that he felt so comfortable telling her (McGill) to, ‘get the (bleep) out’ shows the lack of respect that he not only has for women but also women of color and such behavior will not be tolerated by this community,” said Hamadi Martin, a member of the grassroots activist group “We the People.” [Read more…]
Claudia Gollub of Chestnut Ridge speaks during a public meeting on blockbusting at Rockland Community College on Sept. 21, 2016. (Photo: Peter Carr/The Journal News)
The state has proposed creating a cease-and-desist zone in the village of Chestnut Ridge to protect homeowners from overly aggressive real estate sellers and home buyers.
A ruling from New York State’s Department of State comes more than a year after a hearing at which dozens of residents complained of being harassed and threatened to sell their homes. Some cited the rapid expansion of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community as a driving force behind the pressure they felt to sell.
Some speakers described the tactics as “blockbusting,” the practice of pressuring homeowners to sell by threatening that home values will drop as their neighborhoods change. [Read more…]
3-car Garage at 3 Spring Hill Terrace
Monday night at a meeting of the Chestnut Ridge Zoning Board of Appeals (Jan. 29), the board voted 5-0 to revoke the C/O (certificate of occupancy) that had been granted by the Village’s building inspector to an oversized, two-story 3-car garage at 3 Spring Hill Terrace. This was the second meeting about the garage, and both sessions lasted almost three hours and had to be held at the Chestnut Ridge Middle School due to an overflow of those attending. The difficulty of arriving at a conclusion was not due to the facts but rather a Catch 22 in the state’s zoning law. [Read more…]