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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…]
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…]
“CHESTNUT RIDGE – As residents and officials debate zoning ground rules for houses of worship, they can say “No” to real estate sales people soliciting homes to sell.
Under a state law that took effect Sunday for Chestnut Ridge alone, residents can put their names and addresses to the state cease and desist list.
Those who sign up are telling real estate brokers that under penalty of fines and loss of license, they can’t send mail, call, knock on doors, email, text or in anyway communicate an interest to sell the person’s home. [Read more…]
The meeting was scheduled for 7:30 at the Chestnut Ridge Middle School, but shortly after 7, the parking lots were filled, and the neighboring side streets were also filling up. An estimate of the standing-room crowd exceeded 400. [Read more…]
3-car Garage at 3 Spring Hill Terrace
“The saga over whether a religious group built a three-car garage or warehouse-type building for a synagogue has moved to state Supreme Court.
The Brooklyn-based Kedishas Aharon D’Hadas claims in court papers the village violated its property rights by voiding a certificate of occupancy to use the building attached to 3 Spring Hill Terrace. [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…]
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…]
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…]