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CUPON, born amid Ramapo over-development, goes countywide

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l”Micheal Miller faced down snarling dogs and armed police as a teenager during civil rights marches and sit-ins while growing up in North Carolina in the 1960s.

Miller said police arrested him 26 times for his civil disobedience.

So, the founder of Rockland’s grassroots movement against illegal development and over-development is not easily intimidated.

“When you have faced police and dogs and taking on bigots, you become immune to nasty name-calling and the wishes and powers of the establishment,” the 73-year-old civic activist said.

Miller has his sense of right and wrong, and he’s tried instilling those beliefs earned on the civil rights battlefields to members of Citizens United to Protect Our Neighborhoods — known as CUPON. [Read more…]

CUPON: Special Chestnut Ridge Board Meeting, Tues. Jan 15

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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…]

Legal challenge of Ramapo Bluefield housing plan OK’d in bid to preserve neighborhoods

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Photo of Micheal Miller of CUPON

Micheal Miller of CUPON Photo by Peter Carr/The Journal News

The larger issue behind the lawsuit remains Ramapo’s failure to maintain single-family housing, say critics of the expansion plan.

“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…]

CUPON Viewing of “America’s Holy War” Thursday Aug 23

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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: Lawsuit ends, synagogue vs. garage debate remains

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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…]

CUPON Movement Is Growing

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CUPON logo1”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…]

Chestnut Ridge Zoning Hearing Tuesday

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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…]

Lawsuits: Ramapo bypassed county review, approved high-density housing without zone change

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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…]