Growth in Ramapo
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- May
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The Route 306 corridor from Monsey to Route 202 has been drawing quite a bit of attention from developers lately.
A 700-plus student yeshiva is planned at the Grandview Avenue intersection, about a quarter mile north of a proposed 78-apartment adult student housing project connected with a yeshiva.
Near that site is a proposed 162-unit senior citizen housing project.
Then, of course, there is the proposed rabbinical college where Route 306 meets Route 202, as well as an adult student housing zone on the opposite side of the intersection.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to balance the rights of land owners to develop their properties with the needs of residents living in the area?
Some people I’ve interviewed in recent weeks feel overwhelemed by it all, while others are accepting that development is bound to happen.
Should the town ask developers to reduce the number of units? Should the town focus more open-space preservation efforts within existing neighborhoods, like it did in buying two camps in Airmont? Should the town consider buying development rights from landowners, similar to how some Orange County communities have bought development rights from farmers?
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on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 at 4:06 pm by James Walsh. 
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Category: Development, Grandview Avenue, Monsey, RAMAPO, Route 202, Route 306
I don’t know how zoning works really but the idea of it should be to prevent things like this from happening. Single family homes on 2 acres of land in Wesley Hills shouldn’t be right next to a site with 700 people in Ramapo. Yes, they are different towns and each town should decide it’s own zoning. In this case these they just happen to be right next to each other but in other places in each town and others, there are gross exceptions to the permitted zoning. Christopher St Lawrence’s jigging of the zoning should not be permitted.
Watch this video to find out exactly why it is ‘permitted’
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GzydI5liD9c