No building slump in Ramapo
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The July 10 Ramapo Zoning Board of Appeals meeting will have something for just about everyone interested in development issues in the county’s most populous town.
Developers of the proposed Ramapo Hills subdivision of 263 condominiums will be taking a second crack at getting variances for their project off Route 17, just south of Sloatsburg.
Variances from town codes will be sought for Yeshivas Bais Yehudi for a two-family house on North Saddle River Road, while Congregation Bais Yehuda seeks zoning accommodations for an existing school at 72 Main St. in Monsey. It was “unclear” to the county Department of Planning how the school was operating without a special permit.
The agenda also includes three-lot and four-lot subdivisions off Old Nyack Turnpike, the conversion of a single-family house to a three-family building with two accessory apartments on Cedar Lane, and the construction of another three-family house with accessory apartments on Ellish Parkway.
The meeting begins at 8:15 p.m. in Town Hall, 237 Route 59, Airmont.
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on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 5:59 pm by James Walsh. 
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Our builder friends are raking in the dough. Our ZBA will give anything away to anybody who has a friend at town hall.
Take Jacob Wagshal, who according to police reports was the man who admitted putting up the fraudulent signs early on the morning of the last election He recently got 50 variances to build 22 apartments with 22 accessory units on two small lots!!!
Thanks to our ZBA, our Planning Board, and most importantly, to Supervisor St. Lawrence, our builders are getting rich buying land, getting so many variances that it really amounts to illegal spot zoning, and building apartment houses where we have inadequate sewers and and an ever more hard pressed water supply.
But why should he care? They are his friends, they are most generous in their support and we, the taxpayers, will be picking up the bill for ever more expensive water and hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild our sewer system.
Have you tried to get through downtown Monsey traffic recently. This is the kind of bumper to bumper traffic that will be spilling over onto Viola, Grandview, and other quiet suburban roads over the next few years.
Robert I. Rhodes, Chairman, Preserve Ramapo, http://www.PreserveRamapo.org