Tuesday, November 20, 2012
After a mountain of concerns raised by residents and Fair Lawn planning board members themselves, developer Landmark has won a conditional approval to build a large housing complex in Radburn.
After nine months of hearings – and amidst concerns voiced from the public as well as reluctance from some members – the Fair Lawn Planning Board voted unanimously Monday night to give the go-ahead to Landmark’s Daly Field housing development. Grassroots citizens group Neighbors to Save Daly Field, which has opposed the 165-unit development, encouraged residents to voice their concern at the meeting, expected to be the final hearing of the lengthy planning board process. “Fair Lawn’s Planning Board is made up of politically-appointed board members and they need to know how the public feels about this development,” a flier circulated by the group read. Many residents echoed concerns that had been prevalent throughout past hearings, like the…
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Engineers for both the developer and planning board met on July 25 to confirm the sight distances from a proposed crosswalk on Ramsey Terrace.
To ensure that both the Landmark engineer and the Planning Board engineer were on the same page regarding the controversial sight distance from around an obstructed curve on Plaza Road preceding a proposed crosswalk on Ramsey Terrace, the two met on July 25 to mutually confirm the distance. "Both of our individual experiences there and observations were confirmed when we met together," said Landmark engineer Eric Keller, who testified in June that the sight distance for Plaza Road drivers approaching the proposed crosswalk would meet code if a patch of obstructive underbrush in the borough's right of way were removed. Although the obstructing trees have yet to be cut back, Planning Board secretary Cathy Hochkeppel said borough workers …
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Eric Keller, the developer's traffic engineer, said to reconstruct the traffic signal at Berdan Avenue and Plaza Road will cost between $180,000 and $200,000.
Improving the safety and efficiency of the Plaza Road and Berdan Avenue intersection via traffic signal replacement will not come cheaply, Landmark traffic engineer Eric Keller reported to the Planning Board Monday. Based on Keller's estimates, making a change to that outdated traffic signal will cost between $135,000 and $150,000. Throw in the requirement that making a traffic signal improvement would also necessitate making an upgrade to the intersection's sidewalks and curb ramps -- which are not up to today's Americans with Disabilities Act standards -- and the total price tag jumps to between $180,000 and $200,000. Keller said calculating Landmark's fair cost share based on the borough's ordinance for off-track improvements -- which …
Monday, June 11, 2012
The Planning Board hearings on the proposed Landmark development at Daly Field will be continue Monday at 7:30 p.m in Borough Hall Council Chambers.
The Fair Lawn Planning Board's hearings on the proposed Landmark development on Daly Field in Radburn will continue Monday night, with an extension of last month's traffic discussion. At last month's hearing, Landmark's traffic engineer, Eric Keller, presented the developer's traffic impact study -- which modeled future traffic growth associated with the controversial development, looking at traffic impacts at four intersections adjacent to the site -- and answered questions from members of the planning board and the public. Among the issues planning board members asked Keller to report back on at the June meeting are the feasibility of various options -- from a left-hand turn arrow to a delayed green -- for the traffic light at the …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Landmark's traffic engineer Eric Keller presented a traffic study Monday that was conducted to analyze the traffic impact of the proposed housing development on Daly Field in Radburn.
Concerned that the traffic impact study conducted to identify and mitigate traffic flow concerns associated with the proposed Daly field development did not adequately address various public safety concerns, Planning Board members peppered Landmark’s traffic engineer Eric Keller with questions for well over an hour at Monday’s public hearing. The study, which modeled future traffic growth associated with the controversial Landmark development using industry standard software, looked at traffic impacts at four intersections adjacent to the site: Landmark’s traffic engineers installed an automatic traffic recorder across Plaza Road last September that took readings from Sept. 26 through Oct. 6, and compared them to a previous traffic …
Monday, March 26, 2012
A series of Planning Board hearings on the proposed Landmark development at Daly Field begin Monday at 7:30 p.m.
The developer behind the controversial proposed development on Daly Field in Radburn will present its design to the Fair Lawn Planning Board at a series of public hearings beginning Monday. Landmark Development's presentation to the Planning Board -- which has only limited powers over the development due to a 2009 court ruling that granted Landmark a builder's remedy -- commences at 7:30 p.m. in Borough Hall. The builder's remedy, which compels the borough to permit the construction of state-mandated affordable housing units, limits the Planning Board's jurisdiction to issues of parking, road layouts and open area configurations, among other details. Landmark's planned 165-unit development of Daly Field and the adjacent Hayward property, …
Mike Fair Lawn
5:18 am on Sunday, February 24, 2013
Agree with Bergenbot. I'm glad to hear Nunn's restaurant Picnic closed its doors. Hopefully there were a few spiteful Radburn residents to thank for boycotting it. Karma got her. more ›