Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Monday's planning board meeting to finalize the Landmark at Radburn development has been rescheduled for Monday, Jan. 14.
Fair Lawn's Daly Field saga will drag on for at least one more month after the resolution to memorialize the development's conditional approval was pulled from Monday's agenda. Planning Board secretary Cathy Hochkeppel said that between the Thanksgiving holiday and the extensive and complex list of conditions attached to the board's Nov. 20 approval there had not been time to adequately prepare and review the proposed conditions by Monday's meeting date. As a result, the Planning Board will pick up the resolution at its meeting on Monday, Jan. 14, after its professionals and members have had ample time to craft and review the proposed conditions. -- Follow Fair Lawn-Saddle Brook Patch on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to receive our …
Monday, November 19, 2012
The Fair Lawn Planning Board is likely to vote on Landmark's plans for Daly Field Monday night following a public comment portion where residents can air their final concerns about the development.
Nine months of hearings on Landmark's proposed Daly Field development that covered everything from parking allottments to environmental concerns could conclude Monday night when the Fair Lawn Planning Board is expected to vote on the developer's plan. Landmark representatives have testified at Planning Board hearings each month since March, laying out their plans for the development while taking into consideration critiques from the board and concerned residents who oppose the construction. While the board's ability to shape the planned development is limited due to a court-ordered builder's remedy that compels the borough to permit its construction, board members nonetheless have raised concerns over certain aspects of Landmark's proposal…
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The man who was found dead Saturday outside a residence on Warren Road has been identified as Donald Borodkin, 65, of Fair Lawn.
The man who was found dead on the front porch of a Warren Road residence late Saturday morning has been identified as longtime Fair Lawn resident Donald Borodkin, police have confirmed. Borodkin, a Plaza Road resident, had been walking door to door handing out flyers when he collapsed on the front porch of a home at the corner of Warren Road and Townley Road, directly behind the Radburn Panera parking lot. The medical examiner has yet to release a cause of death, but at this time Borodkin's death is not considered suspicious. A supporter of preserving Daly Field from development, Borodkin, 65, was distributing flyers promoting Monday's Planning Board hearing on the environmental impact of the proposed Landmark development when he fell ill…
Sunday, August 19, 2012
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Construction is underway on Fair Lawn Promenade, a mixed-use, town center-style development that will consist of 150 rental apartment units and 63,000 square feet of retail and office space. A new Brookdale Park playground with improved handicap accessibility should be ready for use by mid-to-late fall. Prompted by Democrats who have thrown their support behind maintaining the borough's dispatchers, Republican council members stated Tuesday that they too have no intention of outsourcing in-house dispatchers at this time. Even with commercial burglaries down dramatically since May, the number of burglaries and larcenies committed in Fair Lawn this year still surpasses last year's pace. Multiple members of the Planing Board questioned …
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Multiple members of the Planing Board questioned Landmark's architect Monday about the placement of the development's affordable housing units.
Planning board members and residents spent the majority of Monday night's Landmark hearing questioning the developer's architect on why he placed the development's affordable housing units in two buildings at the back of the site rather than interspersing them throughout the development. All 33 of the development's affordable units are located along Road A in Buildings K (15 of 26 units are affordable) and L (all 18 units are affordable), abutting the train tracks and without access to green space. The development's other 10 buildings contain only market rate units and all have some access to green space. Both the Council on Affordable Housing regulations and a related borough ordinance encourage the integration of affordable units with …
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 …
Monday, August 13, 2012
The Landmark hearing scheduled for Monday, Aug. 13, is still on, but will no longer address environmental issues, which have been pushed back until next month.
Monday night's Landmark hearing, originally intended to delve into environmental issues associated with the development, will instead address the grouping of its affordable housing units and attempt to conclude the unfinished sight distance debate involving a proposed crosswalk at the intersection of Plaza Road and Ramsey Terrace. The change of discussion topics follows the recent submission of an environmental plan developed by Brinkerhoff Environmental Services and commissioned by a group of residents opposed to the development. "About one week ago we submitted our environmental report to the board, immediately after which the board postponed the environmental hearing until September 10," explained Michael Roney, a leading member of the …
Sunday, July 15, 2012
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As a whole, the town's rateable base decreased 18.4 percent as a result of the reassessment. With questions, concerns and misinformation swirling about the town’s recent reassessment, Patch attempts to clear up some of the confusion by providing an explainer on the process. Many residents have incorrectly calculated their annual tax burden by multiplying their third quarter estimated tax bill by four. A group of Fair Lawn residents is hoping to make a push for elected officials to rethink the way they fund government and public education. Landmark's developer and the planning board's engineer have agreed to work in consultation to recalculate sight lines from a proposed pedestrian crosswalk on Ramsey Terrace at Plaza Road. Attorney Joel …
Monday, July 9, 2012
This month's planning board hearing about the Landmark development on Daly Field will be held Monday, July 9 at 7:30 p.m.
The Fair Lawn Planning Board's hearings on the proposed Landmark development on Daly Field in Radburn will continue Monday night, with the finalization of the past two months' traffic discussion and the beginning of discussions on the site's architecture. At last month's hearing, Landmark's traffic engineer, Eric Keller, returned to the planning board to address traffic safety concerns its members had expressed after the board's May meeting where he had presented Landmark's traffic impact study. Keller said he determined that the superior traffic signal configuration for the light at the intersection of Plaza Road and Berdan Avenue would be an exclusive left turn lane and leading green for northbound Plaza Road traffic turning onto the …
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 …
The Most Interesting Man in the World
2:28 pm on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Most of the conditions are window dressing, however I agree that the affordable housing disbursement of units will require Landmark to spend more money to modify their plans. Now that they have a conditional approval, it will be interesting to see what Landmark will do, just comply or go back to court causing the borough to hand more taxpayer dollars to the attorneys. more ›