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…
Thursday, August 23, 2012
A judge will determine whether Fair Lawn's amended Affordable Housing Plan meets Fair Housing Act standards.
A state superior court judge's decision next month in support of an affordable housing unit transfer agreement between two developers would pave the way for the creation of dedicated senior housing in Fair Lawn. Judge Brian Martinotti will conduct a hearing on Sept. 11 at the Bergen County Justice Center in Hackensack to determine whether the borough's proposed amendment to its Affordable Housing Plan (attached as PDF) meets the necessary requirements set forth by the Fair Housing Act and the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing. Per the amended plan, the Fair Lawn Promenade -- currently under construction along Route 208 in the industrial park -- would free itself from the obligation of building 38 affordable housing units by paying $…
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 …
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 …
Sunday, June 17, 2012
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Monday, June 11 Over 120 vendors peddled goodies for hundreds of happy folks last Sunday at the Fair Lawn Street Fair. Radburn train station is one of four statewide that will be a target of increased enforcement for trespassing. Tuesday, June 12 Eric Keller, the Landmark's traffic engineer, said to reconstruct the traffic signal at Berdan Avenue and Plaza Road will cost between $180,000 and $200,000. There were eight recorded burglaries in Fair Lawn in May, down from the previous two months where burglaries numbered in the double digits, according to crime reports provided by the police department. Wednesday, June 13 The latest Bridges music video, "Who I Am," about the struggles we all face to articulate inner feelings and emotions, …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Planning Board member and former fire chief Tom Carney advised Landmark's traffic engineer to consult with fire chief about addressing his concerns with the site's accessibility for fire apparatus.
The narrow roads designed for the interior of the Landmark development on Daly Field may limit the extent to which firefighters can fight a blaze within the complex. Planning Board member Tom Carney, a former Fair Lawn fire chief, told the Landmark traffic engineer Monday that the proposed 20 foot internal road widths would make navigating certain roads in the complex difficult. "Our ladder truck operates at a 20 foot width when the outriggers are out and it’s in full operation," Carney said. "If there’s snow on the ground, any kind of obstructions, it’s not going to be able to operate. So you have a serious concern here about the width of the roads." Traffic engineer Eric Keller responded that although the paved widths of Road A and Road …
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 ›