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 …
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 …
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 …
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Attorney Joel Rosen spoke at Monday's Planning Board meeting on the group's behalf
A group of Fair Lawn residents calling themselves "Neighbors to Save Daly Field," have retained a land-use attorney to help make their case against the Landmark development planned for Daly Field and the Hayward properties along Plaza Road. "We think we've been successful in getting some points across," said Michael Roney, one of the group's leaders who has spoken previously at planning board hearings on the development, "but we feel that, they have attorneys, they have experts. It only helps our cause if we also rely on professionals to state our case." Roney said it was the group's intention to ensure that the controversial development is exhaustively vetted, so as to protect the health and welfare of Fair Lawn residents. "From my …
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 …
Thursday, June 14, 2012
During Monday's Planning Board hearing on the Daly Field development, a number of residents questioned the safety of a crosswalk proposed at the intersection of Plaza Road and Ramsey Terrace.
The planning board engineer will attempt to corroborate the Landmark-provided sight distance from an obstructed curve on Plaza Road after residents challenged the legitimacy of the developer’s numbers at Monday’s public hearing on traffic concerns related to the controversial Daly Field development. Landmark’s traffic engineer, Eric Keller, testified Monday that the current sight distance for southbound Plaza Road drivers as they approach the proposed crosswalk at Ramsey Terrace is 25 feet shorter than what’s required, but asserted that it would meet code if a patch of underbrush that obstructs the sight line is removed. “There are some large trees there, but if you move up a foot or move back a foot you can find a path through those trees…
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, May 14, 2012
Monday's Planning Board meeting will deal with traffic issues regarding the Landmark development at Daly Field.
Landmark's third presentation before the Fair Lawn Planning Board on its proposed development on Daly Field in Radburn will be held Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Borough Hall. The developer is expected to address traffic issues at Monday's meeting, which should feature a presentation by Landmark's site engineer, planner and traffic expert, Eric Keller. Large crowds have packed the borough's council chambers for the two prior Landmark hearings, which dealt primarily with issues of storm water management, lighting, landscape design and maintenance, and trash pickup. Following Keller's presentation, residents will be permitted to ask questions, which are limited to issues presented thus far by the developer. Given the pace of the previous hearings, …
Tommy P
12:48 pm on Saturday, August 18, 2012
Poppycock! The number of units per acre is only relevant when the cost per acre is factored in. You can only make a profit when the sell price is greater the cost of acquiring the land and costs of improvements. COAH is only second to Abbott in stupid NJ "laws" more ›