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…
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 …
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 ›