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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 ›