Ho-Ho-Kus planners blast online petition
OCTOBER 26, 2014 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
HO-HO-KUS — An online petition opposing a controversial subdivision proposal has disappeared from the Web, not even 24 hours after being dubbed “illegal” by Planning Board Chairman John Hanlon.
Launched via Change.org, the petition called on the Planning Board to reject a subdivision application filed months ago by Upper Saddle River’s Chamberlain Developers.
The Planning Board has been considering the application since the spring.
Chamberlain seeks to convert nearly 4 acres of mostly wooded land into 11 single-home plots, called the Hollows at Ho-Ho-Kus.
Seven of the 11 subdivided lots would be accessible via a proposed cul-de-sac opening onto West Saddle River Road, while four other properties would have frontage on Van Dyke Drive.
The survey called the planned project deficient and not compatible with the borough’s master plan.
Hanlon said at a meeting last week the survey was emailed twice to each of the Planning Board’s 10 members; only one, Borough Administrator Don Cirulli, read it.
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I’d like to see the developer invoke the ‘builder’s remedy’ and stuff a few hundred low income housing units there to ‘help’ Hohokus meet its Mount Laurel Housing obligation.
and the potential flooding from the run off into Ridgewood , will you be picking up the tab for that also?
That potential flooding is nothing but a scare tactic from the abutters that enjoy the use of someone else’s property for free.
Its a typical ‘boiler plate’ play book used by any attorney who is opposed to developing a piece of land.
Nobody suggested paving over the plot.
If the laws on Hohokus are the same as in Ridgewood (as I suspect) then any water must be ‘retained’ on the property, which would require drainage pits, seepage pits, or drywells.
So where are the Mount Laurel low income housing units in Hohokus btw? Poor people ‘deserve’ to live there don’t they?
guess you dont live around here , or understand what a flood plane is
Actually James I do live here. I have lived here in Ridgewood for 45 years. Whether that land gets developed as the current laws allow, or someone seeks a builder’s remedy, the property must by law retain any water without anything.
It rains in EVERYONE’s yard and any new development must meet criteria that was NOT IN EFFECT when that area was developed, so those whining abutters can allow their water to flow into the street.
Putting up houses at the allowed density, abiding by current drainage laws does not contribute one gallon to downstream ‘flood plane’.
Its called the flood “PLAIN” and its a non-issue.
If there is so much concern for ‘flood plain’ and the residents ‘downstream’, that should have been brought forth before artificial sports fields were allowed.
like I said you don’t live here , if you did you would know better “If there is so much concern for ‘flood plain’ and the residents ‘downstream’, that should have been brought forth before artificial sports fields were allowed” , it was ,was ignored and now flood, floods and more floods , like I said make sure you have the check book is handy , some of the turf guys skipped town
Did you read my post or not?
I live here, unlike those those who live in westwood that should be concerned with the flooding of pascack brook.
That development in Hohokus will get built and the BS about flooding will be remediated and the whining abutters will have to make up another excuse for what they want, which is basically free use of someone else’s wooded property.
I’m sure they can bring up global warming hire a scientist to state that 10 homes being heated in the winter will cause the ice flows to melt and flood your friends downstream.
so now your saying developers don’t care about flooding in abutting neighborhoods ,,,again your just made my point btw the same was said about the turf fields and hows that worked out for you ? get out that check book
James are you an expert on property development? How about land percolation and environmental hydraulics? Or maybe you have an education in sub surface transmatic plates and their effects on drainage and water runoff. If not then what is your expertise on this subject?
Its called a flood zone for a reason, the time line of the Blog suggest flooding and more flooding , as for experts LOL , you mean like 500 more units in the village will case less traffic , and no one will use Ridgewood schools , drive cars or flush toilets , and of coarse the winner is 10 years of construction will not effect BF or hurt property values , so make sure your check book is handy