Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Caliber Builders plans to build an age-restricted housing development on the border of Hillsdale and Washington Township.
The New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously decided Monday to uphold a contested 2007 decision from the Hillsdale Planning Board to approve a proposed housing project near Pascack Road. Caliber Builders, Inc. applied to the Board to build "Golden Orchards," a single-family age-restricted housing development, on a property off Ell Road. The site is located mostly in Hillsdale, with a small portion in Washington Township. They received approval in 2008. The project was opposed by the nearby Northgate Condominium Association because of the public notice for the Planning Board's hearings about the project, which incorrectly named the site's lot numbers. They brought the issue to court after the Board gave its approval. Lower courts had previously…
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200 Ell Rd, Hillsdale, NJ
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
More than 1,000 truckloads of dirt would be imported to the site as part of the project.
A plan for a new 57-unit apartment building on Patterson Street in Hillsdale would require 1,040 truckloads of fill to raise the portion of the site where the building and parking lot would sit. Richard Eichenlaub, an engineer for the project, testified during a Hillsdale Planning Board meeting Wednesday that retaining walls would be built as part of the plan, ranging from 2 or 3 feet in height at the front end of the property and rising to 8.5 feet at the rear. They would need 18,977 cubic yards of dirt — 16,581 of which would be imported — to fill the area, he said. Delivering all the fill would take about two weeks, he said. One resident pointed out that a truck would have to arrive every "five minutes" in order to deliver all the loads…
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295 Patterson St, Hillsdale, NJ
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
The applicant wants to house as many as four former addicts in a Magnolia Avenue home.
Tenants in a proposed sober living home on Magnolia Avenue would have to obey three basic rules, according to Donna Lally, the home's owner. Lally's rules are: 1. no drugs, alcohol or disruptive behavior; 2. the apartment is run as a democracy and; 3. each tenant will pay an equal share of the expenses and chores. The rules were inspired by Oxford House, a national network of group homes for recovering addicts which Lally said she used as a basis for much of her plan. No therapy or treatment will be provided in the home, but Lally said she would help the tenants access existing resources in the area. The plan, to house as many has four "professional men" recovering from addictions, has drawn concern from residents because of the home's …
Thursday, March 21, 2013
An applicant has proposed to build a new 57-unit apartment building on Patterson Street in Hillsdale.
The Hillsdale Planning Board began hearing an application for a proposed 57-unit apartment building on Patterson Street during their meeting Tuesday night. The L-shaped three-story building would include 29 one-bedroom, 26 two-bedroom and two three-bedroom apartments, according to architect Robert Zampolin. Apartments on the second and third floors would have balconies. Nine of the apartments would qualify as affordable housing. The building would have a 24,000-square-foot footprint for a total of 72,000 square feet spread across the three floors, according to Zampolin. The building would be 30 feet tall from the ground at its base, but the top of it will be closer to 38 feet above Patterson Street because of a change in elevation, he …
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
An applicant plans to rent space to recovering addicts in a Magnolia Avenue home.
The Hillsdale Planning Board began hearing a controversial application Tuesday for a sober living home on Magnolia Avenue near George G. White Middle School. The plan calls for the upper three-bedroom portion of a two-family home to be rented out to as many as four "professional" men age 30 or older and recovering from addiction, according to Donna Lally, the applicant and homeowner. "They're there for mutual support in early sobriety," Lally said. There is already one resident, who has lived there for about 10 months without any problems, she said. A key issue in the application will be how the board decides to interpret the word "family" under the borough ordinance, according to Allen Bell, the applicant's attorney. Bell said that the …
Thursday, February 14, 2013
An attorney for the developer asked the Hillsdale Planning Board to hold the hearing until March because of an error with the application.
A hearing for a proposed 57-unit apartment building on Patterson Street in Hillsdale, originally scheduled for Wednesday night, was held until March because of an error with the application. Ira Weiner, an attorney for the developer, said that there had not been enough copies of the plan distributed to the borough for the Hillsdale Planning Board, which will be hearing the plan. He asked that the board hold the hearing until their March 19 meeting. "Rather than try to force something where there's an error, I want to make sure all the towns' procedures have been follow properly," Weiner said. The plan calls for a three-story complex to be built on a wooded piece of property next to the PSE&G substation. Several residents have already …
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The Hillsdale Planning Board will begin hearing an application for a new apartment building on Patterson Street.
A developer who wants to build a new apartment complex on Patterson Street in Hillsdale will begin presenting an application to the borough Planning Board Wednesday. The plan calls for a three-story, 57-unit apartment building to be built on a wooded lot located between the PSE&G substation, some houses and the Pascack Brook. Some residents have already expressed concern about the size of the proposed building and said that it may worsen flooding further down the brook. "An apartment building of that magnitude ... it's just not needed," Manson Place resident Marisa Cefali previously said. Cefali was one of a group of neighbors opposed to the plan who attended the previous board meeting to ask about the application. Another applicant had …
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The Hillsdale Planning Board rejected an application to build a 36-unit apartment building on Orchard Street last year.
A developer whose plan to build an apartment building on Orchard Avenue was rejected by the Hillsdale Planning Board last year has sued the board, court records show. The developer, 100 Park Avenue Associates, had proposed to demolish three Orchard Street homes and build a new 36-unit apartment building in their place, which would have included four low income housing units. The building was designed to match a nearby apartment building on Patterson Street owned by the same developer. A copy of the complaint, which was filed January 14, could not immediately be obtained because a judge had the document. The complaint asks that the decision be overturned because the board "improperly disregarded the record established" which included …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Jeanne Marie Associates plans to build 57 apartments on Patterson Street.
Another developer has submitted plans to build a new apartment building near downtown Hillsdale. Jeanne Marie Associates has proposed to build a three-story, 57-unit apartment building on Patterson Street next to the PSE&G substation. The property is currently unoccupied. Residents who live near the site have already expressed concern about the plan. Manson Place resident Marisa Cefali was one of a group of neighbors who asked the Hillsdale Planning Board about potentially objecting to the application this week. "An apartment building of that magnitude ... it's just not needed," Cefali said. Cefali said she was concerned about the amount of additional traffic the apartments would bring to the area. Also, the Pascack Brook passes by the …
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
A group of Hillsdale residents requested the planning board hold the application while they consider their opposition to it.
An application for a proposed sober living home on Magnolia Avenue in Hillsdale is being held until next year. The borough planning board previously said they would make a decision on whether or not to begin hearing the application at their meeting Tuesday because residents had requested it be held, but the applicant wanted it to begin. The applicant apparently later agreed to holding off the start of the application, board members said Tuesday. Hundreds of Hillsdale residents have signed a petition opposing the plan because of the home's proximity to George G. White Middle School. The date for the first hearing will be announced at the planning board's reorganization meeting January 9. The applicant will have to send notices to all …
Hawk68
5:12 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
DeGise is the one who makes me nervous. Whether it is his former partnership with Bob Schroeder, getting kicked off the Planning Board or his "departure" from Commerce Bank, everything is shady with him. Sad situation that that this guy has anything to do with our finances. more ›