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  • Please Vote For Miriam Rosenberg

    Please Vote For Miriam Rosenberg

    Thank you for your support over the last few months.

    As more issues come up in the Town, it is imperative that we make our voice heard. While it is difficult to attend many meetings, the Town government needs to understand how upset people are.

    The most immediate step that requires your participation is voting.
    We have launched a Write In campaign for Town Supervisor.

    Please go to vote and in the box under Supervisor marked “Write In,” fill in the circle and write in MIRIAM ROSENBERG .

    Please spread the word and please share these instructions.

    Who is Miriam Rosenberg?

    Miriam Rosenberg, resides in a low density single family home neighborhood in unincorporated Ramapo. She is a very smart woman, with a long history of showing up at Town Board, Town Planning Board and Town Zoning Board of Appeals meetings, not to oppose development, but rather to advocate to the boards for saying no to overdevelopment/over utilization and to not rubber stamp oversized plans.

    Miriam is supportive of incremental well planned growth and opposes development plans that simply reflect greed and destroy neighborhoods.

    Her family was forced to move away from her Mountain Avenue home to the Forshay area by thoughtless development and she remains aghast at the contiuned thoughtless approach to planning the Town has been following for over a decade now.

    “I really believe that growth needs to be planned, haphazard spot zoning is not good for anyone.

    Like everywhere in the country, the temperature has to come down a bit. Developers need to realize, they cant have it just because they want it, and we have come to the realization that we have to create a plan that will allow for growth that is acceptable to everyone. In the meantime regulations that are already in place need to be enforced.” – Miriam

    Please help us to send a strong message of protest to the Town of Ramapo board this election day by writing in Miriam Rosenberg in the last row on the ballot under Town Supervisor.

  • Town of Ramapo Passed PUD Plan, MNU is Fighting Back

    Town of Ramapo Passed PUD Plan, MNU is Fighting Back

    In an apparent race to prove that Ramapo is pro multi family housing to the Governor, on May 28, 205, the Town Board of the Town of Ramapo passed the ill conceived and not studied at all PUD Local Law for Outside Northeast Ramapo.

    Already, developers are applying for radical rezoning applications under the new local law demonstrating how the local law did absolutely nothing to protect existing residents from the emboldened development aspirations of greedy developers.

    Monsey Neighbors United got organized and filed an Article 78 Petition challenging the egregious Town Board action and we are awaiting the Town’s defense.

    Please read the Petition and stay informed and please come out and advocate for reasonable alternatives to the crazy development plans being proposed under the new local law.

  • Thank You For Supporting Your Monsey Neighbors!

    Thank You For Supporting Your Monsey Neighbors!

    Thank you for joining over 700 (so far) of your neighbors in signing our Petition to the Town Board to not move forward with the PUD Law as the foreseeable impacts of the PUD Law as currently drafted have not been identified, analyzed and mitigated through PUD Law corrections.

    It is only common sense to want zoning changes made in response to growth to be smart and safe, not random and poorly planned.

    Even the map the Town Board had produced to identify potential areas subject to PUD Law rezoning is unclear, incomplete and seemingly accurate.  

    The Town Board has not yet documented how the PUD Law will impact all the different areas of Town as we all know it will.

    Please continue to support our advocacy to force the Town Board to do the necessary – and legally mandated – planning that is necessary before passing the PUD Law as currently drafted.

    To ensure the effectiveness of the our advocacy, there are 3 things you can do.

    Share the Petition with your neighbors, neighbors and other family members

    Our goal is to gather 1000+ signatures by the Wednesday May 21 Town Board meeting. Post the petition URL: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/oppose-pud-law into your WhatsApp groups, on your WhatsApp status, on your shul or other email lists, and on all your social media; follow us on Instagram; write letters to the editor and to your favorite influencer; print the petition and hang it up in your local schools and businesses. Spread the word. For more information, you can click here: Learn more about the PUD Law.

    Submit written comments to the Town Board

    It is vital that the public’s concern not be written off as generalized NIMBYism. We all have seen good and bad development so its important that you send written comments to the Town Board to express specific concerns and requests. The biggest specific call to the board is for them to do their homework. Pleaseemail the Town Board; they really need to be bombarded before they vote on May 21!A sample letter with instructions and email addresses can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16rSWZcN74bHWY2… and another one can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4mtycmf9

     Please send both letters. It will take you less than 5 minutes total. Feel free to edit them to express whatever you most want to say.

    You can also send letters in the mail to Town of Ramapo Town Board, 237 Rt 59, Suffern NY 10901. You can also call the Supervisor or members of the Council at 845-357-5100 and request a meeting with them.

    SHOW UP ON MAY 21 [note the date change!] to the Town Board Meeting at Town Hall – 237 Route 59 by 7pm

    The meeting is at 7pm and public participation is at the beginning so try to arrive at 6:50pm.If you need a ride to the Board meeting, or plan to speak at the meeting, please email monseyneighborsunited@gmail.com.

    If you have comments, questions, or suggestions, or want to join the efforts of Monsey Neighbors United, Contact Us

    We can do this!

    Sincerely,

    Monsey Neighbors United