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Real Estate Developer Proposes Development to Provide 264 New Homes in Chestnut Ridge

Real Estate Developer Proposes Development to Provide 264 New Homes in Chestnut Ridge

By Sarah Morgenstern

Chestnut Ridge could be providing 264 new homes and some businesses: if the village’s board of trustees agrees to create a new “overlay” to re-zone nearly 40 acres of land.

Joel Weber, a real estate developer, has requested the necessary re-zoning to create a new neighborhood community on 39.6 acres that sit half a mile away from the Garden State Parkway interchange, the Rockland County Business Journal reported.

Weber’s plans for a new neighborhood called “Equestrian Estates,” proposes to build, at market rates: 84 two-bedroom rental apartments, 62 three-bedroom semi-attached condominium units, and 118 predominantly two-bedroom senior housing rental units.

Weber’s new development also proposes community amenities, such as a clubhouse, a pool, tennis courts, basketball courts, walking trails, a 1.8-acre nature center, and green space.

The project site is connected to the existing municipal water and sewer service.

Just as nearly all of Rockland County’s towns and villages are looking to expand housing for millennials, seniors, and those who need assisted-living housing, nearly half of the housing of Equestrian Estates would be restricted to residents who are older than 55-years-old.

Weber’s request was first heard at last night’s public hearing of the Chestnut Ridge Village Board of Trustees, which is deciding whether to adopt of village’s first comprehensive plan to provide not just more housing, but to provide a greater variety of housing beyond single-family homes.  

Because the swath of land on which Equestrian Estates would sit is not currently zoned for residential development, Weber applied for a Planned Unit Development (PUD), which would provide regulations on the buildings and the uses of the land on which he would like to build.

Chestnut Ridge residents may submit written comments on the village’s plan until May 29.


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