Ramapo, NY - Yeshiva Case Adjourned

Ramapo, NY - A hearing to discuss the illegal operation of a day care center and a developer's complaint of increased building permit fees was adjourned by Ramapo's Zoning Board of Appeals last night.

The five-member board will next hear on Aug. 10 from developer Mosdos Chovetz Chaim, which wants to build a yeshiva with adult student housing and which has been cited by Ramapo and the state for running a preschool out of a trailer on its construction site.
The developer is appealing the town's decision to increase the building permit fees for its 60-apartment yeshiva on Grandview Avenue. The board also adjourned a hearing on the operation of the day care center that the town deemed to be illegal at the site.
Hershy Itzkowitz of Monsey said he was called by Rabbi Aryeh Zaks of the yeshiva earlier in the evening and told to attend the meeting to ask for an adjournment.
Itzkowitz said neither Zaks nor Lynch had been made aware of the meeting by the town.

"Did you see today's newspaper?" board member P.T. Thomas asked.
The board voted unanimously to adjourn the hearing after breaking for a few minutes to discuss the issue. "This is the notice," Specht said. "There will be no further notice from the town."