Susan Shapiro, attorney for Citizens United to Protect Our Neighborhood, known as CUPON, and homeowner Sharon Doucette, said the judge rejected the approvals on procedural grounds. She said the town had ample opportunities to properly access the project over the years.
The judge s ruling called the town s decision “jurisdictionally defective” because the required time for public notice for an environmental review hearing was not provided.
“The myriad of Bluefield Extension applications over the past seven years paints a sordid history of the past abusive decision-making by Ramapo for this project ., Shapiro said.
Shapiro said the town also failed to conduct proper review relating to the inflated purchase prices for the land acquisitions, which they tried to justify a use variance.