Suffern WA multifamily - 37 Washington Avenue
In review — NOT approved
In plain words
Suffern WA multifamily - 37 Washington Avenue is a housing project in Suffern, at 37 Washington Avenue, Suffern, 1.865 acres, frontage on Washington Avenue and Suffern Place, north of the Community Center and Masjid Darul Ehsan Mosque and School; former Avon Nail Enamel building site. Still being reviewed. Not approved yet. It would bring 121 dwelling units (mix of 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom) in a five-story multifamily building with parking garage, recreation area, swimming pool, and club room. The full record and full history are below.
Address: 37 Washington Avenue, Suffern, 1.865 acres, frontage on Washington Avenue and Suffern Place, north of the Community Center and Masjid Darul Ehsan Mosque and School; former Avon Nail Enamel building site
Jurisdiction: Village of Suffern (not mailing address)
Town: Suffern
Status: In review - NOT approved (Conditioned Negative Declaration only)
Status date: Conditioned Negative Declaration issued by Planning Board as lead agency, DEC bulletin 2026-02-25, 30-day public comment period; a Conditioned Negative Declaration is NOT a rezoning approval and NOT a site-plan approval - the notice says the applicant 'will seek' site plan approval IF the rezoning petition is approved
Plans, designs and renderings
No usable public plan, rendering, or site-plan image is on file for this project yet. A plan set that is SharePoint-only still needs a live-browser pass, and a project with no public plan at all is not given a borrowed image.
Full record
Units: 121 dwelling units (mix of 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom) in a five-story multifamily building with parking garage, recreation area, swimming pool, and club room
Stories / height: 5 stories
Site: Not stated in sources checked
Parking: 242 off-street parking spaces
Applicant / engineer: Suffern, WA, LLC; petition to Board of Trustees to rezone the site to the existing Transit Development District (TDD), then Planning Board site plan approval
Plan set: Five-story multifamily building with parking garage (petition + Conditioned Negative Declaration conditions: demolition/construction plans, SWPPP and final stormwater design satisfactory to DPW Director, building simulations from two vantage points)
Gaps: TDD rezoning decision after Feb 2026 Conditioned Negative Declaration; site-plan approval
Next check: Board of Trustees TDD rezoning decision; Planning Board site-plan review if rezoned
Blogable: YES
Infrastructure, paths and parks
Verified items only, from this project's plan set, conditions, or board record. A category with nothing listed here means nothing verified yet, not that the project has none.
- Drainage / stormwater: SWPPP and final stormwater design required, satisfactory to DPW Director (Conditioned Negative Declaration condition, 2026-02-25)
History — old statuses are kept, never overwritten
- 2026-02-25 — Planning Board as lead agency issued a Conditioned Negative Declaration (DEC bulletin), 30-day comment period - NOT a rezoning approval and NOT a site-plan approval (In review - NOT approved (Conditioned Negative Declaration only)) source
Words used on this page
- Negative Declaration: A Negative Declaration means the board found the project would have no significant impact on the environment.