Tartikov / Congregation Rabbinical Institute of Tartikov
In litigation — NOT approved
In plain words
Tartikov / Congregation Rabbinical Institute of Tartikov is a housing project in Pomona, at 65-67 Route 306. In court. Not under construction. It would bring Proposed: up to 255 students + 255 student/family housing units. The full record and full history are below.
Address: 65-67 Route 306
Jurisdiction: Village of Pomona (not mailing address)
Town: Pomona
Status: NOT approved - in federal litigation
Status date: Applications Oct 2023; special permit + site plan denied 2024-04-01 on accreditation grounds; ZBA variance denied 2024; S.D.N.Y. Opinion 2026-09-28 (No. 25-CV-1471) allowed equal-protection, free-exercise, speech/association, Fair Housing, RLUIPA claims to proceed - NOT an approval
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: Proposed: up to 255 students + 255 student/family housing units
Stories / height: Not verified - no plan set found
Site: 119.55 acres, 12 parcels, R-40; property acquired 2004, litigation since ~2007
Parking: Not verified
Applicant / engineer: Attorney Daniel Ruzow; engineer Dennis Rocks, Brooker Engineering PLLC, Suffern (per ZBA minutes)
Plan set: No Oct 2023 application site plan / rendering / layout found as parsable text or direct PDF. Do NOT model from 42,000 SF / 255-unit program figures alone.
Gaps: Entire site plan, footprints, heights, housing-block layout, Brooker sheet numbers.
Next check: Pomona Board Oct-Nov 2023 packets + ZBA 2024 page live; Village Hall file at 100 Ladentown Rd
Blogable: YES as legal / religious-liberty story only, status caveat first paragraph
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.
No infrastructure item is verified in this project's record yet.
History — old statuses are kept, never overwritten
- 2023-10-01 — Four applications filed (special permit, site plan, use variances, zone-change petition for Special Institutional Education Zoning District) - month approximate, Oct 2023 (Applications filed) source
- 2024-04-01 — Building Inspector denies special-permit and site-plan applications on accreditation grounds (1 Apr 2024); ZBA variance denied 2024 (Denied) source
- 2026-09-28 — S.D.N.Y. Opinion & Order No. 25-CV-1471 allows equal-protection, free-exercise, speech/association, Fair Housing, RLUIPA claims to proceed - NOT an approval (In federal litigation, claims proceed) source
Words used on this page
- ZBA: ZBA is the zoning appeals board. It decides requests to vary from the zoning rules.