{"id":5414,"date":"2021-05-21T19:18:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2021-08-28T12:55:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T09:55:21","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses-plan-mega-facility-in-ramapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/jehovahs-witnesses-plan-mega-facility-in-ramapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah’s Witnesses plan mega facility in Ramapo"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAMAPO \u2013 Residents can offer Ramapo officials their views on the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ planned mega audiovisual-dormitory complex and the development’s environmental impacts.<\/p>\n

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A written comment period is open until June 21. The Ramapo Town Board will host a virtual public hearing on May 26 for residents to comment on the environmental impact of the worldwide religious organization’s potential tax-exempt development. The board is the lead agency on approving the development.<\/p>\n

Jehovah’s Witnesses, also known as Watchtower, has petitioned Ramapo to build a production center for its religious materials amid 242 acres outside Sloatsburg, with seven acres extending into the Orange County community of Tuxedo.<\/p>\n

Group officials have said the development and living facility would be self-contained off 155 Sterling Mine Road. The development would integrate work and living buildings designed for followers to support the Christian denomination’s increasing production of Bible-based audio and video programs.<\/p>\n

The complex would resemble a small village and include 645 apartments in 10 buildings for up to 1,240 residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAMAPO \u2013 Residents can offer Ramapo officials their views on the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ planned mega audiovisual-dormitory complex and the development’s environmental impacts. A written comment period is open until June 21. The Ramapo Town Board…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5416,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions\/5416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}