Monroe, NY – The report reviewing the impact of expanding Kiryas Joel in Monroe by 164 acres has begun.
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Record Online (http://bit.ly/1vNmyne) reports that village officials finalized the study topics last month, opening the door for Tim Miller Associates in Cold Spring to assemble a draft of the environmental impact statement.
The company is studying the 164-acre annexation in addition to an earlier proposal to move 507 acres of Monroe into Kiryas Joel in response to a previous legal objection to the environmental review itself.
Consultants will evaluate the effect annexation would have on traffic, the effect of cost to Orange County taxpayers and on the character of the Town of Woodbury.
Orange County Planning Commissioner David Church asked for a detailed analysis of the impact on the village and county sewer systems, including estimates of how much additional wastewater Kiryas Joel would create.
Property owners who are part of both proposals petitioned for the annexation of the smaller amount of land without withdrawing the larger one, spurring criticism that a study that focused only on the 164-acre proposal would lead to an illegal division of the proposed 507 acres.
The earlier proposal is undetermined still because the state Department of Environmental Conservation was asked in February of this year to choose the Monroe Town Board or Kiryas Joel Village Board as the lead agency for the environmental review, but the DEC has not chosen yet.
John Furst, an attorney for the Town of Woodbury, objected the review of the 507 acres while the first review is pending. He states that even if consultants examine the impact of a 507-acre expansion of Kiryas Joel as part of the current review, the village ultimately ignored the DEC’s choice of lead agency.
“Rather than wait for the DEC’s choice of the lead agency between the Town of Monroe and the Village on the 507-acre annexation proposal, the Village here is simply commencing the review itself,” Furst said.
Information taken from Record Online
Info posted online with the anexation review and maps here
You need to study the impact of traffic and character of the Woodbury township? I’ll tell you the answer w/o any study.
Where is the study for Woodbury Commons expansion…Why dont we see them in the headlines, when they cause backup traffic on the thruway for miles long.the mess they cause every sunday and holiday times. look at the ugly parking lot that just opened blocking the beautiful view we used to see coming off exit 16
the problem here is the jews and the anti semites who dont want us as neighbors.
They dont want us in bloomingburg,ramapo,monsey ..buti have bad news for them,we are here to stay