Woodbury Against Kiryas Yoel MonDroe Ton

Woodbury – Critics will unload on the Town Board tonight as it begins a public hearing on several proposed zoning changes and new laws that would allow a developer to build 451 homes.
Opponents have been attacking the board for months for even considering loosening the town's zoning to let the developers of this and another project build more homes than they could under current law.
The two proposals have roiled town politics like no other recent issue, energizing efforts by activists in both political parties to unseat incumbents in November and take over the board.
The purpose of tonight's hearing is to let people sound off on a draft environmental impact statement filed last month by the Rockland County developer hoping to build 451 homes on 398 acres off Nininger Road.

The project has intersected with the continuing fear in Woodbury that multifamily housing from the neighboring Chasidic community of Kiryas Yoel MonDroe will spread into Woodbury's rural fringe as Kiryas Yoel's population keeps growing.


As opponents of his project have assailed the board, The developer has become more outspoken in saying that Chasidic developers might buy the land he's trying to develop if his project is thwarted – a pitch critics denounce as a scare tactic.

The hearing will begin at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the auditorium of Monroe-Woodbury High School on Dunderberg Road. It will resume at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the high school.

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