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“A legal attempt to derail a planned massive housing development on a former golf course has been rejected by a judge.
Judge Keith Cornell dismissed a legal action seeking to nullify Ramapo’s approvals for a 637-unit housing enclave with businesses and open space at the former Minisceongo Golf Course.
Cornell, an acting Supreme Court justice, dismissed claims that the Town Board violated New York state environmental regulations when approving a higher density zone in March 2024 that would allow for the Miller’s Pond development amid 143.6 acres outside Pomona.
Proposed development of former Minisceongo Golf Course Image/Peter Carr The Journal News
The legal action — an Article 78 and an adjoining declaratory judgment annulling the approvals — was filed by environmental attorney Susan Shapiro on behalf of the Kearsing and Edwards American Legion Post 1600 and neighbors Marilyn Schwartz, Helen Fromen, and Helen Santos. Schwartz and Froman live in the Cambridge Heights Condominiums. Santos lives along Camp Hill Road.
The project is now before the Planning Board for site development plan approval. The neighbors can appeal Cornell’s decision to the Appellate Division. They could not be reached for comment. Shapiro declined comment on the decision, issued Feb. 25.
Court papers argued the town violated, among other things, state environmental procedures and town zoning. Specifically, they argued the town failed to take a “requisite hard look” at the development’s potential environmental impacts on the surrounding areas, including a condominium complex and the 172-acre Samuel G. Fisher Mount Ivy Environmental Park.”
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