Vol. 37, No. 21 3 WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2019
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Montgomery residents fight auto facility
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
John Brown and Leonard Brown, of the
Historic Brown Family Farm, LLC, filed an
appeal to overturn the use determination
for BHT-Montgomery, which could lead to
the project being rejected by the Town of
Montgomery planning board.
Town of Montgomery Building
Inspector Walter Schmidt ruled the
property to be an auto sales lot and
automobile recycling facility because it
fit the dictionary definition—despite the
town code not containing a definition
for that use—and granted the special
exception use permit.
The 118-acre project will contain about
4,115 parking spaces for storage of used
inoperable insurance salvage/resale
vehicles, according to the draft scoping
document for the Draft Environmental
Impact Statement (DEIS). It also includes
a 9,900 square foot motor vehicle sales
building and a 70,000-square-foot drop
off and pick up area. Cars will be sold
through an online auction.
John Brown, Leonard Brown and
the Historic Brown Family Farm,
LLC requested that the Zoning Board
of Appeals (ZBA) reverse Schmidt’s
determination and determine that the use
is a junkyard, which is prohibited under
town zoning law.
“We have a ruling from the zoning
enforcement officer that we think is
wrong, and we don’t want it to stay on the
books,” Attorney with Rodenhausen Chale
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Keeping in step
The Walker Valley Band marched Sunday in the New Windsor Memorial Day Parade. A complete list of area Memorial Day Parades and services
is on page 6.
Dilapidated
Deli irks
neighbors
Maybrook eyesore prompts concerns
from village residents
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
The boarded-up, dilapidated building
at 305 Homestead Avenue in Maybrook
has peeling paint and visible holes. One
Maybrook resident wants something
done about the eyesore, also known as
the red deli.
The deli was closed about eight or
nine years ago. Maybrook resident Linda
Amodio contacted the board in June of
2016 about the deli, however her contact
dropped off about a year and a half
ago because she felt she wasn’t getting
anywhere.
The eyesore breeds raccoons, cats,
rodents, bats and other pests, which
infiltrate her yard and pose a health risk.
In an email sent to Maybrook Mayor
Dennis Leahy in June 2016, Amodio said
the building was full of holes.
“When I’m sitting on the side patio
that’s what I have to look at,” Amodio
said.
Maybrook Mayor Dennis Leahy said the
village is doing what it can to take care of
the building. The board recently issued a
violation notice, which is pending before
the courts. When Amodio first contacted
the village, Leahy said there was little
the village could do without infringing
on property owner’s rights because the
building was properly secured.
“Under the zombie laws of the state,
the requirements of the property owner
was to have the building properly sealed
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