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Planning Board approves amended site plan delaying county operations permit requirement for farmworker housing
Summary
The Town of Goshen Planning Board approved a second-amended conditional approval requiring the applicant to supply an Orange County Department of Health operations permit before specified building approvals for farmworker housing on Cedar Swamp Road.
The Town of Goshen Planning Board approved a second amended resolution of conditional approval for an amended site plan and special permit for farmworker housing on about 43.2 acres on Cedar Swamp Road, modifying the project’s sequencing to require the Orange County operations permit before a certificate of completion for certain building work.
John Furst, attorney with Mann & Ryder, spoke for the applicant and described the requested change as a reordering of the project’s conditions: because the applicant has not closed on the parcel and cannot practically install the proposed water-supply system before ownership transfer, the board agreed to a condition that ties issuance of certain building approvals to receipt of the Orange…
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