GOSHEN—An Albany law firm has submitted a request for all documentation relating to LEGOLAND as the amusement park seeks a zoning change for property it is looking to develop in the Town of Goshen.
The law firm, Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna, LLP, said in its Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request it represented the Village of Kiryas Joel and asked for records like “originals and drafts of all laws, regulations, ordinances, procedures, correspondence, memoranda, emails, decisions, handwritten or other notes, meeting minutes and/or agendas” of the proposed LEGOLAND project.
While Town Supervisor Doug Bloomfield said he does not know what to make of the request, it is not unprecedented.
The Village has sought to involve itself in zoning changes at the former Camp La Guardia property, owned by the county but within the Village and Town of Chester and the Village of Blooming Grove, and has sued the Town of Woodbury over its comprehensive zoning plan, arguing it did not have enough affordable housing in it.
The Village of Kiryas Joel is a predominantly Hasidic community in the Town of Monroe that has been trying to annex a portion of the town for its growing population. In the county’s 2010 Comprehensive Plan, it calls Kiryas Joel “one of the fastest growing villages east of the Mississippi River.”
