The Supreme Court has decided that Richard Troy of S&R can proceed with the development of a multi-family housing complex on his property on Dromore Road, between Greenburgh Nature Center (GNR) and the Edgemont Schools, based on an inaccurate map! The Paul’s defense? An Edgemont resident doesn’t like him. Yes, it’s so sad it’s almost laughable.
The courts have again decided against The Paul proving incompetence. While public opinion finds him guilty of many things, this time the case was the Dromore Road decision. There is a parcel of land between Central Avenue and the GNR that was purchased by S
& R Development Estates LLC (S & R), at what is considered 1 (and 62?) Dromore Road in Edgemont. The property valued by S&R at $10.2 million in 2005, was purchased for $1.4 million! It is approximately 2.25 acres and is located right off Central Avenue
between the Greenburgh Nature Center and the Edgemont High School campus at 99 Dromore Road.
Knowing that the Town maps incorrectly represented the area in question, The Paul and his feckless Board chose inaction regarding the property over correcting the issue. This was something within their purview and should have been addressed with the utmost diligence, yet was left ignored. ABG is forced by previous actions of The Paul and his incompetent Board, to wonder if S&R approached The Paul, waving a campaign donation(s) or something else as an incentive to look away, asking him to ignore the entire situation so their project could proceed? Given the benefactors The Paul has, and given how the developers dump their mega-projects on the Unincorporated Town, the developers always seem to prosper and neighborhoods lose. Hmmm.
The Fulton Park neighborhood, recently lost their three or four year battle against Westhab, ironically, as decisions against them were based again on faulty mapping of the area. In their case, Westhab used the incorrect map as the reason to proceed with the neighborhood’s overwhelming project because the Fulton Park Civic Association couldn’t substantiate traffic issues as incorrect zoning maps showed no traffic circle in the area! Some lifetime residents have attested that the traffic circle has been there since the development was created back in the 1930s. Ironically, the law firm representing Westhab in the Town is lead by former Democratic County Executive Alfred Benedict DelBello, where his website states he represents major corporations, developers and property owners in connection with all types of commercial and residential real estate and economic development projects and related government incentive programs. Hmmm.
Based on the extremely tedious court decision, with all of The Paul’s “ums”, “I don't recalls” and “it wasn’t me-s”, it’s understandable to the staffers in ABG’s office why the judge made the decision he did. However, ABG believes the court should be the arbitrator for right and wrong as well as deciding between two parties in court. ABG believes the correct decision here would not be based on an incorrect zoning map of an area, or the seemingly incoherent testimony of the Town Supervisor. Rather, the decision should be based on what the map should be corrected to and what is right and just. And, part of the judgement should also force the Town to correct said map immediately for Dromore Road and the other areas suffering the same negligence. In fact, it should mandate the Town to review all of it’s mapping and it’s mapping procedures. They may also want to provide an investigation of The Paul and his Stepford Board’s finances - just to be positive that everything is corrected.
We understand that there will be an appeal from the Edgemont group that initiated the original lawsuit. They seem to be on the right track toward a more fair and correct decision. We can only hope.
Read The Paul’s testimony here.
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