PUBLIC HEARING CANCELLED

A meeting concerning a proposed House of Worship in an established housing development in Chestnut Ridge was cancelled on Thursday evening, September 11, due to a glitch in the Public Notice. Those who came to voice concerns about the project were left instead voicing their disappointment outside of the meeting hall.

The village had proposed an updated House of Worship law in 2025, which had hoped to require at least five acres for any new HOW. This was quashed by the courts in May 2025.  The property at 29 Wallace Drive is less than one acre, and now that the five-acre HOW law is being challenged in the courts, the developers may rely on the village’s preexisting law to accomplish their goal.

One resident, who wished to remain anonymous, expects the house of worship on Wallace Drive to come to fruition, saying that the applicant—Khal South Dexter Park—would have to file for nine separate variances with the Zoning Board of Appeals in order to bring the project to fruition.  Residents who came to the hearing were urged to come back to the Thursday, October 16 Planning Board meeting to express their concerns about the proposed plan. Hopefully, at the October meeting, attendants will be able to voice their concerns inside the meeting hall.

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