צו געזונט האט געשריבן:אין די רעקארד ווערט געברענגט אז די עיקערס ראוד פראיעקט האט געקריגען א ווילעדזש אפפראוועל היינט.
Kiryas Joel condo project nears approval
KIRYAS JOEL — Village officials have nearly approved a 457-unit condo complex on Acres Road that will house an estimated 2,600 people on just 12 acres.
The village Planning Board approved a final environmental impact statement last month for Acres Point, one of six major housing developments being planned or already under construction in Kiryas Joel. Acres Point will consist of 16 buildings, each three or four stories high, that will hold 1,000-square-foot, four-bedroom condominiums, according to the impact statement, posted online at
http://www.lanctully.com/acrespoint.
The Planning Board must still adopt a findings statement to complete the environmental review and grant final approval for the Acres Point project. Workers already have cleared the site for construction.
In responses to Orange County Health Department questions that were part of the impact statement, Kiryas Joel’s consultants acknowledged the village doesn’t have enough water to supply Acres Point and two other projects in advanced stages. The other developments were the 1,600-unit Veyoel Moshe Gardens, which is under construction near the state police barracks on Nininger Road; and the 543-unit Acres Enclave on the former ACE Farm property, which is awaiting a final impact statement.
Those three projects alone would use up to 1.1 million gallons of water per day, Tom Cusack, Kiryas Joel’s water consultant, told the county in a June 17 letter. That is roughly half the amount of water the entire village of 25,000 used on its peak-usage day last year.
Kiryas Joel’s long-term plan to meet its growing water demand is the 13.5-mile pipeline that it has been building since 2013 to tap the Catskill Aqueduct, and that officials now hope to complete by the end of 2021. In the meantime, Cusack explained in his letter, the village may be able to supply initial phases of the new housing projects by tapping four wells it has