Friday, September 08, 2023
Hasidic village plans in Sullivan County cleared for vote
The Viznitz Hasidic community's plans to incorporate an almost 1.5-square-mile village in the Catskills has cleared its first hurdle and may be headed to a referendum.
The supervisors of two Sullivan County towns where the proposed village of Ateres is located announced Friday that the petition submitted in June met all legal requirements. They had held two hearings in August and weighed signature objections and other potential flaws that could have invalidated the petition.
Their review deemed it valid. In a joint press release, Thompson Supervisor Bill Rieber and Fallsburg Supervisor Kathy Rappaport said opponents raised "many well-articulated objections" that they couldn't consider under the state's archaic law for creating villages. "No qualitative or quantitative analysis is even allowed," they lamented.
"Therefore, many of these objections, while full of merit, are not actual reasons for challenge based on the antiquated Village Law," the supervisors wrote.
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