Senior Housing & Chipotle Is Coming: News From The Woodbury Planning Board

84-unit senior housing planned for Highland Mills off Rt. 32 and Ford Avenue

Yes. I know. There is a Chipotle in Woodbury Common.

However, if you’re a local, the odds are good that you avoid the Commons entirely. Especially on the weekend.

I can’t say I blame you.

I try to avoid that stretch of Route 32 whenever possible.

Especially after the redesign, which somehow took a relatively straightforward state road — plagued with traffic — and turned it into an M.C. Escher painting.

Tell me again why we couldn’t have just put a train station inside the commons?

Oh. Right. The Port Jervis line needs $227 million in upgrades to make it a viable alternative.

There’s a race going on in Orange County to see what project finishes first before I die:

The successful and final conversion of Route 17 to Interstate 86 or upgrading the Port Jervis line to the point where it’s a viable mass transit option.

Fun fact: I was at the Duck Cedar Inn when they announced the planned conversion of Route 17 to I-86. The guy who made that announcement? Orange County Legislator Spencer McLaughl…