Town Of Chester Will Vote TONIGHT On Building Moratorium

Decision will impact Chester side of a Monroe housing development on Lakes Road near the proposed site of Henry Farms mega development.

Tonight at 7pm, the Town of Chester will vote on implementing a building moratorium.

If you want to be there for the meeting, you’ll have to visit the Chester Town Hall on 1786 Kings Highway.

If you can’t make it, and think the Town of Chester should pass their building moratorium, you can also send in a public comment to Linda Zappala, Chester’s Town Clerk.

Her email address is: LZappala@thetownofchester.org. Make sure to include “Public Comment Submission For 2/28/24 Town Board Meeting” in your subject line.

The moratorium, if approved, will last anywhere between six to nine months and will need to periodically be revisited by the board sort of like what the Village of Woodbury does with its own building moratorium.

Perhaps not coincidentally, two of the Village of Woodbury’s newly-elected councilmen are VERY eager to end the building moratorium over there.

Funny that.

The Chester moratorium will impact what appears to be an end run to get around the Town of Monroe’s Planning Board inv…