Village of New Paltz

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The regularly scheduled meeting of the Village of New Paltz Planning Board will be held Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 7:00 pm, at Village Hall, 25 Plattekill Avenue. Use the entrance adjacent to the former fire department garage bays. Kindly note that the agenda is subject to change. If you have questions or comments: planningzoning@villageofnewpaltz.org.

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• PB25-10 (29 S. Chestnut Street)

Please be advised that the Shade Tree Commissions’s regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 has been canceled.

We are looking for input to determine color combinations for the new courts. Construction of the new basketball court and two pickleball courts at Hasbrouck Park on Elting Avenue in front of St Joseph’s Church should be complete later this summer. However, we need help choosing paint colors.

We are forming a 7-person committee of NPHS students who will decide on the final color combination. Consider questions like:
– Will the bball and pickleball courts be the same color?
– Will the pickleball kitchen be a different color from the rest of its court?
– Will the bball lane and center court circle be different colors?
– Should all three courts, and out of bounds areas, all be painted just one color like yellow or dove grey?
– Do we use a total of 1, 2, 3, or 4 colors?

Please send your design idea (description + illustration) to mayor@villageofnewpaltz.gov so we may share with the NPHS student committee as soon as possible.

Link to court layout and sample colors: https://photos.app.goo.gl/gHpEgJqZhFG9tRDKA

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The regularly scheduled meeting of the Village of New Paltz Zoning Board of Appeals will be held Tuesday, May 13, at 7:00 pm, at Village Hall, 25 Plattekill Avenue. Use the entrance adjacent to the former fire department garage bays.  Kindly note that the agenda is subject to change. If you have any questions contact planningzoning@villageofnewpaltz.org.

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Please click here: May 2025 Agenda to view the agenda for the regular meeting of the Design Review Board & Historic Preservation Commission meeting on Monday, May 12 2025, at 7:00 pm.

The meeting will be held at Village Hall, First Floor Meeting Room, and via Zoom, streaming and archived on the Village YouTube page. Members will attend in person. Applicants may join via Zoom, with the Board’s approval. Please email hpc@villageofnewpaltz.org if you have questions.

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Dial-in: +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) | Meeting ID: 884 2132 0126 | Passcode: 644235

TOWN OF NEW PALTZ and VILLAGE OF NEW PALTZ
NOTICE OF JOINT PUBLIC HEARING
(Petition for Annexation of property from Town of New Paltz to Village of New Paltz)

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that a Petition, dated March 4, 2025, pursuant to Article 17, “Municipal Annexation Law,” of the General Munipal Law of the State of New York, has been received by the Town Board of the Town of New Paltz, Ulster County, New York (Town Board”) and by the Board of Trustees of the incorporated Village of New Paltz (“Village Board”) regarding the lands owned by the persons and/or entities set forth below as follows:

Tax ID                   Street Address                 Size                       Owner

86.4-2-4.340    21 Cross Creek       5.40 acres      Beautiful Monster LLC & Andrew’s Wave LLC

86.4-2-3.119     Route 32 South    123.90 acres  Beautiful Monster LLC & Andrew’s Wave LLC

The Petitioners are: Beautiful Monster LLC and Andrew’s Wave LLC, which entities seek to annex the above-described lands from the Town of New Paltz into the Village of New Paltz. A copy of the Petition is available at: https://www.townofnewpaltz.org/home/news/new-paltz-apartments-annexation-petition-documents.

NOW, THEREFORE, PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Joint Public Hearing will be held by the Town Board and Village Board on the 5th day of June, 2025, at 7:00 o’clock p.m. at the Town Courthouse, 59 North Putt Corners Road, New Paltz, New York in person and virtually by phone (dial in +1 929 205 6099, Meeting ID: 836 6723 4905, Passcode: 883506) and online
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83667234905?pwd=MVRkSDJPczREN0ZRblMxRlJ0ZldVQT09
at which time, or as soon thereafter as practicable, all persons interested therein shall be heard. Testimony, evidence and information shall be heard on any of the grounds set forth in subdivision 1 of Section 705 of the General Municipal Law, namely:

a. That a person signing the petition is not qualified therefor; or
b. That the persons signing the petition do not represent the owners of a majority in assessed valuation of the real property in the annexation  territory; or
c. That the petition does not otherwise substantially comply in form or content with the provisions of the Annexation Law; or
d. That the annexation proposed is or is not in the overall public interest (1) of the territory proposed to be annexed, or (2) of the local      government to which the territory is proposed to be annexed; or (3) of the remaining area of the local government in which such territory is situated, or (4) of any school district, fire district or other district corporation, public benefit corporation, fire protection district, fire alarm district or town or county improvement district, situated wholly or partly in the territory proposed to be annexed.

The hearing may be closed on that date or adjourned to another date, as the Town Board and the Village Board deem appropriate, but must be concluded within ten days after the date fixed for the hearing herein.

The Town of New Paltz and the Village of New Paltz will make every effort to assure that the hearing is accessible to persons with disabilities. Anyone requiring special assistance and/or reasonable accommodation should contact the Town Clerk.

Dated: May 8, 2025
BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD AND VILLAGE BOARD OF NEW PALTZ,

ROSANNA ROSENKRANSE, TOWN CLERK
NICOLE MACLEAN, DEPUTY VILLAGE CLERK

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The regularly scheduled meeting of the Village of New Paltz Planning Board will be held Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 7:00 pm, at Village Hall, 25 Plattekill Avenue. Use the entrance adjacent to the former fire department garage bays. Kindly note that the agenda is subject to change. If you have questions or comments: planningzoning@villageofnewpaltz.org.

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Drinking water violation: we keep learning, and must keep improving

Our updated drinking water filtration plant went online in 2019 and provides noticeably better finished water. The system’s microfiltration membranes do a wonderful job removing turbidity. Some aspects of the new system even help us save money.

For instance, the new system generates less sludge that accumulates at the bottom of the plant’s lagoons, needing to be hauled away. Lagoons are like large outdoor swimming pools with a lining. Our lagoons were rebuilt during the summer of 2019, as part of the plant’s $5.5 million upgrade.

The filter’s backwash and collected solids are moved to the lagoons during the treatment process. In the lagoons, sludge waste settles and separates from supernatant (soo-per-NAY-tent). The supernatant is the clear water that is returned back to the head of the plant and blended with aqueduct or reservoir water. Sludge gets removed, is dried, and is then hauled to landfills.

With the old plant, we hauled away approximately 100,000 gallons of sludge per year. Our most recent contract price was $0.26 per gallon to haul. Sludge hauling was the fourth largest (of eight main components) that dictate the cost of water after: 1) Untreated water purchases (NYC DEP), 2) Plant Operations and Staffing, and 3) Electricity.

With the new plant, the number of gallons needing to be hauled has been reduced by almost 50%. In addition to costing less to haul the sludge away, we have saved on labor because now it takes less than two days to clean the lagoons.

However, this savings will be going away. Unfortunately, for the second time since the fall of 2021, sampling for Haloacetic Acids 5 (HAA5) at one of the Village’s testing locations recently surpassed the EPA’s limit of 60 ppb (parts per billion) in drinking water.

HAA5s can form as disinfection by-products when chlorine reacts with dissolved natural organic matter found in surface water supplies. Disinfection of municipal water, a federal and state requirement, is necessary to prevent illness by killing bacteria and viruses.

HAA5s are considered to be possibly carcinogenic to humans when consumed in excess of maximum contaminant levels, over many years, because of evidence in experimental laboratory animals and limited evidence in people.

After the average for HAA5 at one of the Village’s testing locations through 9/30/21 reached 61.2 ppb, our engineers and plant operator made adjustments, including using less chlorine for disinfection. The new plant with microfiltration membranes uses more chlorine than the old plant that was in service for about 30 years before 2019’s plant overhaul. We believe that the post-2021 adjustments have helped with HAA5 levels, but we were disappointed to see a recent sample, again, greater than the EPA’s maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 60 ppb (parts per billion).

As described above, and so we may finally break this pattern, we will pursue the following:

1) Move to hauling away sludge from the lagoons twice per year, instead of just once.
2) Increase sampling within our conveyance system to monthly from quarterly to hopefully identify patterns that should provide additional information.
3) Modify the wall separating our two lagoons that we hope will improve its functionality and standing sludge issues.
4) Work with DEC officials and speak with other regional water plant operators to investigate whether a State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit for the supernatant may be a better long-term solution.

There is nothing you need to do. You do not need to boil your water or take other corrective actions. If a situation arises where water is no longer safe to drink, you will be notified within 24 hours.

Please share this information with anyone else who drinks this water, especially those who may not have received this notice directly (for example, people in apartments, nursing homes, schools, and businesses). You can do this by posting this notice in a public place or distributing copies by hand or mail. This notice is being shared per the Village of New Paltz State Water System ID#: NY5503379.

For more information, please do not hesitate to contact the Village of New Paltz at 845-255-0130 or at 25 Plattekill Ave, New Paltz, NY 12561.

Mayor Tim Rogers