The Springfield town board decided to toss out proposed revisions to a model site plan review law and instead adopted the original version during its meeting Monday night. Passage of the law prompted the threat of a lawsuit from Dreams Park-style baseball camp developer Victor Alfieri, a Rockland County attorney. During the meeting, held in front of a packed room, Alfieri sat beside Ross Valenza, owner of the Diamond Tee Golf Range in Springfield which is the site for the proposed camp. Councilman Gary Sikkema said that this is not the only project in development in Springfield right now, citing the implementation of cell phone towers, and that the process of developing a site plan review law has been going on for a long time.
Time is money.
I can't borrow money for a year and a half until this goes through. Everybody's got the idea that this is rosy and fair, but it's not. Alfieri said that he had been asked to hold off on this project so that it could become subject to the law. You're going to be a member of the community. At the mention of a possible court remedy, people in attendance, including members of Advocates for Springfield, began to demand that the town board pass the original site plan review.