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Philmont Planning Board approves large, expensive housing project on Summit Lake
On April 18 the Philmont Planning Board voted to approve The Woods, the Clover Reach Partners’ housing project in Philmont. Developers want to build 16 expensive single-family homes on 22 acres along Summit Lake in Philmont and initially got approval from the Planning Board last year. But an Article 78 lawsuit from a group of local citizens reversed that approval, so the planning board went through the process again, with a March 20 public hearing where a majority of residents speaking opposed the project, and evidence was introduced about the project's danger to bald eagles, while others complained the project did not get a full environmental review. Here is audio of the vote from the live WGXC webstream of the meeting: Click here to download or play audio of the vote. WGXC has a link to audio of the entire meeting on the WGXC Newsroom at wgxc.org.