While mathematically, absentee and mailed-in ballots could change the outcome of Tuesday’s defeat of Stony Point’s deal to sell the golf course and 26 acres of Letchworth Village to a local developer, the supervisor isn’t counting on that to happen. Jim Monaghan backed the plan and he won re-election easily, but the plan unofficially went down in defeat, dealing the town a blow in its goal to unload the Patriot Hills golf course and have the buildings at Letchworth remediated. Monaghan is concerned people will start to think Stony Point is anti-development…
George Potanovic is the President of SPACE, the Stony Point Action Committee for the Environment, and has accused the town board of making a deal in secret without allowing it to be held up to public scrutiny…
Monaghan denies Potanovic’s accusations and says concerns over multi-family housing were unfounded and would not have happened.