Town Rules On Petition For Edgemont Incorporation

EDGEMONT, NY — The Town of Greenburgh supervisor has determined that the petition for a referendum vote for making the hamlet of Edgemont into a village was not sufficient and therefore tossed out. Supervisor Paul Feiner said the process for incorporating a village in the state is defined in New York State Village law.

He said the standards outlined in the law were clearly not met by the petition which was filed May 28.

Feiner said the petition did not accurately describe the territory proposed to be incorporated "in a manner which meets the standard of NYS Village Law."

He also said there were deficiencies in the required documents. For one, the petition did not contain the requisite number of acceptable signatures required by the law.

The petition did not include "a reasonably accurate list" of regular inhabitants of the proposed village, Feiner said.

The Edgemont Incorporation Committee called Feiner's decision absurd and said he had an anti-incorporation bias. The committee said it is evaluating options for its next step.

A previous petition, which Feiner also said was not sufficient, was ruled invalid in October by a unanimous Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court.

In part, the court ruled that Feiner's conclusion that the petition did not have an accurate list of a regular inhabitants and did not include a proper description of the territory was valid.