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Residents living next to Kiryas Joel in the Hudson Valley have voted to allow its expansion.
Monday night’s vote in the Town of Monroe involved the annexation of 164 acres into Kiryas Joel, which local officials approved in September. The vote was 40 to 12 in favor of expansion.
The village said in a statement the vote clearly expressed the town’s desire to have their land annexed into the village.
A state judge in White Plains last week rejected a request from opponents to put a hold on the annexation vote. But she granted an injunction that keeps the annexation from taking place while the legal challenge proceeds.
Leaders of the densely settled enclave of Hasidic Jews say the village of 22,000 is bursting at the seams. Opponents of the annexation fear increased congestion in the suburban area.
(AP)
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Baruch Hashem. May the Yiddishe town be blessed to continue to grow by doubling or tripling every ten years.
Why did 12 residents vote against? I thought the borders of the proposal were specifically drawn to only include homes that wanted to join.
we have enough self-hating jews who don’t realize that by doing so they harm themselves and their own children who need to live somewhere when they get married.