State report profiles seven Hudson Valley towns

Philipstown and six other municipalities are profiled in a new state Department of Environmental publication that highlights conservation practices. 

Natural Resources Protection in the Hudson Valley: Municipal Conservation Stories (on.ny.gov/4dv0c3s) gives Philipstown a “high” rating for initiatives such as a natural resource inventory; special zoning districts to protect open space, drinking water and other natural resources; and hiring a natural resources officer.  

Researchers interviewed Andy Galler, chair of the Philipstown Conservation Board, and Nat Prentice, chair of the Comprehensive Plan Committee. The report also profiles Bedford, Beekman, Milan, Nassau, New Paltz and Woodstock.

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One reply on “DEC Highlights Philipstown Conservation”

  1. I’m so glad Continental Village was mentioned by Nat Prentice in the Philipstown section of the state Department of Environmental Conservation report. We have wetlands, brooks, a lake with a million-dollar dam and ponds and streams that all end up in the Hudson River. Every board in Philipstown forgets us. We have to beg the Town Board to release funds for projects we need now.

    Our lake is failing because of septic systems and nitrogen pouring into it. We need more aerators, and the playground has been unusable for years. We must wait and wait, having been told for years that Philipstown didn’t have the money when it did — it just wasn’t budgeted.

    Because the small population once voted to be included in the newly built Lakeland Central School District, we pay three times the tax rate of the Garrison school district properties. We are a hamlet of modestly priced properties compared to our Garrison School district neighbors and are paying at a rate of more than 110 percent assessed value compared to the properties who sell for millions in the Garrison district that are underassessed by an average of 50 percent thanks for the Town Board looking the other way from our part-time assessor’s inadequate work. Reassessments are urgently needed at full-market value and the tax burden applied fairly to all Philipstown properties. It pays to ignore the little people in Continental Village if you want to coddle the rich.

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