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===={{Anchor|Local impact of growth}}Locally==== [[Image:KJ bus stop sign.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.6|A bilingual bus stop sign in English and [[Yiddish]].{{efn|On the top sign, the Yiddish text is a transliteration of the English "Kiryas Joel Bus Transportation Bus Stop"; on the bottom, "Village Bus Stop".}}]] The Town of Monroe also contains two other villages β [[Monroe (village), New York|Monroe]], and [[Harriman, New York|Harriman]]. Kiryas Joel's boundaries also come close to the neighboring towns of [[Blooming Grove, New York|Blooming Grove]] and [[Woodbury, Orange County, New York|Woodbury]]. Residents of these communities and local [[Orange County, New York|Orange County]] politicians view the village as encroaching on them.<ref name="NYT-Santos"/> Due to the rapid population growth in Kiryas Joel, resulting almost entirely from the high birth rates of its Hasidic population, the village government has undertaken various [[annexation]] efforts to expand its area, to the dismay of the majority of the residents of the surrounding communities. Many of these area residents see the expansion of the high-density residential-commercial village as a threat to the [[quality of life]] in the surrounding suburban communities, due to [[suburban sprawl]]. Other concerns of the surrounding communities are the impact on local [[aquifer]]s and the projected increased volume of sewage reaching the county's [[sewerage treatment]] plants, already near capacity by 2005. On August 11, 2006, residents of Woodbury voted, by a 3-to-1 margin, to incorporate much of the town as a village, to constrain further annexation. Kiryas Joel has opposed such moves in court.<ref> {{cite news | title = KJ tries to stop village vote | first = Chris | last = McKenna | url = http://archive.recordonline.com/archive/2006/08/03/news-camappeal-08-03.html | newspaper = Times Herald-Record | publisher = Orange County Publications | location = Middletown, New York | date = August 3, 2006 | access-date = March 22, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111208000339/http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS14 | archive-date = December 8, 2011 | url-status = live }} </ref> In March 2007, the village of Kiryas Joel sued the county to stop it from selling off {{convert|1|e6USgal|m3}} of excess capacity at its sewage plant in Harriman. Two years earlier, the county had sued the village to stop its plans to tap into New York City's [[Catskill Aqueduct]], arguing that the village's environmental review for the project had inadequately addressed concerns about the additional wastewater it would generate. The village was appealing an early ruling which sided with the county.<ref name="sewer suit"> McKenna, Chris; March 6, 2007; "[http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/NEWS/703060313/-1/NEWS Kiryas Joel sues county over sewage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914024438/http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20070306%2FNEWS%2F703060313%2F-1%2FNEWS |date=2016-09-14 }}"; ''[[Times-Herald Record]]''; retrieved March 6, 2007. </ref> In its action, Kiryas Joel accused the county of inconsistently claiming limited capacity in its suit when it is selling the million gallons to three communities outside its sewer district. In 2017, the village proposed to settle a lawsuit over some additional annexations it had proposed by petitioning the county legislature to allow it to become the county's 21st [[Administrative divisions of New York#Town|town]]. It would be named [[Palm Tree, New York|Palm Tree]], after the English translation of Joel Teitelbaum's name. In return for the village dropping its request to annex {{convert|507|acre|ha}}, United Monroe and Preserve Hudson Valley, the plaintiffs, agreed to withdraw their appeal of a decision allowing the annexation of a {{convert|164|acre|ha|adj=on}} parcel. The new town would also be prohibited from filing annexation proposals or encouraging the creation of new villages for 10 years. Two-thirds of the county legislature must approve the creation of the new town, and a vote of Monroe residents may also be required.<ref name="Mid-Hudson News Palm Tree story">{{cite news|title=Deal to create Town of Palm Tree to go before Orange County legislators, maybe Monroe voters|url=https://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2017/July/20/TownPalmTree_OCL-20Jul17.html|newspaper=Mid-Hudson News|date=July 20, 2017|access-date=July 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108152135/https://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2017/July/20/TownPalmTree_OCL-20Jul17.html|archive-date=November 8, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The referendum passed on November 7, 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.recordonline.com/news/20171107/kiryas-joels-split-from-monroe-overwhelmingly-approved|title=Kiryas Joel's split from Monroe overwhelmingly approved|access-date=November 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108224252/http://www.recordonline.com/news/20171107/kiryas-joels-split-from-monroe-overwhelmingly-approved |archive-date=November 8, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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