Overview
50-Acre Development Opportunity
This 50-acre property presents a development opportunity near New York City, public transportation, and the Pennsylvania border. The land is zoned RP (Ridge Preservation) in the Town of Greenville, Orange County, New York. The zoning permits the development of a hotel or motel, single-family and one-to-two family houses such as attached or row houses and townhouses, and summer colonies. Permitted uses include agricultural operations such as raising field and garden crops, sod, vineyard and orchard farming, nurseries, keeping, breeding, and raising cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and horses, and fowl. Outdoor commercial amusement establishments such as game farms, museum villages, golf driving ranges, swimming pools, beaches, skating rinks, and ski, toboggan, and snowmobile areas are also permitted. Other permitted uses include outdoor recreational facilities such as private playgrounds, golf clubs, swimming pools, tennis courts, and fishing, as well as billboards, boardinghouses, lodging houses, tourist homes, camps, camping grounds for recreational vehicles and camping and travel trailers, cemeteries, columbaria, churches or similar places of worship, convents, monasteries, clustered development of single-family and multifamily dwellings, and combinations of row and multiple dwellings. The property features Mud Pond, which could be a focal point for development. It is bordered by New York State's 1,450-acre Huckleberry Ridge State Forest, divided into 11 parcels. The property is near U.S. Route 6 and in proximity to dining, lodging, gas, food, and other supplies available in nearby Port Jervis. Nearby state lands and facilities include Neversink River Unique Area, Graham Mountain State Forest, and Montauk Valley Wildlife Management Area.