New Paltz town council members have rejected the application to have the property of the proposed New Paltz Apartments project annexed into the village, setting up a likely court case to resolve the fact that village trustees last month voted to approve the move. In a two-hour meeting on the morning of the last day to act, September 15, council members went over the various reasons they found that annexation would not be in the public interest. Two questions also hung over the entire process. The first is whether voters will be asked to merge village and town governments in some way, and how they might decide. The second is why, if more housing for students is needed, don’t state officials step up and pay for dormitories?

Supervisor Amanda Gotto has recently registered distaste for public

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