Legacy Ridge won't build us a school.

By Margaret Menge Cornwall Local

"No. Because there's no evidence that it's needed," Gerry Jacobowitz said last week when asked whether his client would consider footing the cost to build an elementary school in the Legacy Ridge development. Jacobowitz' client is Millenium Homes, the developer of Legacy Ridge, the subject of the Feb. 26 hearing before Woodbury's Village Board. In the second round of comments, Anthony Incanno of Cornwall had asked the board to request that the developer build a school to house the kids that will be "generated" by the 287 four­bedroom homes to be built. But Jacobowitz says it's not needed, and that Brendan Coyne, the pres­ident of Cornwall's school board, didn't prove otherwise. "If you lis­tened to what he [Coyne] said, he said four schools are near being at capacity . He didn't make a case," Jacobowitz said to the Local. Jacobowitz also said they're stick­ing with the Rutgers University study that predicts that each four bedroom home will "generate" just 1.01 children, saying the study is "consistent with what's used by all developers in the region."