The city Planning Board in Chester, N.Y., must soon decide if a barn believed to have been the home for Hambletonian should be renovated at an estimated cost of $100,000 by the developer of the property where the barn is located.
According to a story in the Middletown, N.Y., Times Herald-Record, Jon Shafran, the developer of the Eagle Crest subdivision, has already spent thousands of dollars for an engineering study of the barn to determine the repairs needed and their cost. The Planning Board must decide if it is in the best interest of the community to have the developer restore the barn. If the Planning Board decides not to save the barn a monument would be put up to recognize its significance.