Construction workers place siding on the Newbury Hotel on July 11 in Coxsackie. Some work was permitted this month after a stop-work order was lodged in March.

COXSACKIE — Cranes and construction workers were once again laboring on the controversial hotel and events center on this Greene County village’s waterfront on Monday, three-and-a-half months after a stop-work order was slapped on the project when it diverged from what the village Planning Board had approved, violating village code.

The construction was permitted after the developer, Aaron Flach, submitted applications for new building permits on June 20.

Though the village Planning Board is reviewing parts of the Newbury Hotel and The Wire Events Center that broke with what it had approved in 2019, the new permits allow Flach to continue developing parts of the project not explicitly under review, according to Village Attorney Rob Stout.

The new permit for The Wire amounts to $1.2 million in new construction, according to Flach’s application. It prohibits work on The Wire’s kitchen and deck, the two elements of the events center under review by the Planning Board, but otherwise allows the project to move forward with the completion of the HVAC system and the installation of solar panels, bathroom fixtures, electrical outlets, bathroom tiling and doors, as well as interior painting and other improvements.

Flach applied for a second building permit to do $9.2 million worth of work on the Newbury Hotel — though Flach had listed the cost of the entire project at $11 million in site plans submitted after the stop-work order. But this permit was denied by the village building inspector on June 24, the same day he approved the building permit for The Wire.

The Newbury Hotel contained most of the violations in the overall project, including the building’s footprint and height, the latter of which violated village code. Some work is being permitted to weatherproof the hotel, which had been partially open to the elements.

The new permit for The Wire and the denial of a permit for the Newbury were both signed by Village Code Enforcement Officer Michael Ragaini, who issued the development’s original permits and whose re-appointment was put on hold in early April after the violations came to light. Coxsackie Mayor Mark Evans referred all questions to Stout, the village attorney.

Ragaini was “still serving as Code Enforcement Officer, but the position of Code Enforcement Officer is still under review from the Village Board,” said Stout, who did not give the parameters of the review, citing it as a personnel issue.

The Planning Board allowed the development to forego a thorough review based on claims Flach made on the application he submitted in 2019. But when it became clear in March that the project was being built to different parameters, the board issued a stop-work order. In April, the Planning Board determined that the project necessitated a thorough review, using accurate site plans. The village’s Zoning Board must also decide whether to retroactively grant variances for the eight zoning violations it found after the stop-work order.

The Planning Board next meets on June 21 at 6 p.m.

Roger Hannigan Gilson covers Columbia and Greene counties for the Times Union. He has worked as a reporter in the northern Hudson Valley since 2014 and spends most of his additional time outdoors. Drop him a note at roger.hannigangilson@timesunion.com.