Hours before public hearing, lawsuit filed over Westwood development

AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB)- A legal battle is brewing in Amherst over the future of the Westwood Country Club. Just hours before a planned public hearing, site owner Mensch Capital Partners filed a lawsuit against the Town of Amherst and its Board.
The lawsuit claims, among other things, the Town Board convened a number of executive sessions illegally, violating the State’s open meetings law. It alleges the board used those closed-door meetings to come up with a strategy to accelerate the p