The organizers of Woodstock’s 50th anniversary festival have lost yet another battle to stage their event, after town officials in Vernon, N.Y., rejected an appeal for permits, leaving the embattled concert without a venue just 30 days before its scheduled opening.

In a meeting on Tuesday evening, the Vernon Planning Board refused to give festival organizers permission to use the Vernon Downs racetrack. The board affirmed an earlier decision by the town’s code officer that had found Woodstock’s applications inadequate.

The organizers of the anniversary concert, known as Woodstock 50 — among them Michael Lang, who promoted the original Woodstock festival in 1969 — said in a statement late Tuesday that they were disappointed by the decision.

“We regret that those in Vernon who supported Woodstock have been deprived of the once-in-a-lifetime chance to be part of the rebirth of a cultural peace movement that changed the world in 1969 and is what the world needs now,” the statement reads.