local law that had to do with affordable housing and occupational preferences. Yeah. We we had mentioned several things. So I just I'm unclear what the process is. We we come up with these recommendations. Do they get rid up written up a letter that …

Good evening. If there's anyone from Croton one hundred still here, I'd like to just let you know I have a whole bunch of quilting fabric. I'd be happy to donate if you folks could use it. I'm Joel Gingold. I live at 55 Nordica Drive. Let me begin by…

Croton's Planning Board spent its February 24 meeting weighing in on two significant proposed zoning changes that could affect everything from backyard chicken coops to who gets priority for affordable housing in the village.

The second referral, Local Law Introductory No. 5 of 2026, would amend the village's affordable housing provisions to allow certain occupational preferences. The board engaged in a detailed discussion about implementation, questioning whether residen…

Okay. Well, then I would like to make recommendation back to the board of trustees that we have the flexibility to decrease it. I'm partly not trying to be difficult about this. The reason I'm bringing it up is, we've talked about this internally whe…

Moving on to the next item on the agenda. The, again, a referral from the board of trustees. This is, draft law five of 2026, to amend provisions relating to affordable housing to allow certain occupational preferences. Okay. So this is, this is inte…

So, this is quite a I don't remember the exact year, but quite a few numbers of years ago, Westchester wasn't meeting its quota when it comes to affordable housing, and they were kind of segmenting in the affordable housing that it stock that they ha…

additionally, additionally, whether they do or don't currently live within the village itself, this law would give them the ability to apply for the better for the affordable housing now that that they Assuming they meet the other assuming they meet …

PACE Land Use Law Center, where you've been, Steve Mhmm. And, the Housing Action Council. These are people who are deeply involved in affordable housing, throughout Westchester County in the 99 county region. And they went off and looked at these pro…

Yeah. So, Jeff, question on that. So e even with, private developer comes in and wants to put up a building and it triggers, you know, two or three or four affordable housing units, even though it's being privately funded, funded, not through any sta…

And what else on this before we go on to the CAFEAF? So this takes effect as soon as it's approved by the board. So it doesn't apply retroactively to Maple Commons or anything like that. As far as they they had a, what, a 6,000 waiting waiting list. …

from a, you know, a federal agency and whether it's gonna fly with them. Well, they they they actually administer a lot quite a lot of the grant money. So it depends on what what you're talking about. And they also condition some of their discretiona…

Alright. Anything else? K. Moving on to the CAF EAF for this. Let's do the coastal assessment form first. And same thing as the last one. I'll read the definition, local law introductory number five. Has been drafted to amend chapter two thirty zonin…

Ashton just scrolled up. Yeah. So this this helps. So this has some more information back of the, EAF. Village court has been studying the possibility of adding occupational preferences for new affordable housing units to the village code for some ti…

how is it defined? I wanna add to that. Right. Right. I do have a strong feeling, and that is I really don't wanna limit it. You know, people that are working as a health aid for somebody, these people make nothing. Mhmm. They're they're Right. They'…

The board also took a significant step toward the long-planned 100-unit affordable housing development at Lot A, the village-owned parcel at Croton Point Avenue and Veterans Plaza. By a 3-0 vote, with Trustee Slippen abstaining, the board authorized …

=== HEADLINE === Board Approves Lorraine Hansberry Street Honor After Red Scare Commentary === SUMMARY === Trustees voted to co-name a section of Cleveland Drive near the library for playwright Lorraine Hansberry, adopted a 3% short-term rental occu…

=== EXECUTIVE BRIEF === • Approved co-naming of Cleveland Drive near the library for Lorraine Hansberry • Adopted Local Law 4 of 2026, imposing a 3% occupancy tax on hotels, motels, and short-term rentals effective April 1 • Authorized village manage…

The board also authorized a project labor agreement for the publicly funded portions of the 100-unit affordable housing development at Lot A on Croton Point Avenue. The PLA covers infrastructure work — including a water main extension and new sewer l…

Whereas the village of Cordonan Hudson has owned a parcel located on the North side of Cordon Point Avenue at its intersection with Veterans Plaza, also known as TaxMap Parcel 79 Dot 17 Dash 1 Dash 5 since the nineteen sixties. And whereas in 2023, t…

Sure. So in terms of the, lot a, the PLA, the funds are not they're not village funds. These are Westchester County funds that are made available for the express purpose of building affordable housing. Right? It's the housing implementation fund prog…

Thank you for your presentation. The scorecard is very helpful because it shows the levers and how we're performing against each of these metrics. So one metric here under economy is called resident resident income ratio. My question is how might thi…

guess it depends. And I know there was an affordable housing project being built. But what is the number of the people that are living there compared to the total population of the village? I don't know if it would overall affect it greatly. You know…

The Croton-on-Hudson Board of Trustees took a major step forward Tuesday night on the village’s largest affordable housing initiative, unanimously approving an agreement that could channel up to $6 million in Westchester County funding toward infrast…

=== HEADLINE === Builder's $28,000 fee protest dominates planning board meeting === SUMMARY === A Croton builder challenged a $12,000 parkland fee on a new Melrose Avenue home, calling it disproportionate to fees waived for larger affordable housing…

His argument: large affordable housing developments like Maple Commons, with 66 bedrooms, paid zero in parkland fees thanks to waivers, while his one house — built on a lot in the existing Harman Subdivision — gets hit for $12,000. "I'm paying into a…

What would if in the in the local law itself, seems to give quite a bit of latitude to the planning board, and I'm glad you bring up the ADUs. It appears to me that construction of this house in that spot is really goes along with what the Harman Sub…

My name is Catherine Ryder. I live at Seventhank Street, so across the street from the house that will be most impacted by this. And first and foremost, I'd like to remind everybody that his building was built before the zoning, So it wouldn't even b…