Planning Board

your where you're from. I will. I'll I'll introduce myself and the others here. Good evening. My name is Dana Moldova, and I'm chair of the building committee. Can you hear me? I'm chair of the building committee at Temple Israel of Northern Westches…

so as whereas the planning board reviewed all the, documentation from the board's consultants and considered testimony, during the public hearing process, It goes on to say that we considered health's safety and welfare and that the land disturbance …

I can give a quick up engineer's report update on this. Sure. Because some things actually apply if people are listening in the audience as well somewhere. Rental registry letters went out. I'm not sure if anyone's aware or has one, but if you rent y…

which sign is a yard sign? So it could depend. Right? If it was a if it's right now we're not regulating on content. Right? So but if it was a sign that would only be up for a short duration. Right? It's a temporary sign. It's a temporary sign. Right…

And then so section k is now temporary commercial signage. Mhmm. Right? So temporary temporary commercial signs that follow these regulations don't require a signed permit. So they're allowed for forty five days, have to be attached, rigged, or fixed…

So then prohibitions. Right? So this is, we're just putting a date in for when the original billboard exemption was enacted. Right? So that's the first change there. It just makes it clear. Yeah. Because People don't know the effective date of It was…

Any other questions? My thinking on this right now is there's a lot of, uncertainty, a lot of analysis that you would have to do for the planning board that may factor into our decision here, and we're and we're not typically the board for that. So w…

And just just two observations with response to to counsel. One, I mean, the Croton code with respect to area variances is public. It's known. It's detailed. And it tasks this zoning appeals board with making a determination on those five factors. Ri…

I I too Do you understand? I just wanna under the an environmental review needs to be conducted in order to fully consider a subdivision application, which is not yet before the planning board. So it's a matter of giving the opportunity to the applic…

That's great. And then the other thing is, I guess it was maybe last year this time I got to participate in a call where we debrief Len, you and I or trustee Simon, you and I were on it together, where we debriefed after we didn't get a grant. I can'…

flow. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. So just to quickly recap where we were this year, the budget is this budget, the 2025, 2026 budget was tax cap compliant. It had a flat tax rate compared to the previous year even though expenditures increased…

And then, you know, just to summarize what these changes are, and Vince might need some of your help with this. So, basically, what these what the cleanups are, there's a bunch around, transitioning the special permits from the village board to the p…

Right. Anything else before we kinda dig in here? Alright. So, you know, just looking at these, the stock. Number one, you know, throughout, we mentioned this clarify special permits are now handled by the planning board. Number two is a tier four so…

Okay. Well, I mean, if you want this is just my opinion. I'm speaking for the entire planning board, but if we're gonna do our job thoughtfully going forward, I think we need flexibility on parking code regardless of where it is in the village. That'…

That's typically what we want. We go to planning board. That's when we do that whole thing, but I I can prepare that and and show that.

3 of 2026: created Chapter 9 (Auditor) in village code; appointed village manager to the role with no additional compensation • Approved consent agenda including National Police Week recognition, zoning code cleanup shifting special permit reviews to…

There'll be no physical construction if that's what you're talking about. Right? Yeah. I mean Just just so you understand, there is, this is the first step, the zoning board, and then it has to go to the planning board. So it's it's not something tha…

because Dean, who works with Norm, called me and said that our meeting with the building the the planning board, which is scheduled for next week, was being pushed to February. And I said that's unacceptable because I had said we were on a tight time…

Right. Does this is this also planning board? Yes. And that's after this? Correct. Yeah. Right. They need this variance these variances to go to the planning board.

again, this will be going for the planning board where Right. There's planning board will will be discussing these in detail. And it's not like anyone it's a dead end cul de sac. Mhmm. Right. There's

Franzoso appeared before the Planning Board to seek an amended minor site plan after building walls and stairs that shifted closer to the property line than the approved drawings showed. The changes were significant enough that Village Engineer Vinny…

Mark Franzoso had a simple explanation for why the retaining walls at 23 Nordica Drive didn't match what the Planning Board originally approved: he was just making the place look nice. "When you build a house and you finish off especially the outsid…

Residents with projects in progress should note: as-built drawings are now a firm requirement before any certificate of occupancy at 23 Nordica Drive. Planning Board meetings shift to the first and fourth Tuesdays starting in January 2026. Written co…

So, Mark, when this does happen, encounter this. You mentioned it to an engineer, and you say planes have changed slightly, we've got, say, this new change to the site plan. You're saying that in the past that as long as it doesn't represent a a larg…

And that's what I've always I did not read the letter. I, you know, didn't think it was necessary to read it. Truthfully, it means retaining walls. I mean, whether I I know the other guy on the other side, Davidson, wanted to have me stop working and…

So I'll read it just because not everybody has a copy of it. It says whereas the planning board approved a minor site plan application on 06/20/2023 for Mark Franzoso, the applicant for construction of a new single family house, and whereas the subje…

Exactly. I wanna make sure that the units could contain all of the stormwater. I was wondering before you do Okay. If I could bring something up Yes. Which is new to me. Local law. Two thirty Dash 73, reservation of parkland. Site development plans, …

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…

small amount of chaos for the group and for the applicant. If I may say, I've I've never heard this kind of discussion about alternate member for a planning board. Never. It's typical more typical than not, I think, to have an alternate provided. In …

Alright. Welcome everyone to the October 2025 meeting of the Croton and Hudson zoning board of appeals. Welcome to Bill, our newest member to the board. Thank you very much. We have a very light agenda today. No applications, simply a couple of admin…

You know, unless they are here and called in as an alternate, they would not be participating in the deliberations. K. If they're an alternate member, if they're nonvoting member and they're participating, that was the discussion that came up. And an…

I'm only my name is Ed Riely of Truesdale Drive. I attend almost every village board meeting in the last four or five years and every planning board meeting, including the last one. This alternative member is subversive to the job you're doing, and I…

• Approved amended site plan for 25 South Riverside Avenue multifamily building • Required neighbor-agreed arborvitae plantings to be documented on final plans • Required wall certification before certificate of occupancy • Added condition requiring …

"If anybody needed alternatives, it would be the village board because of absenteeism on the village board, which is frequent and chronic." That was resident Ed, addressing the Planning Board Tuesday night during a public hearing on a proposal to ad…

Rossi said planting would begin in a few weeks, with residents potentially moving in by early December. **What to watch for:** The Planning Board's memo on the alternate member proposal will be circulated for board review before heading to the Villa…

Just talking about, essentially, plans for a party space on top, and they decided to go ahead with that even in the face of much protest and promised there would be nothing that would be visible from the back of Van Wyck. And well, you know what? I'l…

Chairman and and members, this is, something that, came up after, observing that a number of communities, actually, most of them in in the surrounding area have alternates for their planning board or their zoning board. And so we thought, that's some…

but that's just my take on this. No. I I have some concerns too, Jeff. I mean, I I I'm very mixed about this. It seems to me it's kind of a solution looking for a problem, particularly in our board. I mean, I know, just personally, I miss maybe about…

even if you're gonna do this, it'd still be planning board approval. Right? Correct. Yes. And this

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…

we rolled the dice five years ago and supposedly I lost and my view was going to be totally messed up by through by apartments going up above the the the kitchen store, which is now a VR store and the that can happen any day. It hasn't happened yet. …