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And then, lastly, we received revised building permits, in the engineering department for the multifamily development at 1380 Albany Post Road. This project was approved, for a special permit by the village board back in 2022, and the planning board …

thank you. Okay. So, my report Really? Interrupt you. Yeah. You can. Well said. Early September, the Visual Environment Board met. They had a very lengthy meeting with the Mindset Cannabis Shop to review their proposed signs for the store. I think th…

And I spoke to the idea committee about, you know, giving them some of the feedback that we learned during this session as they think about Hispanic Heritage Month, just how, you know, taking into consideration some of what we learned. And you know, …

Thank you. Sorry. I thought it was Planning Board was 08:00 last week and that was cancelled for an ADU because the woman that was gonna go in the ADU passed away that day. Amazing. Okay. Progression of events. K. So, anyway, And I'm surprised Thor, …

Alright. So the application process, we you know, this hasn't changed much. We did clarify with the VEB, cause I know there was some discussion going back and forth about whether or not they should review all sign applications or if they should just …

Yeah. Just having sort of one one authority on the sign. But the VEB doesn't the VEB the planning board has final authority anyway. The VEB is just making a recommendation. Their advice yeah. Think that I think that we should be giving the based on a…

I mean, I think and also I just I'd wanna point out that, you know, this this draft, provision was not created in a vacuum. Right? I mean, I met with the VEB and I and I fully understand that there's new leadership And now with the and makeup of the …

Good evening. I'll call the Village of Croton on Hudson planning board meeting for Tuesday, 09/08/2026 to order. We had two items of new business on our agenda, but the first item, Alex and Dorothy Morales, was postponed, so we will not be hearing th…

And, Vince, this might be for you. Just be section two thirty two thirty dash 68 presubmission. 23068. Okay. So that that is actually not prior the update. This is prior to the The one that we're reviewing. Prior to where the the changes take effect …

So kinda going back to Steve's point about fiscal analysis. We've we've got in here a fiscal analysis can be requested by the planning board regarding schools. So I'm I'm referring to two seventy dash two two thirty dash seventy twelve. The adequacy …

So first of all, thank you, Len and and Brian for, inviting me to join your town hall this evening. I'm Marjorie Hsu, and I think that, you know, for DRI and now New York Forward, the two keywords are persistence and patience. Because when I was plan…

And now fast forward, we're, in 2026, and of all the the funds that have been granted to the four point five as, Valerie has kindly, created a slide on, the only one that's really made any progress is the facade program. So that's been kicked off. We…

And so, depending on what they're gonna assess the their progress on phase two, and depending on that progress will depend on exactly what project they propose to include in our grant application. But Historic Hudson Valley has always been willing to…

I'm So, as trustee Simon kinda gave a brief synopsis on the law, I'll just say that, you know, the board has had numerous discussions on this law. Much of the information is included in the backup, documentation that is available on the village websi…

She's she's described it in full, but it was an innovative approach. And I've been on the WAC now for almost six years since the first time we actually brought in someone from the outside to to to try to enlighten us. And they they didn't quite get t…

it. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Very good. I think most of the major points have been covered. I do wanna note, our 09:11 ceremony, next week, will be be done jointly with our neighboring communities. Buchanan is the formal host, but, of course, p…

And I do wanna thank the planning board. You know, they've worked very hard on the 425 South Riverside, project, and I thought that they handled the planning board meeting, you know, with, real professionalism. You know? And I know that the public is…

Yeah. So Yeah. So I know there's a lot of public interest in that, but I I thought the planning board did a a really good job. Great. And I do wanna just give a shout out to the VEB, the Visual Advisory Board. They met. I know trustee Slipin was on t…

On July 24, I sat in on the quarterly Zoom that congressman Lawler has for for local elected officials in the district, and he gave us a a quick briefing on the housing bill, the road to housing, which we've talked about briefly here before. Some wor…

Sure. I I and I I think the concerns are specific to the special permit. So, of course, there's a site development plan that goes along with that. But since this is the first application to to be entirely within the purview of the planning board, I t…

Yeah. Run down the list. Great. Thank you very much, Jared. Again, as you noted, our memo was in the materials that are online. And if you wanna review those, you'll you'll kinda can play along. We put together this memo to kinda also give the board …

We then took a look at the site plan, and we had the following comments. Regarding the landscaping plan, we recommended that the applicant provide an irrigation plan for all the new plantings plantings and can please confirm that the rear plantings w…

So you actually it is it is covered, on the actually, it's coming up. Yep. Yeah. It is it is coming up. But that you actually do have a decent amount already there that we're not necessarily proposing additional language for. So, for example let me j…

Yes. Yes and no. Right? I mean, if it's a if it's a ministerial action, right, somebody comes in and says, wanna cut down 50 trees. No. No. I'm not saying, I wanna cut down three trees on my property. Right? And they're saying, I wanna cut them down …

I I'm thinking also about the it's, you know, you can say this is the size of the trees that you're gonna cut down and it's this value and you're gonna replace it with these trees and so the values are equal. But the actual impact of cutting down the…

No. That's okay. Thank you. Alright. So we are responding to the worsening air quality in our area as a result of the Canadian wildfires. Silver Lake closed early today, and, the movie night at Senosseville Park for tonight was postponed. Employees w…

It will appear on an agenda for your discussion. So that will start the thirty days. Thank you. Thank you for that. Is that subsequent to the to it being officially received by the planning board on 07/28?

Having a daily local newspaper online, drives civic engagement. It promotes greater government transparency, our art, and cultural activities. And, you know, while I get criticized from the Chronicle, I still appreciate that it's here. So I just want…

Yep. Planning board, zoning board, and village board are all are all digitized. But there were these other records, like I said, primarily payroll records, but some tax records, you know, they we had this we had this, representative from Coffin come …

So on June 23, mayor and I were honored to be at the library as one of our wonderful residents, Ali Fraes, Alana Frays, got the an award from senator Harkom for pride month for all of the work that she does in our community and including heading up f…

Alright. Thank you. I wanna thank, you know, everyone who's helped with some of our, wonderful public events, whether that be the Juneteenth celebrations organized by IDEA or, by the conservatory. I also wanna thank the American Legion, for their hel…

Okay. Thank you, Lindsay. Yeah. And, Lindsay, just wanted to thank you for, the excellent PowerPoint and for all the work that you've been doing on this concept, up to this point. I also wanted to point out that it seems like quite a while ago, but I…

what I said earlier. We have an excellent battery energy storage system regulatory approach. We worked on it as a board with a lot of community input, including the the sustainability committee, but many others as well under the guidance of our engin…

I mean, it would there would be opportunity for public comment as part of the regular public comment? And, you know, going back to the land use process, this being both a special permit and also site plan, I mean, I don't know the specific statutory …

July 14 is the next planning board meeting.

Not sure a resolution was put or was was changed. It was just kind of following up on item number nine. Any sign of application submitted to the planning board for approval. Referred to the planning board. Might be referred by the planning board to a…

Yeah. So this he's following up on one of the conditions of his approval. I think it was the first. This is the second one. That the median trip in front of the property will be updated with some curb appeal including landscaping for the new business…

Ed Riely from, Truesdale Drive. Quite frankly, I'm shocked. I thought this place would be packed packed in outrage of what the village allowed to happen with the institution of pot pot wholesale store number one replacing an ice cream store, near a s…

Not one of those people in the planning board who have some integrity, that planning board has some integrity, said no. I'm gonna vote against this. Not one of them. They talk this and that, both both sides of their mouth. Let's change the hours a li…

So congratulations to Cloth and Curate. Everyone go visit Cloth and Curate. And our sustainability committee met on May 31, and as always, a bunch of issues are EV charging, our train station solar array, DPW solar, balcony solar, which is very inter…

I think some of their some of their comments relate to some of our comments in the memo as well. Okay. So, if you'd like, I can kind of highlight both if that might be. That'd be great. If if you can do that, that would be wonderful. So, so what both…

we suggested that we might you might wanna consider. One, the review standards. So we noticed that that was absent in your in your proposed, amendments, and that was very helpful, like, just what you're saying so that everyone is clear on, like, what…

The the other thing is not to beat a dead horse, but you though, in the last media or the last couple meetings when we're we were reviewing a gas station sign. And so that was this is a huge corporation that, like, those gas station things are all th…

It seems a couple of the items for us to to look at as a planning board that are part of the application are the extension of the building envelope, which is one area, and then the water runoff, the storm water runoff, the rain There are probably two…

Okay. So, we have the draft resolution in front of us with some recent amendments today. I'm not going to highlight just some of the the more salient points in this, a lot of whereas clauses, but just to highlight a few of them. Well, first of all, t…

Okay. Yeah. Couple of things. Okay. Under old business, let's see. It'd be the second graph where we mentioned Bill Brady went through a memo prepared by Nelson Pope. We could combine that with the paragraph above Okay. So that it reads, the planning…

Three, the village board hereby refers to EAF and CAF, which it has before it in connection with the proposed action to the Westchester County Planning Board, New York State Department of Transportation, and MTA Metro North Railroad. Four, the villag…

And that's all I've got. Thank you. Thank you, trustee. I'm gonna do this as a lightning round real fast. We had the opportunity, mayor, manager, and I to sit down, I think it was last week, yes, May 7, with the Westchester Alliance for Sustainable S…

Okay. Good afternoon, everybody. This is the Water Control Commission, Village Of Croton On Hudson for Monday, 05/18/2026. Select to call a meeting to order. Business here is on behalf of Vincente and Christine Fernandez, owners of 129 Scenic Drive W…

They will be answering that though when they go to planning board. Yes. I'm sure they will. Yes. Tune in for that meeting. Yes.