3; adoption scheduled for next meeting • Planning Board memo to be addressed regarding Metro-North special permit status and parking requirements === ARTICLE === Nobody showed up to comment on a $7.2 million capital plan or a budget that determines …

this local law was put together, with the village engineer, our planning consultant, the village attorney, and, we spent a number of months looking at the zoning code to see, what items needed to be cleaned up and what potential, items needed to be u…

Alright. Do I have a motion to close the public hearing? Mayor, I just want to make one technical point before we, proceed. Manager, we thank you for including it. There's a memo in there from the planning board. At the planning board meeting last ni…

Alright. Public comp oh, sorry. Before we leave the resolutions, would it be possible to just I just have a comment on, resolution b number three, local law introductory number seven on signage. So before this law goes to all of these departments, I …

Well, I mean, as as we talked about earlier today, I've asked the planning consultant to include the comments on both the the size of the of signage. Right? Because that was one big topic as well as the attachment to the trees. I've asked the plannin…

a good idea. Just have the the women of village artists at the library. So it could be women village government related volunteers or workers event. Good idea. Okay. So I, along with, deputy mayor Simon, are, have the privilege to be liaisons to the …

and trustee Nixon, good good thoughts on, I think, on the on the leaf blowers as well as from from our participants. And it's it's it's on our list. We know it's on our list, and it's just a question of of of addressing it at some point. But soon, I …

So, again, my colleagues have done a very, great job of summarizing all the important news and the work of our various committees. I'll note that I was at the Conservation Advisory Council meeting last week, speaking for women's history month, one of…

=== HEADLINE === Temple Israel wins approval for security vestibule, disguised bollards === SUMMARY === Croton's Planning Board unanimously approved Temple Israel of Northern Westchester's plan to add a secure man-trap entrance, portico canopy, and …

=== EXECUTIVE BRIEF === • Public hearing closed for Temple Israel's wetland activity permit, site plan amendment, and special use permit • Application unanimously approved for new covered walkway, security vestibules, and perimeter bollards • Conditi…

=== ARTICLE === Nobody in Croton showed up to comment on a plan that will fundamentally change how 275 families enter their house of worship. The irony wasn't lost on anyone — but the silence didn't slow things down. Temple Israel of Northern Westch…

In other business, Village Engineer Vinny Bonanno reported that rental registry letters have been mailed to property owners across the village — covering any rented building, not just accessory dwelling units. Croton has permitted 35 of its 50 allowe…

**What to watch for:** If you rent out any property in the village, watch for a rental registry letter and apply through the village website. The 52 Mount Airy subdivision application will appear on a future Planning Board agenda. Temple Israel has t…

Okay. So I will welcome everybody everybody to the Village of Croton on Hudson planning board meeting for Tuesday, 03/24/2026, and call the meeting to order. We have a public hearing on our agenda tonight, which was opened at our last 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 …

Which should surprise nobody. On page two, the first full paragraph, second sentence, the planning board also requested to know the approximate number of existing special permits. I didn't wanna press you guys too much. Just trying to get a general i…

Okay. I didn't I didn't have anything. Steve, did I interrupt you? Didn't mean to did you ever I was done. Thank you, Jeff. I was finished. Alright. Sorry. Yeah. No. I have, I have nothing to add. We can act on the minutes then if you want to make a …

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…

the section on exempt signs, which we're getting to in l, it says they can't they have to be maintained in a clean and safe condition. They can't be in the right of way. They can't obscure sight lines. So there are further conditions. They have to me…

So I'm just thinking, you know, maybe a setback for signs of a specific size because they present the potential at least to blow around. Oh, I think that would be part of the planning board review. Right? Or that Well, depending on and if it yeah. I …

As as a local law, when we get to of course, we're we're in the very early drafting stage, but when we get to it being an actual proposed local law, we'll refer it to the committees that have Yeah. You can. I mean, it it has to go to the planning boa…

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…

Yeah. We did change in scrolling down to subsection eight here, which is the Waterfront Development District. A lot of this language came out because it was, outdated. It was it really had to do with when Half Moon Bay was in its initial development …

conditions. So everybody always has the ability to go. Mhmm. You know, there was there was one business who went who made use of this and went to the planning board for they felt very strong that they should be allowed to have one of those dancing me…

=== HEADLINE === ZBA pushes subdivision plan to planning board after tree removal clash === SUMMARY === The Zoning Board of Appeals referred a controversial two-lot subdivision at 52 Mount Airy Road to the Planning Board after residents and board me…

=== EXECUTIVE BRIEF === • ZBA voted to refer the 52 Mount Airy Road subdivision application to the Planning Board for further environmental and engineering analysis • Public hearing remains open; all testimony from the March 17 session enters the off…

By the meeting's end, the ZBA concluded that many of the unresolved questions — stormwater management, steep slope analysis, retaining walls up to 14 feet tall — properly belonged before the Planning Board. The board voted unanimously to refer the ap…

Salomon acknowledged the move was reasonable, saying the team would work with the Planning Board on potentially pulling the house forward to shorten the driveway and reduce tree loss. "When we come back to you guys, it'll be a fully baked plan," he s…

**What to watch for:** The Planning Board is expected to take up the application next, with recommendations likely returning to the ZBA by May. The public hearing remains open, and residents can still submit written comments to the ZBA. A site visit …

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…

Anyone else? Okay. Thank you all for your comments. It will all be recorded in the record. And as I said, you know, a lot of the things we talked about tonight, we talked about, and you talked about, really require some more analysis, and that's why,…

Ask you a question. Yeah. Sure. Can the planning board issue a variance?

No. No. What what will happen is the planning board will, issue a recommendation to the zoning board, and we will still vote on it. So it could just like if we voted first, if we voted yes, the planning board could vote no. If the planning vote board…

Well, I can't speak for the planning board. I don't know if Ron, can you speak to how they determine what what consultants to hire and

So planning board, I know they have an attorney on board. We do have our village engineer, and and I will be assisting him in in matters like storm water and and such. The plantings, I am not quite sure 100% how to speak to that, but things like stor…

planting tree law. The tree law. Yes. And and we will review there. Mhmm. So We will review that. Looked at. Right? Yes. That will be looked at. Yes. As part of the planning board review. Yes. The planning board will is is the body to do the thorough…

I don't I don't I don't Okay. Thank you. Mark? Is there any chance of site visits with the planning board? Yeah. That's I I was gonna bring that up. I think we'll do a joint site visit with the planning board.

Thank you. Alright. Planning board be looking at things like they said they're hooking it up to a sewer, and I just know we don't have sewer there. So I don't know what sewer line they're hooking it up to. So if they are hooking it up, like, can't we…

Well, I I I think, I don't I don't wanna just push everything off in a planning board, but it's the planning board who'll do that. And you But I don't think we can that should come to the meeting and and just like you did to us, you can submit commen…

There'll be a public hearing. Will the planning board get everything that's been presented here? Will they already have that, or will we have to resubmit all those?

I I think we can give it to them. Right? Yeah. But but, hey, certain issues. Yeah. Yeah. I yeah. We don't wanna waste people's time resubmitting stuff that that you've done it and and, you know, there is a public record here that the planning board w…

So going forward then, while that's happening with the planning board, should we be sending any further things? Is there a similar way to send it to them like we did to you so that we know we can get things to them?

Ron, do you wanna Yeah. So so comments to the planning board would be submitted through building engineer's office similar to, like, you've submitted them here. The same process.

Just address them to the planning board.

Sorry. One thing. How how would we know how will we know what the next steps are? Like, is there a planning board

applicant need to submit to the planning board, and and and how far advanced is the meeting? So the meetings are the

applicant, do you have any thoughts on how quickly you could get to an application together to the planning board? We really haven't looked at it yet. I haven't looked at the submission deadline, but I would guess within a week or so. I mean, a lot o…