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Topic 1 mention · 2026-03-17
52 Mount Airy variance Planning Board Will Mount Airy Road Zoning Board of Appeals 52 Mount Airy Road rental registry Lot A tree removal public hearing steep slopes Harmon Subdivision Maple Commons Temple Israel
Article Planning Board Meeting 2026-03-24 Read →
=== 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 Planning Board Meeting 2026-03-24 Read →
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…
Article Planning Board Meeting 2026-03-24 Read →
**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…
Transcript Planning Board 2026-03-24 Speaker 7 36:02 →
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…
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Article Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Read →
=== 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…
Article Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Read →
=== 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…
Article Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Read →
That blunt assessment from a Zoning Board of Appeals member summed up the tension at Tuesday night's hearing, where the team behind a proposed two-lot subdivision at 52 Mount Airy Road struggled to defend cutting roughly 30 trees along a steep slope …
Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 2 14:44 →
Good evening. For the record, Corey Salomon from Zarin and Steinmetz, here tonight on behalf of the applicant. I have Andrew Cortesi, the applicant with me, as well as Michael Mastrojakimo, our project engineer, and my colleague Jacqueline Cohen. So …
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 9 24:44 →
For exam and since the nature of the subdivision results in the home being pushed very far back in in this long driveway, but it's a imposed hardship, the positioning of this home. So I just wonder if further study can't be given to shortening the dr…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 3 26:59 →
and you're asking for a variance one way or another. But the variance has nothing to do with the driveway nor does it have the any to do with the location of the house or the size of the house. We're looking for a 200 able to consider the impact. So …
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 2 38:54 →
Yeah. I think that's a great idea. We could work through, the possibility of moving the house forward, reducing the driveway with them, get their input on the subdivision layout, and then when we come back to you guys, it'll be a fully baked plan. Ok…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 21 95:54 →
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…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 8 105:38 →
your drawing. So so if you're on the survey, it is on the bottom portion of the survey. So on G 101, it's on the lower portion of that survey. But it's not showing, like, the one that's on the north and Right. The other side. Right. They I'd whatever…
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Article Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting 2026-02-17 Read →
=== HEADLINE === Neighbors warn 1838 stone house at risk as Mount Airy subdivision advances === SUMMARY === The Zoning Board of Appeals grilled the applicant behind a proposed two-lot subdivision at 52 Mount Airy Road over tree removal, steep slope …
Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-02-17 Speaker 3 2:14 →
Located in the R 25 zoning district, which permits single family homes as of right, has a minimum lot size of 25,000 square feet. And currently, the property is improved with a single family home. So the applicant is proposing to subdivide the lot in…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-02-17 Speaker 4 21:26 →
We've I mean, we'd have to do a traffic count. I mean, I'd I'd have to look at would you think? Wait. I mean, just what would you think you would need to do? Honestly, for a two lot subdivision, I've never done a traffic study. You know, this is a sm…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-02-17 Speaker 5 21:45 →
And I just did a five lot subdivision, and the traffic study wasn't required for that. Right. Okay. And can I just make one point? Also, on the existing house, you know, we we did a lot of improvements to get the radius and and to so the position of …
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-02-17 Speaker 8 34:03 →
Hello. I am Claire Hilbert, and I live at 60 Mount Airy. And, I'm going to read, this letter on behalf of the neighbor who lives at 48 Mount Airy. Stuart Greenbaum and his wife Karen had had prepared for the last meeting, and he and he has to be, out…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-02-17 Speaker 7 47:17 →
I'm not gonna read from a I think you've received a lot of letters from neighbors. I do wanna go on the record to say that our first, hearing, we had about 20 neighbors here, and the applicant, wanted to move it. We moved it. This date is a school va…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-02-17 Speaker 9 50:21 →
I'll do this. I am gonna read from prepared letter because it has the weight of 45 signatures behind it, and these are folks who are, who are off on vacation because of the rescheduling. Can you please state your name and address? Oh, yeah. I'm sorry…
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Article Planning Board 2025-11-04 Read →
Butch Doran, representing 73 Melrose, LLC, secured a 5-0 vote for a minor site plan to construct a new four-bedroom home at the end of a dead-end street in the Harmon Subdivision. While the board praised the proposed design as an improvement over a p…
Article Planning Board 2025-11-04 Read →
"The construction of this house, in this spot, goes along with what the Harmon Subdivision was designed for," Doran said, pointing out that larger, multi-unit buildings with more bedrooms pay no recreation fee. He also noted that building permit fees…
Article Planning Board Meeting 2025-11-04 Read →
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…
Transcript Planning Board 2025-11-04 Speaker 1 33:06 →
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…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2025-09-30 Speaker 3 86:12 →
Mike, let me just introduce myself. I'm Peter Skylar, and I'm here with the applicant. I'm I'm the applicant's attorney. Marlene Gallison is the applicant. She believes that the the neighbor immediately adjacent her. What's what's his name? Chris Bai…
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