Tarrytown

And bikes and bike safety, but I'm not gonna talk about that. I'm gonna talk about your pot shop. Pot was invited into this town, and I believe they're invited to be cool. The administration wanna be cool and have one and be first, and then they thou…

So the project area, as, I said at the beginning, we originally were looking we originally did this grant in 2024, and we picked an area that started on North Riverside and went up into the Upper Village. We were trying to connect our multiple busine…

terms of our process, we, after thirty years, finally updated our comprehensive plan. So the comprehensive plan actually provides a very good kinda road road map prioritization and kinda North Star as far as what the village's aspirations are for, gr…

Because quite frankly, the entire up state New York needs this money more than anybody in the Hudson Valley, including Elmsford and, Sleepy Hollow. So but but but Westchester's been very cooperative with this sub suburban housing, development, And ou…

Found that I had some really cool connections with some of them. One of the families that I used to live in the same building in Tarrytown a few years ago. And so it's just it's a beautiful way to welcome some wonderful families and students to our c…

of what Right. I think once a business owner realize if a business owner, regardless of what you're selling, realizes you're not getting any business from 09:30AM to 1PM, then you're probably gonna start opening at 1PM. So I think that, you know, the…

I I've done some research on this. I know there are there are villages that allow hens and ducks, chickens and ducks, and there are also villages like I believe it might be Tarrytown that only allows hens. No ducks. And, yeah, it's the village of Tar…

Then Very soon. Resume. Sorry to interrupt Right? And and first of all, it's so great having Valerie here issue after issue. So glad glad you're here. Lined up. Yeah. And I I think you very very good job on this. I got some specific points on that. I…

Well, that's yeah. And I was just gonna say that was how Tarrytown did it. Yeah. Right? When they specifically about pigeons, that was what their law was about. That they grandfathered in the people who had them Mhmm. But said you were not allowed to…

I mean, the signage was up telling people, you know, you can't use this you can't pay with a credit card here, either pay with cash or use use the app or call this telephone number. The app is only accessible if someone has a, I assume, a smartphone.…

And Croton had 85 intermunicipal trips just between Croton and Austin, and the system also recorded trips from to and from Croton with regard to Tarrytown and the town of Ostning as well. Croton represented about 14% of the total number of bike trips…

And the vouchers have been redeemed at Croton Ebikes on Riverside, so it's it's been good for Croton business as well. And, of course, the voucher program will continue. Roughly speaking, there are about 300 more vouchers to to be given out over the …

of the other Yeah. I mean, that was always, I think, the Yeah. The the one that I compare that I compare us to the most just because it's similar in terms of size and usage is Tarrytown. Mhmm. And there were those rates are similar. Tarrytown is a do…