Agenda preview: This article describes business scheduled for the October 6 Waterfront Advisory Committee meeting. The committee has not yet made the recommendation discussed below, and the proposed zoning law has not been adopted. Croton's Waterfront Advisory Committee is scheduled to review a proposed change to where and how licensed adult-use cannabis dispensaries could operate. Its Tuesday agenda centers on whether draft Local Law Introductory No. 16 of 2026 is consistent with the village's Local Waterfront Revitalization Program. The committee's role at this meeting is to recommend back to the trustees; it is not deciding the law or a particular dispensary application. The meeting is scheduled for 4 p.m. Tuesday, October 6, in the Small Meeting Room on the second floor of the Stanley H. Kellerhouse Municipal Building, according to the Village's posted meeting notice. The complete agenda and attachments are available from the village's meeting portal.

What is in the proposal

The five-page draft law lays out special-permit rules for dispensaries in specified commercial, light-industrial and north-end gateway areas. Its siting language says: “No cannabis retail dispensary shall be located within 500 feet from a public youth facility.” The draft definition limits a public youth facility to a government-owned, publicly accessible place chiefly providing recreation or services to children or adolescents primarily 17 or younger. The law also lists a 1,000-foot separation from another dispensary and refers to state-prescribed distances from schools and houses of worship. These are provisions in a draft, not a change already in force. On page 3 of the draft, the law also sets out proposed operating-hour limits of 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily and permits the Planning Board to request a customer-queue plan or traffic impact report for an application. Its accompanying short environmental assessment and coastal assessment form are part of the referral packet.

What the committee will decide

The trustees voted 4–0 on September 30 to send the draft and forms to the Waterfront Advisory Committee, the Planning Board and the county planning board. The adopted referral resolution says the Village Board “refers the Draft Law, the EAF and the CAF to the Village Waterfront Advisory Committee” for a recommendation. That vote was a referral, not adoption of the zoning text. The only other substantive agenda entry is approval of draft minutes from the committee's September 16 meeting. Those minutes concern an earlier Metro-North signal-system review. Approval is scheduled for Tuesday; it has not yet occurred.