Agenda preview: The Planning Board has not yet decided the items scheduled for Tuesday. Croton's Planning Board is scheduled to meet Tuesday, October 13, at 8 p.m. in the Georgianna Grant Meeting Room at the Stanley H. Kellerhouse Municipal Building. The Village's meeting notice points readers to the full official agenda and packet. Three substantive items are scheduled: an art studio proposed for Grand Street, a dispensary's sign at South Riverside Avenue, and a referral on proposed villagewide cannabis zoning rules.

Art studio proposed for 122 Grand Street

Rebel Studio Croton seeks a change of use and minor site-plan approval to convert the former Upper Village Blooms retail space at 122 Grand Street to an art studio. Its two-page business description proposes six-week pottery and other art classes, generally with eight students per class, for adults and children. The applicant says the studio would open during class times rather than operate as a walk-in shop. The Village Engineering Department's October 8 memo interprets art instruction as a permitted C-1 use but says the shift from retail still needs Planning Board review. On page two, the memo calls for building and fire-code review of a proposed kiln. No traffic study is in the application, it says; the board can decide whether class arrivals and departures call for more parking or traffic information. These are matters for review, not an approval.

Mindset sign returns to the board

For the proposed Mindset cannabis dispensary at 370 South Riverside Avenue, the agenda schedules final signage approval with a Visual Environment Board recommendation. The Planning Board's April 14 change-of-use resolution required the applicant to return for its business sign and to be fully licensed by New York's Office of Cannabis Management. It did not settle this sign. In a September 16 letter, the Visual Environment Board's chair wrote “We did not vote to approve it”, citing concerns about the sign's size, brightness and window treatment. The applicant's September 15 letter asked to avoid another Planning Board appearance or receive expedited review. The engineer's October 8 memo says the Visual Environment Board offered a recommendation, not final sign approval, and that the Planning Board must decide. It also asks the board to address the applicant's lack of a grand-opening plan and whether sign illumination needs further detail.

Proposed cannabis law referred for review

The trustees' September 30 resolution referred Local Law Introductory No. 16 of 2026 to the Planning Board and other reviewers. The five-page draft's location standards propose a 500-foot separation from public youth facilities and 1,000 feet between dispensaries. Page three proposes operating hours no earlier than 10 a.m. or later than 8 p.m. and lists zoning districts where dispensaries could seek special permits. The trustees referred a proposal; they have not enacted these changes in the packet. The agenda also lists possible approval of the draft September 22 Planning Board minutes. That document remains labeled DRAFT ahead of Tuesday's vote. The full packet contains the applications, drawings and referrals for readers following the board's decisions.