100-unit affordable housing development on Lot A, the village's largest housing initiative.
2025-11-04
Planning Board Meeting
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Builder's $28,000 fee protest dominates planning board meeting
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A Croton builder challenged a $12,000 parkland fee on a new Melrose Avenue home, calling it disproportionate to fees waived for larger affordable housing…
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…
2025-11-19
Board Of Trustees
The Croton-on-Hudson Board of Trustees took a major step forward Tuesday night on the village’s largest affordable housing initiative, unanimously approving an agreement that could channel up to $6 million in Westchester County funding toward infrast…
In other business, the board awarded an $11,250 generator maintenance contract to Gentech Ltd., approved a $10,000 communications plan evaluation by Enormous Creative of Peekskill, and amended the Maple Commons fee agreement with Regan Development. T…
2026-02-18
Board Of Trustees
Whereas the village of Cordonan Hudson has owned a parcel located on the North side of Cordon Point Avenue at its intersection with Veterans Plaza, also known as TaxMap Parcel 79 Dot 17 Dash 1 Dash 5 since the nineteen sixties. And whereas in 2023, t…
Sure. So in terms of the, lot a, the PLA, the funds are not they're not village funds. These are Westchester County funds that are made available for the express purpose of building affordable housing. Right? It's the housing implementation fund prog…
The board also took a significant step toward the long-planned 100-unit affordable housing development at Lot A, the village-owned parcel at Croton Point Avenue and Veterans Plaza. By a 3-0 vote, with Trustee Slippen abstaining, the board authorized …
2026-02-18
Board of Trustees
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Board Approves Lorraine Hansberry Street Honor After Red Scare Commentary
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Trustees voted to co-name a section of Cleveland Drive near the library for playwright Lorraine Hansberry, adopted a 3% short-term rental occu…
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• Approved co-naming of Cleveland Drive near the library for Lorraine Hansberry
• Adopted Local Law 4 of 2026, imposing a 3% occupancy tax on hotels, motels, and short-term rentals effective April 1
• Authorized village manage…
The board also authorized a project labor agreement for the publicly funded portions of the 100-unit affordable housing development at Lot A on Croton Point Avenue. The PLA covers infrastructure work — including a water main extension and new sewer l…
2026-02-24
Planning Board
Okay. Well, then I would like to make recommendation back to the board of trustees that we have the flexibility to decrease it. I'm partly not trying to be difficult about this. The reason I'm bringing it up is, we've talked about this internally whe…
Moving on to the next item on the agenda. The, again, a referral from the board of trustees. This is, draft law five of 2026, to amend provisions relating to affordable housing to allow certain occupational preferences. Okay. So this is, this is inte…
So, this is quite a I don't remember the exact year, but quite a few numbers of years ago, Westchester wasn't meeting its quota when it comes to affordable housing, and they were kind of segmenting in the affordable housing that it stock that they ha…
additionally, additionally, whether they do or don't currently live within the village itself, this law would give them the ability to apply for the better for the affordable housing now that that they Assuming they meet the other assuming they meet …
PACE Land Use Law Center, where you've been, Steve Mhmm. And, the Housing Action Council. These are people who are deeply involved in affordable housing, throughout Westchester County in the 99 county region. And they went off and looked at these pro…
Yeah. So, Jeff, question on that. So e even with, private developer comes in and wants to put up a building and it triggers, you know, two or three or four affordable housing units, even though it's being privately funded, funded, not through any sta…
And what else on this before we go on to the CAFEAF? So this takes effect as soon as it's approved by the board. So it doesn't apply retroactively to Maple Commons or anything like that. As far as they they had a, what, a 6,000 waiting waiting list. …
from a, you know, a federal agency and whether it's gonna fly with them. Well, they they they actually administer a lot quite a lot of the grant money. So it depends on what what you're talking about. And they also condition some of their discretiona…
Alright. Anything else? K. Moving on to the CAF EAF for this. Let's do the coastal assessment form first. And same thing as the last one. I'll read the definition, local law introductory number five. Has been drafted to amend chapter two thirty zonin…
Ashton just scrolled up. Yeah. So this this helps. So this has some more information back of the, EAF. Village court has been studying the possibility of adding occupational preferences for new affordable housing units to the village code for some ti…
how is it defined? I wanna add to that. Right. Right. I do have a strong feeling, and that is I really don't wanna limit it. You know, people that are working as a health aid for somebody, these people make nothing. Mhmm. They're they're Right. They'…
Croton's Planning Board spent its February 24 meeting weighing in on two significant proposed zoning changes that could affect everything from backyard chicken coops to who gets priority for affordable housing in the village.
The second referral, Local Law Introductory No. 5 of 2026, would amend the village's affordable housing provisions to allow certain occupational preferences. The board engaged in a detailed discussion about implementation, questioning whether residen…