Affordable Housing (Lot A)
Active
56 meetings ·
2022-06-13 to 2026-09-22
100-unit affordable housing development on Lot A, the village's largest housing initiative.
Timeline (56 meetings)
Jun 13, 2022
Board of Trustees Work Session
Okay. Yeah. So the mayor Pugh created the Croton Housing Task Force partly, I think, speaking for you, in results of the Westchester County Housing Needs Assessment coming out. But it actually has a it's something that was actually recommended back i…
two years. I think we've gathered a lot of information and a lot of information changed as we were gathering it. I think we did a good job of synthesizing all of it. We had great we invited a lot of speakers to get a lot of different opinions. And as…
So most of you know my office is in the old Village Gallery building just by the railroad station and right next to the extended railroad station parking lot, which is now always empty. So there's a piece of village property that's just calling out. …
Right. That's just not not an issue that we have here not an option that we have here. This next one is also sort of a in a separate subject area, which is it's wonderful that we require a certain amount of affordable housing, whenever a developer is…
Right. Find it more and more difficult To recruit. Yeah. And and to have affordable housing.
Aug 1, 2022
Board Of Trustees
Whereas the village of Cortlandt Hudson and the Housing Action Council have agreed to formally work together through the Housing Action Council's technical assistance program to further housing and community development. And whereas the HAC's technic…
is a great thing. Can you just, talk just a bit about the overlay affordable housing zone? Like, tell us what that actually is. So
what that's kind of what we're investigating. We have to see, you know, exactly what that would look like. It would be basically a zone that would go over multiple zoning district. So, like, for example, if we decided that we wanted to put this overl…
Happy to see movement on the affordable housing side.
Aug 8, 2024
Board of Education
Board Trustee Neal Haber noted that the Board should consider other avenues for informal discussion as well.
Board Trustee Sarah Carrier responded that the communications committee will be addressing this.
Ms. Bhatnagar noted that the advocacy comm…
Jan 9, 2025
Board of Education
for point of reference so in looking at Maple Commons it looks as though we have six preschool age students in in that that are not yet enrolled in prep they're age two to four currently based on this report which was published in September 2024 so t…
Jan 16, 2025
Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee
Will be replanted and placement
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Tier 1 proposed loca…
Feb 4, 2025
Planning Board
The Village Board's special permit did include a list of items reserved for Planning
1 Board review including, the convenience of the public in general, accessibility to fire and police
protection, safety with traffic and pedestrians. Dan Pozin stat…
John Bainlardi stated that the application is for a 100-unit, (46 one-bedroom, 52
two-bedroom homes) multi-family, five-story building with requisite parking, some parking spaces below
grade and some outside. The property is proposed on Croton Point …
There will be a marketing plan that will have to be approved by
the State. Lastly, Geoff Haynes asked about a community amenity and John Bainlardi said that there will be
amenities on site for residents, but he is not yet sure what the amenity for th…
One of
the funding sources that was mentioned is the new home land acquisition funding that is specifically
awarded to purchase the land upon which affordable housing is built, and other funding sources that are
to be used for infrastructure improvem…
Michael Mamone asked the Planning Board if they
had some power here, to use that power. Michael Mamone asked when will limits be put on affordable
housing as that affordable housing to him means that someone else is paying the bill and believes that
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I would like to remind the board and anyone who may be listening, the
Katz Property, now Maple Commons, was also village-owned
property. It was sold and developed into 32-units of all-affordable
housing and was given a PILOT - payment in lieu of
taxe…
I cannot comprehend the logic behind these extreme decisions. 32
units all affordable at Maple Commons, 40 more affordable units that
have been approved across several other projects AND 100 units at
Lot A. From a purely economic standpoint, it is cl…
Feb 10, 2025
Recreation Advisory Committee
The Village will have to match the $200,000 grant and will look to start the
process soon.
Naming of Pocket Park: Debi shared with the Recreation Advisory
Committee that we were asked to partner with the HEART committee in
helping name the “Pock…
Feb 13, 2025
Board of Education
so we use a ruer yield so once we I don't know if you're familiar with it if you've seen it you if you look at you're able to see exactly how many one-bedrooms how many two bedrooms if they're affordable housing if they're rentals if they're for purc…
okay so that number is is is fairly accurate as we we now know but it's not it's not a pending project we also know there's been discussion in the community about the possibility of at least one other project that quite possibly will be proposed more…
Feb 20, 2025
Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee
- coming in
Spring/Summer
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Scott to look at installing an interim stop sign at Whalen (in advance
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Project MOVER updates (Len)
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Library on board to be a hub/station location
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Preference to preserve existing (much needed parking - and a…
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Which ones were addressed, and what remains? ●
Where there are obvious gaps in sidewalk, how do we encourage home
owners (in partnership with the Village) to bridge those gaps? ●
Examples:
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Van Cortlandt Place, Olcott, Morningside, Truesdale…
Feb 23, 2025
Sustainability Committee
Not a deal
killer, but extra cost and labor.]
Len updated us on the e-bike program. Two non-Village sites have been nailed down:
the Library and Maple Commons. The goal is to have a bike procurement contract
with Ossining (holder of the e-bike S…
Mar 20, 2025
Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee
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NY Forward grant awarded to Dobbs Ferry (not Croton)
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Will undergo an intensive review w/ Mid Atlantic Economic Council to better
position Village for next round(s)
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Project MOVER
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Survey released (community feedback)
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Key community e…
Apr 15, 2025
Planning Board
Lastly, John Ghegan asked for clarification as to the number of parking spaces and
the applicants confirmed that there are 105 parking spaces, including the electric vehicle spaces, and
that the number was updated as they found space for an additiona…
Apr 22, 2025
Zoning Board of Appeals
2 Several Board members expressed an inclination to grant the variance, provided a condition was added
requiring plantings to soften the visual impact. They also expressed hesitation due to concerns about
setting a precedent, but acknowledged the uni…
May 6, 2025
Planning Board
John Bainlardi stated that
the applicants have engaged with Metro North and have a virtual meeting scheduled with them. Regarding the sewer connection, the applicants provided details to the County and are expecting a
response. There is still no answ…
Jun 17, 2025
Planning Board
Resolution accepted at the meeting held on June 17, 2025 RESOLUTION
PRELIMINARY CONSOLIDATION SUBDIVISION APPROVAL
WHEREAS, WBP Development, LLC, has applied to the Planning Board for Subdivision
Plat Approval on a property located at 1 - 3 Croton Po…
Resolution accepted at the meeting held on June 17, 2025. 4909-1191-9438, V. 1 DRAFT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Planning Board held a public hearing on a Site Plan application on Tuesday,
April 15, 2025, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, and Tuesday, May 15, 2025, …
Jul 1, 2025
Planning Board
Resolution accepted at the meeting held on July 1st, 2025. RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Planning Board held a public hearing on a Site Plan application on Tuesday,
April 15, 2025, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, and Tuesday, May 15, 2025, submitted by WBP
Develo…
Aug 20, 2025
Board Of Trustees
23439 Grand Street Wall Replacement $ 4,162.00
23441 DPW Vehicles ($185,000)
23442 Fire Boat Marine 12 $ 194,477.81
23443 WEFH Solar Project …
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https://nyrideclean.org/, at a reception on July 24th the Village recognized
members of our volunteer Boards and Committees, on July 26th Fit Point
Croton held their ribbo…
Sep 3, 2025
Planning Board
Cynthia states we have the proposed Sewer District coming
in. Cynthia states she went through the whole thing and the historic character, etc., etc. Cynthia states she
kind of anticipated at least one of the questions at the end which was about aff…
Cynthia states after a couple of questions going back on affordable housing she said one of the things we all
strive to keep an eye on, as a responsible municipality, is yes we support affordable housing and amended our
Code to be in line with the …
Planning Board Minutes – 090325
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which we have a lot of in that area, it’s just as important to keep that affordable for the people who are
currently living there. Cynthia states when you add more layers of infrastructure, and those costs, that’s …
Emily asks if they gave a
thumbs up or a thumbs down. Cynthia states that under General Municipal Law a lot of the things that we do
especially when it comes to Town wide impacts such as writing new legislation and changing zoning, there is
what’s…
Sep 10, 2025
Board Of Trustees
So back in regular order, have some Yes. Some some some other stuff. I believe there was question, that related to waivers and affordable housing process, specifically, section Oh, yeah. 20 two thirty dash 48 c. The question is, could a waiver applic…
Village Attorney Subin addressed a question related to waivers and affordable
housing (Section 230-48c of the Village Code) as follows: Waivers for creation
of additional fair and affordable housing. If a site plan or subdivision appl…
Sep 24, 2025
Board Of Trustees
Following the logic of having an alternative member of a zoning board or a planning board because there's a conflict of interest, you can the same argument that it ought to be alternative trustees and alternative mayor for this board who has many con…
Okay. I had two things I just wanted to briefly touch on. One, in defensive planning consultants, generally, a lot of them are paid via escrows, that usually winds up saving villages money as they don't have to have as many dedicate as much staff to …
Sep 30, 2025
Zoning Board of Appeals
people have taken advantage of the new zoning laws and built monstrosities on top of buildings and charged $3,000 for a two bedroom when supposedly it was going to be, you know, affordable housing. How is $3,000 a month affordable housing? But, I mea…
Oct 9, 2025
Trustee Candidates Forum - October 9, 2025
offering both affordable housing and a community youth space, the board rejected it, turned it down. And while Croton is 55% democrat, 92% of our appointed seats are democrat. Thank you. Thank you.
I too share the public's concern about housing affordability and the need to increase supply. But we must ask what role should our small village play in solving this statewide problem? With just 8,200 residents, our small village faces serious nation…
Oct 9, 2025
Mayoral Candidates Forum - October 9, 2025
The next question, I'm beginning again with Gary. 1% growth per year for the village in terms of affordable housing and market rate has been already achieved. What is your vision for continued growth in the village?
1% growth per year for the village in terms of affordable housing and market rate housing has been already has has already been achieved. What is your vision for continued growth in the village?
Well, also, I agree with mayor on this that mixed use properties is the most important way that we can develop our businesses in town. You know, I'm a little puzzled because we had tremendous opportunities with Maple Commons and with the development …
Well, I'm fine with maintaining and funding the IDEA advisory committee, but I really feel as with many other committees in the village that they're not opened up to the wide divergent viewpoints in the village. Village. So as is, I don't think it's …
Sure. So Gary mentioned the issue of parking as it relates to new developments. That's always raised as an issue, but I'll emphasize that we do have parking minimums in our code, and that is part of the review process. And there were some parking est…
Very good. Well, thank you all again for tonight's great conversation. I think it's important to end this evening on a positive note. Our village's strength is its record of progress. The Democratic majority on the village board has delivered real re…
Oct 30, 2025
Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee
October 2025
Croton-on-Hudson Bicycle-Pedestrian Committee
October 2025 Meeting Minutes
Date: October 30, 2025— 7:30-9:00pm
Attendees: Matt Arnold (Chair); Len Simon (ex-offico); Kevin Scott; Barry Scheer;
Daniel Castner; Nora Regis
e Approved minute…
Nov 4, 2025
Planning Board
anticipated future needs or projected population growth. I see the projected growth and the anticipated future needs is caused by the rezoning to allow 50 ADUs a year and a number of large multiunit buildings, a lot of which Maple Commons being one. …
If the code states that if they're affordable housing, their words, not me, should be below market rate. Affordable housing is
doesn't doesn't get a fee. They get a waiver of the fee. So making comments. Yes, they gave a little tiny club with four benches, and the towns were cured of flock. They had 33 units, which consisted of 66 bedrooms and paid no for it. So since it's I…
Nov 19, 2025
Board Of Trustees
On motion of TRUSTEE SIMON, seconded by TRUSTEE NICHOLSON, the following
resolution was adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson,
New York with a 4-0 vote, Trustee Slippen Abstained.
Village Board of Trustees
November 19,…
On motion of TRUSTEE SIMON, seconded by TRUSTEE, NICHOLSON the following
resolution was adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson,
New York with a 5-0 vote.
WHEREAS, Westchester County (the “County”) has established the Hou…
WHEREAS, Westchester County HIF program funding, in an amount not to exceed
$6,000,000, has been sought by the Developer to be utilized to fund construction of
various infrastructure improvements associated with the Development necessary to
Village …
Village Manager Healy advised that we continue to look at ways to try to slow
down traffic on Glengary Road, one is the installation of 15 mile per hour speed
signs, speed monitoring devices as well as reaching out to the community
reminding them of …
Nov 20, 2025
Board Of Trustees
made a change to our fire department, LOSAP, that was done in 2023, I believe. Yep. And I that passed with over 80% of of the vote. So, I mean, I don't Expanding the number of years, Bill. Yeah. So I would imagine a similar result Yep. Would be possi…
Oh, mayor, manager, your your memorandum, I think, explains this very well. The additional note that's included in the backup materials from Maple Commons is as well helpful. I think this is appropriate for us to do in recognition the unanticipated c…
Whereas Westchester County has established fund program to provide infrastructure and other improvements to encourage and support the development of affordable housing. Whereas WBP Development LLC has received a special permit authorized by the villa…
Manager, thank you very much for your reading this and the background material. The fair to say that we'll be acting as, effect, a pass through agent with with a certain amount of oversight, you know, to to make sure that everything is proper of fund…
Also, on road communications, we're looking at based on resident feedback, we're looking at installing another speed monitoring sign on Old Post North near Brook Street to, you know, people people seem to come down that hill fast as they as they appr…
Nov 20, 2025
Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee
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Board Of Trustees
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December 1, 2025
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1. Email from Christine Wagner announcing her resignation from the
Zoning Board of Appeals. https://play.champds.com/AT T/crotononhudsonny/2025-
11/281c5e87a71db06c16931d44ac7eff7420f433d1.pdf
2. Year…
Dec 4, 2025
Board of Trustees Work Session
next item is the discussion of implementing occupational preferences for affordable housing.
So over the summer, I wrote a memo to West Chester County, the Planning Commissioner Blanca Lopez, that summarized discussions that had been going on with members of the board about affordable housing preferences, making potential changes to the pref…
There's no reason at this point to think that with respect to preferences preferences for for affordable affordable housing, housing that that there's there's any any distinction between rental and condominiums? I don't think so, no. Yeah. That's it.…
And this is for just for your clarification. Mean, we're so our affordable housing whenever a development is made 10% there's a 10% set aside. Yes. Right. So it would be that 10%. Yeah.
And, you know, in terms of the drafting, I'll just note that our existing code, as you can see there, kind of at the bottom of A1A, you know, it there they took well, yeah, it's referred to at different points, that's the earliest reference made. The…
I mean, I know that I think the person actually just retired, but there was a school district paraprofessional residing at Maple Commons who since retired. But, I mean, that's, you know, the pay for those positions is not, you know, pay scales are co…
commitment to how they appropriate the Affordable Housing Program. Are they losing anything? No. No. The interest property? Is there any taking? Is there any problem with that? Yeah. They probably could. Yeah.
Jan 14, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Great. Thank you. Mhmm. Thank you for your presentation. The scorecard is very helpful because it shows the levers and how we're performing against each of these metrics. So one metric here under economy is called resident resident income ratio. My q…
guess it depends. And I know there was an affordable housing project being built. But what is the number of the people that are living there compared to the total population of the village? I don't know if it would overall affect it greatly. You know…
Jan 15, 2026
Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee
● Project Mover
● Year-One stats (July 9th - December 19th, 2025)
● Total Trips
Croton hubs were involved in 1,374 trips - 1,281 trips were entirely within the Village
of Croton and 93 trips were between other municipalities, primarily the Vill…
Jan 18, 2026
Sustainability Committee
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Phase 1 of Project MOVER in Croton-on- Hudson: July 9th – December 19th, 2025
Total Trips
Croton hubs were involved in 1,374 trips: 1,281 were entirely within the Village and 93 trips
were between other municipalities (85 with the Village of Ossin…
Feb 18, 2026
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…
Feb 24, 2026
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 interesting. I'm gonna defer to Josh on some of these things because it does get really technical when when you talk about, preferences. But I can say that I've been to several, affordable housing conferences in base univers…
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…
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. My understanding is this this only impacts going forw…
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…
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 zoning of the village code to implement occupational preferences fo…
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'…
With input from Village Attorney Joshua Subin, the Planning Board discussed the history
surrounding the discussion of occupational preferences related to affordable housing. The Planning Board had questions regarding the implementation of this loca! …
Chairman
ROBERT LUNTZ
Members
JOHN GHEGAN
GEOFFREY HAYNES
Village of Croton-on-Hudson STEVEN KRISKY
EVA THADDEUS
Attorney
Planning Board JOSHUA B. SUBIN
Stanley H. Kellerhouse Municipal Building Village Engineer
One Van Wyck Street VINCENT SALANITRO,…
Chairman
ROBERT LUNTZ
Members
JOHN GHEGAN
GEOFFREY HAYNES
Village of Croton-on-Hudson STEVEN KRISKY
EVA THADDEUS
- Attorney
Planning Board JOSHUA B. SUBIN
Stanley H. Kellerhouse Municipal Building Village Engineer
One Van Wyck Street VINCENT SALANITR…
DATE: February 26, 2026
At its regularly scheduled meeting on February 26, 2026, the Planning Board reviewed the
referral from the Village Board regarding Local Law Introductory 5 of 2026. With input from Village Attorney Joshua Subin, the Planning B…
Feb 24, 2026
Waterfront Advisory Committee
WATERFRONT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING
Wedesday, February 24, 2026 6:30 p.m. Small Conference Room
PRESENT Len Simon, Chairperson (Absent)
Stuart Greenbaum (Absent)
Steve Krisky
Stacey Nachtaler
Leo Wiegman
ALSO PRESENT: Vincent Salanitro, P.E.…
Village of
Waterfront Advisory Committee
Stanley H. Kellerhouse Municipal Building
One Van Wyck Street
Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520-2501
TO:
Mayor Brian Pugh and the Village Board of Trustees
FROM: Chairman Simon, Waterfront Advisory Committee
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Feb 25, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Tower letter. Oh, it was from the money from the sale of the Katz property now, Maple Commons. Yep. Okay. So
Feb 26, 2026
Waterfront Advisory Committee
WATERFRONT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING
Wedesday, February 24, 2026 6:30 p.m. Small Conference Room
PRESENT Len Simon, Chairperson (Absent)
Stuart Greenbaum (Absent)
Steve Krisky
Stacey Nachtaler
Leo Wiegman
ALSO PRESENT: Vincent Salanitro, P.E.…
Village of
Waterfront Advisory Committee
Stanley H. Kellerhouse Municipal Building
One Van Wyck Street
Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520-2501
TO:
Mayor Brian Pugh and the Village Board of Trustees
FROM: Chairman Simon, Waterfront Advisory Committee
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Mar 11, 2026
Board Of Trustees
So let's accelerate your obvious plans and perform a study to completely dismantle our village and just become part of the town of Cortlandt. I think it will show we'll save a lot of money. So, therefore, it's a good idea. Perhaps we can sell this mu…
On motion of TRUSTEE SIMON, seconded by TRUSTEE NICHOLSON, the following
resolution was adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson,
New York with a 5-0 vote.
WHEREAS the Village Board of Trustees supports the development of …
WHEREAS Local Law Introductory No. 5 of 2026 has been drafted for such purposes,
and
WHEREAS the Village Board has received comments back on the law from the Village
Planning Board and the Waterfront Advisory Committee,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED…
Mar 18, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Thank you, mayor. Just some very brief comments on project mover. We'll start with a recap if we can. Project mover launched in Croton on July 9 and went into winter hibernation on December 19. So it was up and running a little more than five months …
Mar 24, 2026
Planning Board
local law that had to do with affordable housing and occupational preferences. Yeah. We we had mentioned several things. So I just I'm unclear what the process is. We we come up with these recommendations. Do they get rid up written up a letter that …
Mar 31, 2026
Fire Council
Special Orders of Business / Reports:
Manager Healy said thank you, and he is proud of all the departments and our own for the great
work at the Palmer Fire. He actually got to be there and seen it all firsthand, and residents said
it's great to …
Special Orders of Business / Reports:
Manager Healy said thank you, and he is proud of all the departments and our own for the great
work at the Palmer Fire. He actually got to be there and seen it all firsthand, and residents said
it's great to …
Apr 1, 2026
Fire Council
Special Orders of Business / Reports:
Manager Healy said thank you, and he is proud of all the departments and our own for the great
work at the Palmer Fire. He actually got to be there and seen it all firsthand, and residents said
it's great to …
Apr 8, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Alright. Next is the, public hearing on local local law number five of 2026 to amend chapter two thirty eight zoning of the…
Sure. Thank you, mayor. This is a law that's been a long time in the makings. We've worked with our attorneys, with the PACE Land Use Law Center, and the Housing Action Council to identify those occupations that, you know, the village would be able t…
The county planning board, you know, kind of gave a non opinion. You know, they said that it was you know, generally, are not in favor of occupational preferences, but they understand the need for municipalities to, you know, to provide for their, em…
Well, I I thought it was, you know, in record shows in in the backup materials, but I thought it was, it it was good. Our our goal is to have, both, both the occupational preferences, and, and support the goals of affordable housing as as defined by …
So it wouldn't be like, in these in these occupations, we would give a weight to those occupations. Like, so they would if there's a list of, let's say, Maple Commons where we had 3,000 applications Yep. Everyone in those professions would get
I mean, I think this is kind of covered by the language in the proposed local law, that says that this is subject to applicable law. Right? But in in the sense that this would not this is for the mandatory set aside units, right, when we're developin…
not that there's a conflict, but that that that there's a resolution. If they're in a conflict or a contradiction in law scenario between our policy and the poll the the statute, funding, you know, whatever affordable housing program it is. Yep. That…
the affordable housing that we're requiring from developers. Yeah. We don't have the authority to override state Exactly. Federal law, even if we wanted to.
A motion to open a Public Hearing on Local Law Introductory No. 5 of 2026
to amend Chapter 230, Zoning, of the Village Code to add certain
occupational preferences for affordable housing units was made by
Trustee Simon. Motion was s…
Village Manager Healy explained that the proposed Local Law identifies various
occupations that the Village would be able to legally provide some type of
preference in future affordable housing opportunities. Village Manager Healy
s…
Village Manager
Healy stated that the Board generally agreed with the Planning Board’s
suggestion, but in the interest of getting something on the books, we wanted
Village Board of Trustees
April 8, 2026
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to move forward with the …
Apr 9, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
they stay with us. Well, you know, we we took another, I think, significant step last night on the on the question of making our any any affordable new affordable housing that we have in the village available to the first responders. And so it was a …
Apr 13, 2026
Fire Council
He may join us, but it's a long drive. We Adopted our
Budget about a week ago with the help of the chief. Operating budget of $665,356 and $740,563. And approved 2 Ice Machines that Starts June 1st. And with the affordable housing we can do
occupat…
Apr 15, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Very good. Okay. The next one is $19.20. These are our municipal dues. So these are just the organization that the village itself is a member of. So I think tomorrow night will also be as a potential recap item talking about the we got received a req…
I think they are. The plan for this year is to be doing some more classes is probably the wrong word, and when Valerie watches this and sees that I call Arts workshops. Yes, workshops. Oh. Thank you. Nice. And we've actually been able to finally coor…
Not related to budget, but I didn't realize Maple Commons had a common room. Is that something that you pay a fee to use, or is it free? The the the the management's
And and the the ownership of Maple Commons is very supportive. Not only, you know, using it in general, but I was in a conversation with them on something else, and they were just actually they they knew all about the the art stuff. Right. And they t…
Apr 16, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Okay. The next item is rapid the rapid flashing beacons on Maple. So crossing Maple by the Maple Commons there, the new development. Same setup as as we have on Gerstein and also on the crosswalk there, the mid block crossing behind the school. Mhmm.…
Is there any way that Regan could chip in for some of this pedestrian safety by Maple Commons? I'm sorry. So we were talking about flashing beacons that are gonna go from Maple Commons across the street. Would they like to pay for some of that?
Apr 28, 2026
Fire Council
He may join us, but it's a long drive. We Adopted our
Budget about a week ago with the help of the chief. Operating budget of $665,356 and $740,563. And approved 2 Ice Machines that Starts June 1st. And with the affordable housing we can do
occupat…
He may join us, but it's a long drive. We Adopted our
Budget about a week ago with the help of the chief. Operating budget of $665,356 and $740,563. And approved 2 Ice Machines that Starts June 1st. And with the affordable housing we can do
occupat…
May 5, 2026
Arts & Humanities Advisory Council
Workshops:
Anthony and Valerie went to Maple Commons, and they are ready to have the space used.
Anthony will do still life workshop in June, Ken will do photographing art, Tom has someone
who can do children’s fiber/fabric/felt arts, Knit night…
May 6, 2026
Board Of Trustees
That's terrific. Well, thank you, trustee Nicholson. Just a few things here on, April 24. I got a chance to cross the river and, head over to Rockland County and, meet with some of the Rockland County folks who are very interested in, what Croton her…
On the April 27, we had just a wonderful event at Croton Landing with the Open Space Institute, which is now put on a revised and updated sign where there's sort of a fork and the the the walkway splits in two. It's actually very near our Peace Pole.…
15 Trustee Simon advised that on April 24th he met with representatives in
16 Rockland County to talk about our Maple Commons project, April 26th the
17 Sustainability Committee met and discussed EV chargers at the tr…
May 20, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Motion to approve the minutes of the Regular Meeting held on May 6,
2026, was made by Trustee Simon. The motion was seconded by
Trustee Nachtaler and approved with a 5-0 vote.
7. PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS:
Resolution #1…
Jun 17, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Alright. Very good. I'll keep going. Okay. Whereas the village board of trustees supports the development of affordable housing in the village of Croton-on-Hudson, and whereas under the direction of the village board, village the manager studied the …
Whereas the village board must make its own determination of consistency with the LWRP policy standards and conditions. And whereas on 04/08/2026, the village board reviewed the LWRP policy standards and conditions. Now therefore be it resolved as fo…
Oh, well, mayor, I I would just comment that I'm very grateful that and and happy that we're we're doing this. If you wanna divide work into sort of three categories, regular work, continuous improvement, and and breakthrough efforts. I think this is…
I learned today as a result of an email that the parade was the theme of the parade was the two hundred and the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the of the country. I I didn't I missed that somehow, but I would like us to ge…
WHEREAS under the direction of the Village Board, the Village Manager studied the
possibility of adding preferences for certain occupations for new affordable housing
units to the Village Code, and
Village Board of Trustees
June 17, 2026
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WH…
The Village Board of Trustees determines that, after reviewing the LWRP policy
standards and conditions, none were found to be applicable for the Proposed Action;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: that based upon the above, the Village Board of Trustees
c…
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Village Board of Trustees hereby adopts Local
Law Introductory No. 5 of 2026 to amend Chapter 230, Zoning, to add certain
occupational preferences for affordable housing units, which upon adoption becomes
Local Law No.…
Jul 28, 2026
Planning Board
So the applicant, is requested to provide the parking aisle and access dimensions on the site plan to confirm that the project meets those zoning requirements. We get into another list of regulations, more regulations. The project will need to meet w…
Yeah. The number of trips that are expected to be generated is is a result of the is a result of the apartment complex. We've got the numbers are generated, I think, based on the table that comes from, I believe, Bakers University, which provides dat…
2
Regarding the traffic study, the Planning Board said that this would be a point of focus, and noted that
the Blaze Festival, which takes place for approximately 45 days in the Fall right next to the proposed
development site is unaddressed in the …
Sep 3, 2026
NY Forward Town Hall Meeting
You know, we have some cultures that, you know, liked their big families to come together and play music, and other people don't necessarily embrace that. So we we have some blending of of cultural norms to to manage as well. So Plaza Nuevo will give…
I wanna thank the mayor of the Sleepy Hollow for coming out to speak, with us tonight. I I I do have I do have a John, could you just introduce yourself again? Thank you. I do have a question. Do you do you control the tax assessment process in in th…
Sep 22, 2026
Planning Board
Hi. My name is Vicky. I'm a senior property manager for the Michael's organization, Lenore Shea Bonnie. She is the property manager for Maple Commons. We were advised by our super that he wanted a shed, so we did ask upper management. They told us th…