Cannabis Dispensary Zoning
Active
27 meetings ·
2022-07-05 to 2026-10-13
Siting and approval of retail cannabis dispensary at 370 South Riverside Avenue. State Cannabis Control Board overruled village protest of the location near a daycare.
Timeline (27 meetings)
Jul 5, 2022
Board Of Trustees
fire council were were present when we accepted the funding from Pete Harckham for our new fireboat. So that was that was good. I'll yield to to Ann Gallelli to talk about the the planning board and the and the WAC. And I'll just just two final thing…
Jul 18, 2022
Board Of Trustees
actually returning, the bond to them or adopting a resolution to do so. A new efforts with, with a new shed at the at our sales school, which I think is gonna be a great addition. And and they did their their what necessary for their work on the on t…
Jan 11, 2024
Board of Education
Closing of Meeting
Discussion: 7.1 Hearing of the Public
Mr. Ed Riely spoke on the following topics:
the need for more diversity on the Board, the dangers of abortion pills, the proposed marijuana dispensary, bioethics, the stress of immigrants on…
Jan 23, 2025
Police Advisory Committee (PAC)
• Officer Davis will speak with the school to determine if the school
already does some sort of self defense class. If so, RAD training for
graduating girls will not be needed. The Recreation Department
provides a safety training class for adults, s…
Sep 10, 2025
Board Of Trustees
I'd like to talk to you about CVS Pharmacy. We have an ongoing boycott of CVS Pharmacy. They're one of the biggest promoters along with Walgreens of the dangerous drug, r u forty six. And it's come to my attention. It used to track this stuff. You kn…
Oct 8, 2025
Board Of Trustees
The second item I'd like to bring up, since this village is bound and determined to fly a transgender flag along with the entire Episcopal church, which represents the sterilization of children, mastectomies for children, all those evil things, you h…
Nov 13, 2025
Board Of Trustees
Tried so hard. Yeah. So this it was actually a nice little walk down memory lane here going through all the different things that we have done over the years because it really does showcase how well the municipalities in our immediate vicinity here r…
Jan 15, 2026
Police Advisory Committee (PAC)
e SROs fall under the purview of the school board, and the Village
cannot host SROs in the school without the school asking for such.
e The Police department is keeping a log of time spent in the schools in
2026 to understand the cost to the Village…
Apr 8, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Just a couple of things to talk about this evening. As many in the community are aware, the engineering department has received a change of use application from a convenience store to cannabis dispensary for 370 South Riverside Avenue. The planning b…
But it's all with positive intent. It's regarding the dispensary matter. You know, my understanding is that most municipalities that have retail dispensaries have more than one, typically two or more, you know, even if they're small villages. And New…
You know, what the only thing that seems to be in this board's control is zoning law. And so, you know, we've we've opted in. We can't change that. But what we can at least have a discussion around is future zoning. And, you know, I personally would …
I'd like to I would second that motion. I also think that there is an opportunity here to you know, I I have some real concerns about the location of the applicant from a school perspective. I know that there is some legislation from at the state lev…
I mean, just just a a point of clarification because I look I just looked it up. The distance between the cannabis dispensaries is 2,000 feet in municipalities population less than 20,000. If your population is more than 20,000, it's a 1,000 foot dis…
I'm not doing any news flash bulletin here. This is this will not be the first failure of the cannabis board in terms of communication and interpretation of of the law. So Yeah. They they previously
That's it. Thank you, deputy mayor. I want to thank John Ehler for the great start to the clean committee's regular cleanups. This was at on Riverside Avenue, North Riverside area, last Saturday. And despite it being a holiday weekend, we had a prett…
Village Manager Healy advised that the Engineering Department received a
“Change of Use Application” for a Cannabis Dispensary at 370 South Riverside
Avenue and the Planning Board will discuss this at their meeting on Apri…
Trustee Nachtaler stated that she is pleased that the State is funding the new
signs along Route 9, on April 14th there is an annual Westchester County
Holocaust commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in White Plains from
…
understanding under New York State law for a Village our size, is that a second
dispensary would need to be 1,000 feet apart from an existing dispensary, and
while this does not impact the current application, she asked that the Board…
Trustee Nicholson stated that she supports Trustee Nachtaler’s suggestion
because she has some real concerns about the location of the current
application from a school perspective; she understands there is some
legislation on…
Village Manager Healy clarified that the distance between cannabis
dispensaries is 2,000 feet in communities with a population of less than
20,000. Village Manager Healy also indicated that most of the Harmon area
would be cov…
Village Manager Healy explained that we don’t
generally refer matters to the Planning Board, and as detailed in Village Law
the process is for the Village Board in consultation with the Village Manager,
staff and the Village A…
Mayor Pugh thanked John Ealer for the great start to the Clean Committee’s
regular clean-ups, and he and John Ealer are in the midst of a conversation
about furthering support through the “Adopt a Highway” program and looks
fo…
Apr 14, 2026
Planning Board
a) Weiss, Micci, Attorney for Best Dispensary Near Me - 370 South Riverside Ave. (79.13-1-
70) - Application for Change of Use from Retail to Cannabis Retail Dispensary
Chairman Luntz opened the meeting by introducing Village Attorney …
Jeannette Koster said that what is before the Planning Board tonight is a minor site plan application for a
change of use from a deli to a cannabis dispensary. Ms. Koster continued that the Village opted into or
did not opt out of New York State’s ca…
Koster continued that the
daycare center near the proposed dispensary is not governed by the state department of education, and
therefore, its proximity to this site cannot be considered by the Planning Board as a reason to deny the
application. Ms. …
The applicant’s attorney, Micci Weiss of Micci J. Weiss Law spoke on behalf of the applicant, Best
Dispensary Near Me, Bay Street, LLC doing business as Mindset Cannabis Shop. Micci Weiss stated
that the proposed use will be continued use for retail …
Micci Weiss went on to say that the proposed cannabis shop is expected to generate fewer daily
customer visits than the existing convenience store, both of which involve short term trips. By report, the
existing convenience store reports approximatel…
Micci Weiss stated that there will be security cameras inside and outside of the cannabis shop and the
camera footage is kept for a minimum of 60 days, and they will have a backup generator. The cameras
will always be active, and the Croton Police ca…
Anyone coming into the cannabis shop must be 21 years old and will need to show identification, no
exceptions. Identification is checked again before a purchase is made, because that is best practice. All
products come prepackaged, so there is no way…
The applicants submitted a recommendation from the Chief of
Police in Tarrytown.
The applicants believe that the existing lighting is sufficient for their use. Trash will be handled the same
as it is now and they do not dispose of any cannabis waste…
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they pride themselves on getting people in and out, and that the machine that reads the IDs gives an
instant reading, and there is room for people to line up inside to have their ID scanned, and store
employees are trained to move people in and ou…
Steve Krisky asked if there was flexibility in the proposed hours and the applicants replied by asking what
was allowed in the Village code. The applicants would like to be open from 9:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m., but
stated if no one was coming in later, th…
John Ghegan suggested that the applicants check out the roof of the building next door, and the
applicants do not believe that the roof will affect their operations.
All deliveries and cash pickups will go through the rear door of the business. Geof…
Geoff Haynes asked how many employees would be on premises, and the applicant answered that they
can run with as few as two in the morning time, and three at peak time. The applicants expect that they
will not be up to “peak” for at least the first m…
Chairman Luntz, for the benefit of the audience members present, stated that the Village Manager spent
some time with the applicants exploring alternate locations for this cannabis shop, anticipating that this
location may be controversial. Attorney …
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the deli owner, the applicants got everything together to submit a municipal notification form to the
Village, then wait 30 days to submit to the Office of Cannabis Management. Once they submitted to the
Office of Cannabis Management, there was so…
Chairman Luntz asked the applicants to explain their proximity to the Chapel on Benedict Boulevard, as it
is 200 feet, door to door, and the applicants said that there is a state requirement in terms of proximity to
churches, so if they did not meet …
Drew Maniglia at 60 Hastings Ave. wanted to focus on the suitability of the location, noting that it shop is
proposed to go in the biggest intersection in town, and it is the way that a lot of people get to the train
station. Drew Maniglia feels that…
Drew Gamils of 34 Young Ave. spoke and wanted to focus her comment on site proximity protections.
She stated that Happy Hearts offers universal Public Pre-K, which is regulated by education law. Drew
Gamils believes there is some ambiguity with the l…
Cathy Connolly of 80 Young Ave. wanted to strongly urge the Planning Board to deny the marijuana
dispensary at this location as it serves as a primary entryway into the Village and sets the tone for the
community. More importantly, Cathy Connolly poi…
Dan Calandro of 1 Briggs Lane spoke next and said that he does not take marijuana, because of his job,
he has been to dispensaries that are nicer than doctor’s offices. Dan Calandro is not worried about
people smoking outside the dispensary. Dan Cala…
The applicant’s attorney Micci Weiss spoke and said that he appreciated hearing the resident’s concerns,
but the Village allowed to allow cannabis, so they are allowed to open the shop here. Mr. Weiss said that
the applicants followed the state proce…
Geoff Haynes said that Village attorney confirmed to the Planning Board that Happy Hearts is not
considered a preschool, and they are not just taking the applicants word on that information. Chairman
Luntz added that he agrees that this is not the ri…
Steve Krisky said that he would like to suggest that the applicants agreed to open their shop from 10:00
a.m.- 8:00 p.m., and the applicants countered with 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., repeating again that more
customers go to the existing deli. Geoff Hayn…
Steve Krisky made a motion to approve the change of use application from retail to a cannabis retail
dispensary for Best Dispensary Near Me at 370 South Riverside Ave. with conditions relating to a grand
opening plan, with the hours from 9:30 a.m. – …
Apr 15, 2026
Planning Board
Hi. So welcome everyone to the village of Croton on Hudson planning board meeting for Tuesday, 04/14/2026. We have two items on the agenda. The first being new new business. Apologize if I say the name wrong. Mitzi Weiss, attorney for Best Dispensary…
Thank you. Thank you very much. The let's get this. What's before the planning board tonight is a minor site plan approval application for a change of use from a deli, which is the current use to a cannabis dispensary. The just as a at at the outset,…
Good evening, mister chairman, members of the planning board, village attorney. My name is Mickey Weiss from the law office of Mickey j Weiss Law. I'm here on behalf of the applicant, Best Dispensary near Me Bay Street doing business as Mindset Canna…
So, we should be good with respect to the required parking spots, even though we're a less intense use than what's currently there, which which I'm about to get you. And so the proposed use is anticipated to generate fewer daily customer visits than …
I've never seen I this is for the past five, six years in multiple states. I've never seen a chief of police put that down on paper. And that, again, goes to show you how important that is to this group. Lighting the lighting is sufficient right now.…
And so we are not bringing, a neon sign smoke shop into your town. We are bringing a high end shop that's gonna function and look like an Apple store that people are gonna be proud to walk into and walk out of, and we're gonna be proud to be running …
The ID scanner is instant. It is I mean, it's in in in. So if we had four people outside, there's plenty of space in the store for them to line up and, you know, behind the stanchion that's there, and and we'll check their IDs. You're you cannot get …
dispensaries. And so we're not a medical dispensary. We're not allowed to hold ourselves out as one. It's type of license type in New York. And those medical dispensaries generally aren't permitted, the ones that you're speaking of, to sell adult use…
Cannabis. I mean, is it in So we sell we sell pre prepackaged flower products. We sell pre rolls. We sell various sorts of edibles, you know, that help you with pain or with sleep or with alertness. We sell topicals. We sell concentrates in various f…
That you're generally speaking, we don't want the, public to be able to see any clearly visible cannabis products. And so the film is what we're proposing now. If there were any other suggestions that you'd like to see instead of that film, like the …
we have a provisional license from the state of New York. We have site proximity protection. What that means is that the office of cannabis management has, advised that this site meets all of the requirements to be issued a full license. At this poin…
I will put a note into OCM tomorrow morning. What's OCM? We get approved tonight. The Office of Cannabis Management. Thank you. And so what generally happens is there's a lot of licenses that are just sitting out there because many people can't figur…
as Mickey explained earlier, the typical time for somebody to be in the store being tracked on our POS system which we can we check on our phones is is he said less than five minutes which is is like literally four and a half minutes for for average …
We visit I'll give a brief, and then Vinny can can can fill in some holes and any gaps that I leave. For about eight months, we searched through this village high and low. We knocked on every single business owner's door and asked them to leave their…
It's allowed under the state law. The truth is is that even being here, we wanna be a good partner, but there's no such thing as cannabis retail versus regular retail. It's it's retail to retail, And we're here, nevertheless, you know, paying profess…
not gonna pass. And if it did pass, it would not be retroactive. I mean, the problem lies within the city and the five boroughs. I mean, if that law were to be passed, more than 80% of the dispensaries in the five boroughs would have to shut down, wh…
It's a it's it's a beautiful river town. It reminds me of Tarrytown. Tarrytown, I went to Tarrytown in 2020. I was doing a different business, and I knew I was gonna wanna get into cannabis. So I bought the building on the street, and it so happened …
So look, you're not allowed to consume on-site at all. It's not allowed. But cannabis is being consumed here in the village. Okay? Whether it's bought at a store on Riverside Avenue or elsewhere, and none of our customers are gonna come and smoke on …
So I don't think that the board wanted a dispensary in this location. My my last point is is sort of a question about process, and it has to do with these notification the notification to the municipality that the lawyer alluded to earlier. You know,…
Drew Manila, Hastings Avenue. Let me sign in here. I think I'd like to focus on the suitability of these specific locations since you've already mentioned that is obviously contentious. Why it's contentious? Well, this is a major three way. It's actu…
They've said themselves they have a unique experience. They're drawing people in, not just from Croton, from the streets in the vicinity, but from other towns. Right? So this is not, simply increasing foot traffic. This is about bringing a lot more c…
Susan Screlia, 56 Truesdale Drive. Gun shops, strip clubs, gambling facilities, and cannabis dispensaries are all legal. But legality does not make them healthy, appropriate, or beneficial for a small family centered village of 8,000 residents. When …
Those safeguards need to be put in place, and that's the only way that we protect ourselves as a community, and they failed to do that. That absence of planning is evident in the current proposal, a dispensary near day care, a music school that serve…
Honestly, if approved, I hope that it's a colossal failure and that no dispensary owner ever thinks twice about opening a shop here ever again. I find it pretty pathetic to think that a cannabis cons dispensary can survive in this village, but that a…
Hi. Cathy Connolly, 80 Young Avenue. I have some prepared comments, but also some comments to things I heard this evening. I will keep it under three minutes. First of all, thank you very much for allowing us to speak. I know you didn't have to do th…
Dan Calandro, Warmbriggs Lane, Cronon, Hudson. I've been a resident in this town for about fifty three years, so I've seen a lot come and go. And I don't partake in the marijuana because of my job. But I know more people actually, a family member's h…
Riley Moeller, village resident and business owner. Just sign in here. Home address or business address on the sign in form? Alright. So as I said, my name is Riley Moeller. My wife and I are raising two kids in the village here, and we own the local…
Good evening, everyone. Ron Napolitany, local business owner and as well as, you know, several building lots and property in the village. Originally, I was in charge when I was when I was applying to put the building up at the old Gulf Station where …
My name is Ed Riely. I come from Truesdale Drive. It's a shame that this, subject has to be brought before the planning board to begin with. If the members of the village board had done their job four years ago, they would have turned down marijuana …
Look. I I respect and appreciate hearing from, some of the concerns and then and some of, the people in support, which, you know, is is how things are. Like, it's a political issue. And so you're gonna get people who have opinions on things. But four…
In other words, there's more people, more vehicles that are that are existing today than there will be if this board approves us and and we open up. And then, again, we're a lot of folks here are concerned about the day care, but nobody from the day …
expect it, but that's what I got. And and look, on on a on the on the cannabis issue in general here, like, we've, as a state, been licensed for now, what, four, five years. You have not seen like you said, let's test it out. There's no issues. There…
yeah, a lot of letters prior to this meeting, and there were the fear of the increase in crime was mentioned, more than once. So I actually made a call yesterday to, the police department in Ossing because I know that there are two, dispensaries ther…
I'd like you to be opening well past whatever rush hour there is down to the train station in the morning. That I would be better for us. So 09:30 to 09:30. You had already proposed 09:30 so I don't I'd rather you not go to nine to open. You've alrea…
With all due respect, you're putting an extra condition on for the specifically. Again, the current use, people go there for coffee and breakfast, and more people are gonna go and stop at the deli right now in the morning that are gonna come into our…
Which is ten hours a day. That's my understanding. Right? Hours per week. 70 per week is ten hours a day, not Yeah. Twelve hours. Because that's the minimum from the office of cannabis management, right, is what the rug you're quoting. Again, like, w…
I'm partially basing it on what I see liquor stores doing. I see a dispensary is very much like a liquor store. And to the best of my knowledge, the liquor stores in town don't open till 10AM. And to my best of my knowledge, at least the Van Wick and…
I can make a motion to approve the change of use from retail to a cannabis dispensary for best dispensary near me at 370 South Riverside Avenue with the conditions relating to the grand opening plan with the hours that we were discussing of 09:30AM t…
like the their licenses is running on a parallel track. They're going to get their license regardless of what happens here. You could put it in as a condition of opening that they have their license. That makes perfect sense. Alright. Well, let's add…
Apr 15, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Thank you, mayor. So, I was asked to provide just a statement based on the actions of the planning board last night related to the cannabis dispensary. As many are aware, the planning board approved a change of use last evening for a cannabis dispens…
Apr 21, 2026
Board of Education
Leslie Pollak thanked the Board for not voting for PNW BOCES Board Trustee candidate. She requested information on committee member selection. She also asked for tenure rationales. Why aren't academics in the Superintendent reports? We need answers …
Lack of instructional time. Ideology has to stop, especially re: college night.
Ed Riely addressed the diesel bus issue. The community was to be blamed for pushing district into buying the expensive buses. He congratulated the Board for having tran…
Apr 22, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Name is Ed Riely from Truesdale Drive. Croton is going to pot, and the principal reason it's going to pot is not because this village board and the planning board unwisely approved a marijuana dispensary in the worst part of the village to to have th…
So the entire process of promoting this marijuana store in Croton from the get go years ago has been an ugly process to piggyback on state programs because we have a direct connection to the state legislature. It's to curry favor with the legislature…
and then our clean volunteers will pick it up this Saturday. And, apparently, they pick up pounds and pounds and pounds of trash. So something to think about. Don't litter. Don't litter. Don't litter at everybody on Earth Day. I also just want to cal…
That one, we we learned in in some of the some of the remarks that some of the organizers had made about one in three of our Croton kids participate currently in Little League. So that's that's pretty amazing. On April 14, that last Tuesday, trustee …
Well, just, quickly speaking to the cannabis matter. Obviously, I do my best to advise, the village, and my advice generally is either sometimes it's public, sometimes it's private. But in the context, privileged or nonprivileged, but in the context …
Ed Riely, 110 Truesdale Drive, Croton on Hudson, expressed his objection to
a marijuana dispensary in the Harmon district and objected to the entire
process the Board went through to allow this in our Village, believes that the
…
Trustee Nicholson advised that the Recreation Advisory Committee met and
will be preparing a report of our parks, Earth Day activities will be held on May
2nd, the Clean Committee is holding a clean-up at the train station this
…
Trustee Simon advised that the HEART Committee met on April 9th and they
will be announcing their next Croton honoree shortly, April 10th the Yacht Club
held an event where Croton Historian Marc Cheshire presented an overview of
…
Village Attorney Subin stated that the Village does not write State law with
respect to Cannabis Dispensaries, but our Planning Board and Planner have
done an extensive review of the application and believes there was as much
…
May 12, 2026
Planning Board
For temporary signs, it was suggested that they be dated when they are put up
either on the front of the sign, or on the back in sharpie. Language should also be included that any
signage required by law be excluded from permit regulations, for examp…
May 27, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
we proceed to item six, a discussion on a proposed moratorium on cannabis dispensaries in the village.
Yes. So thank you, mayor. This is just, coming up because, there's obviously been a lot of discussion regarding cannabis and where it can be, located in the village. There's been continual updates from the office of cannabis management as to, definit…
yeah. Yeah. I get I'll jump in. Yeah. Just see, they borrowed when writing this law from First Amendment law and said time, place, and manner restrictions. And the way they used it is to say that you can have reasonable time, place, and manner restri…
Right. I just I just wanna emphasize one thing that Josh is raising is that, even though he's we were talking about zones, the state tends to look at this as retail. So if you allow retail in certain zoning districts, they assume you're also gonna al…
corner on the market for things that have happened before the moratorium. Right? So I don't know I just I just feel like there's a little liability in doing this the way we're doing it Because now there's no competition. We already know we're having …
On a motion by TRUSTEE SIMON, seconded by TRUSTEE NICHOLSON, the Village Board voted
unanimously to schedule a public hearing on Local Law Introductory No. 9 of 2026 for Wednesday,
June 17, 2026, at 7 p.m. in the Georgianna Grant Meeting Room of th…
Jun 17, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Yep. Alright. On further discussion? All in favor? Aye. Alright. We proceed to public hearing on local law number nine of 2026 to amend chapter 99, cannabis of the village code to establish a temporary moratorium on cannabis dispensaries. Do I have a…
the impact of the moratorium? Yeah. So thank you, mayor. So the moratorium is as it says, is a temporary measure. It's in effect for a set period of time, which I believe we said was Six. Six months? Six months. Yes. Three month extension. Right? Cor…
Ed Riely from, Truesdale Drive. Quite frankly, I'm shocked. I thought this place would be packed packed in outrage of what the village allowed to happen with the institution of pot pot wholesale store number one replacing an ice cream store, near a s…
Hi. I'm Gwen. I live right now on Mountain Trail. I've lived in Croton since 1953. Long term, I love it here. I wouldn't call anybody pathetic. I don't like name calling, to be honest. Kinda takes the speaker down a notch. I don't have a problem with…
Whereas the village board is desirous of conducting a review of existing zoning for cannabis dispensaries and whereas a moratorium on future dispensary applications has been proposed to allow the board time to conduct this review. And whereas local l…
I think this moratorium is is a a great idea. And, you know, I as I mentioned, where there's typically one dispensary in a market, a second, potentially a third, and and more follow. So this gives our village and the board an opportunity to take a st…
Yep. And I would just add on to that getting as as close as we can to an ironclad map is is what I think the the real virtue of the moratorium is so that we can you know, understanding that, know, our friends in Albany at the cannabis office, you kno…
anything except the dispensaries and the on place consumption. So you have a zoning code which would require that type of business to be in a particular zone. Obviously not next door to a church and it's it's a commercial use, but the, statutory law …
I'm Gwen Cianfaglione, Mountain Trail. I feel like it's point counterpoint, but yeah. Don't bring illegal drugs into Croton. Don't do it. Fentanyl kills. Heroin, Coke. I don't think any of those should be illegally brought into Croton, and I don't th…
Hi. Wesley Blount, 35 Young Avenue. I came here tonight, I I and I'm very sorry because I probably should have paid more attention earlier to this. But when we've been when my mother and I saw that the moratorium was proposed, part of it to me was ju…
It has been the thing to me is that the whole discussion of legalizing pot in the state of New York has been kind of a mess from the word go and there that we've fallen into this again, I like as you said that the cannabis department from the state j…
His name is Stanley Kowalski, and he looks like him. Okay? So and when Stanley's mister Stanley's misbehaving, he goes home. We know Stanley has an issue when he gets overexcited. Okay? Things can be done to make that park more popular. There should …
So I would think you ought to consider moving it up. And the other final thing I have, I guess it was about a year ago when the proposal for we all know that dispensaries are allowed now in New York and all across the country. And it was proposed to …
Thank you. I decided to wear a patriotic outfit this evening. It's it's America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. I do appreciate everyone coming out. Just a little bit on process, you know, we have, work sessions. We only schedule one work sessio…
It was actually a preliminary conversation because they were trying to get an application with the state. We sent a positive recommendation for that dispensary, at down at ShopRite. Their lease fell through. So it was not the village that stopped tha…
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Village Board of Trustees hereby adopts
Local Law Introductory No. 8 of 2026 to amend Chapter 197, Streets and Sidewalks,
of the Village Code to update the provisions related to prior notice of defects, which
upo…
Village Board of Trustees
June 17, 2026
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Village Manager Healy explained that the moratorium is a temporary measure
to give the Village Board the opportunity to review our existing zoning based
on changes in regulations from …
COMMENTS:
Ed Riely, 110 Truesdale Drive, Croton on Hudson stated that he is outraged
that the Village Board allowed this to happen in our Village and is extremely
concerned that this will be targeted to young people and feels it is…
Village Manager Healy advised that the Board would need to pass a resolution
to extend the moratorium during a regular open meeting.
There being no further comments to come before the Board, a motion to close
the Public Hearing was…
WHEREAS Local Law Introductory No. 9 of 2026 has been drafted for such purposes;
and,
Village Board of Trustees
June 17, 2026
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WHEREAS a Public Hearing on Local Law Introductory No. 9 of 2026 was opened and
closed on June 17, 2026, and
WHERE…
Village Attorney Dickson stated that our goal is to present a zoning code
amendment that is defensible and she and the Planner are studying the
mechanisms for approving locations as well as closely monitoring the latest
leg…
Ed Riely, 110 Truesdale Drive, Croton on Hudson, stated that Croton had the
option to opt out of allowing cannabis dispensaries in our Village, but the
Board did not, and he believes this was done because of the possible tax
…
Wesley Blount, 35 Young Avenue, Croton on Hudson, stated that he did not
think we would have to have a discussion about dispensaries in Croton
because he believed it was clear that the sentiment by many in the community
was…
John Sasso, Morningside Drive, Croton on Hudson, NY, stated that Croton has
the only dog park in Westchester that closes at 4pm and asked that the hours
be extended to 8pm, he also asked the Board to consider moving comments
…
Trustee Nicholson thanked everyone who spoke this evening, and advised that
the dog park will be on an upcoming work session agenda, advised that the
Board had some preliminary conversations with the applicant regarding a
c…
Jun 18, 2026
Police Advisory Committee (PAC)
? Additional information that Gustavo feels would be helpful. Additional articles for the PAC webpage . While it is not expected that anyone will read all articles on the webpage, residents should be encouraged to read articles that address a residen…
Jul 16, 2026
Board of Education
They think they think the newspapers of Croton and Hudson are dangerous to their ideas, and they were so impractical. That's not the word. They put it in the minutes of their agenda, which is the first time we finally got minutes out of this committe…
It's a physically small classroom with a large class.
Ed Riely stated that things have been handled poorly by school districts, such as the COVID epidemic and shutdown, the aftermath of George Floyd, and the DEI frenzy. A wave of censorship resulte…
Jul 22, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
So Thank you. Now Cannabis. Cannabis. Cannabis.
So Lori Lee, I so I because I know she's she's remote. I'm gonna kinda go through the highlights of, you know, what the state law says and what we're proposing. And then if you have very specific questions on the law and stuff, Lori Lee is here to an…
Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. So the other the the state law does allow municipalities to regulate hours of operation, but they specifically say that dispensary shall not be operating from 2AM to 8AM, but municipalities cannot restrict to le…
If it's two specific licenses, it needs to be 2,000 feet. Other than that, that is all that the village is able to, unfortunately, regulate. So what we have provided to you is, some terms, and specifically regulations, regulation standards that fall …
I don't know if Lori Lee is gonna opine on this or not, but I think you could have significant pushback if you decided to say that because, I mean, right now, you your adult entertainment is allowed in the light industrial, but That's it. Is very it'…
I think that we need to have we need to have a discussion about this. Yeah. I would I would suggest because there have been some recent court I mean, recent, challenges to the cannabis law, especially on Long Island about how many zones, particular c…
Yeah. I did. I did. I'm hoping you can hear me. Yes. But the standard in a statute is very vague. It says unreasonably impracticable in the sole discretion of the cannabis control board. So you'd have to have a valid basis, and you could you could cr…
Well, OCM would find again No. Go to court now. No. You have you have to send your law to the office of cannabis management. The the oversight on the local law goes to them, and then they issue an opinion. Because they have to find they have to find …
and we were an original opt in community. We have an approved dispensary. It is not like we are in knee jerk on this issue. Mhmm. But we are responding to their surprising at least surprising to us interpretation. So, you know, this is our this is ou…
So these are similarly, this would be a secret process? This this this law would be a Right. So since we're gonna have a separate secret process process for for the the secret secret amendments in effect, why don't we hold this until we're ready with…
You you you'd still you'd be having two separate laws. Okay. So because the the changes to the cannabis
Sep 9, 2026
Board Of Trustees
commenting on signs away from them. Well, just to be clear, it wouldn't be taking it all away from them. Right? It would only be those that are already going before the planning board. So, like, if, you know, case in point, they did they just looked …
could be. Yes. But also Yeah. Certain types of stores, specifically the cannabis store Mhmm. Has there are state rules that might be that that might supersede whatever our rules are. So there was a lot of discussion about this because there was a lit…
that applicants must comply with any state laws applicable to their signage, and the cannabis dispensary would be cited as an example of this. So I was thinking of something different. Okay. But don't think it's a problem. I just wanted to mention to…
Sep 16, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Cannabis.
Okay. So, there's a there's a draft local law that's included in the backup, that includes some regulations for adult use cannabis dispensaries. This is largely drafted, to conform with the guidance in the state's cannabis law as enacted by the murde…
Because now you are defining adult use cannabis retail dispensary as a use, defined it, separating it from general retail. So you have the ability now to put it in your use tables. Limiting it or not limiting it, it's really you know, right now, it d…
Well, like I said, you you're now specifically taking cannabis, adult use cannabis dispensaries out of general retail, and you're defining it specific as a use to be permitted.
Well, no. It it's No. Cannabis in the vape shop doesn't impact the cannabis. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We we have a law a local law that says because we have a cannabis shop Sorry. We have a local law that says no cannabis or tobacco shop can be within 500 f…
And if the OCM, Office of Cannabis Management, changes the goalposts, right, and changes laws and says, you know what? Now we're gonna make it 500 feet for the second one, You know, could we come back together then and, you know, redo this exercise i…
Yeah. But if you didn't put it because the the preemption language from the cannabis control board, again, a non rulemaking board that's making these decisions, the preemption language is all over their decision making. But if you do it now based upo…
Yep. And a question, just to clarify one of the laws that some of the the drafting there, it says, is it my understanding that we're saying you can't smoke cannabis right outside of the store outdoors? I know that's come up like the public has asked.…
We had which had to have been illegal because I can't imagine that you could smoke regular cigarettes in the stadium. So, you know Yeah. Yeah. Because generally, the rule is where you're allowed to smoke cigarettes, you can smoke cannabis and vice ve…
on public properties and parks, and you can Yeah. We sidewalks and roads, and you can do that. And we've we've we have limited it in our parks. It's no it's not permitted in our parks. Right. Yeah. Either either one, cigarette, tobacco, or or smoke c…
going to list all dispensaries as special use permits. Got it. They're gonna be allowed as a special permit use in the C 2 outside of the gateway zones Mhmm. In the C 1 R A zone, in the 01 zone, specifically in the North End Gateway. And is that defi…
for a use. I I mean, I I think cannabis. We could get some guidance on this from Nikon. I think I because I do I do believe there's a lot
cannabis. Right? They issued them the license there.
Yeah. But there isn't there the argument being made is that the preemption is is not the same level of preemption that it would be for for adult beverages, that adult use cannabis dispensaries. There's there's a certain level of protection given beca…
Yeah. I would I would consider, you know, I think we're focusing on cannabis
Millwood is three blocks Millwood Post Office. Well, we used to have blocks from A big portion of the of the problem is that we used to have a Krogers post office. Oh, yeah. And they closed that, and all the people in Krogers got Croton mailing addre…
WHEREAS, the Village Board of Trustees are desirous of creating the position of Assistant
Village Manager; and
WHEREAS, Local Law Introductory No. 15 of 2026 has been drafted for such purposes; and
WHEREAS, a Public Hearing was opened and closed o…
Sep 25, 2026
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Sep 30, 2026
Board Of Trustees
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…
thank you. Okay. So, my report Really? Interrupt you. Yeah. You can. Well said. Early September, the Visual Environment Board met. They had a very lengthy meeting with the Mindset Cannabis Shop to review their proposed signs for the store. I think th…
24 WHEREAS, the Village Board of Trustees desires to provide clarification for land use
25 applications in connection with licensed adult use cannabis dispensaries; and
26 WHEREAS, under the direction of the Village Board, the Village Manager …
12 Ed Riely, 110 Truesdale Drives, stated that we have a health and population
13 crises in the United States, the number of children born in the United States
14 is at its lowest rate, and believes that there is a ph…
22 Trustee Nachtaler advised that the Advisory Board on the Visual Environment
23 met, they had a very lengthy meeting regarding signage for the cannabis
24 shop, and they have forwarded their recommendations to the P…
Oct 7, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Debi Braddick, Young Avenue, Croton. I have a couple of things. First of all, I want to say thank you to all of you who approved the hours for Joanna Straub and the recreation department. Recently, we have been able to open up three three programs fo…
Hey. Before... Can I just address two comments? Sure. Came up. Yes. So I just wanted to give, some... Just some actual information. So, regarding the, cannabis sign, I just wanted to say that's not coming back to the village board. The planning board…
I just want to address a couple things that were said by residents who thank you all for coming to to speak. The sign... Regarding the signage for the cannabis dispensary, the proposed signage came to the VEB, and there were some recommendations made…
Yeah. Oktoberfest was awesome. And on October 3, I also attended the Brooklyn Embodied Pilates, their grand opening ceremony. It was great. It's a beautiful space on 18 Old Post Road. I just encourage residents to check it out. They also have a beaut…
Oct 8, 2026
LWV Candidates Forum
Thank you. Okay. Now we're gonna change the topic. Okay. We're gonna start with miss Slippen. What is your position on cannabis shops in the village? Would you support a cap on the number of shops?
Well, I think as everyone who's been following this is aware, many years ago when we... So we have opted in. So we are go... We are going to have cannabis shops in Croton. You know, the board is in the process of discussing right now. Because we opte…
Thank you. Miss Debiola, what is your position on cannabis shops in the village? Would you support a cap on the number of shops?
I I I I think that a cap would probably be a a good idea. I know that there are some restrictions because there are regulations that govern the cannabis shops, and we opted in. So I'm not familiar with what parameters we have to work with, with respe…
Yes. And, last word on housing, if I if I may, from my time. I just wanna point out that one of the things that we were able to do with Maple Commons and eventually Lot A is return them to the property tax rolls. Maple Commons in that that land did n…
Oct 13, 2026
Planning Board
Good evening. I'd I'd like to like welcome everyone to the village of Croton on Hudson planning board meeting for Tuesday, 10/13/2026. We have two new business items on on the agenda, but one of them is not present. I don't believe the Rebel Studio C…
So as I understand it, the VEB's recommendation was essentially, and I'll just kinda shortcut it, to basically have something more similar to what was done in the Tarrytown store, which is a placard type sign, I guess, that comes off the building and…
the same. That's absurd. I don't know what else to to say about that. If they're not, you know, there's LED lighting all over the state, for multiple cannabis dispensaries. If it were the same, the OCM would shut everybody's signage down. And so, res…
Another thing that VEB talked about, sure somebody else would have brought it up if I didn't, is the the sign that's over the south facing door where cannabis shop is stacked on two lines. Like, it is in that sign there. Yeah. The other one Vincent h…
Thanks for bringing that up. I didn't realize it. But I I don't see... I think the one on the right is much more tasteful in terms of, you know, you get it, the logo, it says cannabis shop on it, and I would definitely be in favor of having the one a…
You know what It's a compliant it's a compliant sign. People don't like the word cannabis. Like, now we're getting into First Amendment stuff. Like, this is about the word cannabis. It's about the word cannabis right now that we have an issue with. W…
I... But because of the word, though. Well, I would say Cannabis. I would say, you know, if if we were to do that, basically, the signed panel would be increased so the height would almost be going up to the window. And it, you know, there wouldn't b…
signs that we believe would function. We will come with one of the examples compliant with the code in the manner in which you're requesting that we provide to you. We'll come back with this iteration and then we'll come back with one larger sign tha…
on top with the cannabis shop on the bottom. But I would also be sure that we're being clear. We'll look at that certainly, but what we're really looking for is to address it in a way that is within the space you have now, making the words cannabis s…
And then the other thing we have on our agenda is the referral from the village board of trustees to review local law introductory number 16 of 2026, the EAF and the CAF that seeks to amend the text of chapter two thirty zoning to provide clarificati…
Right. So there... Yeah. My understanding is that much of this as the little summary notes is that much of this is pulled from the state the state requirements. And the village board has tweaked it in that they've specifically made the the cannabis c…
dispensaries were barred from light industrial currently. And then in the proposed law, it's newly introduced as light industrial as a a potential area for dispensaries. Keep in mind, these all have to follow all that distance requirements from churc…
The letter. Yeah. Then does... Is the board required... Let's... Whatever our action is tonight in terms of our recommendation, it goes back to the board. Is the board required to have a public hearing to, Yeah. I'm almost positive. That's what I tha…
So it may be... I don't know what the state law Well, we can make that recommendation. If it violates state code, then the board of trust ees will learn that and not include it. We're... This is just... We're just making recommendations. So I have no…
That liquor stores, cannabis dispensaries, this is this is Right. Sort of... I mean, I don't deny it's a vice, but the vices should be treated Simil... Similarly. I
Yeah. You could... I I mean, to me, it's all want the same kettle of fish. I don't wanna outlaw them, but at the same time, I'd like to keep an eye on them, so to speak. Mhmm. I mean, at the end of the day, it's the market that's gonna dictate. You k…
So that could be part of our recommendation then it sounds Yeah. So to summarize, we've talked about three issues. One we just covered with, you know, vaping stores being consistent with new code that we would pass. We talked about the concept of dis…
the geography changing slightly? Well, mean, just to be clear, what we're... This is what we're suggesting about liquor stores, that they essentially have to abide by the same zoning restrictions as a cannabis store? In terms of proximity to schools …
and there's approximately 3.3 liquor stores for every 20,000 residents in the state of New York. We're a village of 8,000 and in the marijuana statute that was passed, there's distance requirements to schools and things like that change with the popu…
Relying on existing generalized commercial parking exemptions is a severe oversight. Cannabis retail operates as a high density rapid turnover regional destination without explicit mandates requiring a flex ratio, a fixed ratio of dedicated on-site p…