🏛️ Board Of Trustees
Croton narrows where cannabis shops could open, creates assistant village manager post
Sep 16, 2026
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Croton-on-Hudson trustees told the village attorney on Sept. 16 to draft cannabis zoning that would allow dispensaries by special permit in a handful of commercial and industrial pockets, and adopted a local law re-creating the position of assistant village manager, a post the village has not had since 2015.
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Public Hearing on Local Law Introductory No. 15 of 2026 to amend Chapter 31, Manager, Village, of the Village Code to create the position of Assistant Village Manager.
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Key Actions & Decisions
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Adopted Local Law Introductory No. 15 of 2026, which becomes Local Law No. 12 of 2026, amending Chapter 31 of the Village Code to create the position of assistant village manager
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Directed the village attorney to draft cannabis zoning allowing dispensaries as a special permit use in C-2 outside the gateway overlays, C-1RA, the light industrial district and the North End Gateway
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Agreed to write the state's 1,000-foot separation between dispensaries into the village code verbatim, and to define a 500-foot buffer around public youth facilities
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Deferred extending the same siting rules to direct-to-customer alcohol and tobacco sales pending a legal review of state preemption
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Approved a warrant of $270,866.03 across the general, water, sewer, capital and trust funds