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WELCOME[I. CALL TO ORDER]
EVERYONE TO THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON, NEW YORK BOARD OF TRUSTEES, REGULAR MEETING FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 3RD, 2025.PLEASE RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
I PLEDGE IN ALLEGIANCE TO JULY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TWO TO REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE RULE.
[IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
MOVING ON TO APPROVAL OF MINUTES.THIS IS FOR THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
ANY ADDITIONS, DELETIONS, COMMENTS OF ANY KIND? IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED.
[V. APPROVAL OF WARRANTS]
APPROVAL OF WARRANTS GENERAL FUND, AA $108,873 AND 79 CENTS.FEDERAL DRUG GRANT CD $2,469 AND 64 CENTS POOL FUND, ER, $19,884 AND 60 CENTS CAPITAL FUND, HH $16,439 AND $38 AND 16 CENTS LIBRARY FUND LL 3,493.
DO DOLLARS AND 60 CENTS BETTERMENT FUND, TT $758 AND 96 CENTS.
PROFESSIONAL ESCROW TT $7,737 AND 50 CENTS PAYROLL FUND TT 3497 CENTS.
AND BEFORE WE GO ON, I JUST WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO CONGRATULATE OUR POLICE CHIEF AND OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR SECURING ACCREDITATION.
IT'S SO MUCH WORK FOR THEM TO DO, AND THEY DID, UM, A REALLY GREAT JOB.
SO, UH, I THINK WE ALL, UM, JOIN IN WISHING THEM THE VERY BEST AND I'VE ALREADY CONVEYED MY THOUGHTS TO THE CHIEF, AND I KNOW HE'D HEAR, LOVE TO HEAR FROM THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO, TO MENTION IT TO HIM.
UM, MOVING ON TO PUBLIC COMMENTS.
MAYOR, WE NEED A MOTION FOR THE WARRANTS.
MOTION ON APPROVAL OF WARRANTS.
[VI. PUBLIC COMMENTS]
TO PUBLIC COMMENTS.GOOD EVENING, DAVE SKOLNIK, 47 HILLSIDE.
I WAS GONNA START WITH A RHETORICAL RIDDLE.
I WASN'T SURE I WAS GONNA START WITH IT, BUT I AM.
AND IT'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE, THE, WHAT'S THE SAME, UH, AS TRANSPARENCY.
UH, WHAT'S MAKES TRANSPARENCY THE SAME AS OPACITY.
AND MY ANSWER TO THAT IS WHEN THERE'S NO ONE WATCHING.
SO A LOT OF THE CONVERSATION, UH, THE BOARD AND THE MAYOR HAD LAST MEETING OR SO, WAS ABOUT HOW YOU HAD, UH, REACHED OUT.
AND THERE WAS, WERE ALL THESE EFFORTS TO BRING PUBLIC TO THE, UH, PROCESS OF THE COMP PLAN.
UM, AND YET SOMEHOW IT DIDN'T WORK, UH, BECAUSE, UH, BY, UM, TRUSTEE FLEISIG, UM, YOU KNOW, TELLING, UM, AT THE MEETING, ALMOST NO MEMBERS OF THE VILLAGE ATTENDED ANY OF THESE MEETINGS.
UM, WHICH IS TRUE, BUT IT WASN'T, NO AND NO, NO ONE WAS THERE.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, IF I ASKED YOU WHO WAS THERE REGULARLY, WELL, UH, YES, IT'S TRUE, BUT YOU WERE THERE TOO.
THE POINT BEING THAT OF THIS BODY, UH, TRUSTEE MERTON, TRUSTEE DRAKE, TRUSTEE FLEISIG, UH, VILLAGE MANAGER, AND ME.
SO ANY CONVERSATION ULTIMATELY ABOUT WHAT THE PROCESS WAS REALLY, UH, FALLS A LITTLE BIT TO WHAT WE EITHER AGREE TOOK PLACE, OR DISAGREE ABOUT WHAT TOOK PLACE OVER THAT TWO YEAR PERIOD.
ALSO, IT OCCURRED TO ME THAT, UM, UM, AT THE LAST MEETING, I THINK, UM, UH, ARTHUR REALO, UH, MR. REALO SUBMITTED A LETTER, UH, ASKING TO BE, UH, THAT
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HE WROTE TO YOU, SUBMITTING, UH, TO THE RECORD.AND HOWEVER, I WILL DO IT IN THE NEXT COMING WEEKS, I'M GONNA COLLECT, I INTEND TO HOPE TO COLLECT THE COMMENTS I MADE AT THOSE COMP, UH, MEETINGS OVER THE TWO YEARS AND SUBMIT THOSE TO YOU.
SO THE PROCESS IS DONE, BUT I'M JUST BASICALLY, UH, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHEN THE MAYORAL ELECTION IS, BUT AT SOME POINT SOON, UM, THE MAYOR WILL NO LONGER BE THE MAYOR.
SO THE RESPONSIBILITY, UH, FOR THIS DOCUMENT AND FOR WHAT I SEE AS A SERIOUS, UM, UH, FLAW IN THIS PROCESS, IS GONNA FALL ALL COLLECTIVELY TO YOU.
SO I JUST WANTED YOU TO BE PREPARED BECAUSE IT'S NOT GOING AWAY.
I'M NOT GONNA KEEP ARGUING, UH, ABOUT WHAT TOOK PLACE, BUT UNLESS SOMETHING HAPPENS, I'M NOT GOING AWAY EITHER.
SORRY I WAITED A LONG TIME FOR INFORMATION, AND IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT, APPARENTLY, BUT IT'S A JOKE AND YOU SHOULDN'T BE DISCUSSING IT AS IF IT'S SOMETHING REAL, EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.
UM, AND I WOULD LOVE A COPY OF THE, UH, LWRP BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S ABSENT TO ANYBODY EXCEPT YOU.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE BOARD? OKAY.
[VII. RESOLUTIONS]
ON TO RESOLUTIONS.THE FIRST RESOLUTION IS 66 OF 25 PRO-HOUSING COMMUNITIES RESOLUTION, WHICH I WILL READ.
UH, WHEREAS THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON HEREINAFTER LOCAL GOVERNMENT BELIEVES THAT THE LACK OF HOUSING FOR NEW YORK RESIDENTS OF ALL AGES AND INCOME LEVELS NEGATIVELY IMPACTS THE FUTURE OF NEW YORK STATE'S ECONOMIC GROWTH AND COMMUNITY WELLBEING.
WHEREAS THE HOUSING CRISIS HAS NEGATIVE EFFECTS AT REGIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS.
WE BELIEVE THAT EVERY COMMUNITY MUST DO THEIR PART TO CONTRIBUTE TO HOUSING GROWTH AND BENEFIT FROM THE POSITIVE IMPACTS A HEALTHY HOUSING MARKET BRINGS TO COMMUNITIES.
WHEREAS WE BELIEVE THAT SUPPORTING HOUSING PRODUCTION OF ALL KINDS IN OUR COMMUNITY WILL BRING MULTIPLE BENEFITS, INCLUDING INCREASING HOUSING ACCESS AND CHOICES FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE RESIDENTS, PROVIDING INTEGRATED ACCESSIBLE HOUSING OPTIONS THAT MEET THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH SENSORY AND MOBILITY DISABILITIES, BRINGING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND VITALITIES TO OUR COMMUNITIES, AND ALLOWING WORKERS AT ALL LEVELS TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGH LIVING CLOSER TO THEIR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES.
WHEREAS WE BELIEVE THAT EVIDENCE SHOWING THAT INFILL DEVELOPMENT THAT REDUCES SPRAWL AND SUPPORTS WALKABLE COMMUNITIES HAD SIGNIFICANT AND PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH BENEFITS.
AND WHEREAS WE BELIEVE THAT AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING AND REDUCING SEGREGATION IS NOT ONLY REQUIRED BY LAW, BUT IS ESSENTIAL FOR KEEPING OUR COMMUNITY STRONG AND VIBRANT.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED THAT THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON, IN ORDER TO TAKE POSITIVE STEPS TO ALLEVIATE THE HOUSING CRISIS, ADOPTS THE PRO HOUSING COMMUNITY'S PLEDGE, WHICH WILL HAVE US ENDEAVOR TO TAKE THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT STEPS.
STREAMLINING NUMBER ONE, STREAMLINING PERMITTING FOR MULTIFAMILY HOUSING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ACCESSIBLE HOUSING, ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS, AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING.
TWO, ADOPTING POLICIES THAT AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHER FAIR HOUSING.
THREE, INCORPORATING REGIONAL HOUSING NEEDS INTO PLANNING DECISIONS.
FOUR, INCREASING DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY FOR RESIDENTIAL USES.
FIVE ENACTING POLICIES THAT ENCOURAGE A BROAD RANGE OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING MULTIFAMILY HOUSING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ACCESSIBLE HOUSING, ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS, AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING.
UM, AND THE OTHER, UH, ELEMENT OF THIS IS THE, THE KIND OF ARGUABLY EQUALLY IMPORTANT ELEMENT IS THAT WE WILL, UH, COLLECT DATA ON HOUSING IN OUR COMMUNITY AND PRESENT IT BACK TO HCR IN A WAY THAT'S USEFUL TO THEM AND ACCORDING WITH THEIR ACCORDANCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR GUIDELINES.
AND THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT IS, UM, IMPORTANT FOR US TO DO, IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER IN MORE HOUSING IS, UH, IS ACTUALLY, UM, MADE AVAILABLE, UM, IN THE VILLAGE, UH, IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
SO OTHER, I THINK WE'VE DISCUSSED THIS MANY TIMES, EVERYONE HAS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE WEBINARS AND TALK ABOUT THIS WITH ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE, INCLUDING OUR OWN ATTORNEY AND PLANNER.
ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM ANYONE? NO.
IT'S A RECOMMENDATION IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
SO THIS HELPS US TO MOVE THAT AGENDA FORWARD.
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IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED.67 OF 25 SCHEDULED PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED LOCAL LAW E OF 2025, A LOCAL LAW AMENDING SECTION 2 1 7 DASH SEVEN A PERFORMANCE STANDARDS PERMITTED NOISES OF THE CODE OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON TO UPDATE HOURS OF CONSTRUCTION.
RESOLVE THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 17TH, 2025 AT 7:00 PM OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER TO CONSIDER PROPOSED LOCAL LAW E OF 2025, A LOCAL LAW AMENDING SECTION 2 1 7 DASH SEVEN A PERFORMANCE STANDARDS PERMITTED NOISES OF THE CODE OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON TO UPDATE HOURS OF CONSTRUCTION.
TONY WHITEHEAD, DO YOU WANNA JUST QUICKLY SUMMARIZE WHAT IS IN THE CURRENT ITERATION? SURE.
SO THIS IS BASED ON THE DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD AT THE LAST MEETING.
SO, UM, WE DID 7:30 AM TO 6:30 PM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, NINE TO FIVE ON SATURDAYS, NO ACTIVITIES ON SUNDAY OR NEW YEAR'S DAY.
PRESIDENT'S DAY, MEMORIAL DAY, INDEPENDENCE DAY, LABOR DAY, THANKSGIVING DAY AND CHRISTMAS DAY.
UM, WE EXCLUDED, UM, PERFORMANCE OF NECESSARY EMERGENCY REPAIRS.
UM, AS DISCUSSED, WE DID NOT DO ANYTHING WITH THE, AT THIS TIME WITH THE DEFINITION OF CONSTRUCTION WORK, UM, OR MOVING THIS TO A DIFFERENT PLACE BECAUSE THE WHOLE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS CHAPTER NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT AND THINGS MOVED AROUND.
UM, DID ANYONE WANT TO, UH, THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY BEFORE IT GOES TO THE PUBLIC HEARING TO ADD ANY OTHER THOUGHTS.
AND I KNOW TRUSTEE FLEISIG, YOU WEREN'T HERE, UM, AND YOU HAVE A, A CLOSE TIE TO CONSTRUCTION HAPPENING IN THE VILLAGE.
SO I WONDER IF YOU OR ANYONE ELSE HAS ANY COMMENTS BEFORE WE, WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS? WELL, I AM, I AM SORRY THAT I MISSED THE LAST MEETING I, AND I READ AND WAS BEING PROPOSED.
I GUESS I WOULD, I'M JUST SORT OF CURIOUS.
I MEAN, I, I AM SENSITIVE TO, TO CERTAINLY TO THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE AROUND THE ELECTRIC OWL, WHICH IS WHAT I KNOW IS WHY THIS HAS BEEN COMING TO A HEAD RIGHT NOW.
UM, BUT I DO THINK IT'S PROBLEMATIC, AND I HAD MENTIONED THIS EARLY ON THAT, THAT WE'RE NOT TRYING TO MAKE SOME KIND OF DISTINCTION BETWEEN COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND RESIDENTS WORKING ON THEIR OWN HOUSES.
I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, MOST OF US WORK DURING THE WEEK AND IF WE'RE GONNA WORK ON OUR OWN HOUSES, WE HAVE THE WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS TO WORK ON THEM.
AND I THINK PREVENTING THAT OUTRIGHT ON SUNDAYS IS, IS GONNA BE A PROBLEM.
SO I'M JUST WONDERING IF THERE'S ANOTHER MECHANISM THAT WE CAN LIMIT, UM, THE CONSTRUCTION HOURS ON LARGER DEVELOPMENTS, SAY THROUGH, I MEAN, FOR EXAMPLE, RESIDENTIAL, NO RESIDENCES NEED, UM, UH, ANY KIND OF APPROVAL BY THE PLANNING BOARD, YOU KNOW, UNLESS STEEP SLOPES POTENTIALLY EXCEPT STEEP SLOPES.
BUT SO ALMOST ALL OF THEM ARE AS OF RIGHT.
SO I'M JUST WONDERING IF, UM, SINCE WHAT WE'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT IS PROJECTS THAT ARE NOT AS OF RIGHT.
CAN WE PUT SOME LANGUAGE IN THAT PROJECTS THAT ARE NOT AS OF RIGHT.
WILL HAVE MORE LIMITED CONSTRUCTION HOURS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? BECAUSE I THINK IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE, IT'S GONNA GO BEYOND REPAIRS.
WELL, I ACTUALLY, I I WANTED TO JUST COMMENT ON THAT COMMENT IS THAT I THINK THAT WHEN I THINK OF RESIDENTIAL WORK THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE A PERMIT, THEN I THINK THAT'S NOT, UM, AFFECTED BY THIS, UM, THIS LAW.
RIGHT? I THINK THAT I, I THINK THERE'S A DISTINCTION BETWEEN REQUIRING A PERMIT AND REQUIRING PLANNING BOARD APPROVAL.
I THINK IT ALSO COMES DOWN TO THE DEFINITION OF CONSTRUCTION.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IRVINGTON DID IS IT HAS A DEFINITION OF CONSTRUCTION THAT SAYS CONSTRUCTION WORK SHALL MEAN ALL WORK PERFORMED BY ONE OR MORE EMPLOYEE AND OR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR.
SO THEY DEFINE IT BECAUSE WE ARE NOT DEFINING CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW, WE'VE LEFT THAT OPEN.
BUT IN THEORY, WE COULD HANDLE THE ISSUE BY DEFINING CONSTRUCTION IN A SIMILAR WAY TO IRVINGTON THE ISSUE THAT YOU'VE RAISED.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU AGREE ATTORNEY WHITEHEAD.
WELL THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS WE DISCUSSED AT THE LAST MEETING.
WE TALKED ABOUT THAT LANGUAGE.
SO THAT MAY BE A WAY TO HANDLE IT.
AND IT MAY BE THAT IT MAY BE THAT WE WANT, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH OF A PROBLEM IT IS TO INCLUDE THAT LANGUAGE SINCE IT DOES AFFECT OTHER PARTS OF THE CODE NOW.
UM, BUT WELL, IT COULD BE PUT INTO THIS SECTION.
IT COULD BE PUT INTO THIS SECTION.
I I DO THINK IT'S HELPFUL TO HAVE IT IN A DIFFERENT PART OF THE CODE.
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THIS WHOLE AR THIS WHOLE THING IN A DIFFERENT PART OF THE CODE, TAKING IT OUT OF NOISE, TAKING IT OUT.IT'S NOT IN NOISE, IT'S IN PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.
IT'S, IT, IT ACTUALLY BELONGS IN NOISE.
BUT YOUR, YOUR NOISE SHOULD PROBABLY BE A SEPARATE CHAPTER.
THE WHOLE PERFORMS KIND OF IN NOISE.
I MEAN THAT'S, IT'S SORT OF LIKE WHY WE CREATED A, UH, A SEPARATE SECTION FOR LEAF BLOWERS, WHICH HAD BEEN HANDLED UNDER NOISE.
I THINK IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.
SO, SO DO YOU THINK THIS IS MANAGEABLE? I MEAN, I, I THINK THAT I, I THINK THAT'S A, THE MOVING, IT IS A BIGGER PROJECT OF LOOKING AT THIS WHOLE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS CHAPTER.
'CAUSE THE MORE I LOOK AT IT, THE MORE THERE'S THINGS THAT NEED TO BE SHIFTED AND MOVED AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
IF WE FOR NOW WANNA LEAVE THIS HERE, I DO THINK WE COULD PUT MORE OF A DEFINITION JUST INTO THIS SECTION WITHOUT HAVING TO MOVE IT.
IF THAT'S WHAT THE BOARD'S PREFERENCE IS.
WHY, JUST, JUST TO BE THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE, WHY CAN'T WE MOVE JUST THIS, WHERE ARE WE MOVING IT TO? WE'RE CREATING A NEW CHAPTER CALLED CONSTRUCTION.
WHY? I AGREE WITH TRUSTEE FLEISIG.
I MEAN, CAN WE JUST DIFFERENTIATE AND JUST SAY COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION VERSUS RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION AND UM, AND THEN JUST CARVE OUT A SECTION FOR RESIDENTIAL.
BUT WE STILL HAVE TO AND REMOVE THE SUNDAY OPTION FROM IT.
WE HAVE TO DEFINE CONSTRUCTION, SO I UNDERSTAND.
BUT SO, AND RESIDENTIAL COULD BE A CONTRACTOR BUILDING A HOUSE.
THAT'S NOT, I THINK WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO EXAMPLE, AND I THINK WE STILL DON'T WANT PEOPLE LIKE CUTTING STONE ON SUNDAYS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
I'M IN FAVOR OF PEOPLE OF A HOMEOWNER BEING HOMEOWNERS WORKING, BUT I THINK STILL BEING RESPECTFUL OF, OF THEIR, SO THIS DOES SAY THAT CONSTRUCTION WORK IS, IS SORT OF DEFINED IN HERE BECAUSE IT SAYS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO BUILDING, REPAIR AND GRADING, LEVELING AND EXCAVATING.
SO LOTS OF TIMES WHEN IT'S, YOU KNOW, SORT OF A HOMEOWNER WORKING, THEY'RE NOT CREATING A LOT OF NOISE THE SAME WAY AS LIKE A WHOLE CONSTRUCTION CREW.
UM, COULD BE SOME CAN BE NOISY
UM, UM, WHY IT WOULD BE REALLY GOOD, I THINK, TO BE ABLE TO LOCK THIS IN FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE CONCERNED.
I DON'T, I STILL THINK THERE ARE MANY MONTHS BEFORE ANYTHING HAPPENS THERE, BUT I KNOW THAT THEY'RE ANXIOUS ABOUT IT.
SO, UM, IF WE DON'T THINK THAT WE CAN MOVE IT INTO ANOTHER SECTION, WHICH I'M NOT REALLY CONVINCED, I UNDERSTAND WHY WE CAN'T DO THAT YET.
WOULDN'T YOU MOVE IT INTO A SECTION CALLED CONSTRUCTION? NO.
I'D PROBABLY MOVE IT INTO A CHAPTER CALLED NOISE.
AND I WOULD TAKE ALL THE NOISE PROVISIONS OUT OF THIS AND PUT THEM INTO A SEPARATE, BUT IS THERE NOTHING ELSE THAT WE WOULD WANT TO, OKAY.
THERE'S OTHER THINGS IN THERE ABOUT NOISE.
UM, I'M LESS CONCERNED ABOUT WHERE IT IS IN THE CODE.
SO WHY DON'T WE JUST, BUT I DO IT IN THIS WAY THEN AND ADD A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A DEFINITION OF CONSTRUCTION.
LIKE IRVINGTON, BECAUSE IT SAYS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO.
WE COULD TAKE THAT CLAUSE IN THE MIDDLE AND MAKE IT READ MORE LIKE IRVINGTON'S.
IS THAT GOOD FOR EVERYONE? TRUSTEE? ELEGANT.
CAN YOU READ, UM, IRVINGTON AGAIN? YEAH, YEAH, PLEASE.
SO IRVINGTON SAYS, CONSTRUCTION WORK SHALL MEAN ALL WORK PERFORMED BY ONE OR MORE EMPLOYEE AND OR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS PURSUANT TO AN ORAL OR WRITTEN AGREEMENT FOR COMPENSATION AND INVOLVING THE CONSTRUCTION RECONSTRUCTION, DEMOLITION OR REMOVAL OF BUILDINGS OR MAJOR REPAIRS TO BUILDINGS, THE EXCAVATION, CLEARING, FILLING OR GRADING OF LAND, UH, OR THE PLACEMENT OR REMOVAL OF EARTH STONE OR BUILDING MATERIAL OF ANY KIND, WHETHER OR NOT THE WORK INVOLVES THE USE OF MACHINERY OR POWER TOOLS.
THE TERM CONSTRUCTION WORK SHALL NOT MEAN THE PERFORMANCE OF NECESSARY EMERGENCY REPAIRS.
SO SOMEBODY ELSE, WAS IT DOBBS THAT HAS A SORT OF SHORTER CON, UM, YEAH.
EXCLUSION THAT SAYS SHALL NOT APPLY TO A HOMEOWNER.
OR MAYBE THAT WAS YONKERS HAD THAT.
I THINK YONKERS MIGHT, DOBBS DOESN'T HAVE THAT.
UM, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT YONKERS SAYS.
DEMOLITION OR EXCAVATION ARE PROHIBITED.
NO, IT MUST BE, I JUST DON'T HAVE IT HERE.
UM, IN WHAT I, WHAT I CLIPPED MY, MY CONCERN ABOUT THAT REMAINS THAT I COULD HAVE ALL MY, NOT THAT I ACTUALLY HAVE MANY COUSINS, BUT I COULD HAVE ALL MY COUSINS COME DOWN AND START HAMMERING AWAY ON MY HOUSE AND IT'S, THEY'RE NOT PAID, BUT THEY'RE MAKING A LOT OF NOISE.
THEY'RE MAKING A LOT OF NOISE ON A SUNDAY AND IT'S TOTALLY FINE.
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'CAUSE IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT COVERED OR IT'S NOT RESTRICTED BY THAT DEFINITION.I MEAN, WE COULD MAYBE GET YOU SECTION THAT SEEMS A GLORIOUS WORLD THAT YOU LIVE IN.
I, UH, BUT ONLY ON SUNDAYS,
THAT REQUIRED A, A PERMIT THAT WOULD BE, UH, BUT THEN YOU'RE STILL JUST HAMMERING AWAY.
I DON'T THINK I'M, I'M NOT SURE I'M LIKING THIS.
I THINK, I MEAN, I THINK PART OF IT SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, YOU END UP CREATING LAWS THAT ARE JUST OVERKILL FOR SITUATIONS THAT ALMOST NEVER HAPPEN.
UM, UH, SO MAYBE WHAT WE DO IS WE, WE ADOPT SOMETHING THAT SEEMS SENSIBLE AND THEN IF IT TURNS OUT IT NEEDS TO BE, UM, UH, REVISE AT A FUTURE DATE, IT CAN BE REVISED AT A FUTURE DATE.
WELL, BUT TO BE CLEAR, I ACTUALLY PREFER IT WITHOUT, AS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN.
WITHOUT THE CONSTRUCTION DEFINITION.
BUT WHAT YOU'RE THEN PROHIBITING IS ANY RESIDENT WORKING ON THEIR OWN HOUSE ON SUNDAYS.
THAT'S THE WAY IT READS LITERALLY RIGHT NOW.
MAKING NOISE, NOISE, CERTAIN TYPES OF NOISE THAT YEAH, NO SOUND.
SO NO GUITARS EITHER ON SUNDAY? NO, THAT'S NOT
BUT IS THERE, IS THERE A, IS THERE CURRENTLY A NOISE? UH, LIKE RULES OR FOR YOU CAN MAKE AS MUCH NOISE AS, AS YOU WANT.
PRETTY MUCH WHENEVER YOU WANT.
YOU CAN, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN DO CONSTRUCTION UNTIL, WHAT DO WE HAVE? I THINK IT'S 7:30 AM UNTIL 8:30 PM RIGHT NOW.
NO, BUT YOU HAVE OTHER NOISE ODDS IS 7 30, 7 30 AM TO 8:00 PM PREVAILING TIME MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AND 10:00 AM TO 5:00 PM PREVAILING TIME.
I THINK THERE'S OTHER NOISE PROVISIONS.
OH, THERE ARE MANY OTHER THINGS THAT ARE UNDER THE NOISE SECTION.
I THINK WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE BURLESQUE SHOWS.
LIKE THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF THINGS, BUT OTHER, WE DON THERE, THERE ARE DECIMAL LIMITS, OF COURSE.
I DON'T KNOW IF THE TOWN HAS A DECIBEL METER, BUT I DO.
BUT YOU CAN'T, UM, WELL, WE KNOW WHO TO CALL ON SUNDAY.
ANY MECHANISM OR DEVICE, WHICH SHALL CREATE NOISE WITHIN THE VILLAGE EXCEEDING OR, UH, THE LIMITING NOISE LEVELS SET FORTH IN THE TABLE AND THERE'S DECIBEL LIMITS.
UM, IT'S, IT'S REALLY NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT TO ENFORCE WITH DECIBEL LIMITS.
WITH DECIBEL LIMITS, IT'S MUCH EASIER TO SAY YOU SIMPLY JUST CAN'T DO IT, IRRESPECTIVE OF HOW MUCH OR LITTLE NOISE IT IS DURING THESE TIMES FROM AN ENFORCEMENT PERSPECTIVE.
SO WHERE ARE WE LANDING? I DON'T, I, I, I, AT LEAST I IN MY TIME HERE, HAVE NEVER HAD A COMPLAINT ABOUT CONSTRUCTION NOISE ON THE WEEKENDS.
SO, UM, MAYBE PEOPLE ARE CONSIDERATE OF THEIR NEIGHBORS ON, YOU KNOW, AND, AND DO THINGS DURING REASONABLE WEEKEND TIMES.
LIKE DON'T START, YOU KNOW, MOWING THE LAWN BEFORE, YOU KNOW, NINE OR 10 IN THE MORNING, THAT SORT OF THING.
UM, BUT SINCE IT, IT, SINCE IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE AN ISSUE.
AND I'M WONDERING, UH, LINDA, LIKE IN A, IN, IN THE PLANNING BOARD APPROVAL, WOULD THE PLANNING BOARD BE ABLE TO, LIKE FOR A, YOU KNOW, A LARGER PROJECT THAT HAS PLANNING BOARD APPROVAL, WOULD, WOULD THEY BE ABLE TO LIMIT THE, THE HOURS OF, OF CONSTRUCTION? THEY COULD FURTHER LIMIT.
SO MAYBE AN APPLICANT MIGHT ARGUE, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE A GOOD REASON TO DO THAT.
WELL, IT'S SUNDAY, IT'S A GOOD REASON.
IF WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO IS PROHIBIT JUST SORT OF THESE LARGER PROJECTS AND NOT, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY THAT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, GOD'S COUSIN HELPING HIM, YOU KNOW, PUT IN A NEW DOOR OR A NEW WINDOW OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I, I THINK IT'S, I ACTUALLY THINK HAVING SUNDAY INN IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH ALL THE OTHER MUNICIPALITIES EXCEPT ELMSFORD AND ARDSLEY.
WE FOUND OUT THAT ELMSFORD AND ARDSLEY WERE A LITTLE BIT SHOCKED THAT WE WERE GONNA PROHIBIT, UM, CONSTRUCTION ON SUNDAYS.
BUT ALL THE OTHERS THOUGHT IT WAS COMPLETELY NORMAL.
SO THEY ALSO HAVE A CARVE OUT FOR HOMEOWNERS.
I MEAN, YOU JUST READ ONE TO ME, IRVINGTON HAS A KIND OF A CARVE OUT FOR HOMEOWNERS.
IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT VERY DOES TOO.
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UM, IRVINGTON DOES, BUT NOT DOBBS AND TARRYTOWN DOESN'T HAVE A CARVE OUT FOR HOMEOWNERS.AND SLEEPY HOLLOW JUST FOUND THE WHOLE CONVERSATION FASCINATING THAT WE WERE EVEN DISCUSSING IT.
SO, SO, UM, YONKERS EXCLUDES, UM, HOME CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BY THE HOMEOWNER.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S TOTALLY REASONABLE.
I MEAN, LOOK, WHERE I'VE SEEN IT IS, I, I AGREE.
MOST PEOPLE ARE RESPECTFUL OF THEIR NEIGHBORS AND MOST SENSIBLE PEOPLE DON'T START MOWING THE LAWN UNTIL NINE OR 10 ON WEEKENDS.
THAT'S A SEPARATE SECTION, RIGHT.
BUT, UM, I, I JUST, I DON'T THINK IT'S OUR PLACE TO, TO RESTRICT THAT.
I MEAN, I THINK IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A DIFFERENT THING OF A HOMEOWNER'S HIRING A CONTRACTOR.
AND I'VE HAD CASES WHERE SOMEONE'S CUTTING STONE ON THE WEEKEND AND, AND ON A SATURDAY AND THE NEIGHBORS START COMPLAINING AND THE HOMEOWNER SHUTS IT DOWN.
SO IT DIDN'T EVEN MAKE IT TO THE VILLAGE MANAGER.
I THINK THE VILLAGE MANAGER DOESN'T GET THESE KINDS OF COMPLAINTS,
UM, WELL, SO WHY DON'T YOU MAYBE THEN JUST ADD THE LANGUAGE THAT YOU WERE JUST SAYING THAT THAT'S WHAT WE SUGGESTED EXACTLY.
AND HOME CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BY THE HOMEOWNER.
SO AT THE END WHERE WE HAVE SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE PERFORMANCE OF NECESSARY EMERGENCY REPAIRS OR OWN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BY THE HOMEOWNER.
SO IS EVERYONE GOOD WITH THAT? MM-HMM
THAT WILL BE ON FOR PUBLIC HEARING, UH, NEXT TIME.
AND IS THERE, UH, MOTION? SO MOVE SECOND.
68 OF 25 AUTHORIZATION TO EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH CP ENERGY FOR PROJECT EVALUATION AND REVIEW.
RESOLVE THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZE THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH CP ENERGY FOR PROJECT EVALUATION REVIEW IN CONNECTION WITH THE VILLAGE HALL AND LIBRARY GEOTHERMAL PROJECT AS ATTACHED.
YOU'VE ALL HAD A CHANCE TO SEE THIS.
WE DISCUSSED THIS AT THE LAST BOARD MEETING, AND IT'S, UH, A COMPANY THAT'S SPECIALIZED IN ENERGY WORK THAT CAN PROVIDE ADVISORY SERVICES TO THE VILLAGE MANAGER IN HELPING TO MAKE DECISIONS REGARDING THE CONTRACTORS WHO ARE APPLYING FOR THAT WORK.
SO, IS THERE ANYTHING ANYONE WANTS TO DISCUSS ON THIS? IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED.
AND THE AMOUNT IS A SMALL AMOUNT.
69 OF 25 AWARD OF CONTRACT DESIGN AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT AT NORTH BROADWAY.
AND THE ZSA WATERSHED RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AWARD THE WORK FOR DESIGN AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT AT NORTH BROADWAY AND THE ZZA WATERSHED TO JAMES HAHN ENGINEERING PC IN THE AMOUNT OF $662,500.
I THINK WE ALL KNOW JAMES HAHN.
HE'S DONE A GREAT JOB FOR US ON THE FLOOD STUDY AND, UM, HOPEFULLY EVERYONE FEELS COMFORTABLE WITH THAT.
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD? I MEAN, HE, YEAH, I MEAN, THE FIRST PHASE OF THIS IS $267,500 AND THAT IS, WE HAVE GRANTS, UM, FROM THE, UH, HRE, UH, AND FROM, UM, THE, UH, UH, THE RISK GRANT THAT WE HAVE THAT COVER, UM, YOU KNOW, MOST OF THAT, THE, THE, THE, THE BID DOCUMENTS THAT WE PUT TOGETHER INCLUDED THE FOUR PHASES, THE FIRST PHASES, WHICH IS BASICALLY INVESTIGATION AND UP TO 30% DESIGN, SECOND PAGE, 60%, THIRD, YOU KNOW, SAY 90%, AND THEN CONSTRUCTION OVERSIGHT.
BUT THOSE WILL, THIS REALLY ALL WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW IS PHASE ONE.
WE, WE WILL BE SEEKING, YOU KNOW, ADDITIONAL GRANTS IN THE FUTURE TO DO THE, THE REST OF IT.
WE JUST BID ALL THE WORK AT ONCE.
WAS THE, THE, THE REALLY THE WAY THAT, UM, RISK, THE RISK FOLKS ADVISED US TO, TO PROCEED.
SO, UM, JUST SO YOU UNDERSTAND, THE, THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING INITIALLY WILL GET US TO A 30% DESIGN.
IT WILL ALSO, UH, PROVIDE US WITH THE INFORMATION AND THE TOOLS THAT WE'LL NEED TO BE ABLE TO, UM, MAKE EFFECTIVE GRANT APPLICATIONS, UM, TO, YOU KNOW, TO OTHER ENTITIES IN, IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THE DRAINAGE ISSUES OVER THERE.
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM ANYONE? IS THERE A MOTION? I MOVED.
70 OF 25 APPROVAL OF 2025 CAMP SALARIES RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES ESTABLISH THE FOLLOWING SALARY FOR THE FOLLOWING HASTINGS DAY
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CAMP PERSONNEL FOR THE 2025 SEASON HASTINGS DAY CAMP, EARLY LEARNING CAMP DIRECTOR $40 AND 25 CENTS AN HOUR.I THINK THIS WAS JUST MISSED OUT THE LAST TIME WE DID IT SOMEHOW OR OTHER.
SO IF, UH, EVERYONE'S IN AGREEMENT, IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVE.
71 OF 25 APPROVAL OF NON-UNION SALARIES RESOLVED AT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES ESTABLISHED THE FOLLOWING SALARIES FOR THE FOLLOWING NON-UNION PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE JUNE 1ST, 2025, FULL-TIME PERSONNEL DIRECTOR OF YOUTH SERVICES 86,775, YOUTH ADVOCATE 63,568.
THESE WERE ALSO MISSED OUT THE LAST TIME.
IS THAT WHY THEY'RE COMING IN NOW? UM, THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A SMALL ERROR IN THOSE TWO SALARIES.
UM, IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED.
72 OF 25 ALTERATION TO REGULAR MEETING SCHEDULE.
RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES DESIGNATE THE THIRD TUESDAY OF JULY AS THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING DAY FOR THE MONTH OF JULY.
I THINK THIS WAS ALL AGREED ON.
[VIII. VILLAGE MANAGER’S REPORT]
TO THE VILLAGE MANAGER'S REPORT.THE FIRST ITEM IS THE UPDATE ON THE EV CHARGES.
WE ARE WAITING WITH BATED BREATH
UM, WELL, I AM HAPPY TO REPORT THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED A DRAFT IMA, UH, FROM THE COUNTY AND IT IS UNDER REVIEW BY OUR ATTORNEY IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR SISTER VILLAGES AND THEIR ATTORNEYS.
UM, AND WE ARE HAVE BEEN ADVISED BY THE COUNTY THAT THEY HAVE, UH, PUT TOGETHER THE LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE FOR THE BONDING AND IS GOING BEFORE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
AND IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THAT, UH, WILL MOVE SMOOTHLY BEFORE THE, YOU MEAN, I'M SORRY, BOARD OF LEGISLATORS.
UH, AND IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THAT WILL, UH, PROCEED, UM, YOU KNOW, EX YOU KNOW, PROPERLY THROUGH THAT PROCESS AND THAT THEY WILL AUTHORIZE IT AND THAT WE WILL, UH, SOON BE ABLE TO START OUR WORK.
WE HAVE WORKED WITH INF, UH, AND CONED IN ORDER TO GET, GET OURSELVES AS READY AS POSSIBLE TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD ONCE WE HAVE THE DOCUMENTATION IN PLACE FROM THE COUNTY.
SO CAN YOU DEFINE SOON SINCE, WELL, SOON HAS MEANT THREE YEARS WHEN WE'VE DEALT WITH THE COUNTY IN THE PAST.
WELL, IT'S BEEN TWO, SO WE'VE ONLY GOT ONE LEFT THEN
UH, I'M HOPE, I'M REALLY HOPING THAT WE, WE THIS SUMMER, YOU MEAN? YEAH, THIS SUMMER THAT WE, WE, WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T SPEAK FOR THE COUNTY BOARD OF LEGISLATORS, BUT WE ARE, AND, AND OUR, AND MY COLLEAGUES AS WELL AND OTHER MUNICIPALITIES HAVE, UM, CONTINUED TO, TO, AS HAVE HAVE YOURSELF AND OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS, UM, TO PRESSURE THE COUNTY TO GET THIS DONE.
AND I THINK THAT SOME OF THOSE MESSAGES HAVE GOTTEN PRETTY HIGH UP THE FOOD CHAIN.
THEY'VE GONE COMPLETELY WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF THE FOOD CHAIN.
SO YEAH, SO HOPEFULLY THAT, THAT WILL BE SOON.
UPDATE ON ROUTE NINE COMPLETE STREETS.
YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO, UM, UH, AGAIN, ANNOUNCE THAT WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4TH, AND I APOLOGIZE, UH, I SAID THURSDAY AT ONE POINT, BUT IT'S WEDNESDAY FROM SIX TO 8:00 PM AT MERCY UNIVERSITY, ROTUNDA, UH, THE WSP AND THE DOT WILL BE PRESENTING, UM, THEY PLAN WITH REGARD TO THE, UH, CORRIDOR ALL THE WAY FROM SLEEPY HOLLOW DOWN TO, UM, DOWN TO HERE IN HASTINGS.
AND, UH, SOME OF THE FEATURES IN HASTINGS INCLUDE A, UH, ROUNDABOUT AT TOMPKINS AND BROADWAY.
UH, THERE'S A BIKE PATH AND PEDESTRIAN, UM, PEDESTRIAN SIDEWALKS ALL THE WAY THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE VILLAGE.
IT RUNS FROM, FROM, FROM ONE END OF THE VILLAGE TO THE OTHER.
OF COURSE, UH, IN THE SPLIT NORTHBOUND, IT'S A TWO-WAY CYCLE TRACK WITH THE SIDEWALK.
AND IN THE SOUTHBOUND IT'S A, UH, IN THE SOUTHBOUND PORTION OF THE SPLIT, IT'S A 12 FOOT SHARED USE PATH THAT'S PROPOSED, UM, BIKE PATH ON, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD.
FLASHING BEACONS ARE PROPOSED AT ANY LOCATION ALONG THE CORRIDOR WHERE THERE'S NO ROUNDABOUT OR, OR, OR, OR TRAFFIC LIGHT, UH, AT, AT CROSSINGS.
AND, UM, THE EL THE INTERSECTION AT OLIN IS RECOMMENDED TO BE RAISED WITH A, WHAT THEY CALL A SPEED TABLE, WHICH, UH, SLOWS DOWN THE TRAFFIC BUT ISN'T SUCH A BUMP THAT IT, IT INTERFERES WITH, UM, EMERGENCY VEHICLES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UH, THERE'S A ROUNDABOUT ALSO PROPOSED AT FIVE CORNERS.
UH, VILLARD WILL CONTINUE TO BE SIGNALED.
UM, AND THE BIKE LANE, AS I SAID, WILL, UH, CONSI CONTINUE
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ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD TO THE DOBBS FERRY LINE.UH, AGAIN, THERE'LL BE A, A RAISED INTERSECTION AT FLOWER WITH THAT SPEED TABLE.
UM, AND, UM, UH, THE FULL DESIGN OF THE PROJECT, THIS IS JUST, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A, OR THE INITIAL PART, THE FULL DESIGN WILL BE DONE IN THE FUTURE AND IT'LL INCLUDE DRAINAGE AND LIGHTING AND LANDSCAPING AND, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
SOME OF THE MAINTENANCE RESPONSIBILITIES WILL FALL UPON THE VILLAGE, UH, FOR CERTAIN, YOU KNOW, FOR CERTAIN THINGS, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, LANDSCAPING AND, AND IF THERE'S A SOLAR SIGN AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
SO THOSE ARE JUST SOME OF THE THINGS.
UM, THERE, THERE IS A WEBSITE, AND I DID NOT BRING THE, THE, UH, BUT THERE IS A LINK ON OUR WEBSITE TO THE WEBSITE THAT DOT HAS CREATED WHERE THEY HAVE, UH, SOME, SOME OF THEIR, SOME OF THEIR, UM, SLIDES AND INFORMATION AND THINGS.
BUT THE BEST, UH, EVERYONE WILL BE PRESENT ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4TH, UH, AT MERCY.
AND, AND THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN TALK DIRECTLY TO THE FOLKS WHO HAVE DESIGNED THE PROJECT AS WELL AS MANY DOT REPRESENTATIVES WILL BE THERE AS WELL.
WHEN YOU SAY EVERYONE WILL BE PRESENT, YOU MEAN EVERYONE FROM WSP WILL BE PRESENT? YES.
ALL OF THE, ALL OF THE, THE TEAM FROM WSP WHO HAVE WORKED ON THE PROJECT WILL BE PRESENT AND ALSO, UM, THE FOLKS FROM THE DOT WHO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE PROJECTS WILL BE PRESENT, UH, AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, UM, MYSELF AND, AND OTHERS FROM OTHER COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN ON THE TPC.
AND, UM, AND HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, AS MUCH PUBLIC AS CAN POSSIBLY GET THERE BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, TO, TO GET A LOOK AT THIS AND, AND, YOU KNOW, HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD.
AND ON THE MTA SIDEWALKS, THAT'S ANOTHER ONE WE'VE BEEN WAITED YES.
WAITING WITH BATED BREATH FOR THIS IS AGAIN, UM, I DID HEAR FROM THE, THEY, THEY HAVE ACTUALLY HIRED A CONTRACTOR BECAUSE HE CONTACTED US AND HE'S SAYING HE HAS TOLD US THAT HE'S STARTING, UH, RIGHT AFTER, UH, 4TH OF JULY.
AND HE ALSO, UM, WE'VE TOLD HIM THAT WE WILL HELP HIM IN ANY WAY HE NEEDS WITH STAGING AREAS, UH, WITH ANY KIND OF PERMITTING IF HE NEEDS ANY, WE'LL, WE'LL, YOU KNOW, EXPEDITE IT RIGHT THROUGH.
UM, I PUT HIM IN TOUCH WITH OUR DPW SUPERINTENDENT ALREADY SO THAT HE CAN, THEY CAN WORK THOSE LITTLE DETAILS OUT.
AND, UH, YEAH, WE'RE, WE'RE VERY, VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
SO, UM, HOPEFULLY THAT'LL BE DONE QUITE SOON.
AND THEN THE LAST THING I WANTED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT, UH, IS, UM, PICKLEBALL FINANCING.
UM, I'D LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN FINE TUNING, UM, SOME OF THE, UM, UH, COSTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT WITH, UM, WITH, UH, HAN OUR ENGINEER.
AND WE'D LIKE TO HAVE THE BONDING RESOLUTION ON THE NEXT, UH, JUNE 17TH AGENDA FOR THE BOARD TO CONSIDER, JUST SO WE CAN GET THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'LL HAVE THAT IN PLACE AND WE'LL GET THAT PROCESS MOVING.
SO, UM, UH, I KNOW EVERYBODY WILL BE, UH, EXCITED TO KNOW THAT WE'RE MOVING AHEAD WITH THAT PROJECT.
UM, ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT? YEAH, THAT'S FROM ANYONE.
IF THERE'S ANY, UM, ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE ANYBODY HAS, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM.
THE ROOF, THE ROOF, WE ARE WAITING RIGHT NOW FOR T-MOBILE.
THEY, WE HAVE SENT THEM MULTIPLE TIMES THE PLANS AND ASKED THEM WHAT ELSE THEY NEED AND THEY, WE'VE GOTTEN RESPONSES FROM AT AND T AND WE'VE SHARED THAT WITH OUR ARCHITECT AND WE ARE WAITING FOR THE RESPONSES FROM T-MOBILE.
THEY HAD SAID THEY WERE GONNA GET THEM TO US VERY RIGHT WHEN THAT WAS PROBABLY TWO WEEKS AGO, LINDA OR SOMETHING.
SO I'LL SEND THEM ANOTHER REMINDER THAT WE REALLY NEED THOSE THERE, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S KIND OF HOLDING US UP AT THIS POINT.
WE HAVE TO GET THAT TO, UH, OUR ARCHITECT AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEER AND THEY WILL THEN TAKE THOSE COMMENTS AND MAKE WHATEVER CHANGES THEY NEED TO MAKE IN THE, UH, DUNNAGE THAT WE'RE PUTTING UP THERE TO MOVE THE ANTENNAS ONTO.
AND, UM, AND THEN HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO SIGN SOME AGREEMENTS WITH THEM AND GO OUT TO BID.
I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT THE OTHER TOPIC THAT PEOPLE FEEL QUITE STRONGLY ABOUT IS THE CROSSWALKS ON WARBURTON AND THE PEOPLE HIGH UP THE FOOD CHAIN HAVE BEEN PURSUED AND HARANGUED ON THAT AS WELL.
SO JUST FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT THAT IS MOVING FORWARD, DO YOU DARE WANT TO TELL
[IX. BOARD DISCUSSION AND COMMENTS]
ON TO BOARD DISCUSSION AND COMMENTS.AND THE FIRST ITEM IS THE EXCITING, UH, UM,
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STAGE WE'RE AT, WHERE WE CAN BEGIN THINKING ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION NOW THAT WE'VE ADOPTED THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.AND SO, UM, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ITEMS THAT ARE IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN THAT ARE THINGS THAT WE ARE DOING ON AN ONGOING BASIS.
SO THE PLAN IS REALLY A REMINDER TO KEEP DOING THOSE THINGS AND WE'LL PULL THOSE OUT AND TALK ABOUT THOSE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, ONE EXAMPLE IS, UM, CONTINUING TO PURSUE THE CLIMATE SMART COMMUNITIES PROGRAM.
SO WE JUST SUBMITTED IN APRIL AND WE'LL SEE HOW MANY POINTS WE GET WHEN THEY ANNOUNCE THEM AND WE'LL SUBMIT AGAIN IN JULY.
AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THAT KIND OF THING IS MOVING FORWARD.
AND THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS REALLY A PLACEHOLDER FOR THOSE ITEMS. TONIGHT WE JUST ADOPTED THE PRO HOUSING, UH, RESOLUTION, WHICH IS ITEM NUMBER H ONE IN THE LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND WE ARE ABOUT TO DISCUSS RIGHT AFTER THIS, UM, ANOTHER ITEM WHICH IS EIGHT FIVE, WHICH IS THE ACCEL ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT ITEM.
UM, AND I HAVE A FEW ITEMS THAT I JUST WANNA FLAG.
UM, OUR VILLAGE MANAGER IS VERY, VERY, VERY BUSY RIGHT NOW WITH GRANT MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATIONS BECAUSE THE CFA IS JUST ABOUT TO COME, UM, DUE.
BUT THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT, UH, THAT WE CAN DELEGATE TO OTHER GROUPS.
AND SO WHAT I WANNA DO IS FLAG THOSE AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH, UH, WITH THAT.
SO ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT, UM, THE PARKS AND REC COMMISSION HAS SAID THAT IT'S IN THE PROCESS OF DOING IS R THREE, WHICH IS THE LONG RANGE PLAN.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, THE CHAIRPERSON HAS TOLD ME THAT SHE'S WORKING ON WITH SOME MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE.
AND THAT'S A GREAT THING THAT THE, THE ORIGINAL PLAN WAS CRAFTED BY DAVID DOWNS, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THAT COMMITTEE AND WAS, UH, I THINK WHAT HE DID WAS HE USED OTHER PLANS THAT HAD EXISTED, UM, AND KIND OF INCORPORATED THEM IN AND PULLED IN LOTS OF REALLY INTERESTING INFORMATION.
AND THEN THERE'S A CHART, WHICH IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME RIGHT, IS CURRENTLY ON PAGE 19 THAT LISTS THEIR PRIORITY ITEMS. AND SO THOSE, WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS THAT UPDATED.
AND THEN ANY OTHER PARTS OF THE REPORT THAT, YOU KNOW, REQUIRE NEW DATA, NEW THINGS THAT PEOPLE ARE DOING.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF SURVEYS DONE WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND OTHER THINGS WHERE THAT CAN BE PULLED IN.
SO THAT'S ONE ITEM THAT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THAT MOVES FORWARD.
UM, THE OTHER TWO ITEMS ARE THE, UH, UNDER C, WHICH IS THE SORT OF TRANSPORTATION SECTION, UH, WHICH IS C TWO, THE COMPLETE STREETS MASTER PLAN.
UM, AND WHAT THAT DOES IS IT PULLS TOGETHER, UM, ANYTHING IN, IN THE VILLAGE THAT RELATES TO OUR COMPLETE STREETS POLICY.
IT ALSO POTENTIALLY REVIEWS THAT PO I THINK THE POLICY IS ACTUALLY QUITE GOOD.
I THINK THE ISSUE IS REALLY JUST IMPLEMENTING THAT POLICY AND THINKING ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS OF IMPLEMENTATION IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE, THE VILLAGE.
UM, MY VIEW ON ON THAT IS THAT IT'S A BIT OF A TECHNICAL DOCUMENT AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE PROBABLY NEED A CONSULTANT WHO IS IN THE TRANSPORTATION AREA OR WHO UNDERSTANDS, UM, DESIGN AND, YOU KNOW, UH, ROAD DIETS AND ALL THESE OTHER KINDS OF COMPLETE STREETS MECHANISMS TO DO THAT.
SO I WANNA BRING IT UP EARLY BECAUSE A LOT OF THINGS FLOW FROM THIS PARTICULAR ACTION AND A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANNA DO, UM, EVALUATING WHETHER IDEAS THAT HAVE COME FORWARD FROM, WHETHER IT'S THE TRANSPORTATION WORKING GROUP FROM A FEW YEARS AGO, OR THE SAFETY COUNCIL OR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, WHETHER THOSE THINGS ARE VIABLE, WHETHER THEY REQUIRE ENGINEERING STUDIES, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES THERE ARE, WHETHER THERE ARE LIABILITY ISSUES FOR THE VILLAGE, WHETHER WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED MEETS FEDERAL AND STATE STANDARDS.
SO IT'S AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT AND I WOULD RECOMMEND WE DO THAT SOON AND BEGIN THE PROCESS OF EITHER LOOKING FOR GRANT FUNDING OR IF THERE IS NO GRANT FUNDING AVAILABLE, JUST BITING THE BULLET AND DOING IT AS WE DID WITH THE FLOOD STUDY.
SO THAT'S THERE FOR YOU GUYS TO CONSIDER.
THE THE NEXT ITEM, UH, WHICH IS A SIMILAR KIND OF A PLAN IS, UH, C FOUR, WHICH IS UPDATING THE BICYCLING AND WALKING PLAN.
UM, AND THAT WAS A PLAN THAT WAS CREATED BY, UM, MEMBERS OF, OF VARIOUS BOARDS AND COMMITTEES, AND IS SOMETHING THAT I
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THINK WE CAN DELEGATE TO THE SAFETY COUNCIL.THE CHAIR OF THE SAFETY COUNCIL HAS A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THIS AREA AND IS INTERESTED IN TAKING A STAB AT BEGINNING THE PROCESS OF UPDATING IT AND PULLING IN SOME NEW THINGS WHICH, UM, MAYBE, UH, WEREN'T CONSIDERED IN THE LAST ROUND.
SO IF EVERYONE IS IN AGREEMENT, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THAT CHARGE TO THAT GROUP.
OBVIOUSLY RECEIVING INPUT FROM OTHER GROUPS THAT ARE INTERESTED.
I'M SURE THE CLIMATE SMART COMMUNITIES GROUP WILL BE INTERESTED.
THE CONSERVATION COMMISSION HAS ALWAYS SHOWN INTEREST IN THAT AND, AND ALL OF US AS A BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
SO IF EVERYONE'S IN AGREEMENT, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT WE MOVE FORWARD, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S VERY HELPFUL.
UM, BOTH OF THOSE TWO THINGS, THE COMPLETE STREETS MASTER PLAN AND THE BIKING AND WALKING MASTER PLAN ARE REALLY HELPFUL FOR GRANTS WHEN WE'RE LOOKING FOR LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY TO UPDATE SIDEWALKS, UM, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
UM, AND THOSE GRANTS ENABLE US NOT TO, TO, TO TAP TAXPAYERS FOR THOSE INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE COSTS.
SO, AND THEN THE FINAL ONE, UH, IS G ONE, WHICH IS, UH, UPDATING THE ZONING CODE TO BE CONSISTENT.
UM, AND MY RECOMMENDATION ON THAT IS THAT WE ASK OUR PLANNER AND OUR ATTORNEY, IT REALLY KIND OF IS A BUCKET FOR A NUMBER OF OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE IN THE PLAN THAT RELATE TO, UM, UH, THE ZONING CODE.
AND SO MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE DELEGATE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR PLANNER AND ATTORNEY TO COME UP WITH A LIST OF WHAT THE NEXT STEPS WOULD BE.
SO USING THAT G ONE AS THE KIND OF ANCHOR FOR THAT SORT OF STRATEGY WORK.
SO IF EVERYONE'S IN AGREEMENT, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT, UH, WE CAN ASK THEM TO DO AND THEY CAN CREATE A PRIORITIZED LIST, CULLING ALL THE, UM, SECTIONS OF THE COMP PLAN THAT DEAL WITH ZONING, AND THEN WE CAN DECIDE WHICH ONES WE WANNA BITE OFF.
I WANNA WARN YOU IN ADVANCE, IT'S GONNA BE AN A, A, A REALLY LONG PROCESS AND IT'S, SOME OF THEM A CONTENTIOUS ISSUE.
SO IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A LOW HANGING FRUIT ACTIVITY AS WE ALL KNOW FROM OTHER DISCUSSIONS, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY NEEDED.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WAY TOO MANY DIFFERENT ZONING, ZONING AREAS, ZONING DISTRICTS IN THE DOWNTOWN THAT NEED TO BE CONSOLIDATED.
SO IF EVERYONE'S IN AGREEMENT ON THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO ASK OUR ATTORNEY TO MOVE FORWARD.
SO, AND, AND THIS IS NOT TO SUGGEST THAT THERE AREN'T LOTS OF OTHER THINGS IN THE COMP PLAN THAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT, BUT, UM, AS IS THE CASE AND WAS THE CASE WITH THE LAST COMP PLAN, YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHICH THINGS YOU'RE GONNA MOVE FORWARD WITH IN THE BEGINNING SO THAT OTHER THINGS FLOW FROM THAT LATER ON.
AND THAT'S WHAT THIS PROPOSAL REALLY IS.
ANY THOUGHTS FROM ANYONE? I SUPPORT IT.
I WOULD ONLY SAY YOU, YOU SAID THERE'S TOO MANY ZONING DISTRICTS IN THE DOWNTOWN.
I THINK THE, ALL THE ZONING DISTRICTS YES.
NEED ATTENTION AND THE WATERFRONT.
AND THERE'S RECOMMENDATIONS VILLAGE WIDE YES.
BUT IN TERMS OF THOSE BEING PULLED OUT FOR RIGHT NOW, IS THAT IN AGREEMENT WITH EVERYONE? THOSE VARIOUS CATEGORIES? YEAH, THOSE CATEGORIES THAT I WAS JUST DESCRIBING MM-HMM
ANYONE ELSE? ANY THOUGHTS? OKAY.
UM, AND WHAT WE WILL DO, I THINK WE CAN BEGIN A PROCESS OF, WE CAN DECIDE HOW FREQUENTLY WE WANNA DO IT, BUT BEGINNING TO REPORT BACK WHERE THINGS ARE MOVING FORWARD ON SPECIFIC ITEMS THAT ARE ON THE LIST SO THAT PEOPLE GET A SENSE THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS.
I MISSED WHICH COMMITTEE YOU WERE SAYING.
UH, THE COMPLETE STREETS MASTER PLAN WOULD GO TO WHICH GROUP? THE COMPLETE STREETS MASTER PLAN.
I THINK THAT SHOULD GO TO A CONSULTANT.
AH, REALLY? BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S A QUITE TECHNICAL DOCUMENT.
IT'S DIFFERENT THAN THE, THE, THE BIKING AND WALKING MASTER PLAN I THINK SHOULD GO TO THE, UH, SAFETY COUNCIL, MAINLY BECAUSE THE CHAIR HAS SHOWN A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN, IN IT MM-HMM
AND I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT TO GIVE THAT COMMITTEE, UH, TO GIVE HIM AND THAT COMMITTEE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE FIRST CRACK WITH ALL OF THESE REPORTS.
LOTS AND LOTS OF DIFFERENT BOARDS AND COMMITTEES ARE INVOLVED, BUT IF THEY WANNA COME UP WITH THE FIRST DRAFT, I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO ALL OF US.
THAT'S GONNA HAVE TO MELD AT SOME POINT WITH THE COMPLETE STREETS WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE IMPLEMENTATION, RIGHT? BECAUSE A LOT OF WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT WITH CONSULTANT DO IS LOOKING AT THE IMPLEMENT, HOW YOU CAN IMPLEMENT EXACTLY.
AND WE'VE GOT THE, THE POLICY,
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YOU KNOW, THE POLICY, THE COMPLETE STREETS POLICY WE'VE HAD SINCE 2014, AND IT'S BEEN A REALLY GREAT DOCUMENT TO GUIDE, BUT IT'S REALLY JUST A LIST OF THINGS YOU COULD DO IF YOU WANTED, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, LITERALLY IT'S A LIST OF, YOU KNOW, ROAD DIET HUMPS, YOU KNOW, UH, WHATEVER.LIKE, AND THEN YOU GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF WHERE YOU'VE DONE THAT THING, BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME THING AS A PLAN.
AND IT DOESN'T TELL YOU WHETHER YOU NEED AN ENGINEERING STUDY TO DO IT OR NOT.
THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE CAN, YOU KNOW, WE CAN PAINT CROSSWALKS ON OUR OWN, BUT DOING, YOU KNOW, ADDING A FOUR-WAY STOP OR, YOU KNOW, ADDING, UM, CROSSWALKS WHERE THERE AREN'T CROSSWALKS, THOSE REQUIRE ENGINEERING STUDIES FOR THE REASONS I I OUTLINED YOU.
WE HAVE TO LOOK AT LIABILITY FOR THE VILLAGE AND WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE ARE MEETING STANDARDS WHICH CHANGE ALL THE TIME THAT ARE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL MM-HMM
SO, SO DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? YES.
UM, AND I KNOW OTHERS OF YOU HAVE THINGS YOU WOULD REALLY LOVE TO MOVE FORWARD, UM, BUT MAYBE WE CAN JUST WAIT AND THINK ABOUT THOSE OVER THE SUMMER AND LET THE VILLAGE MANAGER, UM, PARTICULARLY IF THEY INVOLVE HER DOING THEM
BUT I WOULD LOVE US TO HOLD OFF ON SOME OF THOSE THINGS SO THAT SHE HAS A CHANCE TO, TO TICK OFF A BUNCH OF THINGS THAT ARE ON HER VERY LONG LIST.
UM, AND THEN THE NEXT ITEM IS THE DISCUSSION OF UPDATING THE ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT LAW.
THIS IS SOMETHING WE TALKED ABOUT AT VARIOUS POINTS DURING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROCESS.
UM, WE'VE HAD THOUGHTS BROUGHT TO US BY THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE.
I THINK THE PLANNING BOARD HAS SHARED THOUGHTS ON THIS AS WELL.
AND, UM, REALLY, UH, WHAT WE, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE IS STREAMLINING THE LAW IS ACTUALLY NOT BAD.
WE, WE HAVE MORE ADUS THAN MANY OF OUR NEIGHBORS, BUT, OR ACCESSORY APARTMENTS.
WE CALL THEM ACCESSORY ACCESSORY APARTMENTS, BUT THEY'RE ACTUALLY CALLED ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO MAKE THAT CLEAR.
AND THERE ARE, THERE ARE SOME, UM, SOME, SOME THINGS THAT WERE RECOMMENDED BY THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE, WHICH I REALLY THINK WE NEED TO DISCUSS AS A GROUP BEFORE WE SAY WE ARE GOING FORWARD OR NOT GOING FORWARD WITH THEM.
SO, I DON'T KNOW, ATTORNEY WHITEHEAD, IF YOU WANT TO SUMMARIZE THE THINGS THAT YOU NOTED AND THERE, WHEN YOU DO THAT, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I WANNA JUST ADD.
AND, AND SOME OF THEM ARE SIMPLE AND SOME OF THEM TAKE SOME DISCUSSION AND DECISION MAKING ON THE PART OF THE BOARD.
UM, SO FIRST OF ALL, THE ACCESS EXISTING ACCESSORY APARTMENT PROVISIONS, THERE'S A DEFINITION, BUT MOST OF IT IS CONTAINED IN THE R 20, AND THEN IT APPLIES TO ALL THE OTHER SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL ZONES.
THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO PULL IT OUT OF THERE AND MAKE IT ITS OWN SEPARATE SECTION, PROBABLY IN THE SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS ARTICLE.
UM, CHANGE THE DEFINITION FROM ACCESSORY APARTMENT TO A ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT.
UM, AND THEN JUST KIND OF GOING IN ORDER THROUGH THIS LIST, SO ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE AND SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA TAKE, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE THOUGHT AND DECISION MAKING BY THE BOARD IS WHETHER TO CONTINUE TO REQUIRE PLANNING BOARD APPROVAL.
RIGHT NOW, ALL ACCESSORY APARTMENT APPLICATIONS GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
UM, ONE THOUGHT WAS NOT TO ELIMINATE IT COMPLETELY, BUT TO SAY THAT IF THE OBJECTIVE CRITERIA ARE MET AND, AND THOSE RELATE TO THE SIZE OF THE UNIT, THE, UM, OWNER OCCUPIED PARKING, ALL OF THOSE TYPES OF CRITERIA ARE MET, THEN THE BUILDING INSPECTOR ISSUES THE PERMIT WITHOUT THE NEED TO GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
HOWEVER, IF THERE ARE WAIVERS REQUIRED FOR ANY OF THOSE, INCLUDING PARKING OR THE SIZE OF THE UNIT OR SOMETHING ELSE, WHICH ARE THE TWO THAT ARE MOST COMMON, THEN IT HAS TO GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
SO THE PLANNING BOARD CAN MAKE THAT MORE SUBJECTIVE DETERMINATION.
NOW, IF YOU WERE GOING TO DO THIS RIGHT NOW, YOU CODE HAS SOME SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA, SUCH AS WHETHER THE PROPOSED ACCESSORY APARTMENT WOULD ADVERSELY AFFECT THE SINGLE FAMILY CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO YOU WOULD HAVE TO ESSENTIALLY REMOVE THOSE EXCEPT FOR THE PLANNING BOARD WAIVER PROCESS, BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT THE BUILDING, YOU WANT THE BUILDING INSPECTOR, IF HE'S ISSUING PERMITS, YOU WANT IT TO BE ON STRICTLY
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OBJECTIVE, OBJECTIVE, OBJECTIVE, NON-DISCRETIONARY, UM, TYPES OF, OF DETERMINATIONS.YOU DON'T WANT HIM FIGURING OUT DOES THIS AFFECT THE SINGLE FAMILY CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO, UM, THAT'S PROBABLY THE ONE THAT'S GONNA TAKE THE MOST SORT OF DISCUSSION AND, AND THOUGHT BY THE BOARD.
UM, ANOTHER CHANGE, AND THIS HAS COME UP A LOT IN DISCUSSIONS.
UM, RIGHT NOW, ADUS ARE ONLY PERMITTED IN SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICTS, YOUR R 20 OR R 10, UM, ONLY THE R DISTRICTS.
UM, AND I'VE HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE ABOUT THIS, AND IT'S ALSO IN THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE LETTER.
SO ONE RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO PERMIT ADUS IN A SINGLE FAMILY HOME COULD ALSO ADD TWO FAMILIES IF YOU WANTED, IN ANY DISTRICT WHERE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES ARE PERMITTED MM-HMM
SO THAT COVERS ALL OF YOUR SINGLE FAMILY, YOUR TWO FAMILY, YOUR MR ZONES.
UM, THE ONLY ZONES THAT IT DOES THAT DO NOT PERMIT SINGLE FAMILY HOMES ARE THE MDI, THE LO, THE CO, WHICH PERMITS THEM IF THEY EXISTED PRIOR TO JANUARY, 2003, L-C-C-C-L-I-G-I AND THE MW DISTRICTS.
NOW, WHEN WE DO THE OTHER PROJECT, WE'RE GONNA GET RID OF SOME OF THOSE
BECAUSE IT'S NOT PERMITTED THERE.
SO YOU DON'T WANT TO ENCOURAGE INVESTMENT IN A NON-CONFORMING USE BECAUSE THE, I THE IDEA OF NON-CONFORMING USES IS EVENTUALLY THEY GO AWAY MM-HMM
SO, UM, BUT IT WOULD ALLOW IT, I THINK WHERE THE ISSUES HAVE COME UP HAVE LARGELY BEEN IN SOME OF THE MULTI-FAMILY DISTRICTS.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND PART OF THAT DISCUSSION HAS BEEN, WELL, IN A MULTIFAMILY DISTRICT, YOU'RE REALLY JUST ADDING ANOTHER UNIT, BUT THERE IS A DISTINCTION BETWEEN AN ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT AND JUST ANOTHER UNIT.
IT HAS TO, IT'S RESTRICTED BY SIZE.
THE OWNER HAS TO BE, HAS TO BE OWNER OCCUPIED STRUCTURE.
SO, UM, I THINK THIS ADDRESSES SOME CONCERNS THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED.
AND I, I KNOW TRUSTEE ALL WHO YOU AND I DISCUSSED THIS A LITTLE BIT MM-HMM
UM, YOU WERE FOCUSED ALSO ON THE TWO FAMILY DISTRICTS AS WELL AS ATTORNEY WHITEHEAD.
COULD YOU TALK ABOUT THE SETBACKS AND ACCESSORY STRUCTURES? SHE HAS THREE MORE IT, AND THEN I'LL GET TO THAT ONE.
I KNOW THE ONE YOU'RE GETTING TO, THEN I THINK WE CAN DRILL DOWN ON THAT.
SO THE OTHER SUGGESTION FROM THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE WAS TO EXTEND THE TERM OF THE PERMITS FROM THREE YEARS TO FIVE YEARS.
UM, YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU, YOU UPDATED YOUR ACCESSORY APARTMENT LOSS SEVERAL YEARS AGO TO MAKE IT EASIER.
USED TO BE THAT EVERY THREE YEARS, UM, THE PROPERTY OWNER HAD TO GO BACK TO THE PLANNING BOARD TO GET THE PERMIT RENEWED.
WE ELIMINATED THAT AND MADE THE RENEWALS BY THE BUILDING INSPECTOR, UM, WITH A PROCESS FOR GIVING NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
SO IF SOMEONE HAD CONCERNS WITH THAT PARTICULAR ACCESSORY APARTMENT, IF THEY EXPRESSED THOSE CONCERNS WITH THE NOTICE, THEN THE PLANNING BOARD WOULD HAVE TO CONSIDER IT.
I, I, YOU KNOW, WE KEPT IT AT THREE YEARS WHEN WE DID THAT.
UM, BUT THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE HAD ASKED THAT WE CHANGE THAT TO FIVE YEARS.
AND, UM, IN THEIR LETTER THEY SAID SOME OF THESE REQUESTS FOR CHANGES COME FROM SOME CONCERNS THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED TO THEM, UM, BY PEOPLE LOOKING AT DOING THE, UM, THE A DU PLUS ONE PROGRAM.
WHAT IS THE CONCERN THAT THEY'RE GONNA LOSE THE PERMIT IN THE VILLAGE AFTER THREE? IT'S NOT THAT THEY'VE NEVER LOST IT, BUT YEAH, IT'S, IT'S, PEOPLE ARE MAKING AN INVESTMENT.
UM, ALSO I THINK, YOU KNOW, THREE YEARS GOES QUICK,
SO WHAT IS THE PERMIT? DO WE, YOU DON'T KNOW THE PERMIT.
UM, IT'S PROBABLY NOT VERY ONEROUS THOUGH.
BUT STILL, UM, THE NEXT ONE IS, RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE ON CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP, THE NEW OWNER HAS TO COME IN AND MAKE AN APPLICATION.
UM, THERE'S A LOT, LOT OF WAYS TO DEAL WITH THIS.
UM, WHEN WE REVISED CROTONS LAW, WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME DISCUSSING THIS, AND WHAT WE CAME UP WITH WAS THAT ON A CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP, THE NEW OWNER HAS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME TO PROVIDE A NOTICE TO THE BUILDING INSPECTOR THAT THEY INTEND TO KEEP THE A DU, THEY WOULD STILL BE SUBJECT TO THAT TERM.
SO IT WOULD ONLY BE FOR THE REST OF THAT TERM, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO RENEW.
UM, AND IF NO NOTICE, IF THEY DON'T GIVE NOTICE, THEN IT'S, IT'S DEEMED ABANDONED.
UM, BUT THAT'S SORT OF AN EASIER WAY TO ADDRESS IT ON OWNERSHIP WHERE THERE'S NO RISK OF COMING IN
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FOR A PERMIT AND GETTING DENIED OR ANYTHING.UM, ANOTHER SUGGESTION, UM, AND THIS CAME FROM THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE, WAS TO CLARIFY SOME OF THE LANGUAGE, UM, WELL, I THINK WE NEED TO CLARIFY WHAT THE PLANNING BOARD CAN WAIVE, BUT THEN THEY ALSO SAID, PUT IN SOME OF THE CRITERIA FOR WAIVING, FOR INSTANCE, ON PARKING.
THEY SHOULD CONSIDER IF THERE'S ON STREET PARKING IN THE AREA FROM A PRACTICAL MATTER.
AND THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THIS IN THEIR LETTER.
THAT'S WHAT THE PLANNING BOARD'S BEEN DOING FOR YEARS.
WHEN SOMEONE'S ASKED FOR A WAIVER ON THE PARKING, THEY'VE KIND OF SAID, WELL, THIS IS A NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE PARKING IS AVAILABLE OR IT'S NEAR THE TRAIN STATION.
YOU KNOW, LOOKED AT DIFFERENT REASONS, UM, WHETHER IT IS OR ISN'T REALLY NECESSARY TO PROVIDE IT, BUT WE CAN, THEY'D LIKE THAT CLARIFIED.
UM, SO THAT WAS WHAT WAS ON THIS LIST.
UM, TO ADDRESS TRUSTEE ALLEY GOOD'S CONCERN, UM, YOUR CODE NOW STATES THAT AN A DU CAN BE IN AN NO, AN ACCESSORY APARTMENT.
NOW IT SAYS AN ACCESSORY APARTMENT CAN BE LOCATED IN A CONFORMING ACCESSORY STRUCTURE.
AND THE CONCERN IS THAT A LOT OF THE EXISTING ACCESSORY STRUCTURES LIKE ACCESSORY GARAGES IN THE VILLAGE MM-HMM
DO NOT CONFORM TO THE REQUIRED SETBACKS.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE VILLAGE HAD A RECENT, UM, APPLICATION FOR AN ACCESSORY APARTMENT IN A NON-CONFORMING GARAGE.
THEY HAD TO GET A VARIANCE BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T MEET THAT CRITERIA.
SO I, I THINK THE QUESTION IS WHETHER YOU WANT TO ALSO PROVIDE THAT IF IT'S AN EXISTING ACCESSORY STRUCTURE THAT DOESN'T CONFORM TO THE SETBACKS, WHETHER YOU CAN HAVE AN AD.
I THINK THAT WAS YOUR CONCERN.
NO, I, I ACTUALLY, MY CONCERN WAS, I THINK, I BELIEVE IT'S BEEN ADDRESSED.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE IT WAS PART OF THE DISCUSSION, BUT, UM, YOU CAN PART CLARIFY THAT, UH, UM, AN A DU GOING INTO A CONFORMING ACCESSORY STRUCTURE WOULD BE CONSIDERED AS OF RIGHT.
IF IT'S A NON-CONFORMING, IT WOULD REQUIRE A VARIANCE THAT'S, YES.
SO THAT'S THE WAY IT IS TODAY.
WE WILL, AND IT'LL BE CLARIFIED AND ALL IT WOULD, ALL THAT WOULD HAPPEN IS THAT IT WOULD THEN GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD AND THE ZONING BOARD AND THE ZONING BOARD.
BUT IT WOULD, BUT IT'S, I THINK IT'S, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE PROTECTIONS THERE IN THAT SENSE.
AND AGAIN, ONE, ONE MEETING, THAT EXACT SITUATION WAS JUST APPROVED.
SO LET ME, LET ME ADDRESS THIS IN A DIFFERENT WAY THOUGH.
SO THE ACCESSORY APARTMENT REGULATION RIGHT NOW ALLOWS AN ACCESSORY APARTMENT IN AN EXISTING ACCESSORY STRUCTURE AS LONG AS IT'S 10 FEET AWAY FROM THE PROPERTY LINE.
SO THAT'S ACTUALLY A DIFFERENT RULE THAN, 'CAUSE RIGHT NOW A CONFORMING ACCESSORY STRUCTURE CAN BE EIGHT FEET FROM THE PROPERTY LINE.
SO, SO, SO THAT NEEDS TO BE CLARIFIED.
BUT THAT, BUT ISN'T THAT RELATED TO EXISTING OR NOT EXISTING? SO THAT'S, WELL, AN EXISTING COULD BE ZERO FEE, BUT THEN IT WOULD, IT WOULD BE NON-CONFORMING.
CONFORMING IT WOULD'VE TO BE EIGHT FEET FROM THE PROPERTY.
BUT IT, BUT ISN'T THAT THE WHOLE POINT THAT IF IT'S, IF IT'S CONFORMING, IT DOESN'T REQUIRE A WAIVER.
BUT IF IT'S NON-CONFORMING, IT REQUIRES A WAIVER, IT WOULD THEN JUST GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THAT 10 FEET.
IT SAYS IN A CONFORMING ACCESSORY BUILDING.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, MAYBE IT GOT STRUCK.
WE MIGHT, WE MIGHT'VE TAKEN THAT OUT ACTUALLY, BECAUSE FOR THAT VERY REASON, IT'S CREATING THIS CONFLICT.
IT JUST SAYS THIS IS PRINTED FROM THE CODE.
IT JUST SAYS IN A CONFORMING ACCESSORY BUILDING.
MAYBE I, IT MAY HAVE THE 10 FEET MAY HAVE BEEN SOMEWHERE ELSE AND MAYBE I JUST CONFLICTED IT ANYWAY.
THE ONLY THING I'M CONCERNED ABOUT, AND I DO THINK THAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT AS A BOARD, IS THE EIGHT FEET IS, APPLIES TO EVERY SINGLE RESIDENTIAL ZONING LOT FOR ACCESSORY STRUCTURES.
WHEREAS, FOR EXAMPLE, IN AN R 7.5, THE, THE TOTAL SIDE YARDS PUT TOGETHER HAVE TO BE 20 FEET.
SO THAT MEANS NOW YOU COULD HAVE POTENTIALLY, SOMEONE COULD POTENTIALLY HAVE, UM, I MEAN SOMEONE WITH LIVING WITHIN EIGHT FEET OF YOU ON EITHER SIDE OF THE PROPERTY.
AND THEN WHEN YOU GO TO AN R 10, IT'S 30 FEET.
AND THEN 18 WOULD BE THE OTHER.
SO SUDDENLY THEN AGAIN, SOMEONE COULD SUDDENLY FIND THAT THEY HAVE SOMEONE LIVING EIGHT FEET AWAY FROM THEM.
AND THEN WITH THE R 20, IT GOES UP TO 50 FEET.
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30.AND I, I GUESS I WOULD ARGUE THAT I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED IF SUDDENLY THERE WAS AN APARTMENT THAT WAS EIGHT FEET AWAY FROM THEIR PROPERTY LINE.
SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT CREATING A NEW STRUCTURE THAT'S NOT WITHIN THE BUILDING.
IT COULD STILL BE AN EXISTING STRUCTURE.
IT COULD BE A GARAGE THAT'S CON, A CONFORMING GARAGE.
BUT BUT IF IT'S A CONFORMING GARAGE, NO ONE WILL, I MEAN IT EXISTS, THAT BUILDING EXISTS.
IT DOESN'T BOTHER PEOPLE IN THAT SENSE.
YEAH, BUT I YOU'RE CHANGING THE USE.
THE REASON YOU ALLOW ACCESSORY STRUCTURES CLOSE TO THE PROPERTY LINE IS 'CAUSE PEOPLE DON'T USE THEM THAT MUCH.
LIKE YOU PARK A CAR OR YOU LEAVE SOME TOOLS IN THE SHED AND YOU GO AND USE THEM, BUT NOW YOU SUDDENLY HAVE LIGHTS, TVS.
A PERSON, SHORT PEOPLE PERSON WALKING IN AND OUT.
ALL SOMEBODY HAMMERING ON SUNDAY ALL THE TIME, ALL DAY.
AND NOT TO MENTION ALL OF DOUG'S COUSINS
SO I JUST WANNA THROW THAT OUT THERE.
AND, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO THE REAR YARD SETBACK, WHICH I DON'T KNOW IF WE DO NEED TO ADDRESS THAT.
SO WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHETHER THAT'S AS OF RIGHT.
'CAUSE RIGHT NOW THE REAR YARD SETBACK IS ALMOST ALWAYS THE SAME AS THE FRONT YARD SETBACK.
EXCEPT FOR, EXCEPT FOR ACCESSORY STRUCTURES THAT ARE THEN ALLOWED TO BE EIGHT FEET AWAY.
SO YOU SUDDENLY COULD HAVE SOMEONE EIGHT FEET AWAY ON BOTH SIDES OF YOU AND BEHIND YOU AND THE BACK.
BUT YEAH, SO THERE'S A SIMPLE WAY, IF YOU WANTED TO, TO DO IT, IS TO JUST CHANGE IT TO SAY THAT, AND AN A DU CAN BE IN AN ACCESSORY STRUCTURE, THE SETBACK FOR AN THE PRIMARY STRUCTURE OR, OR SOME OTHER SETBACK.
NO, BUT THAT, THAT'S EXACTLY THE, THE THING THAT KILLS IT IN ALMOST ALL OF THE DISTRICTS.
WELL, BECAUSE MOST OF YOUR LOTS ARE NON-CONFORMING, RIGHT.
BUT I THINK TO JUST ALLOW IT AS OF RIGHT, EIGHT FEET FROM ALL THE PROPERTY LINES, I THINK WE'RE CREATING A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT KIND OF VILLAGE MAYBE.
SO I THINK WE JUST NEED TO TALK ABOUT, WELL MAYBE WHAT WE CAN DO IS WHAT WE'VE DONE WITH OTHER THINGS, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, UM, JUST CHECK, LOOK AT SOME OF THE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS AND JUST SEE HOW IT WOULD PAN OUT.
JUST DO SOME EXAMPLES AND, YOU KNOW, GET SOME DRAWINGS AND SEE, JUST SEE WHETHER, WHETHER YOU KNOW, THE SKY WILL FALL OR WHETHER IT ACTUALLY ISN'T SO BAD.
IT WOULD OVERALL THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA, MAYOR.
I THINK THAT THERE, IT'D BE ACTUALLY INTERESTING TO SEE HOW MANY ACCESSORY STRUCTURES ACTUALLY CONFORM TO THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE CODE ALREADY.
BUT IF, BUT WE'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE BEING ABLE TO BUILD A NEW YES.
BUT THEN IN EXAMPLE, BY TRUSTEE FLEISIG, THEN YOU COULD BE SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, EX UH, ADUS, UM, THAT ARE EIGHT FEET AWAY FROM YOUR PROPERTY LINE THAT GRANTED THAT IT'S LIKELY TO HAVE ONE OR TWO PEOPLE LIVING IN IT.
AND I, AND, AND I THINK THE ECONOMIC REALITY OF IT IS, IS THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
AND I WOULD NEVER SAY THE SKY IS FALLING.
I JUST THINK THAT WE NEED TO BE REALISTIC.
PEOPLE DON'T MOVE TO HASTINGS SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE PEOPLE LIVING AROUND EIGHT FEET AROUND ON EITHER SIDE OF THEM.
YOU KNOW, THEY MOVE HERE FOR DIFFERENT REASONS.
SO I KNOW BECAUSE IT'S THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.
ALRIGHT, SO, SO THAT WAS ONE CONCERN, WHICH I DO THINK WE SHOULD JUST, I, I LIKE THE IDEA OF DOING THIS STUDY, SO I'M SURE THAT YOU AND I WILL BE TASKED WITH THAT.
I THINK THAT THE, I THINK THAT BOTH OF YOU AND I ACTUALLY THINK OUR BUILDING INSPECTOR THERE REALLY AREN'T THAT MANY.
LAST COUNT BY ME WAS THAT THERE WERE 26 ADUS IN THE VILLAGE, WHICH WE COULD PROBABLY ACTUALLY LOOK AT EACH ONE OF THOSE AND SEE, BUT THAT'S OBVIOUSLY UNDER THE OLD LAW.
SO I THINK PART OF IT IS BOTH MAPPING OUT WHAT WE HAVE AND SEEING HOW THOSE FIT IN AND WHETHER THEY CREATED, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CONCERNS THAT PEOPLE HAVE AND LOOK AT SOME, YOU KNOW, OTHER HYPOTHETICAL SCENARIOS.
I THINK IT'S THE HYPOTHETICAL.
I THINK IT, I'M MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE HYPOTHETICALS THAN THE 20 SIMPLE LOT SIX EXAM THEY ALREADY HAVE.
BUT I THINK IT'S WORTH LOOKING AT.
SO TAKE SOME LOTS, SEE WHERE THE PRIMARY RESIDENCE IS AND SEE SORT OF WHERE A ACCESSORY A DU COULD BE PUT.
I THINK THAT THE, UM, THE OTHER THING THAT I WANTED TO MENTION IS THAT THE, THE PERMITTING, THE ADUS IN SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS WITHIN A HOME, IT'S A NO BRAINER.
NO, BUT I'M THE ZONES, SO THE DISTRICTS, I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS ENUMERATE THE DISTRICTS.
SO NOT JUST THE DISTRICTS WHERE IT'S NOT ALLOWED, BUT ACTUALLY LIST THE ONES WHERE IT IS ALLOWED.
BUT WE'RE GONNA CHANGE ALL THE DISTRICTS
I KNOW WE ARE, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA CHANGE THE DISTRICTS WHERE IT'S NOT ALLOWED.
AND WE'RE GONNA, WE CAN'T JUST SAY IN ANY DISTRICT WHERE A SINGLE FAMILY HOME IS PERMITTED.
WE CAN, I JUST THINK THAT SOME OF US KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS AND SOME OF US DON'T.
SO I, WE DON'T HAVE TO LIST IT IN THE LAW, BUT WE SHOULD KNOW, WE AT LEAST AS
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A BOARD NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE DISTRICTS ARE AND WHAT THE DISTRICTS AREN'T.BUT WHAT IT DOES IS IT OPEN? I THINK THAT OPENS UP THE POSSIBILITY IN A LOT OF AREAS WHERE PEOPLE WANTED TO, THEY, THEY WANTED TO BE ABLE TO PUT ADUS IN AND THAT HELPS.
I DON'T THINK IT HELPS FOR ONE VERY SPECIFIC SITUATION, WHICH IS FOR AN ACCESSORY, UM, BUILDING THAT'S IN PARKLAND, WHICH IS THE DRAPER PARK CASE.
SO I THINK WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THAT SEPARATELY.
BUT THAT ONE HAS BEEN RAISED AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT, THAT WAS ASKED FOR.
SO IT MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BE HANDLED DIRECTLY HERE, BUT THAT THE CASE THAT WAS BEING MADE SEEMED LIKE A REASONABLE CASE, AT LEAST TO ME, BUT WASN'T POSSIBLE UNDER, WHAT WAS THE DISTRICT? IT'S A P PARK.
OH, IT'S BECAUSE IT'S WHERE DRAPER PARK IS.
IT'S JUST THAT THOSE HOUSES, IT'S ONE OF THE FEW PLACES IN THE VILLAGE WHERE THE HOUSES HAPPEN TO BE IN PARKLAND.
YOU'RE ADVOCATING FOR ALLOWING IT AS OPPOSED TO, I, THE PARTICULAR CASE THAT WAS RAISED SEEMED EMINENTLY REASONABLE TO ME.
BUT YOU KNOW, IT WAS A CARRIAGE HOUSE.
WELL, CAN'T THAT JUST BE SUBJECT TO THE PLANNING BOARD APPROVAL? I MEAN, NO, BECAUSE THEY CAN'T DO IT IN DRAPER, DRAPER AGREEMENT, DRAPER RESTRICTIONS.
BUT LET'S LOOK AT THAT BECAUSE I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY MAKES SENSE IN THAT AREA.
WELL, CAN I ASK A STUPID QUESTION? ARE BESIDES OUR SEVEN POINT THE R DISTRICTS, 7.5, R 10 AND R 20, ARE THERE OTHER DISTRICTS IN WHICH SINGLE FAMILY GROUPS THEY'RE ALLOWED IN THE R AND ALL THE, SO THOSE ARE TWO FAMILIES? NO, BUT YOU'RE ALSO ALLOWED TO HAVE A SINGLE FAMILY.
SO THEY, THEY WOULD BE INCLUDED BECAUSE OF THAT.
AND, AND YOU GUYS, I'M SORRY? DID YOU PRACTICE THIS BEFORE THE MEETING? NO, I JUST KNOW THAT, THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING I THINK IT'S, YOU'RE LIKE THOSE TWINS.
I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE LISTED OUT BECAUSE I DON'T THINK PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT SINGLE FAMILY IS ALLOWED IN THE MRO AND YOU'VE GOT A BUNCH OF 'EM, YOU KNOW? OKAY, WELL, SO THEN YOU'RE RIGHT, THE MAYOR'S RIGHT.
BIG HEADLINE AT THE FRONT OF THE CODE.
WELL, NOT, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE.
I MEAN, AS LONG AS THE BOARD UNDERSTANDS, I, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT HAS TO BE IN THE CODE THINK, BUT LINDA'S RIGHT.
OUR ATTORNEY IS RIGHT THAT IF THE NEXT JOB UNDER G ONE IS TO CO CONSOLIDATE CHANGE JUSTICE, THOSE SECTIONS, WE'RE GONNA CHANGE.
HAVING THAT IN THE CODE MEANS WE HAVE TO REDO THE CODE AGAIN.
BUT RIGHT NOW THE CODE IS VERY COMPLICATED.
SO HAVING SOME CLARIFICATIONS, WE CAN DO IT.
I THINK IT'S NOT IMPORTANT EITHER WAY.
YOU CAN, YOU CAN ADD A PIECE AT THE BEGINNING, REMOVE THIS AS SOON AS YOU REVISE THE REST OF THE CODE.
AS LONG AS EVERYONE KNOWS THAT IT'S NOT, WE HAVE A LITTLE SECTION ON OUR WEBSITE FOR, UM, AD CLARIFICATIONS.
FOR, FOR, UM, ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS.
SO WE COULD GO RIGHT THERE COULD, DOESN'T HAVE TO, WHEN WE DO THIS LAW, THAT SECTION, WHAT SECTIONS, ZONING SECTIONS ARE, THAT'S A GOOD WAY OF DOING IT CAN BE INCLUDED.
A WEBSITE WILL HAVE TO BE UPDATED.
MAYOR, I HAVE TWO OTHER COMMENTS BEFORE YOU MOVE ON.
THE OTHER IS THE PERMIT CARRYOVER THING.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT'S STILL GONNA BE SUBORDINATE, LIKE OUR CODE WOULD BE SUBORDINATE TO, TO THE LANDLORD TENANT CONTRACT.
LIKE I DON'T WANT TO SET UP A SITUATION IN WHICH A TENANT COULD THEN INSIST THAT THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO REMAIN IN THE HOUSE.
THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE VILLAGE.
SO IF THE, IF THE OWNER WANTS TO TERMINATE THE LEASE, THEY CAN STILL DO THAT.
THEY HAVE TO TERMINATE THE LEASE.
BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT'S GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH, WITH A DU LAW.
RIGHT? I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE PERMITTING, LIKE WE, IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE RENEWED FOR FIVE YEARS.
THAT'S STILL, THAT IT BEING RENTED IS STILL ACTUALLY THE, THE, THE LANDLORD TENANT AGREEMENT IS SUPER BETWEEN THEM.
AND THEN THE LAST THING ON THE PARKING WAIVERS, I DO THINK THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SOME KIND OF GUIDANCE OR RESTRICTION ON THE PLANNING BOARD ABOUT PARKING WAIVERS BECAUSE I, I THINK AT A BARE MINIMUM, THEY NEED TO, TO LIKE CONSULT WITH A FIRE CHIEF OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT BECAUSE I'M, YOU KNOW, OVER THE YEARS YOU'RE SEEING MORE AND MORE, UM, CARS JUST BEING ALLOWED TO BE PUT ON THE STREET AND IT'S, I DUNNO, TRUSTEE DRAKE, YOU TELL ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT ACCORDING TO CHIEF LINDER, IT IS MUCH HARDER TO GET AN ENGINE THROUGH THE STREETS NOW THAN IT WAS WHEN HE WAS A KID.
YEAH, I THINK THERE ARE, THERE ARE, I MEAN THIS IS AN ENTIRELY SEPARATE CONVERSATION, BUT THERE ARE STREETS THAT ARE PARTICULARLY CHALLENGING.
EVEN IF YOU'RE JUST DRIVING A CAR, LET ALONE A TRUCK OR YOU KNOW, GARBAGE TRUCK OR YOU KNOW, WHERE PEOPLE ARE PARKING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREETS.
THERE'S ONE THAT'S NOT FAR AWAY FROM ME AND THAT'S, I MEAN THIS IS LIKE BUILDING A NUCLEAR REACTOR IN THE MIDDLE OF, OF FIVE CORNERS.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME RULES THAT COULD BE SET IN PLACE, MAYBE THAT COULD BE PART OF THE COMPLETE STREETS.
THAT COULD BE A COMPLETE STREETS I'S NOT ON ONE SIDE.
FOR EXAMPLE, SOME OF THE NARROW STREETS.
THAT IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF THING THAT SHOULD GO IN THERE ON THE NARROW STREETS.
I REMEMBER GROWING UP WEAVING THROUGH
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WHERE THERE WERE CARS PARKED ON BOTH SIDES.YOU DON'T HAVE TO, IT'S NOT EVEN WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG.
IT'S HAPPENING STILL NOW THAT NOW WHEN YOU'RE NO LONGER YOUNG
SO IS THAT GOOD? DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE ENOUGH GUIDANCE FROM US? YEAH.
SO I'M GONNA DO A PRELIMINARY DRAFT, BUT I MEAN WE NEED SOME FURTHER DISCUSSION MM-HMM
RIGHT? UM, THE BOARD NEEDS, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW, I DIDN'T HEAR IF ANYBODY HAD A PREFERENCE ON THIS ISSUE OF THE, AS OF RIGHTS NOT HAVING TO GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
WELL, WE HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT REMOVING THE SUBJECT, WHAT THE LIMITATION IS.
SO I CAN, YOU KNOW, WORK ON SORT OF AN INITIAL DRAFT THAT I'LL HAVE SOME HOLES IN IT OKAY.
FOR SOME FURTHER CONVERSATION.
TO ME, IF IT'S OBJECTIVE CRITERIA, I THINK WHAT'S, I THINK WHAT'S VERY TRICKY AND WHAT HAS TO GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD IS ANYTHING THAT'S SUBJECTIVE.
IF IT'S OBJECTIVE CRITERIA, THEN IT'S OBJECTIVE CRITERIA.
AND YOU KNOW, THERE, IT'S NOT AN ISSUE WHERE THERE'S A DISCRETIONARY ELEMENT FOR THE BUILDING INSPECTOR.
BUT I, I THINK AT THE MOMENT THE, THE PROVISION THAT'S IN THERE, UM, IS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT OBJECTIVE.
THAT WOULD HAVE TO COME OUT ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
NO, THAT'S TOTALLY SUBJECTIVE.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S TOTALLY SUBJECTIVE AND NOT EVEN TRUSTEE MERTON.
SO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING, YOU KNOW, FEEL, I LIKE THE IDEA OF THE, THE, OF EXAMPLES.
AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL ACTUALLY TO KIND OF GO THROUGH THE WHAT PROCESS FOR ALL THE DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST THAT PARTICULAR ISSUE, BUT YOU ALL THE DIFFERENT ONES THAT YEAH, EXACTLY.
ARE WE GOOD? I THINK THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE IS IF THE BUILDING INSPECTOR'S IN THE POSITION TO THEN APPROVE AND GO FORWARD, AND THEN AN OBJECTION IS RAISED BY A NEIGHBOR AFTER NOW IT'S BEEN APPROVED, UH, THEY JUST HAVE TO WAIT FIVE YEARS TO OBJECT.
I MEAN, THE APPEALS OF HIS DECISIONS CAN BE MADE.
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING? WHETHER HIS DECISIONS MAKE, IF THE NEIGHBOR DISAGREES AND SAYS, NO, THIS IS MESSING WITH THE CHARACTER OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, WHERE WOULD THAT FALL? WE CAN DO THE SAME THING THAT WE DO NOW ON THE RENEWALS MM-HMM
WHICH IS PROVIDE THAT WHEN HE GETS AN APPLICATION THAT HE CAN APPROVE, THE OWNER HAS TO GIVE NOTICE TO EVERYBODY WITHIN 100 FEET AND PEOPLE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO OBJECT.
AND IF ANYBODY OBJECTS, THEN IT HAS TO GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
I, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE IS GONNA OBJECT TO THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR APPLICANTS.
BUT, UM, BUT THAT IS AN OPTION.
I MEAN, THAT'S HOW DOBBS FERRY HANDLES A LOT OF THINGS.
AND IT'S, IT'S, THAT'S HOW WE HANDLE THE RENEWALS RIGHT NOW.
WE ALREADY HAVE THAT PROVISION IN THERE FOR THE RENEWALS.
I MEAN, MOST NEIGHBORS ARE PRETTY REASONABLE.
AND I, AND ACTUALLY I FIND THAT THE, THAT NOTIF NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE WHERE IT FORCES YOU TO GO OUT AND TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBORS ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING, THE PLANNING BOARD HEARINGS AND THE ZONING BOARD HEARINGS ARE REALLY ACTUALLY VERY DEMOCRATIC.
AND SO, WELL YOUR PLANNING BOARD AND ZONING BOARD HAVE TO GIVE RE UH, THE APPLICANTS HAVE TO GIVE NOTICES ON EVERY APPLICATION.
BUT IT DOES MEAN THAT SOMETHING CAN'T SECRETLY HAPPEN AND YOU ARE UNAWARE OF IT IN THEORY, WHICH IT SHOULDN'T.
I I I FEEL LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S ACTUALLY HANDLED WELL IN THE VILLAGE.
SO WE CAN PUT THAT SAME PROVISION THAT'S ALREADY IN THERE FOR THE RENEWALS.
THANK YOU FOR THE, UM, FOR THOSE PERMITS, FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE PERMITS.
SO THE NEXT TWO ITEMS ARE UPDATES TO THE HEAT EMERGENCY PLAN AND THE UPDATE TO THE CLIMATE VULNERABILITY REPORT.
AND I WANNA THANK THE VILLAGE MANAGER AND OUR CLERK AS WELL AS THE CLIMATE SMART COMMUNITIES TASK FORCE FOR THEIR INPUTS ON THIS.
THIS IS FOR YOU GUYS TO READ THROUGH AND SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU FEEL, UH, SHOULD BE ADDED.
BOTH OF THESE WERE, WERE FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2020.
AND THE, THE HEAT EMERGENCY PLAN IS PRETTY SIMILAR TO THE WAY IT WAS THEN.
UH, SOME OF THE LINKS WERE NON-FUNCTIONING AND HAVE BEEN UPDATED.
UM, ONE THING THAT'S BEEN ADDED IS THAT WE, UM, THANKS TO, UH, OUR CLERK, WE ADDED A WHOLE SECTION IN THERE ABOUT THE, UM, THE, THE, UM, URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT AND THE TREE EQUITY SCORE SO THAT YOU CAN SEE THAT DIFFERENT KIND OF DISTRICTS WITHIN CENSUS TRACKS HAVE DIFFERENT HEAT EQUITY SCORES.
AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S USEFUL AND IMPORTANT FOR US TO THINK ABOUT IN TERMS OF CLIMATE.
AND THE OTHER THING THAT WAS, THAT WE WORKED OUT, WHICH WAS QUITE INTERESTING, IS THAT THERE'S, THERE'S SOMETHING CALLED A HEAT VULNERABILITY INDEX.
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NOTED THAT THE VILLAGE HAD AN INDEX OF 12, WHICH IS FINE, IT'S LIKE IN THE MIDDLE.BUT WHAT WE REALIZED WAS THAT ONE TRACK HAD AN INDEX OF 12 AND THE OTHER TRACK HAD AN INDEX OF 15, WHICH IS GETTING HIGHER.
SO I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE TWO TRACKS.
AND I THINK YOU ALL KNOW THAT THE CENSUS TRACKS ARE DIVIDED BY BROADWAY.
SO THE TRACK THAT THAT'S EAST OF BROADWAY IS THE TRACK THAT HAS MORE TREE CANOPY AND TENDS TO BE THE WEALTHIER TRACT.
AND THE TRACT THAT'S WEST OF BROADWAY HAS LESS.
TREE CANOPY IS WHERE THE DOWNTOWN IS.
AND, UM, IS, UH, UH, FROM A CENSUS POINT OF VIEW, UH, A LOWER INCOME TRACT.
I MEAN, WE'RE A HIGH INCOME COMMUNITY OVERALL, BUT IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE THAT THERE ARE THOSE TWO TRACTS.
SO THE STUDY IS, IS VERY INTERESTING TO READ.
I THINK IT'S WORTH LOOKING AT.
UM, THE ORIGINAL STUDY INCLUDED A LOT OF INPUT FROM THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TEAM ON, UH, THINGS TO CONSIDER.
AND IF ANY OF YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING OR HAVE ANY COMMENTS, UM, UH, IT WOULD BE GREAT TO INCLUDE IT.
I THINK IT'S JUST USEFUL INFORMATION TO HAVE.
THERE'S ONE, UM, FLYER IN THERE THAT EVEN THOUGH IT'S FROM 2007, IT'S ON PAGE 25 IS ACTUALLY A GREAT FLYER.
SO WE KEPT IT
UM, AND THEN THE CLIMATE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT, UM, GOES BACK TO REALLY PREDICTING THE, THE, THE THREE BIG HAZARDS FOR OUR AREA, WHICH ARE FLOOD, EXTREME WEATHER, FLOODING, HEAT, UM, AND THEN THE OTHER ONE IS INVASIVE SPECIES, BOTH PLANTS AND INSECTS.
AND WE FEEL AS IF THOSE STILL REMAIN THE, THE MAIN VULNERABILITIES IN TERMS OF THE VULNERABILITIES THAT, YOU KNOW, ARE TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE, UM, KIND OF FOOD SCARCITY AND SOME OF THE OTHER VULNERABILITIES THAT ARE THERE.
AGAIN, UM, THE LINKS ARE UPDATED.
THERE ARE, UM, THE ONE THING THAT WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THAT, THE TOOL WE USED TO KIND OF NARROW IN ON OUR MUNICIPALITY, UM, IS, UM, UH, THE, THE TOOL THAT WE, WE NARROWED IN ON FOR OUR MUNICIPALITY IS A TOOL CALLED TEMPERATE, WHICH WAS RUN BY ILI.
AND SO ACTUALLY THE DATA IT PROVIDES IS VERY RELEVANT 'CAUSE IT'S PROJECTING FORWARD.
BUT WHAT WE'RE DOING BETWEEN NOW AND WHEN WE ADOPT THIS, WHICH IS IN TWO WEEKS, IS WE'RE ASKING ILI IF THERE ARE ANY, IF THERE'S ANY MORE, UH, RECENT TOOLS THAT WE CAN PUT IN WHERE THE, THE SOURCE CAN BE MORE EASILY CLICKED ON.
RIGHT NOW, IF YOU CLICK ON THE LINKS, IT, IT JUST DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE.
I DON'T MIND, EVEN IF IT DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE, BECAUSE THE DATA'S ACTUALLY REALLY GREAT AND IT DID GO SOMEWHERE ONCE, BUT IT WOULD BE NICE IF, IF THAT WERE UPDATED.
SO WE'RE GONNA TRY AND DO THAT.
AND THERE'S ONE LITTLE TINY THING IN THE HEAT EMERGENCY PLAN THAT THAT REFERS TO TEMPERATE AS WELL.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER THING THAT WE DID, UM, IS IN THE SECTION OF THE REPORT, WHICH IS A SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS, WHICH STARTS ON PAGE 18.
IT DESCRIBES THE VULNERABILITIES THAT WERE, UH, SPECIFIC STRUCTURES AND, UM, UH, SYSTEMS, REALLY INFRASTRUCTURE AREAS, SYSTEMS THAT, THAT ARE CONSIDERED VULNERABLE BY THE COMMUNITY.
SO WE LEFT IN EVERYTHING THAT WAS IDENTIFIED IN 2020, BUT WHAT WE DID WAS WE INCLUDED WHERE IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE ISSUES.
THERE'S PROBABLY SOME MORE THINGS WE HAVE TO INCLUDE, BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE'VE KIND OF PUT IN PLACE TO ADDRESS THOSE VULNERABILITIES, WHICH DOESN'T MEAN THERE'S NOT MORE THAT WE CAN DO.
SO WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK AND WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, AS SOON AS YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO DO IT.
DID WE EMAIL THESE IN, IN AN, IN A FORM WHERE YES, THE TRUSTEES CAN COMMENT, THE PROVIDERS WERE DOCUMENTS.
SO IF YOU COULD ALL JUST DO TRACKING CHANGES, IF YOU DO MAKE COMMENT, YOU KNOW, EDITS, THAT'D BE GREAT.
AND IF YOU CAN SEND THEM BACK, THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL.
SO, UM, SO THOSE TWO THINGS ARE THERE.
AND THEN THE NEXT ITEM IS UPCOMING EVENTS, WHICH IS, SO TOMORROW IS THE ROUTE NINE COMPLETE STREETS PUBLIC MEETING, JUNE 4TH AT MERCY COLLEGE.
UM, AT STARTING AT 6:00 PM IN PERSON.
UH, THERE IS THE SHOP ON SPRING STREET ON JUNE 5TH, WHICH I THINK IS THURSDAY FROM FOUR TO 6:00 PM UH, ENCOURAGING EVERYONE TO SHOP LOCAL ON SPRING STREET THAT DAY.
AND THEN ON SATURDAY, JUNE THE SEVENTH IS, IT DOESN'T
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SAY IT, UM, ON THE UPCOMING EVENTS LIST, BUT IT'S THE OPENING OF THE SUMMER OPENING OF THE FARMER'S MARKET.UM, IT'S ALSO RIVERTOWN THRIFT, WHICH WILL BE AT 10:00 AM IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
THERE'S ALSO THE HASTINGS FLEE FROM 10:00 AM TO 4:00 PM IN THE, OH NO, THAT'S ACTUALLY THE NEXT DAY.
THAT'S GONNA BE IN THE COMMUTER LOT.
ALSO ON JUNE 8TH IS SPRING THING, UH, WHICH IS FROM 12 TO 4:00 PM UM, WITH OUR CONSERVATION COMMISSION, OUR CLIMATE SMART COMMUNITIES, LOTS OF DIFFERENT VENDORS FROM ALL OVER THE PLACE.
THAT'S GONNA BE ON WARD WARBURTON.
AND, UH, TRAFFIC WILL BE CLOSED.
AND ALSO ON JUNE 8TH IS THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY ANNUAL GALA, WHICH WILL BE FROM 5:30 PM TO 8:00 PM SO ON JUNE 8TH, YOU CAN BASICALLY JUST STAND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VILLAGE AND THERE WILL BE ACTIVITIES THAT WILL HAPPEN ALL AROUND YOU.
AND I THINK THERE ARE ALSO SOME CONCERTS THAT PEOPLE ARE RUNNING IN THEIR HOUSES THAT DAY AS WELL.
UM, THEN LITTLE SAGE'S CHRIS, UH, CHILDREN'S COOKING IS ON JUNE 9TH, WHICH IS MONDAY AT WILD CULTURE.
UM, JUNE 11TH IS THE CANDIDATE FORUM, WHICH IS THE HASTINGS MAYOR, DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELECTIONS, TRUSTEES, DRAKE AND FLEISIG WILL BOTH BE RUNNING.
THAT'S AT 7:00 PM UM, UH, ON JUNE 11TH IN THE, IT DOESN'T SAY ACTUALLY, BUT IT IS IN THE, IT'S IT'S BY ZOOM.
UM, AND THEN JUNE 12TH IS SENIOR THURSDAY, WHICH I THINK EVERYONE'S GETTING FAMILIAR WITH NOW IN THE DOWNTOWN.
LOTS OF GREAT DEALS IF YOU'RE A SENIOR, WHICH I THINK IS OVER 60, RIGHT? MM-HMM
I THINK SOME OF US ALREADY QUALIFY FOR THAT.
UM, AND THEN ON THE 10TH IS FRIDAY NIGHT PRIDE.
FRIDAY NIGHT PRIDE IS JUNE 13TH FROM SIX TO 9:00 PM ON WARDEN AVENUE.
EVERYONE SHOULD COME OUT FOR THAT.
UM, AND THAT WEEKEND IS THE RIVER ARTS MUSIC TOUR.
SO THAT'S ON JUNE 14TH, UM, AT 11:00 AM TO 9:00 PM ON SATURDAY.
AND THEN JUNE 15TH IS HASTINGS ON JAZZ, THE FIRST CONCERT FROM THREE TO 5:30 PM AND THE SENIOR ICE CREAM SOCIAL IS, THAT'S ALSO FATHER'S DAY, I THINK.
SO HAPPY FATHER'S DAY IN ADVANCE TO ALL THE FATHERS.
AND THEN ON JUNE 13TH IS THE SENIOR ICE CREAM SODA SOCIAL, WHICH IS, UM, AT 12:30 PM AT THE JAMES HARMON COMMUNITY CENTER.
SO THERE'S TONS OF ACTIVITY BETWEEN NOW AND WHEN THE NEXT BOARD MEETING HAPPENS WITH FATHER'S DAY IN BETWEEN ANNOUNCEMENTS.
[X. ANNOUNCEMENTS]
MONDAY, JUNE 9TH, ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD MEETING, 7:00 PM VILLAGE HALL.CONFERENCE ROOM TUESDAY, JUNE 10TH, CONSERVATION COMMISSION MEETING 8:00 PM HOSTED VIA ZOOM, THURSDAY, JUNE 12TH, PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION.
MEETING 7:00 PM JAMES HARMAN COMMUNITY CENTER.
THURSDAY, JUNE 12TH, PLANNING BOARD, REGULAR MEETING 7:00 PM VILLAGE HALL.
THURSDAY, JUNE 12TH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE MEETING, 7:30 PM SMALL M
UH, JAMES HARMAN COMMUNITY CENTER.
MONDAY, JUNE 16TH, UH, VILLAGE ARTS COMMISSION.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING 7:00 PM HERE IN THE VILLAGE HALL MEETING ROOM.
UH, THE BOARD WILL NOW ADJOURN INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS MATTERS OF REAL ESTATE AND OF PARTICULAR PERSONNEL NOT TO RETURN TO THIS MEETING.