As many of you know, HUD, the monitor has deemed that Croton (by way of Harmon re-zoning, the mayor has admitted that the village got into trouble over the special permit in Harmon re-zoning, an issue the board was repeatedly warned about by residents--they were warned about the bedroom restrictions provision too) is one of several communities that engage in "exclusionary" zoning.
You may therefore have an interest in this article. It goes without saying that our officials continue to say next to nothing to the public about what comes next. Freedom of Information requests have been submitted; awaiting responses.
EXCERPTS FROM THE DAILY VOICE ARTICLE ON HUD, THE HOUSING SETTLEMENT, POSSIBLE LAW CHANGES; click on the link below to read the entire article:
"On the other hand, the Town of Mamaroneck has modified its zoning and
been removed from the list of seven. Of the six remaining, five have
been talking to Johnson, without the county’s involvement, to help
remove its exclusionary zoning, Kaplowitz said.
“We understand many of these communities are
right on the cusp of, and in fact will be legislating some changes to
their exclusionary zoning,” he said.
While Croton, Lewisboro, Pound Ridge, the Town of Ossining and Pelham
Manor have all started those talks, Harrison “isn’t as far along,”
according to Kaplowtiz.
The hope is that when Johnson completes his report in August that he
will find no exclusionary zoning because the six communities will have
modified their zoning. "
READ MORE HERE
http://cortlandt.dailyvoice.com/politics/legislator-announces-break-westchester-hud-logjam-over-housing
YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-52914-update-on-175-old-post-road.html
When is the next board meeting?
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DeleteWhat is wrong with this picture? Maybe its time to start lobbying for a change to the Fair Housing Act. Opening the doors to unlimited amounts of affordable housing without the tax dollars to pay for the exhorbitent cost of educating our young without any regard for existing taxpayers under the guise of racial discrimination. Total disregard to the fact that people without economic success actually live in different areas from those who have a degree of economic success. Are there to be no benefits to working hard and succeeding. Isn't the real problem economic disparity?.. Is this really what our government has come to. Damn the middle class? If we keep removing the distinctions between upper and middle class, what will drive us towards prosperity?
ReplyDeleteWould like to know what "exclusionary" really means. I would like to have a big mansion on farm property in Bedford but I can't afford it. Is Bedford considered exclusionary to me? Should I be taking up some cause to make Bedford more accessible to me? Am I missing something?
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