BY SPECIAL REQUEST, VILLAGE ACKNOWLEDGES AREA THEY WANT RE-ZONED WILL FLOOD DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, A JUNE 2019 LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Public hearing for rezoning is 2/3, 2nd floor, 8 pm, Board of Trustees meeting; the full agenda is here.

And now, by special request, a letter from June 2019:

OF FLOODING, BUYOUT OPTIONS, BROOK & RIVERSIDE AVENUE RE-ZONING--WHY IS THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES PUTTING INNOCENT PEOPLE AT RISK?

Why is the Board of Trustees Putting Innocent People at Risk?

June 15, 2019

The following letter was published in this week’s issue of the Gazette.

To the editor:

I am not one of those residents who is granted private briefings by Ms. Gallelli or Mr. Simmons, let alone someone who has input into the opaque operations of our village government. I certainly don’t get to sit in on those secret “Executive Sessions” in which the Croton Board of Trustees discusses “real property” matters. But I hope that some charitable reader of The Gazette who is granted admission to the Croton inner circle can clarify something for me:

Given what the Board of Trustees know about how climate change is going to affect Croton in the coming years, why is the Board of Trustees putting innocent people at risk?

The report on a little-known workshop on climate change shows in detail that the rise in sea level will endanger residents living in Half Moon Bay, Brook Street, and North Riverside. So why do our Board of Trustees and Village officials want to endanger lives by encouraging construction of apartments in an area that is—by their own admission—becoming a floodplain?

A half-day workshop to discuss government response to climate change in Croton, Cortlandt and Buchanan was held on October 18, 2018. Attending that day were Ms. Gallelli and a “who’s who” of Croton government, gathered with officials from Buchanan and Cortlandt. This included top officials from the Village of Croton and also from the Croton-Harmon school district.

A report of that meeting was issued in January 2019, and on page 13 of the report it says something of great relevance to the rezoning of Brook Street and Riverside Avenue: “Village of Croton to determine buyout options and implications for North/South Riverside Ave and Brook Street, as well as the possibility of levees.”

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