Thursday, December 5, 2024

LOT A WORK SESSION---THE CROTON CHRONICLE--AS THE NOT-QUITE-DONE DEAL INCHES TOWARDS DONE-NESS, A SIX-MINUTE VIDEO GAP, AND A SUBTLE LEGAL THREAT FROM THE DEVELOPER'S REPRESENTATIVE?

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Lot A work session: As the not-quite-done deal inches towards done-ness, a six minute video gap, and a subtle legal threat from the developer’s representative?

A malfunction in the audiovisual system that began when trustee Nora Nicholson was making some critical points showed the urgency of coming up with a better system.

MICHAEL BALTER---DEC. 5, 2024



The proposed development of Lot A and an adjacent property into affordable condominiums continues to make its way through New York state’s SEQRA (State Environmental Quality Review Act) process. Last evening’s Board of Trustees Work Session appeared to put some of the final touches on a proposed “negative declaration” under SEQRA, although it laid bare some tensions between the developer—WBP Development LLC of Chappaqua—and the village, which have been simmering for some months.

The remaining questions include what conditions the Board of Trustees will put on their approval, and what questions will be passed on to Croton’s Planning Board, which normally would approve the architectural design, including the all-important question of how many units will be allowed. (The developer has proposed 100; the Planning Board recommended 60-80; and incoming trustee Maria Slippen is already on record as favoring only 60.)

One condition the Board considered yesterday was whether the developer would be required to conduct a new sound study of the noise emanating from the Croton-Harmon rail yard during these winter months, when Metro North requires locomotives to idle their engines for longer periods of time. READ MORE AT 
(42) Lot A work session: As the not-quite-done deal inches towards done-ness, a six minute video gap, and a subtle legal threat from the developer’s representative?

1 comment:

  1. We have three parcels involved in the parking lot,A Development proposal, one of which is owned by a third-party that are developer. Has purchase purchased a right to buy at significant cost. Hence, the veiled threat of suit by the developer. Current noise levels dictate glazing on the building of 1/2 inch thick plate class with a 1/2 inch dead air space sandwiched by quarter inch thick plate glass. Which could prove to be insufficient after a second noise level Survey. We haven’t even mentioned insufficient water for firefighting that might require tanks on the 70 foot Tall structure and the impossible access by firefighting equipment to the parking lot on the north side of the building,. Another total fiasco in the making by a incompetent group of decision makers,

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