[0:05] good evening everybody and welcome to the town board meeting for January 28th

[0:09] 2020 we have a full agenda but we're gonna take just a moment to start with

[0:16] something special this evening so yesterday of course marked the 75th

[0:21] anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz which also coincided with the

[0:25] Holocaust Memorial Day we have all seen disturbing reports of incidents of hate

[0:31] specifically anti-semitism in neighboring communities tonight the town

[0:36] board has a for us a resolution to stand with other municipalities in West

[0:40] Chester County to firmly oppose anti-semitism in all forms as New

[0:46] Yorkers and as citizens of the world we are called upon to remember the stories

[0:50] of the Holocaust and to vow never to let what happened over 75 years ago happen

[0:57] again tonight we have with us Allie Rosenberg the co-chair of the New Castle

[1:03] Holocaust and Human Rights Committee and a founder of enough which stands for

[1:08] educate now on understanding genocide and hate at Horace really high school as

[1:13] well as her son Sam Rosenberg is a member of an often and they're going to

[1:18] speak to us briefly about this resolution and also give us an update on

[1:22] what they've been up to longer committee

[1:28] good evening Tim board thank you so this evening as I be Senate this is

[1:36] just an incredible resolution we feel so proud to live in a county that has

[1:42] decided to take a strong stand to oppose not only anti-semitism but intolerance

[1:50] of all kinds with that said the New Castle Holocaust and Human Rights

[1:56] Committee had its formal first meeting last month we are now a committee of 10

[2:02] people along with two student members of enough they are the student liaisons we

[2:09] are working right now so with the commemoration we are bringing next month

[2:14] on February 25th world renowned historian and author David Marr well who

[2:20] just published a newly released book mangling unmasking the Angel of Death

[2:24] the event will be free to the community but we are asking for RSVPs and the

[2:29] publication of publicity is starting now we're also working on our young ho Shoah

[2:35] service which the save the dates went out for that and that will be April 28th

[2:39] at 6 p.m. at the New Castle Holocaust Memorial and I'm gonna turn it over to

[2:44] Sam Rosenberg one of the co-presidents of enough hi I'm Sam Rosenberg

[2:52] co-president of enough at Horace Greeley High School and our latest project right

[2:57] now is we are trying we're working on bringing and anti-hate workshop to the

[3:03] students at our discretely high school

[3:07] we're working this year on hopefully bring some more events some speakers to

[3:14] the school of the students we have Alan Moscone who is a liberator

[3:28] of Auschwitz coming to the school and he's coming on Thursday February 27 at

[3:34] the moment we haven't he's definitely speaking to the 10th graders and we're

[3:38] seeing if he can speak to more more students he is 93 years old and is like

[3:44] so booked this spring it's pretty amazing so we are here to say that we

[3:50] feel very strongly about rise of this resolution we hope it is passed in our

[3:55] tone and to stand in solidarity with the other communities in Westchester County

[3:59] thank you thank you thank you so we're gonna skip ahead and we're actually

[4:07] gonna go ahead and introduce this resolution now so that Allie and Sam can

[4:12] think so I'm adopted following resolution whereas our nation was

[4:18] founded on the principles of religious freedom we win all people to life

[4:23] liberty and pursuit of happiness and whereas contrary to those principles

[4:26] that they're part of me there has been a significant increase of violent

[4:30] anti-semitic attacks throughout the United States and particularly New York

[4:33] State's Hudson Valley region and whereas the FBI notes a nationwide in 2014

[4:39] 609 anti-jewish hate crime incidents were reported by 2018 the number

[4:45] increased nearly 40 percent and whereas the FBI reports that nationally in 2018

[4:52] there were seven thousand 36 single biased related incidents that involved

[4:57] 8327 offenses of those 59.5 stem percent stem from a race ethnicity ancestry

[5:06] biased 18.6% were motivated by religious bias and 16.9% resulted from sexual

[5:15] orientation bias whereas according to the anti-defamation league ADL which

[5:20] tracks anti-semitic and other hate crime incidents reported that anti-semitic

[5:25] incidents were at historic levels in the United States in 2018 occurrences of

[5:29] assault alone 105 percent from 2017 to 2018 and

[5:35] whereas the ADL states that preliminary analysis of truth

[5:39] 90 data shows that New York I've recorded the most anti-jewish hate

[5:44] crimes since 1992 and whereas in December 28th 2019 five people were

[5:51] tragically stabbed at a Hanukkah celebration

[5:53] celebration in Muncie New York a neighboring Rockland County and whereas

[5:58] here in 2019 in Westchester County we were enraged and heartbroken I'm the

[6:04] eve of Yom Kippur the highest of holy days of the Jewish faith anti-semitic

[6:08] materials were discovered at our Holocaust Garden of Remembrance and

[6:13] whereas Westchester County has a long history of standing up speaking out and

[6:17] protecting human rights in 2000 Westchester County Human Rights

[6:22] Commission was created to ensure that prejudice intolerance bigotry and

[6:26] discrimination will not threaten the rights and privileges of its people and

[6:30] that all are treated with dignity and respect that is necessary to give effect

[6:35] to the equal rights for all assured by the Constitution and laws of the United

[6:40] States New York State in this county now therefore be it resolved that the town

[6:47] of New Castle is appalled by the anti-semitic attacks here at home and

[6:51] Iraq encounter neighbors we stand in solidarity with the people of Yorktown

[6:55] and Muncie and rejecting all forms of bigotry hatred or discrimination of any

[7:01] kind and be it FURTHER RESOLVED and hate will have no home in the town of New

[7:06] Castle we are committed to promote openness inclusion freedom and mutual

[7:12] understanding by ensuring all people of New Castle regardless of race religion

[7:16] sexual orientation gender identity national origin or immigration status

[7:22] may live free from violence harassment or prejudice our County will make every

[7:28] effort to ensure that our community is one where all people are welcome

[7:31] included and respected and being further resolved to work with local communities

[7:35] the Westchester County Human Rights Commission told public learning sessions

[7:40] for combating hate to educate young people and the public at large about

[7:44] unity and acceptance and through the Human Rights Commission

[7:47] work with the westchester county community as a whole to combat hate and

[7:52] be it further resolved that the town of newcastle will work with all other

[7:55] levels of government and community groups to root out hate and promote

[8:00] understanding we encourage municipalities that join this resolution

[8:03] to join forces and ensuring that the vile history of anti-semitism and any

[8:07] other forms of intolerance in Newark and around the world ends now and ends here

[8:13] and be it further resolved that this that a certified copy of this resolution

[8:17] shall be forwarded to westchester county and any others deem necessary and proper

[8:22] so that the intent of our county elected leaders is widely known so we'll move on

[8:49] I just have a couple of more announcements and then Jill Shapiro will

[8:52] give her telling this report tonight the Town Board also has before it a

[8:59] resolution to recognize the moms demand action national gun violence survivors

[9:03] week which will take place from February 1st through 8th of 2020 to honor and

[9:07] remember all victims and survivors of gun violence and uplift the resilient

[9:11] voices of survivors across the nation across the country municipalities are

[9:16] working to end the senseless violence by advocating for common-sense gun safety

[9:20] legislation biomemory national gun violence survivors week we join with

[9:24] these communities and raising awareness about gun violence and honoring the

[9:27] lives stolen by gun violence in doing so we also renew our commitment to reduce

[9:32] gun violence and pledge to do all that we can to keep firearms out of the wrong

[9:35] hands and to encourage responsible gun ownership to help our communities safe

[9:42] next in December of 2019 the town switched its water source temporarily

[9:48] from the Catskill aqueduct to the new Croton reservoir and due to a scheduled

[9:53] shutdown of the Catskill aqueduct by the New York City Department

[9:56] Environmental Protection to allow DEP to make necessary changes to the aqueduct

[10:00] on Wednesday January 22nd the Catskill aqueduct shutdown ended but please keep

[10:07] in mind that it does take a few days for the water to cycle back through the

[10:11] pipes and tanks when our sword switched back during the shutdown some residents

[10:16] did notice a difference in the taste and smell of their water due to the change

[10:20] in the water source throughout this time Newcastle's water was and still is

[10:26] tested and treated at the mill wood water treatment plant and greatly

[10:30] exceeded and still does all New York State do H and EPA water quality

[10:35] standards please note that similar 10-week shutdowns are planned by DEP for

[10:41] winter 2021 this coming year and 2122 as we learn more about the dates for the

[10:49] coming year we will let residents know in advance and I would personally just

[10:54] like to thank the Newcastle Department of Public Works and the mill wood water

[10:59] treatment plant for their stewardship of our drinking water as well as their

[11:03] focus on the health and safety of all of our residents community event teen

[11:09] vaping crisis did you know that one in four teens is addicted to vaping and

[11:13] that over 40 people have died leaving get the facts and find out what you can

[11:18] do to help stop this crisis from spreading Northern Westchester hospital

[11:22] is hosting an event on Thursday January 30th that's a car crossing among the

[11:27] presenters dr. Richard stew mocker is a renowned expert who has presented in our

[11:31] community before I've heard him speak he's an accomplished speaker on this

[11:36] important topic so please join us last week on Wednesday January 22nd I was

[11:43] pleased to join with other concerned residents across Westchester County for

[11:46] the FAA airport noise forum at the Newcastle community center we obviously

[11:52] thought to bring the FAA to our community to begin a dialogue about what

[11:58] solutions may exist to mitigate mitigate the impacts of increased noise and other

[12:02] environmental impacts for communities like ours that are close to H p.m. it

[12:06] was great to see so many thoughtful and concerned residents at this event as a

[12:12] community with deep concerns about the noise and other environmental impacts

[12:15] our next step is to review the scope of work for the county's Airport consultant

[12:21] hmmh Harris Miller to ensures that the questions that will be asked and

[12:26] answered as a part of this study adequately address the concerns of our

[12:30] community to this end and fall of 2019 the town of Newcastle engaged in

[12:35] independent aviation expert and we will be working with the airport steering

[12:40] committee to advance our experts analysis of the phase 2 scope and

[12:45] continue an independent our partnership for the county last but certainly not

[12:51] least the topic of tonight's meeting so tonight we have our public scoping

[12:57] session for the Chappaqua Hamlet for may's code and you'll hear in just a

[13:02] moment from our expert consultant from Kim Lee horn as well as our town planner

[13:07] Sabrina Charney hall beginning just take everybody step back for just a moment

[13:12] beginning in May of last year the town of Newcastle launched a project to

[13:16] rezone the Choctaw Hamlet and to create a forum based code traditional zoning

[13:22] ordinances regulate land use by dictating where certain uses can occur

[13:26] for example residential versus retail versus industrial a form-based code by

[13:33] comparison is an innovative approach that considers how zoning relates to

[13:37] infrastructure and parking and open space and design and architecture among

[13:42] other topics and focuses more on the form of the building as opposed to

[13:47] mandating its use this project to create a foreign-based code as you'll hear

[13:52] tonight reflects the goals of the town as set

[13:55] forth in the 2017 comprehensive plan and I quote to preserve the town's bucolic

[14:00] residential character and its historic resources while promoting new mixed-use

[14:04] development and Hamlet's to meet the community's housing needs and foster

[14:08] thriving communities thriving commercial and civil civic spaces

[14:13] and you'll hear more about this tonight I won't go through it all but I will

[14:17] just say how pleased I am to see how many people have shown up tonight for

[14:22] the public scoping session this is truly the beginning of our public engagement

[14:27] around the environmental analysis related to the form based code and I am

[14:33] truly grateful whenever residents come and provide us with our comments and

[14:38] feedback so we're really looking forward to hearing back to me thank you so on

[14:47] just to switch topics for a little bit this Friday January 31st is the last day

[14:52] to pay the second half school taxes without penalty if you as opposed to

[14:56] your bank or responsible to pay property taxes the 31st will be the last day to

[15:00] pay without penalty the tax office will be open on Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

[15:06] if you're paying your tax bill in cash believe it or not quite a few people -

[15:11] we only accept cash during regular business hours of 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

[15:17] and payments must be in the exact amount in cash otherwise 59 you can also pay

[15:38] online at my new castle dot org and just a reminder that the tax office accepts

[15:44] us postmarked as proof of timely mailing if you're mailing your tax payment

[15:49] please make sure you actually see the post office on post-market don't just

[15:53] put it in the box and think she's gonna it'll be fine

[15:55] it won't be fine make sure that they post before you and we do whole

[15:59] post-dated checks update on Santa Pro regarding Christmas treat pickup I don't

[16:04] know I said the pros been so challenged this year but old lime as well as owns

[16:09] four and five will be completed tomorrow Wednesday January 29th congratulations

[16:14] to Chief Carol and the Newcastle Police Department on their reaction we're very

[16:18] proud of them not surprised but very proud anyway congratulations to

[16:22] controller Rob Deary Newcastle has once again been awarded

[16:25] certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting by the

[16:29] government financial officers Association and a huge thank you to

[16:32] Lauren cash cohen and christina peeps for all of the help with last night's

[16:36] inauguration ceremony it was a fabulous ceremony and you guys I couldn't done it

[16:41] without you thank you so much it seemed like effortless anything but I'm sure

[16:46] that Sabrina will on give us more information after the presentation but

[16:51] there is a sign in for anyone who would like to speak and there's also cards

[16:55] true for people to write comments on and also with your contact information

[17:00] Sabrina will go into detail as well Bonnie about this but it's really

[17:04] important and we're trying very hard to make sure that everybody's comments on

[17:09] the scope topics are properly captured so if even if you don't want to speak

[17:16] but you'd like comments to be included please make sure that they're included

[17:19] on the cards that are here so that we make sure that we can include all the

[17:23] things that you are interested we're so excited to get started but before we get

[17:38] started any public comment or new business from

[17:41] anyone other than I just have a follow-up question about your comments

[17:57] about the FAA meeting it occurred to me that since everyone was there kind of

[18:01] individually but representing the FAA and we're all kind of scurrying around

[18:05] asking questions I'm wondering if the town would contemplate hiring or having

[18:09] someone who's already an employee facilitate a session with everyone who

[18:14] attended to capture what each person heard and find the themes because I

[18:19] think we'd all have kind of a our own individual sense of what we heard and it

[18:23] might be interesting to kind of synthesize everything

[18:25] we can kind of add that to the time strategy of how to move forward thank

[18:29] you good evening um for those of you who do not know my name is Sabrina journey

[18:49] home the director of planning for the town I'm here tonight with Vanya von

[18:53] Olsen from our consultant team Kim Lee horn and she will be sharing this

[18:57] presentation with me and we're gonna talk to you about what a farm basecoat

[19:00] is we're gonna go through the state environmental quality review act and

[19:04] really drill down on what scoping is and where you can comment so we'll start a

[19:11] forum based code and I think the town supervisor in the introduction tonight

[19:16] really hit on what the difference of why a form-based code but I'm gonna read

[19:21] great right now within the chapter Hema we have zoning which is based off of

[19:27] principles which separate uses and she very eloquently said you know

[19:31] residential is separate from commercial use is separate from industrial use so

[19:36] that's kind of how you clean in zoning works that's what's there today a

[19:40] form-based code is a little bit different it not only regulates uses cuz

[19:44] it does separate uses to some extent but it also looks at the relationship

[19:48] between the building facades and the public realm the streetscape the form

[19:54] and mass of buildings and how that mass relates to one it to each other a

[19:58] building next to a building a building across the treatment of the street from

[20:02] a building and it also looks at the scale of the development in relation to

[20:06] these streets and the blocks within a community so it's a little bit more

[20:11] diverse there's more guidance in a form based code the regulation right today

[20:17] consists of what's written in our code books it's all words a form based code

[20:22] is not only the words but it also includes our drawings it includes

[20:30] diagrams it's called a regulating plan and there are other visual indicator

[20:34] within the text of the code that help a reader to understand what it's trying to

[20:40] do so it's a little bit more in depth than the zoning code we have today so

[20:46] just to get a sense of where we are today

[20:49] this is a map of the existing zoning so if you look at the table we have retail

[20:54] business which is the red we have business retail parking which is the

[21:00] pink color we have a design business district which

[21:03] is the brown and we have planned industrial which is the pink over here

[21:08] this is separation of uses you can do certain things in the industrial plans

[21:12] own that are different from the BR zone there's different uses in the VRP zone

[21:18] and there's different uses in the BD zone when it comes to form based code

[21:23] there's not a lot of discussion out there and if that is about height and so

[21:27] today within the BR zone our code allows up to three stories maximum height the

[21:34] business retail parking zone allows up to two stories the BD district allows up

[21:40] to two stories the IP district allows up to two stories so that just gives you a

[21:45] sense of what our code requirement today looks like when we move to a form based

[21:52] code we're looking at dimensional and architectural standards we're looking at

[21:57] changes in the code regarding the number of stories today we have two and three

[22:02] stories we're looking to go to three and four stories and in some areas even five

[22:07] stories to give you a sense of the code the purple area this is two to four

[22:12] stories the area in between along King Street that is two to three stories the

[22:20] red area and again this is the frontage along the roadway is allowed up to five

[22:27] stories very quickly the the area going up King Street that currently is

[22:33] permissible to three stories now mistaken fine I want to say it is the

[22:39] BRZ outdoors yeah there's three stories thank you

[22:44] I'm going back to the five stories I think it's important to inform everybody

[22:48] that the five stories is primarily within areas that are currently held by

[22:53] the town its town property with the exception of areas that abut the bridge

[22:58] on both sides of Quaker Street on the bridge yeah both sides of the triangle

[23:03] and there's a small area where the gas station is today and down Woodburn

[23:07] that's under private ownership and I think that that's really important to

[23:11] understand because the town property right now is not subject to the same

[23:16] requirements for development as private property when we talk about legislative

[23:24] changes we're talking about adhering to the New York State Environmental Quality

[23:29] Review Act or otherwise known as secret right now any action that is undertaken

[23:34] by any agency must look and examine the environmental significance

[23:40] okay so whether you approve an action a town board as a lead agency would

[23:45] approve the zoning legislation whether you are funding something or whether

[23:50] you're directly undertaking it yourself in this instance you are the approving

[23:55] entity and you're also undertaking the legislative analysis yourself so this is

[24:00] subject to secret secret requires you to balance environmental impacts with

[24:07] social and economic factors when you're going to approve an action so I think

[24:11] that that's really important so we are subject to the New York State

[24:14] Environmental Quality Review Act and for folks who want to know more about seeker

[24:18] this is the Dec website where you can click on and there's a whole host of

[24:22] background information easy to understand information about this about

[24:26] seeker and about the process that every action must be considered under consider

[24:32] this an umbrella that we need to look at in regards to its environmental impact

[24:37] so real quickly I'm going to go through what we have done so far in relation to

[24:42] the State Environmental Quality Review Act and where we are today so we started

[24:47] out where we where we looked at the action and we said is this action

[24:52] subject to seeker legislation is typically not

[24:56] considered a type 1 action or is not an action that you would run through a long

[25:01] seeker process because of the extent of this rezoning the Town Board felt that

[25:06] it was important that we did a full analysis of the environmental impacts of

[25:11] this action so we elected to say this is a type 1 action and we prepared

[25:18] environmental assessment forms right here and we said do we think that

[25:24] there's going to be any environmental significance we said yes so we made what

[25:30] was called a positive declaration saying that there are areas within this

[25:34] rezoning we feel could have significant environmental impact which means we then

[25:40] move forward and we do what's called a draft generic environmental impact

[25:44] statement to determine whether or not there's an impact within the areas we

[25:50] are examining in that study and that brings me to scoping this red circle

[25:54] here this is where we are tonight so I'm

[25:57] gonna turn it over to Bonnie who's gonna talk about scoping in relation to a

[26:01] proposed action and dge is but I do want to point out we

[26:06] have several other steps to walk through okay

[26:10] this is really the beginning think of it as a table of contents of a much larger

[26:16] process that we need to walk through to get to the end before you can even

[26:20] consider changing our legislation changing or something so with that I'm

[26:26] gonna turn it over Bonnie and we'll go for the Sabrina just before that I just

[26:30] wanted to make it clear because I've seen and heard discussions that I think

[26:34] are based on a little misinformation I just wanted to make it clear that

[26:39] because we're considering zoning and increasing Heights for instance and

[26:44] buildings it doesn't mean that the town is mandating that buildings be built at

[26:49] certain heights what we're saying is we would consider what we would allow

[26:52] buildings to be built up to assert yeah investigating right now what it would

[26:58] mean if we were to change our existing zoning

[27:01] code to allow a height increase but I want to make it clear that we're not

[27:07] mandating a height increase if somebody privately owned a building it doesn't

[27:12] mean they have to build up summaries or for stories or at all correct hi

[27:23] everyone bond Olsen from Kim Lee horn and as you

[27:28] know I don't know how much the community knows but we've been working extensively

[27:32] with the tam board and the design working group over long period time

[27:41] since last May really coming up with the proposed action we've had some public

[27:45] sessions or two over this summer or the architect the other team members

[27:49] presented their information which has all been going into this proposed

[27:54] legislation which at this point as everyone has said is is just a proposal

[27:59] to change the zoning and the purpose sabrina put it very well as tonight is

[28:05] to develop the environment the environmental impact statements table of

[28:09] contents decide what's going to be studied what's most important to the

[28:14] board focusing those issues and thankfully the methodologies of how

[28:19] those topics would be studied so this actually is the draft of the code as

[28:27] Sabrina was saying there's a lot of color and pictures and illustrations

[28:32] architectural photos and examples so that's that's really the difference

[28:36] between this and if you went to the town code today and looked at the zoning

[28:41] section it's all words

[28:50] so as has already been identified the proposed action is the amendment of the

[28:58] town of New Castle zoning law proposed the hamlet chapel hand-like business

[29:04] districts only none of the other hand what districts no nothing in Mill wood

[29:08] or anywhere else in town would be changed to a new form based district

[29:12] which is that document is in draft form right now in order to make the zoning

[29:17] consistent with the goals that the town has already come up with in the

[29:20] Comprehensive Plan the second paragraph there just describes the limits of the

[29:26] site which Sabrina already showed you on a map it's approximately 72 acres along

[29:32] Greely Avenue and King Street and the currently zoned retail business retail

[29:38] business parking business design business and planned industrial and the

[29:43] third bullet there really just outlines the comprehensive plan the new zoning

[29:49] district is intended to provide flexibility for development with the

[29:53] intent to revitalize the hamlet and create a sustainable and successful mix

[29:58] of commercial and residential uses taking into account both current and

[30:02] future real estate markets and rents and the other members of the team who not

[30:07] here tonight since I'm primarily the the environmental impact review you know the

[30:12] environmental state sorry secret portion of the project which is just starting

[30:17] now but we've had 40 galas and real estate solutions group and Joel Russell

[30:22] have all participated in these coming up with the draft code that we've come to

[30:27] to analyze in this yes so the proposed action the code itself is it's basically

[30:38] the form base owning which as Sabrina I already said it has a regulating plan

[30:43] and new regulations it has development standards it has

[30:47] architecture standards it has new definitions so that everything is clear

[30:52] and it describes a proposed development review an approval process in order to

[30:59] analyze what the potential in packs of this new zoning would be there

[31:04] has to be some level of build-out arrived at so we will discuss come up

[31:11] with a build-out scenario in order to analyze the various topics this will

[31:17] include the description of the assumptions for the build-out scenario

[31:21] it will include residential commercial retail restaurant and of course via

[31:27] killer pedestrian circulation and parking the whole code will also in the

[31:34] EIS will analyze the open space and natural areas as well as the historic

[31:38] features and community character in Hamlet and also of course the utilities

[31:44] the sanitary sewer the water supply stormwater management the more technical

[31:49] issues but they all have their own limitations and thresholds that have to

[31:54] be abided by and have to be analyzed in any kind of build-out scenario for any

[31:59] new development so the other point we just wanted to describe here is the

[32:10] process here will be a generic environmental impact statement has the G

[32:14] for GE is that just is different from a site-specific as you might have a

[32:21] private development that comes into town and a property owner decides to propose

[32:26] multi-family housing in a parking lot or whatever it is that specific site will

[32:31] be analyzed and in this case it's a more broad focus because it's the zoning and

[32:38] as I said the theoretical build-out which we will have to describe all the

[32:43] assumptions for and that will aid in the lead agency and identifying and broadly

[32:48] analyzing the cumulative impacts of the proposed rezoning the public scoping as

[32:55] husband said is too nice purpose and that's a process by which the issues

[33:01] will be addressed for the draft EIS

[33:08] the purpose of scoping is to narrow the issues and ensure that the draft EIS

[33:12] will be concise accurate and complete it has six primary objectives to focus the

[33:20] draft YES on the potentially significant adverse environmental impacts to

[33:26] eliminate non significant and non relevant issues so in other words every

[33:31] everything that everyone brings up does not have to be studied it really to

[33:37] avoid a volume that's just hundreds of pages and if it's not really relevant to

[33:41] the decision-making process in the end and the balancing of the impacts the

[33:46] scope should really identify what's not significant as well as what is

[33:50] significant it should the scope will identify the extent and the quality of

[33:55] the information needed it will identify a range of reasonable alternatives to be

[34:01] discussed and it will provide an initial identification of mitigation measures

[34:06] that should be proposed and considered and of course it provides the public

[34:10] that the first opportunity to participate in the identification of

[34:14] impacts so this scope I know there's copies available on it on the table over

[34:24] there it's probably 13 or 14 pages long and each of the primary sections the

[34:31] topics are listed here will have subsections for existing conditions

[34:37] potential impacts and mitigation measures so I don't think I need to read

[34:43] them all but as you know some of the most important ones obviously will be

[34:46] zoning visual resources and community character transportation of parking

[34:52] cultural resources which is historic and archaeological community facilities

[34:58] which has fire schools police socioeconomics

[35:05] and number 15 as we said before there are alternatives will be evaluated as

[35:10] well so at this point unless the board wants me to go through any of the

[35:19] specific items that are already in this scope or anything in any more depth we

[35:25] can open it up to public comment but the only other thing that I wanted to

[35:31] mention before we open up to public comment is I thought it might be useful

[35:33] to review the list of agencies to whom this to which this scope was sent so

[35:45] this is also gone out for comment and scoping questions back from the

[35:51] following interested agencies we have the the Planning Board the CBA our DPW

[35:57] the Conservation Board the environmental review board the architectural review

[36:00] board the Newcastle Historical Society the Newcastle recreation department CCSD

[36:06] sivak Chappaqua fire department Westchester County Planning Board

[36:11] Westchester County DPW the New York State Dec Metro North Railroad and the

[36:16] New York State Department of Transportation so I just wanted to

[36:20] we added somebody else I reckon work commission so both sorry both to the

[36:25] wreck Commission as well as to the department so just wanted to reassure

[36:34] folks that in addition to the public comments that we are eliciting here

[36:38] tonight we are also getting professional guidance of expertise from all of those

[36:42] I just mentioned um so we do want to hear from everybody do we have a list of

[36:47] the folks who find in again the purpose of tonight is to try to get relevant

[36:57] questions relevant to the scope that has been drafted if you can you know start

[37:04] by stating your name stating your interest in this coming up with the

[37:08] particular issue upon which you are commenting if you know of how frequently

[37:13] this is to occur how likely this is to occur that's valuable information

[37:18] to take in as well and then if you have in mind things you would like us to

[37:24] study related to that issue or potential mitigation measures you want Bonnie and

[37:30] a team to consider that is all really invaluable information okay we only have

[37:35] three on the list so I know there must be some other books in the audience

[37:38] the first is Warren got Lee anything and happy new year I think I still have some

[37:47] substantial limitations everybody I have first of all I appreciate that amount of

[37:55] work that patent officials have done to this point form base code and I

[38:02] recognize that this endeavor began probably before at least I know this has

[38:09] been coming on for a while then the comments and the inputs that I have are

[38:14] really of two natures one is just sort of the philosophical underpinning of the

[38:19] backdrop to all this and the second are some specific things that I would like

[38:24] to see in the EIS you know the philosophical concerns I have or that

[38:30] you know I heard at the last working session Bob Kirkwood on the Planning

[38:35] Board observed that you know there is tremendous value to public input in the

[38:39] approval process and that the form base code compromises and largely removes

[38:45] that public input and that is something I understand that that's backdrop to all

[38:51] this but I really think that in parallel to this process the Town Board really

[38:55] needs to do a few things to make sure that the public fully understands what

[38:59] that means I know that the public was engaged on the lot of what is in this

[39:06] code about six years ago I got that and I know that there were a lot of things

[39:11] in that report but I don't think it's necessarily clear to residents there as

[39:18] part of this process they may be legislated out of

[39:22] and things they've come to expect in the being a part of in the approval process

[39:26] and I think that that needs to really be explained in a much better way and I

[39:31] have some suggestions as to that in addition to the yes I did not

[39:36] participate in that process so shame on me I didn't participate in that process

[39:40] because frankly it's you know I saw my friends and neighbors were participating

[39:44] and I generally trust them so what their ideas are for downtown but had I

[39:50] recognized at that time that the end point to this would be that the type of

[39:56] public engagement that we were seeing in other controversial projects in our town

[40:01] at that time confer a crossing with potentially in these areas be shut out

[40:06] and then push to in the agency I would've been a lot more vociferous

[40:18] because I basically have six suggestions okay the first suggestion I hand and

[40:22] this goes to the philosophical concerns

[40:27] we're really trying to take comments to

[40:43] the first thing is I think it's very important that this town board in plain

[40:47] English in a concise way in all the ways that you communicate to this town

[40:51] explain to them what exactly section 60 - 80 40 of the current version of the

[40:57] forum base code will mean to their public involvement in the approval

[41:00] process going forward just explain it to people so that they understand and then

[41:05] engage with them to find out is this what you're expecting philosophically I

[41:10] think it's very important that residents understand that before well one is

[41:19] growth inducement okay because basically what you're saying to the public is

[41:24] they're not gonna have much of an input anymore after this document so the

[41:28] question you want us to ask

[41:34] what would that be okay does this create a situation where you're basically

[41:39] giving it cudgel to developers who as long as they conform to this code have

[41:44] shut out public engagement and therefore would have a lot more say in what

[41:49] happens downtown than they currently do and I think a lot of people would care

[41:52] about that okay they don't they want people understand that downtown has to

[41:57] change it I'm one of them but I don't think they want to runaway train and I

[42:00] think what part of the concern here is is that this may open up the door to all

[42:06] inducing all sorts of development downtown to the extent that if somebody

[42:11] if you look at this code the way it's written the current draft if the if you

[42:15] have an issue with the development department yes you can go to the

[42:18] Planning Board but the Planning Board has to consider the objections based

[42:22] upon the criteria than that code which means you're really handcuffed in a way

[42:26] that people don't understand I don't think fully understand and I think that

[42:30] that could change the dynamics of what and some may be some good ways but maybe

[42:36] some bad ways that the public really needs to think about what does that mean

[42:39] public has to understand yeah with respect to the EIS warnings

[42:43] but I think it's important that the public understands that for example it

[42:47] would have sit still in theory the town could make an effort to sell off the

[42:51] parking lot as its own now light industrial and as a matter of right

[42:55] there would be light industrial there certainly there could be a referendum

[42:59] permissible so I think that this protects that town as in one example to

[43:04] not have that area zoned so a future town board can make that

[43:08] light industrial further I think we learned and sometimes enforces

[43:12] misinformation which people like to share about housing projects but I

[43:17] noticed this I'd like to say here involving a statement you know about

[43:22] building heights up you know watch out building heights three stories

[43:25] up King Street but in fact right now we're zone as a matter of right to three

[43:31] excuse what I want to respond to the things you said so what are the pictures

[43:37] that were shown work in one of the districts that was up at the top of King

[43:41] Street all the way up did didn't have they were

[43:43] in purple and those couldn't go up to five stories I mean I frankly had no no

[43:48] only the red area you do make a good point and this is what we talked about

[43:55] at the planning and the purpose of the form based code is to make it easier so

[44:06] that you don't have a ten year development coming in and we can sort of

[44:09] set forth based on our comprehensive plan and input from many of our

[44:15] residents sort of what we want to see going forward but you are Ryan and I

[44:19] think the board is looking at it that there does need to be some sort of input

[44:23] and we talked about that last week so okay can't be confined to whatever this

[44:27] document says I mean that's what I think that's a big concern I would like one

[44:31] other thing in the name three things that I wonder is the working group

[44:35] composition I was a bit surprised to see

[44:46] if you would allow me to finish I would like to finish the working group

[44:50] composition needs to include Realtors from this town residential Realtors and

[44:54] residents who are not town officials not developers and not architects that

[44:59] happen to live in the town you have to include these people at the table going

[45:03] which one of the 15 points in the outline with regards the environmental

[45:07] impact the impact on single-family homes that are in the immediate and

[45:12] surrounding areas I would like to know what the impact is going to be flooding

[45:18] or increasing in a significant way the residential units downtown will be a

[45:23] single-family residence in this town residences in this town in the immediate

[45:27] surrounding areas because I have a concern and those are substance that

[45:31] could be considered as substitute good and they drew could be adversely

[45:35] impacting single-family residential owners if you increase the amount of

[45:39] apartment space that you had downtown and I think that needs to be looked at

[45:43] very carefully I mean the town is still not recover from 2008 real estate crash

[45:48] and to go and then you listen I would like to see livable space

[45:52] down to downtown as well but I'm concerned that if we go too far in there

[45:57] that you're gonna hurt a lot of people who have single-family homes there are

[46:01] many I mean if you look at the developments in the development in

[46:05] Pleasantville where they put units I'm their main street they're very

[46:08] attractive and I can very easily see somebody wanting to be in Pleasantville

[46:11] schools in a nice luxury apartment for 4,000 plus a month and saying I don't

[46:16] have to have everything that a single family home has requires and that's fine

[46:20] for some of it but if you introduce a large number man to that stock I worry

[46:24] that you're gonna hurt the residential market and that really has to be looked

[46:26] at and if you just I'm sorry I'm go off a little bit here but my my

[46:31] understanding and I think I'm correct that chapelcross is gonna have two and

[46:35] three-bedroom Apartments coming and I believe a prior town boards of the

[46:39] townhomes perfect I looked at this issue about whether or not they would compete

[46:43] with single-family homes and and certainly I have not come to the point

[46:48] where we have a development downtown to have it in terms of terminus size of an

[46:52] apartment but I think it's a reasonable question to say well a two-bedroom

[46:56] apartment compete with a 4-bedroom home probably different person you're seeking

[46:59] in terms of buying that put a reasonable question but we want to create something

[47:03] that doesn't exist because one of the issues that I brought up repeatedly in

[47:11] fact with the Planning Board and Crossing is just that issue about how

[47:19] bedroom townhouse is in effect a single-family home so yeah I do think

[47:30] that a four five family but pardon me a four or five person families I'll only

[47:35] need a two-bedroom apartment but go ahead um just before you go along those

[47:40] same points when we are looking at that I don't know if it's part of the scope

[47:44] but could we also look at potential taxation methods so for instance a

[47:49] chapel crossing we just we made the decision the town board to tax

[47:52] everything fees simple so that it would be taxed the same as a regular home um

[47:58] so maybe that's something we can look at it

[48:01] same time to potentially minimize any impacts as well and also what we're

[48:05] talking about tax impact that I would like to know we get an answer from the

[48:09] town board at some point what do we expect the guy I assume that some of

[48:13] this is being done for a tax benefit for residents because residents are

[48:16] complaining about the tax burden I would like to understand you know what type of

[48:21] you know tax burden reliever in the quantifiable way are we expecting for

[48:25] residents in the best case scenario medium case scenario worst-case scenario

[48:29] and finally if you could just give us some comparables of where a forum based

[48:34] code like this has actually weren't in a simple similarly situated town so we

[48:39] could have some sense as to whether or not this type of concept even works I

[48:43] know you are not happy that everything did not need to fit into the yeah yes

[48:48] here but you know and I think these are all legitimate concerns of the community

[48:52] I just I think you do know I will submit to

[49:10] Maariv and Lee my basic concern is I live at the top of the hill and the

[49:21] traffic is horrendous we have a blind curve all of us sit and wait for an

[49:26] eternity I have to go around my block to go home I won't stop to make a left onto

[49:32] my street just tell everything really complain which is right after castle so

[49:40] the traffic is definitely concerned I hope there's a very comprehensive study

[49:45] being done on that I hope that Falls it's one of us thinks that's not only

[49:50] amount of cars speed is important too and the other thing is

[49:58] Natural Resources up the hill we have a lot of trees and the rainfall goes like

[50:04] right down the hill what's going to happen well if those get removed for

[50:09] like a large-scale development and what else you're not at your point of

[50:23] mitigation for because you're involving neighborhoods adjacent to it like the

[50:31] dentist how cute is that building like can we think of it property by property

[50:36] and not you know it's not stories but like density like it could each property

[50:43] be remodeled or not like when we see the picture of this giant development of the

[50:50] hill everyone gets really scared so I guess that's all I have to say right now

[50:56] oh I also I can't understand the type of building from yet but will that come

[51:02] later like are they condos or the apartments I'm not really sure of that

[51:09] later on the process that that could be explained is it so I don't know what

[51:14] here I really can't figure it out so if you look at the draft code just yet to

[51:19] put your mind at ease yeah the intent is not to have one giant like mega building

[51:27] there are different setbacks there are different architectural standards

[51:31] there's a lot in there so that it would look we we wouldn't want everything to

[51:36] look the same we the charm is to have things look

[51:39] different and again it's not the Town Board that would mandate how something

[51:44] we built it's giving kind of guidelines and then an individual developer of

[51:48] their own property could come in and then at least have guidelines to use

[51:52] okay okay Dan prison escapes prison in ski

[52:03] let's pronounce your name rhymes with Disney print is new dance Richard

[52:17] Charles I had a question about how this would be affecting the firehouse the

[52:24] existing firehouse and the planning to build an additional firehouse based on a

[52:30] bonding bond issue that would be coming up because I noticed that the property

[52:36] is involved have you you know have you thought about it what how does that

[52:42] affect a bond issue how does that affect the building another quick comment if I

[52:50] were a landlord or if I owned the property and I had the option of going

[52:55] to or for floors there's no question that I would go for

[52:59] floors if I'm interested in making a profit etc so as I understand it's not

[53:06] mandated but I do think people will go go as high as they can if you will and

[53:13] it just I don't understand on a different subject how going as high as

[53:20] five storeys I was opposite Starbucks today and I looked at the real estate

[53:27] building and it's two stories and I just doubled it and I could see how big that

[53:32] was going to be then I 2 and a half times went up and I know that's not a

[53:39] own place but wow that's that's a tall building and I just don't understand how

[53:45] that preserves the the bucolic residential character of of chapter 4

[53:50] and I do hope we'll have a chance to comment on a scope outside of this go

[53:55] thanks very much thank you I just wanted to mention to you Dan I just in regard

[54:04] to your question about fire protection and

[54:07] and the impacts of the code is actually

[54:21] but it is the section that has to deal with community facilities and services

[54:28] [Music] okay Victoria um so thank you so much

[54:39] for honest I do really want to echo Warren's comment about community

[54:47] awareness about this my sense is as important as this is a

[54:52] lot of people semantically in other words it's not capturing the attention

[54:57] of the community and I know it's hard to do that in general on any topic I don't

[55:03] know what verbiage we can use you can kind of contemplate to get it out there

[55:07] in a way that people realize just how important it is or maybe even you know I

[55:12] know when we did a comprehensive plan it was like kind of marketed in a way that

[55:15] people you know paid attention and came downtown and it wasn't necessarily

[55:19] connected to a town board meeting so I'm hoping I know you're on a deadline in

[55:24] terms of the February date for the scoping piece but I do wonder if and I'd

[55:29] hate to rewind and I'm gonna go to this very specifically soon but I do wonder

[55:34] if there's an opportunity to market it a little bit differently earlier than

[55:39] sooner than later just to get people even understanding the step before this

[55:43] of how this came to be and what it means and the implications and them to kind of

[55:48] figure out a way to get as much input as you can starting now on this piece of

[55:52] moving forward I don't have any magical words around that but I do you know even

[55:57] for me I will say that you know I've seen this

[55:59] up you know I finally sat down and I finally got what it actually means and

[56:04] you know and I've talked to a lot of people and I just think it's it's not

[56:08] getting on people's radar so whatever you can do to kind of think about how to

[56:13] make that communication happen people engage would be wonderful I am a

[56:20] little bit just in general concern about this as a number of us are I think in

[56:26] terms of wanting to retain that Hamlet and you know make this a unique

[56:30] community you know you know all of you are trying to do the best work on this

[56:34] possible that the piece around the scoping and some of this is a question

[56:38] some of it is a comment I'm wondering you know I'm looking at I printed out

[56:42] the documents associated with tonight's meeting and the full environmental

[56:47] assessment form that connects to the scoping draft is that an editable piece

[56:52] in other words is this in the official form or do we have any ability at this

[56:59] point the fullest the environmental assessment form and you guys can jump in

[57:05] because you're the expert but since the Town Board sort of took the actions like

[57:10] we took two weeks ago I'll try my hand on it and you guys can correct me um the

[57:15] environmental assessment form is essentially a threshold it is

[57:19] questionnaire that helps the Town Board to determine whether to issue a positive

[57:24] or negative declaration with regard to whether there are potentially adverse

[57:27] environmental impacts resulting from

[57:33] past year and so having completed that questionnaire having found it to be a

[57:40] positive declaration we're now moving on to the environmental impact assessment

[57:46] which will be a broader and much more intensive look at those issues that were

[57:52] identified in the yeah every now and then you get one right so thank you for

[58:01] and does that mean that this form at the 13 page form is final as it is written

[58:08] now okay um so I guess what I'm going to say in the context of where we are today

[58:13] I'm going to mention a few things that stood out for me on that form even

[58:18] though it's not editable but that connect to these variables to put

[58:21] certain things on the radar am I in remember the conservation board

[58:24] I haven't yet heard about this through the conservation board but I know we're

[58:28] meeting next week so hopefully we could pull something together and share with

[58:30] you so I'm really here tonight as an individual but I do have a lot of

[58:34] environmental pieces on my radar so there are certain pieces in this form

[58:39] that is already finalized but that don't necessarily go as deep and wide as I

[58:44] would hope they would and I think some of those connect to the draft document

[58:49] scoping document page 7 3c kind of vegetation and Wildlife assisting

[58:58] conditions wetlands and watercourses so I'm gonna frame my suggestions comments

[59:04] around those so on the actual form this is a very traditional format I've seen

[59:11] similar versions that talked about is there you know when you think about any

[59:17] wildlife you know I know we're talking about downtown but we you know our

[59:21] downtown is in woods you know as Mara was saying I mean there are trees around

[59:25] and there is habitat I think a lot of folks you know we did replant a lot of

[59:29] native trees but there is even habitat downtown that we lost a lot of women

[59:34] took down a lot of the trees so my sense is in on page 5 of the original form or

[59:42] it talks about you know anything that affects wetlands you know I would like

[59:46] us to do as much as possible when we're talking about natural resources in terms

[59:52] of is this a habitat there's a piece as well on this form that talks about are

[59:57] any endangered species impacted I know on conservation board I'll just fix that

[1:00:03] for a moment we have been talking in Dennis Crowley has actually brought this

[1:00:07] up a lot who's the environmental coordinator that when we look at

[1:00:10] environmental considerations we don't only want to look at you know what's an

[1:00:15] existing nesting habitat but what's a potential nesting habitat so do we have

[1:00:19] you know as wildlife and birds etc are searching more and more for habitat

[1:00:24] because so much is being taken away do we want to be sensitive to not just

[1:00:28] what's an existing the tab for endangered species but

[1:00:31] what's potential habitat that would be lost if we took down that's where I

[1:00:35] wanted to also point out the four mentions wetlands and I know there are

[1:00:38] state regulations around wetlands and that's great one thing and I put weaken

[1:00:42] correct me if I'm wrong on this they believe that verbal pools are not

[1:00:46] protected under state while those are kind of those bodies of water that are

[1:00:51] basically like divots in the ground that when the springtime comes and they fill

[1:00:56] with water the snow melts you suddenly have a pool and in that pool of water

[1:01:01] you have a lot of life happening you have a lot of frogs laying eggs you have

[1:01:05] a lot of reproduction happening and then after the reproduction happens it's

[1:01:09] fascinating actually the water dries up and so it's a moment in time that you

[1:01:13] have this body of water it's called a vernal pool because it's spring and

[1:01:16] those are critically important for certain species that can't lay eggs

[1:01:20] unless they have that habitat unfortunately I don't believe that's

[1:01:24] protected by the state so I would ask you to and work if we have the capacity

[1:01:27] legally to go beyond that to kind of add in vernal pools I don't know if there

[1:01:32] are any near downtown but they pop up in places you'd never know

[1:01:35] and right now developers don't have to focus on those so if there's any way to

[1:01:39] specifically enumerate that we might be protecting some creatures that are very

[1:01:43] vulnerable sorry you know what also super helpful

[1:01:46] um because I know we sent this to the conservation board is one of our

[1:01:50] interested agencies so if you with the whole board oh yeah they're Monday not

[1:01:55] many send us you know a list of all the other things you want to look absolutely

[1:02:00] yeah and I'm hoping we'll do that soon with you thank you and the other pieces

[1:02:05] wetlands always does get addressed here another thing that's to put on the radar

[1:02:10] is woodlands you know woodlands interestingly aren't really regulated

[1:02:14] and as we think about climate change and the importance that that our trees

[1:02:19] playing erosion control etc like Mary was saying you know the trees up there

[1:02:23] we want them to kind of hold hold the water instead of it all tripping

[1:02:27] downtown I mean there are some interesting considerations around wet

[1:02:30] woodlands protection in addition to wetlands protection and along those

[1:02:35] lines be interesting to see the words climate

[1:02:38] change specifically enumerated somewhere like you know we do have air pollution

[1:02:41] and you know it does kind of mention pieces that we traditionally as

[1:02:45] environmentally conscious people think about but now that we're in this state

[1:02:49] of really this you know increased concern around climate change I wonder

[1:02:53] if there's any language you know I almost thought to myself

[1:02:56] should it be specifically enumerated on this piece or where you know well

[1:03:00] everyone applying need to kind of respond to you know what are the climate

[1:03:04] change implications and again I haven't thought this through enough to know

[1:03:07] exactly what those would be and to what kind of amendments already

[1:03:10] being considered but it seems like a timely something to think about so thank

[1:03:15] you thank you

[1:03:21] Chuck Napoli

[1:03:31] congratulations I've put up there less why sorry I missed some new ears on the

[1:03:35] board I hope they listen really good um Chuck Napoli is my name I've been here a

[1:03:41] long time been at this mic a lot of times and boy I would love to have to

[1:03:46] Victoria my design team well I mean surely we've come up with some real good

[1:03:51] stuff even if there were developers involved and even there were lawyers

[1:03:55] involved and even if there were planners involved I'm sure adding some of that

[1:04:00] stuff to any design and but I'm gonna focus on three and three only because

[1:04:05] I'm looking at the character of the coded area that we're working on and um

[1:04:12] I'd like to ask Donnie a question and it is as part of the consultant for this

[1:04:19] town and for this coding I want to read the specific these interviews I have you

[1:04:28] know there's gotta be stakeholders involved and I think a lot of people

[1:04:32] have been talking about meeting stakeholder input and at this point I

[1:04:37] want to know if if you've included groups and individuals included elected

[1:04:43] officials which I know you have nonprofit organizations I'm not sure you

[1:04:47] have and leaders of those organizations property owners I don't know if you've

[1:04:53] included them neighborhood representatives I wasn't asked local

[1:04:59] design professionals developers business organizations and municipal staff I know

[1:05:04] staff has been involved but what I'm really getting at here is that have you

[1:05:09] taken on an initial review and analysis with all of the stakeholders and all of

[1:05:14] those people to begin the direction that leads us to this list and so I don't

[1:05:21] know have you have you spoken to your scope is that part of school in the in

[1:05:32] the beginning of this process we worked with the

[1:05:36] Design Review Committee and also with the Tampa Ward and there were various

[1:05:41] members that committee that Sabrina helped put together was not just elected

[1:05:46] officials it was also there are a couple of you know there's representatives from

[1:05:50] the Planning Board there's representatives from the development

[1:05:52] community but to answer your other question when we first started this

[1:05:57] process we did have a series of interviews with DPW with a Historical

[1:06:02] Society with various groups there were a couple of days of interviews just to

[1:06:10] start out to get initial input but at this point we're at the most of the

[1:06:16] other members or folks that you mentioned would be really considered

[1:06:21] members of the public and I think they would you know we have a very broad list

[1:06:24] that the supervisor listed already of interested agencies plus the public is

[1:06:31] one so all of these topics you know when we talk about keeping new facilities

[1:06:37] we're gonna have to write to the fire department and go meet with them and I

[1:06:40] know Stern about their issues and with the schools and so forth so

[1:06:45] that's how we gather our information is by meeting with folks oh okay good so in

[1:06:50] in my business that would be sort of program the beginning of a program but

[1:06:54] but also that's the first step in and in the next the next step would be the

[1:06:59] public design process which I I don't I think the public design process is

[1:07:05] number three the visual resources and community character that has to come I

[1:07:11] think from from the public and all stakeholders involved which I'm not sure

[1:07:17] that component has been set up yet and and the reason I say that is that oh I'm

[1:07:26] reading I'm reading the qualifications for consultants to build the form based

[1:07:30] codes and part of their job is to describe a public to describe a public

[1:07:37] process for generating the detailed physical plan that underlines a

[1:07:42] form-based code I've seen a plan but I don't know where that came from because

[1:07:48] I don't think it came all of the people you wrote letters to

[1:07:52] you wrote letters to all the people to tell them where we are

[1:07:56] but you haven't requested their participation so in some circumstances

[1:08:02] this step will already have been completed and like and I think that's

[1:08:05] where we are that the step for designing has been completed and the code word can

[1:08:11] begin without a full step of a new planning Charette however in most cases

[1:08:17] this critical step of planning must be taken undertaken first and I think we're

[1:08:24] at the stage now of hopefully second or third number three planning or visual

[1:08:30] resources in our community character I think we put the horse before the cart

[1:08:35] the cart before the horse that's what is the cart before the horse so I'm looking

[1:08:41] for a a I'm look for this board to to make some requests of this community to

[1:08:50] all get together and start looking at how we want it to be downtown what were

[1:08:56] uncomfortable with or what we're comfortable with and then based on that

[1:09:02] batch of information those that program we then write a code around that or

[1:09:09] continue the process I believe Sabrina we had certainly two public outreach

[1:09:17] sessions if not more we had that I'm still have talked my head every session

[1:09:21] is public we had a meeting if that's a red term and here in the and here where

[1:09:26] we laid out physically as much as we could yeah right so many many and I

[1:09:43] think actually I mean I'd like Sabrina I'd like you to describe the process

[1:09:47] that took place before we started working that we were able to provide to

[1:09:54] our consultants based on may I interrupt for just a minute because I know what

[1:09:59] you're gonna say we had the comprehensive plan we

[1:10:02] all those public engagement meetings and we came up with and this was the pace

[1:10:07] university assisting us in creating a comprehensive plan which is that did get

[1:10:13] adopted after a while and most importantly at that comprehensive plan

[1:10:19] presentation review we had four separate options that the people talked about and

[1:10:28] had we're looking at various options of the amount of development that people

[1:10:33] agreed on that they wanted a sound they were looking at options and we had four

[1:10:38] options and we even have an option from Norwood and that's based on all of the

[1:10:44] public input no problem but not once did we all sit down together and come up

[1:10:48] with option number five six or seven somebody has come up with option number

[1:10:53] six right now and it's called the forum based code and this is the basis of the

[1:10:57] formation code I'm just saying I don't know if we had enough public input nor

[1:11:01] do we have enough option thinking with people of the community where we can

[1:11:06] include the wetlands people we can include residents we can include a lot

[1:11:12] more people designing is found ourselves not relying on somebody else right I'm

[1:11:17] finished and I listen so what do you want me to tell me were you gonna say so

[1:11:24] I I just I think it's important for folks to understand I mean Chuck you

[1:11:28] 100% right during from 2014 between 2014 and 2017 the town working with pace land

[1:11:37] use Law Center did extensive outreach to the community and all sorts of forms

[1:11:42] whether it was public meetings afternoon meetings evening meetings emailed work

[1:11:47] groups you know Saturday morning sessions high school lunch you name it

[1:11:53] we did it we went to groups meetings we went to the business community we you

[1:11:57] know we we tried to get people's opinions till the cows came home if you

[1:12:02] will and that is how we formed the comprehensive plan which includes

[1:12:06] recommendation and in which the Community Supported

[1:12:11] which said we are single-family neighborhoods alone put development

[1:12:17] where development can go in relation to infrastructure maintain the bucolic

[1:12:23] character of our community enhance our train station revitalize our Hamlet's

[1:12:29] these were all of the policies and they run the gamut all the way to

[1:12:32] environmental protection so the the action items in relation to those

[1:12:38] policies said look at rezoning the Chappaqua hamlet to meet the needs of

[1:12:43] the Comprehensive Plan this is that look at rezoning the traffic or Hamlet to

[1:12:49] meet the needs of the Comprehensive Plan got it my only comment is is that not

[1:12:53] enough people are looking at it that's all and not enough stakeholders and

[1:12:59] other important groups are not talking together they're getting letters but

[1:13:04] they're not sitting in the room talking together

[1:13:06] give me a weekend with 10 tables and a bunch of people and see what we come up

[1:13:10] with thanks I would request to you which is that you know if you can please

[1:13:18] review the draft scope it's about the draft code that's out there and think

[1:13:24] about the questions that we need to include in our scope in order to be more

[1:13:31] professional view as well as your view as a resident community member would be

[1:13:36] incredibly valuable to us well thank you very much but again the the end the end

[1:13:41] result would be hey if I saw a bunch of people sitting around on a Saturday

[1:13:44] afternoon working out how we want our town to be I'd be really happy and

[1:13:49] facilitated by an expert

[1:14:00] let me get through the two folks who did sign up on the list of men so we have

[1:14:05] Laurie Morton hi so I have a few questions that I think are relevant to

[1:14:17] this document but I don't fully understand the scope of everything that

[1:14:20] needs to go into this so I apologize in advance if I'm referring to elements of

[1:14:25] policy change that doesn't exactly apply so certainly one of the things that I

[1:14:31] think could be quite important is assessment of quality of life disruption

[1:14:36] during the construction of new projects and in particular adjacent residents

[1:14:44] I'm a small business viability during periods of construction and and also

[1:14:51] public use right can you know functional commuting to the train station and

[1:14:55] throughtout that not sure if that is conceived in this planner if this is

[1:15:02] about the end product or getting there then then some other I think concerns of

[1:15:10] interest for this particular area is the total area of impervious surface not

[1:15:16] just from the perspective of stormwater runoff but having lived adjacent to

[1:15:23] downtown and had my house flooded on multiple occasions it's flooding

[1:15:29] sensitive area for sure but also just limiting waterway contamination that is

[1:15:33] a product of runoff impervious service and I think also we setting the goals

[1:15:41] high enough in the sense that we now have acres of pavement downtown and can

[1:15:48] we do better than that right so not only like how does this prevent potentially

[1:15:53] limit the increase of impervious surface but could we actually decrease from

[1:15:57] where we are right now and related to that I think also thinking about raising

[1:16:02] the bar for increasing green space downtown can these things be

[1:16:05] achieved seems feasible I said as I said given that we have acres of pavement

[1:16:12] does this include energy efficiency guidelines into the building guidelines

[1:16:19] so as an addition to shape and form and style do we have criteria for for energy

[1:16:27] efficiency and then and then also how does the impact of hormuz code support

[1:16:34] the viability of small business downtown both existing small businesses that may

[1:16:40] not privileged to the new construction space and of course attracting new

[1:16:45] viable small business some of the things are in there and for example the

[1:16:49] environmental issues you raised are built in to the poor mix code we can

[1:16:54] serve a look at those and obviously expand and we can but yes those are big

[1:16:58] issues that that are not ignored thanks to what you said is we should be looking

[1:17:04] at our building codes in general to go and create greener building codes which

[1:17:08] which absolutely will tie into what we what we wind up approving at some point

[1:17:13] in time but it will all come together

[1:17:19] Sabrina - to Laurie's point can we put something in the code that would

[1:17:27] restrict the amount of acreage that can be developed at any given time so for

[1:17:34] instance if everybody in town decided they were gonna redo their building at

[1:17:38] the same time obviously that would be a disaster so is there something we can

[1:17:45] put in it with limit the amount of construction that

[1:17:48] at any given time I tried it it's a lawyer it's on page 22 also page 13 of

[1:18:07] the actual page 22 of our send out but effects in use of the conservation of

[1:18:13] energy resources one of the things that identify and describe the general types

[1:18:16] amounts of sources of energy for the project and any measures to be

[1:18:20] incorporated you to reduce energy demands and then I read D which is

[1:18:24] irreversible and irretrievable commitment of resources and identify any

[1:18:28] natural resources that would be consumed converted or made unavailable for future

[1:18:31] use by the proposed action so just off the top of my head these are some of the

[1:18:35] things that you address that are built in to protect

[1:18:44] good evening guys Mike Weinberg I live on the west side of town just south of

[1:18:49] the high school I am on the board of the Chappaqua Millwood Board of Chamber of

[1:18:56] Commerce but I am speaking just for myself as wealth by other that's just my

[1:19:01] professional career I do small business consulting so my interest from both the

[1:19:06] chapel had chamber as well as my professional career is more about

[1:19:11] businesses and how we develop the downtown to be sustainable and I've been

[1:19:17] thinking about that on the social Sochi economics section I'm a little confused

[1:19:24] at how we do that since we don't quite know what or are we looking at what

[1:19:30] percentage will be affordable housing what percentage would be okay and and

[1:19:35] also density so if someone wants to build like in other Northern Westchester

[1:19:40] areas are thinking about building micro hotels or micro apartments which would

[1:19:45] have way more people then you would have you built 1,500 square foot a purpose I

[1:19:50] just don't know how that fits into this

[1:19:59] if you can build for example four storeys but you want to have a loft and

[1:20:03] a giant space and also four storeys looks like nine stories and making this

[1:20:07] up and the code would be built to protect from something like that

[1:20:10] happening so in terms of micro housing so they're not familiar off the top of

[1:20:14] my head but that's something we should certainly look at to make sure you can

[1:20:17] other they're a bit were tráfico that that's that's that's part of our

[1:20:20] analysis here is is to look at traffic look at pedestrian flow and circulation

[1:20:24] these are all you know things to consider which directly relates to if

[1:20:28] you squeeze in seven as opposed to what should be - that's what I'm asking is

[1:20:32] how you how you calculate the traffic because if someone built a micro

[1:20:36] apartment then there's 15 people versus three that's gonna dramatically change

[1:20:42] the parking I mean I've seen those kind of developments in Northern Westchester

[1:20:46] just something to think about I'm not pro we're currently just so idea it so I

[1:20:54] assume the EIS then assume a maximum build-out to figure out these

[1:21:00] things as opposed to a minimum so okay assume that but I wasn't sure and then

[1:21:06] back to that question I kind of asked the other day about this mix how we keep

[1:21:11] a sustainable downtown to prevent owners Builders decide destined best and

[1:21:20] maximum use for their money is to build up our offices and we end up with a

[1:21:25] whole downtown of just offices and we don't have a usable downtown for to

[1:21:31] build restaurants retail stores nail salons grease we don't have any of those

[1:21:39] so just again I'm not quite sure I wouldn't want to code that would somehow

[1:21:47] allow the owners to only have offices or only have apartments or only have

[1:21:53] something um you know so that's what I was thinking about that response rate

[1:22:02] the market with offices it's simply not gonna work but it's interesting to know

[1:22:06] it as well I know there's a one building owner

[1:22:08] downtown at least to whether or not he is the opportunity to potentially call

[1:22:11] right now it is not interested in that so you might be surprised that everyone

[1:22:16] is looking and may not be feasible or viable in a particular lot so it's gonna

[1:22:20] need you know a combination of people together get together so you know what

[1:22:25] does the market bear what does the person of the means to do there's a lot

[1:22:29] of factors going in right but it adjusts the price of that building because that

[1:22:33] building if you I want to buy a little lot to build a two-story office building

[1:22:37] but it's zone for a 12-story office I'm not going to afford it because the the

[1:22:41] owner is gonna praise it to thee for a developer within the code it's very

[1:22:48] limited but there are certain areas where retail is required on the ground

[1:22:52] floor and that is to try to maintain at least some retail presence such that it

[1:22:57] doesn't become all office or all residential and so I guess the question

[1:23:00] then just be for us to ensure that that's the

[1:23:03] right balance that we've we've got it right in terms of market demand and the

[1:23:09] real estate right and it's been changed it is restaurants considered service or

[1:23:15] restaurant considered retail okay I would assume that I'd never assume

[1:23:21] things like that one last piece of that you know there's there is parking

[1:23:27] requirements that are going to limit what people can do sure and then we can

[1:23:32] consider a minimum the maximum size units I mean these are things I can be

[1:23:37] examined one would assume right here's something to think about my travels I

[1:23:41] see different developers different thing people doing different things so I think

[1:23:49] my scribble notes I'm sure we'll be doing this again thank you my name's

[1:24:08] Kelly on the president of King Street homeowners association and number one

[1:24:15] we've lived through the rebuilding of the downtown I think it's a great job

[1:24:19] but I do understand that we have to do more but I have a real concern for our

[1:24:23] complex I don't know if anybody's really come down and talked to a lot of people

[1:24:28] who live close to downtown we live

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[1:24:40] so I live as close to downtown I think it's anybody mr. moon does and I have

[1:24:45] some real concerns it's gonna be the impact to our nineteen units if in fact

[1:24:52] four-story or five-story units are built up the street what's gonna happen is it

[1:24:57] gonna be how is that going to affect our complex is it going to erode further the

[1:25:02] property that we have what's gonna happen or property value as a major

[1:25:07] concern I have for our 19 units in addition where we live

[1:25:12] I can literally look over and see Rite Aid okay so if you build a four-story

[1:25:21] unit there I'll be looking into somebody's bedroom as well my neighbors

[1:25:26] and that's a huge concern for us so I would hope you would even consider

[1:25:31] reconsider that area and consider it through three stories instead of four

[1:25:36] stories I know they I know it says three or four stories but I would hope that

[1:25:41] you'd reconsider that and use a maximum of three stories but again I think that

[1:25:47] it'd be a great idea if you really do told you some of the people who lived a

[1:25:51] little closer to downtown I've already been through the rebuilding of what's

[1:25:55] going on so far and I would hope you consider that thank you

[1:26:09] that's everybody who signed up so I'm just curious to follow up is there and

[1:26:27] is there any Ridgeline consideration building on what this person just said

[1:26:30] about the visual from their own property are there any considerations of

[1:26:35] Ridgeline I know there have been a number of situations around town in

[1:26:38] general where suddenly someone will take down a lot of trees and then yourself is

[1:26:47] exactly that what is the view and so now that we've taken your address down 149

[1:26:53] Kings Street we can look at what would the sightlines be from those properties

[1:26:59] specifically to give you a sense of what you'd be looking into more or less is

[1:27:05] that does that answer your question yes I just think it's really important and

[1:27:09] to the point a couple of points that were made earlier are you thinking of

[1:27:13] coming up with a proportionality not test but looking at really what the

[1:27:18] ideal proportionality between residential you know I'm housing retail

[1:27:26] etc in other words can we envision I'm just trying to get a sense of how much

[1:27:31] will be preordained versus how much will be in the moment I know this is more of

[1:27:34] a holistic look at the whole town so to the points earlier about how much retail

[1:27:39] there will be are you hoping to come up with an equation around that in other

[1:27:44] words we're aiming for you know 30 percent residential forty percent retail

[1:27:50] any kind of holistic equation around that I made clear about that question I

[1:27:56] don't think we don't have a specific number do we but it's more there's

[1:28:00] certain requirements to make sure that there are retail so that it's not all

[1:28:04] residential but I throw into that equation because nothing really exists

[1:28:10] on an island that there are traffic flow pedestrian flow parking issues that all

[1:28:15] come at the play that would certainly my we used term Pro

[1:28:19] or eight things more difficult it's not in fact prohibit maybe everything in the

[1:28:24] same particular mold moreover the market can only bear so

[1:28:29] much in the bark you know someone mentioned it was all offices for example

[1:28:33] I really said that but you know if it doesn't matter said it but the point

[1:28:36] being it you know is that the market of bear that there was someone gonna sell

[1:28:40] their property develop it into just offices but in terms of the ratio I

[1:28:45] don't put there just specifically asking for center 26% yeah just I just wanted

[1:28:52] to put that out there because you know if we wind up with a really strong

[1:28:54] imbalance is there any turning back or you know how will we along the way if

[1:28:59] suddenly all the applications we're getting from developers or let's use the

[1:29:02] office space for example and we suddenly really headed towards a eighty percent

[1:29:06] all you know how we put the brakes on that and redirect and summers I think

[1:29:09] I'm a flippin lock yourself into something that's not feasible then it

[1:29:13] just can remain just downtown that doesn't thrive and we started this

[1:29:29] process and and encourage people to come into our town and open retail shops and

[1:29:38] open restaurants I mean that I think everybody in this room agrees that

[1:29:43] that's what we're looking for thank you and you know I'm thinking

[1:29:47] about suddenly the vision I'm you know on the extreme side that I'm seeing in

[1:29:52] my own mind is all of this development and businesses buildings and I'm trying

[1:29:58] to connect it with a very specific so cultural resources is there a way you

[1:30:02] know there's been talking the peasant having community speak other community

[1:30:06] centered presence downtown teen centers places for young people to go in other

[1:30:11] words I wonder if there's a way to incentivize developers to come in with

[1:30:15] some connected connective piece for the community you know whether it's on their

[1:30:20] property that would be trees and benches and somewhere you know to kind of have

[1:30:25] people convene or part of their storefront I'm just trying to think

[1:30:28] creatively about not just becoming a town that feels just jam-packed with

[1:30:34] business even though of course we want to incentivize them and have you know

[1:30:37] business downtown but some way to have the community feeling there and I'm not

[1:30:42] quite sure what that looks like but I just wanted to put that out there and I

[1:30:46] think it certainly doesn't look like the way it is now

[1:30:48] meaning not physically in terms of its beauty of the town we needed to thrive

[1:30:52] it's not thriving nearly as much as it could and then you write it as a balance

[1:30:56] how you gonna make it work with environment with lifestyle with with

[1:31:01] keeping the bucolic nature but keeping the status quo at least in my opinion is

[1:31:06] something not gonna work it's just it's it's not gonna work

[1:31:11] so things have to move and have to change and the whole purpose this is to

[1:31:15] engage people and help us come to that bright place so what fair think I mean

[1:31:23] I'm just thinking if we want it almost like how we wanted to how are we going

[1:31:27] to market our town to be different and bring developers here who have a mindset

[1:31:32] that wants it to still be this community small-town feeling and with an eye to

[1:31:37] that I guess you know I'm thinking of you know the different tracks of

[1:31:41] developers who will come if we can articulate something that we're looking

[1:31:45] for in terms of community facilities culturally like I don't

[1:31:50] again know exactly what that is I've never been part of a process like this

[1:31:53] before but it kind of begs the question of how can we siphon in you know

[1:31:58] developers who have an eye to the things that make this community what we want it

[1:32:01] to look like can also be a thriving place this is this is for the has

[1:32:15] anybody gone back to the people who participated in this process in 2014 and

[1:32:21] before and asked them if this is reflective of what every point was I

[1:32:24] mean I suspect we know what those people are maybe there should be some attempt

[1:32:29] to reach out to them to make sure this is reflected

[1:32:42] Janet purse Cantelli and I guess my concern airing Janet where do you live I

[1:32:48] live same place is my husband 149 I [Laughter]

[1:32:55] guess my concern you're listening to the plan is that if every space is maximized

[1:33:08] if every building that can be two or five storeys becomes five and every two

[1:33:14] to four building the level becomes four that it seems like a massive amount of

[1:33:20] construction if we maximize every space so I just hope you would consider

[1:33:27] putting some parameters on some of the maximization of the building size

[1:33:32] because it's hard for me to visualize every maximum you know every building as

[1:33:39] tall as it could possibly be so I just hope that you will take that into

[1:33:43] consideration when you offer space to to developers to please keep that in mind

[1:33:48] thank you and certainly when we're doing this study

[1:33:52] we're actually analyzing it exactly he just said as if everything was developed

[1:33:57] to its maximum capacity how would that impact because it can only be less and

[1:34:03] that raises another issue that I wanted to make clear and some people may have

[1:34:07] actually got an email with false information sent out by somebody

[1:34:11] basically we don't have know any torn book probably any Town Board have the

[1:34:17] authority to say this has to go to a public referendum first you can't kick

[1:34:22] our responsibility it's a permissible referendum so future town board in

[1:34:27] theory could do something this town bird could do something but you have a public

[1:34:29] referendum it's a right so if for example tell me if I'm wrong Nick if we

[1:34:35] wanted to sell the train station which I don't believe it

[1:34:38] something to do but if we wanted to just sell the train station and build out

[1:34:42] maximum five-story buildings as a matter of right in a matter of law the we can't

[1:34:50] just kick that over to town but the town residents whatever right to have a

[1:34:54] referendum which 25 20 30 percent of the voters in the prior election would then

[1:34:59] have to say whether or not so it's important to understand that this can't

[1:35:21] happen just because the town wants it to there has to be public input it doesn't

[1:35:27] go to the public first but the town always has a right to challenge that

[1:35:31] you're just talking about because that's the sort of I think the big ugly that

[1:35:38] people see of where the most of the five-story building potential is would

[1:35:42] be in the trains train station parking lot most of that will be there so that

[1:35:46] that's not necessarily happening and assuming the red is that is in the south

[1:35:52] parking lot the train station and then you'll see the north parking lot and

[1:36:03] behind that just so you know that's actually what conifer is going to be and

[1:36:08] I'm not saying this because you want to block that but just in terms of size

[1:36:11] there's a bridge there and that building will actually be exceed the height of

[1:36:15] that bridge or around the height of that bridge so I think perspective is

[1:36:18] important it's cuz we need people at home can't hear you I'm sorry I'm just a

[1:36:35] question if a referendum is presented to the public then it would be very

[1:36:40] specific as to which buildings and what height would be so healthy I'm sorry to

[1:36:46] be cleared and if you want to take it sure the referendum

[1:36:50] only apply me then that the town decided to sell its property that it owns the

[1:36:55] only question then would be the town board adopts a resolution that has been

[1:37:00] subject to a permissive referendum the question would be should that town sell

[1:37:03] X property for X dollars that's the issue before the public should be a

[1:37:08] public referendum okay thank you yeah so I think I think that's very important to

[1:37:13] understand that and what you may have seen in terms of the maximum build-out

[1:37:17] bylaw tell me if I'm wrong Nick my law we're supposed to and required to share

[1:37:23] with the community what the maximum build-out for locally that doesn't mean

[1:37:27] it would happen that's assuming again for example the town said yeah we want

[1:37:31] you to sell this property and build it out to look like this so I think you

[1:37:38] would as well we sold the parking lot and the town agreed to sell that parking

[1:37:42] lot behind your development and then put up buildings that would just be smack

[1:37:47] into your back window it simply wouldn't be feasible so that's why we're building

[1:37:53] it out because we have to show what could happen and whether it would work

[1:37:56] or wouldn't work so please don't construe that what you see is in fact

[1:38:00] what is going to happen that's important to understand and people should always

[1:38:05] be involved and we want people to be involved and I brought this up before

[1:38:08] where there was some sort of talk about projects up that up on King Street

[1:38:12] three-story building you're entitled now to have three story buildings so even

[1:38:17] with this kind of scary tack to come out come out respectfully to the public

[1:38:22] there's not a lot of people here tonight I mean there's a lot but not tons of

[1:38:25] people so we want people to come and this is what it means to get people here

[1:38:29] to ask the right questions we're happy to do it but it's important to make sure

[1:38:31] to understand what is happening what is not happening

[1:38:35] I just want to rewind for just one second and then I want to hear your

[1:38:38] question just with regard to this this question about what would or would not

[1:38:43] be subject to a public referendum you you made a comment earlier that I just

[1:38:47] wanted to make sure that I I spoke to which is that you said when the town

[1:38:51] offers up these parcels for development right and I think it's important to be

[1:38:57] clear that when we're talking about the properties that are in Jason

[1:39:01] to your home to where you live those are not publicly owned land with the

[1:39:07] exception of the parking lot that's down on North Greely which is publicly owned

[1:39:11] right with the exception of that those are all privately held properties and so

[1:39:15] you know if the private property owner wanted to seek redevelopment of those

[1:39:19] properties right that doesn't come up for a public referendum and so part of

[1:39:23] what we're trying to do tonight is to make sure that in our environmental

[1:39:28] analysis we look at an answer all of the questions that you have that would make

[1:39:35] you feel comfortable than with the result in code so your husband mentioned

[1:39:40] he wants us to take a look at what would the views look like what would the

[1:39:43] sightlines be from your property to the neighboring properties down on North

[1:39:48] Greely if we they were able to build to a four-story height that's a perfect

[1:39:53] example of the kind of question that we want to be able to elicit from the

[1:39:57] public and so you know as you guys are taking this back this evening and you're

[1:40:02] thinking more about it if you have those kinds of specific questions that help

[1:40:06] you to give you the peace of mind and the comfort that what we're talking

[1:40:10] about in terms of rezoning is not going to adversely impact your quality of life

[1:40:16] in the homes that you live in in that neighborhood Maura asked a great

[1:40:20] question about what's gonna happen if the trees are removed and their storm

[1:40:24] water that's flowing towards her property as a result of development that

[1:40:28] happens adjacent to where she lives another great example of the kinds of

[1:40:33] questions that were trying to get from people so again as you go back tonight

[1:40:37] you think more about this and you have the opportunity to look at the code when

[1:40:42] you look at it please help us come up with that specific list of questions and

[1:40:46] you know to be fair we think we've done a pretty good job we've put together an

[1:40:50] outline bonnie is an is an expert and has been working with the downtown

[1:40:53] working group to come up with that outline so we hope and we believe that a

[1:40:57] lot of those questions are going to be addressed in that outline but again we

[1:41:01] want to make sure that we're hearing from all of you because your opinions as

[1:41:05] property owners and as residents and our hamlet are the ones that we absolutely

[1:41:09] need to be able to answer to before we can make any kind of decision

[1:41:34] and so the point that was made just for folks who maybe couldn't hear you was

[1:41:39] just to try to canvass others along North Greely Avenue regarding the

[1:41:43] question of the building height anybody else before we close tonight okay

[1:41:53] certainly so this is a public scoping session so it's not a hearing there's no

[1:41:56] need to close the theory you have indicated that never stated that written

[1:42:01] comments would be received by February 8th so the next step would be to wait

[1:42:05] until February age 2 whatever comments come in after that then the consultant

[1:42:09] and staff was review comments from the public from the board and then present a

[1:42:14] revised draft for the town board's consideration that would be after your

[1:42:17] February 8 date for the close of diversity of public comments um I don't

[1:42:23] know how others feel about this I'm concerned that we haven't gotten all of

[1:42:26] the questions that we may need to get based on this this dialogue just now I

[1:42:32] want to make sure that people feel really comfortable that they've had a

[1:42:35] chance to give us detailed specific questions so important to consider you

[1:42:41] know are the vernal pools going to be going to be included even even better to

[1:42:45] say there's a vernal pool that's located here on this piece of property and we

[1:42:50] want to make sure that you're thinking about so the more specific and detailed

[1:42:54] these questions can be I I'm not comfortable

[1:42:57] I'd like to have another public hearing

[1:43:01] great for our next scoping session with comments accepted until noon on the 14th

[1:43:10] that works for me we'll just need a motion from the board to direct town

[1:43:16] staff to notice a trouble scoping session for February

[1:43:20] and that the date or receipt averting the comments is being extended from

[1:43:23] February 8th to February 14th second thank you everybody for coming

[1:43:34] out you're welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting or you're welcome to go

[1:43:40] have dinner you do have written comments you can

[1:43:44] still send them in and actually it's critically important that we receive

[1:43:51] them in a written format or by email not on social media that puts us into the

[1:43:57] public records family it's Town Board at my Newcastle dot org

[1:44:03] very easy to remember

[1:44:10] fortunately I understand you know that was sent out was from Jim Smith was that

[1:44:21] that the first time that warrants on is Republican Jenny and justice advocates

[1:44:29] was not the first time they hit his emailing hours so that was my point

[1:44:34] nothing in fact it is it read pressed end so unfortunately how to leave

[1:44:55] all right I move to set I'm moved to set a public

[1:45:06] hearing on a local law to include awarding competitively in purchase

[1:45:10] contracts on the basis of best value as an alternative to lowest responsible

[1:45:15] bidder to be held on February 28th 2020 at Newcastle Town Hall at 7:00 p.m. I

[1:45:26] moved to adopt the following minutes January 7 2020 organizational meeting

[1:45:31] January 7 2020 work session and January 14 2020 Town Board meeting certain I

[1:45:42] move to authorize the hiring of marshes sea McCraw for the position of

[1:45:46] recreation attendant within the Recreation and Parks Department at the

[1:45:50] hourly rates over $13 per hour effective February 3rd 2020

[1:45:54] all in favor I moved to authorize increase in hourly rate for the

[1:46:01] following employees to 40 miles per hour on their anniversary dates kathy

[1:46:05] Colavito effective January 1st 2020 and Janet green effective Jenni January

[1:46:10] twenty third twenty twenty second all in favor I'm going to approve the

[1:46:15] embarrassment of New York State Bar Association's conference expensive to

[1:46:18] Joseph here in the amount of $25 second all in favor

[1:46:21] thank you I moved to authorize Albert iku zo Christian gray Brittany and

[1:46:27] leader Donna s burrito and Doug Scott which in the 2020 annual New York State

[1:46:32] recreation park society state conference were able 26:20 2020 in Tarrytown New

[1:46:38] York at a cost of twenty twenty-five dollars for three staff members and 300

[1:46:41] for two staff members for total $1,275 plus lodging for two staff members for

[1:46:46] two nights at the amount of six hundred twenty dollars and mild reimbursements

[1:46:50] of personal

[1:46:54] we accept the resignation of chip rook Shaun in the conservation ward effective

[1:46:59] retroactivity to December 31st 2019 and we also strongly Bank important service

[1:47:04] second all in favor I move to accept the resignation retirement of sergeant

[1:47:11] Raymond Burr beau from the New York Newcastle Police Department effective

[1:47:15] February 24th 2020 the town would like to thank him for his years of dedicated

[1:47:20] service second I moved to authorize issuance of a request for proposals for

[1:47:27] community center roof repairs second I moved to adopt the following resolutions

[1:47:36] this Proclamation declares the week of February 1st 2022 figure-eight 2020 to

[1:47:43] be national gun violence survivor week in Newcastle New York to honor and

[1:47:48] remember all victims and survivors of gun violence and to uplift the resilient

[1:47:53] voices of survivors across the nation whereas every year over 36,000 Americans

[1:47:59] are killed in acts of gun violence and 73 thousand more are shot and wounded

[1:48:03] whereas by early February more Americans are killed with guns that are killed in

[1:48:08] our peer countries in the entire calendar year whereas a gun violence

[1:48:12] survivors anyone who's personally experienced gun

[1:48:14] violence whether you've witnessed an act of gun violence been threatened or

[1:48:18] wounded with a gun or it's someone you know and care for wounded or killed

[1:48:22] whereas forms of gun violence can include but are not limited to guns

[1:48:26] suicides homicides domestic violence involving a gun shootings by law

[1:48:31] enforcement and unintentional shootings whereas 58 percent of American adults or

[1:48:36] someone they care for has experienced gun violence in their lifetime

[1:48:39] demonstrating the reach and impact gun violence has in communities across

[1:48:43] America whereas firearms are the second leading cause of death for children and

[1:48:48] teens and the first leading cause of death for black children and teens in

[1:48:52] America whereas Americans and cities across the nation are working to end the

[1:48:56] senseless violence by advocating for common-sense gun safety legislation

[1:49:00] whereas by commemorating national gun violence survivors week on February 1st

[1:49:06] to February 8th cities across America will raise awareness about gun violence

[1:49:10] and honor the live stolen by gun violence and whereas we renew our

[1:49:15] commitment to reduce gun violence and pledge to do all we can to keep firearms

[1:49:19] out of the wrong hands and to encourage responsible gun ownership to help keep

[1:49:23] our communities safe now therefore be it resolved that Newcastle New York

[1:49:28] declares February 1st to February 8th 2020 to be national gun violence

[1:49:33] survivors we we encourage all citizens to support their communities efforts to

[1:49:37] prevent the tragic effects of gun violence and to honor and value human

[1:49:41] lives thank you that the supervisor being hereby is authorized to execute

[1:49:54] the following petition to the county of Westchester to remove the Saw Mill

[1:49:58] Valley sanitary sewer district the real property located at three colony road

[1:50:04] traffic on new york also identified a section 93.9 - - - 22 on the newcastle

[1:50:10] tax maps and to take or cause to be taken by town staff or any other work

[1:50:16] necessary to implement this resolution the petition of my people as town

[1:50:21] supervisor for the town of Newcastle respectfully submits to the to the

[1:50:26] Westchester Board of County Board of legislators at the town of Newcastle is

[1:50:31] a Municipal Corporation Julie organized and an existing under the laws of the

[1:50:36] state of the New York and located in the county of Westchester in the New York

[1:50:40] State that the town submits this petition requesting that three colony

[1:50:45] Road Chappaqua New York also to identify the section thank you

[1:50:48] Oh point nine - two - 22 on the Newcastle tax maps a single-family

[1:50:52] residence residential property of more than 40,000 square feet property class

[1:50:57] 210 consisting with one point zero six nine acres to be removed from the Samba

[1:51:02] Valley sanitary sewer district the Town Board concluded that this

[1:51:07] property is not receiving services from the Saw Mill Valley super district nor

[1:51:12] is there any likelihood of the properties receiving any such services

[1:51:15] in the future and the property is located more than 100 feet from the

[1:51:18] nearest sewers said property would benefit from its removal from the

[1:51:22] sawmill salmon Valley sanitary sewer district

[1:51:25] therefore the town of Newcastle hereby petitions the county the Westchester

[1:51:30] County Board of legislators pursuant to a resolution duly adopted by the New

[1:51:35] Castle Town Board to remove three colony Road check also identified a section

[1:51:40] 93.9 - - - - on the Newcastle tax maps and to take all steps that may be

[1:51:46] necessary all in favour I moved to authorization of fire New

[1:52:13] York leak detection or twenty $1,950 in accordance with their proposal dated

[1:52:19] January 10 2020 for leak detection services second all in favor aye

[1:52:24] I move to approve submitting a letter of intent to participate in Westchester

[1:52:30] County multi-jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation plan update and agrees to

[1:52:35] meet the minimum requirements of municipal participation second all in

[1:52:40] favor I move to purchase the following list of

[1:52:44] equipment and truck off of the New York State contract for the amounts as listed

[1:52:49] below John Deere compact utility tractor 40 2005

[1:52:54] seven dollars 78 cents John Deere bunker and field 13 thousand three hundred and

[1:52:59] sixty dollars in four cents and frontier pendler spreader five thousand seven

[1:53:03] hundred and twenty three dollars and forty seven okay frontier economy core

[1:53:09] aerator 3038 sends super cab jump body sixty four thousand seven hundred and

[1:53:15] eighteen dollars second all in favor I moved to authorize extending the senior

[1:53:22] nutrition program contract for additional years rebel first twenty

[1:53:25] twenty two martially first twenty twenty two at an increase of no more than the

[1:53:29] Consumer Price Index to continue wellness and nutrition services to the

[1:53:31] town Newcastle residents and current price per meal is five dollars and

[1:53:35] eighty cents second all in favor I moved was issuing a bid for

[1:53:39] replacement of the soldier Johnson one stage vertical turn turbine pump at any

[1:53:43] would pump station second all in favor I moved to authorize the purchase of the

[1:53:57] following vehicles from the buyer Ford is set forth in the resolution second

[1:54:02] all in favor I moved to a point lori morton and catherine o'connor to the

[1:54:08] beautification advisory board for a three-year term effective january twenty

[1:54:12] eighth twenty twenty second all in favor i'm I only want to appoint Catherine

[1:54:19] O'Connor I'm staining with regard to Laura Morton and I want the record to

[1:54:22] show that I applaud her volunteering but I think she has such passion and

[1:54:29] interests and expertise I really feel like they would be better utilized on

[1:54:32] another board another volunteer board so I'm seeing two people serve on multiple

[1:54:42] boards sure so you could both approver for this and also encourage

[1:54:52] and I move to approve additional services from Barton and Logan tcha as

[1:54:58] outlined o juice as outlined them in a letter dated

[1:55:02] December 19th 2019 for the amount of 3,100 $27.50 for additional work

[1:55:09] required for task 8 preparation of construction Medoc mints and past nine

[1:55:14] projects bidding process second I moved to accept the retirement

[1:55:21] of Jacqueline McMahon from the position of assessment clerk at that very

[1:55:24] effective February 28th of 2020 the town would like to thank Jackie for

[1:55:29] 24 years of service the following resolution now therefore be it resolved

[1:55:52] in the town board authorizes the town staff to undertake those steps necessary

[1:55:56] it's a process and a one thousand two one thousand twenty eight dollars and

[1:56:01] one cent tax refund in accordance with the terms of the Foreman's consent

[1:56:07] judgment I moved to approve the change order number three for DeRosa sports

[1:56:15] construction Inc and the amount of eighteen thousand nine hundred fifty

[1:56:19] three dollars and forty three cents for low reinforced concrete retaining wall

[1:56:23] that was required due to field conditions second I moved to approve

[1:56:29] voq change order number 38 to the chapel on infrastructure and streetscape

[1:56:34] improvement project in the amount of twenty eight thousand five hundred and

[1:56:38] twenty six dollars and sixty cents for steel handrail and powder coat finish

[1:56:49] I need a babysitter or we don't I move to adjourn

Town of New Castle Board Meeting 1/28/20

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