https://sleepyhollow.localarchives.org/files/original/ae00a4b08c8eff59921220de1aa642b3.pdf cbfbef45ef821d9a8b0d657a137e384b PDF Text Text ° f S l e e P y H 0 , l 0 W h e ' d 3 m e e t i n 9 o n Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at Village Hall, 28 Beekman Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, New York. Present: Mayor Kenneth G. Wray Deputy Mayor Denise Scaglione Thomas Andruss Rachelle Gebler Sam Gonzalez Jared Rodriquez Denise Scaglione, Trustees Absent: Sandra Spiro, Trustees Also Present: Anthony P. Giaccio, Village Administrator Paula A. McCarthy Tompkins, Village Clerk Anthony Bueti, Police Chief Matt Arone, Recreation Superintendent Clinton Smith, Village Counsel "Tonight's Board Meeting is being convened in accordance with the Governor's Executive Order Number 202.1, dated March 13, 2020, which suspends certain provisions of the New York State Open Meetings Law to allow a municipal board to convene a meeting via videoconferencing. In accordance with the Executive Order, the public has been provided with the ability to view tonight's work session and public hearing, and a transcript will be provided later. I have also confirmed with our Village clerk that this meeting has been duly noticed by posting a notice on the Village's bulletin boards faxing a copy to the Warner Library, faxing a copy to the Journal News and the Hudson Independent newspapers, posting a copy on the Village's website, and listing it on the Village's Facebookpage " At 7:00 p.m., Mayor Wray called the meeting to order with a pledge to the flag and a moment of silence for Grace Lowney, 89 years old, of Kendal Way. Our thoughts are with the family and friends. Approval of Minutes: On a motion by Deputy Mayor Scaglione, seconded by Trustee Andruss the minutes of the April 13, 2021 meeting were approved. Motion carried. by T m S t e e Geb,er seconded ? n •? ' by Deputy Mayor Scaglione the minutes of the April 20, 2021 meeting were approved. Motion carried. On a motion by Trustee Andruss, seconded by Deputy Mayor Scaglione the minutes of the May 4, 2021 meeting were approved. Motion carried. �Approval of Warrants; ™ v p 0 H ^ H m T d e b Y T m ^ e e G e b l e r ' S e C O n d e d b y T r u s t e e A n d r u s s t h e warrant was approved and Treasurer DiGiacomo was authorized to pay bills for $365,326.32. M a y o r ' s Announcement-; Hoi^n'sTa ^^ ^^ Wh ° With the G °,d Star Mothers Memorial event at f Z r n t h r * k S i ° t h e / U b , i C W ° r k s S t a f f a n d t h e ^ 0 m e m b e r s o f t h e ^ e department colorguard Anthony Aguirre and Manny Rosario, who brought great respect as they stood at attention during the event. Mayor Wray encourages all to go see the Memorial. This Saturday May 15* the Rivertown Runners Half Marathon will be taking place starting at 9:30 a.m. on Beekman Avenue. Please exercise caution while driving. The Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative will be meeting again starting this Thursday May 13* at 7 pm. If you would like to join in as an observer, please check the village website at www.sleepvhollowny.gov for the zoom information. Trustee Andruss announced this Sunday is the start of National Police Week and this Saturday May 15* is Peace Officers Memorial Day. He encouraged all to take a moment this weekend to say thank the hard working Police Officers. Trustee Andruss thanked Chief Bueti and all our Police Officers for all they do. Department Head R e p o r t s Recreation Superintendent, Matt Arone, reported (see attached report). Public Comments: Mayor Wray opened the meeting to the public for comments and invoked the 3-minute rule. Ann White of Kendal on Hudson thanked Superintendent Arone for all his work. Ms White stated that a small committee is working on getting people to be involved in the Wishinq Wall photo contest in the near future. They will use local businesses to advertise this, and in the hopes to assist them to get business going. Resolutions: R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 - Approve Retainer for Ambulance Building Sub-Division Approve Sale of Surplus Vehicles Approve Rock Da Block Event Approve Retainer for Labor Attorney Approve Engineer for Pedestrian Overpass Inspection Ratify Agreement with Local 456 �R7 - Approve Agreement with a Village Employee R8 - Approve Climate Smart Membership Old Business; the L e a d A g e n c y for the z o n i n g A m e n d m e n t Communications: Communication from M a ^ Van Hoomissen, regarding the zoning study (see attached) Public Comments; Mayor Wray opened the meeting to the public and invoked the 3-minute rule There were no comments at this time. At 7:42pm on a motion by Deputy Mayor Scaglione, seconded by Trustee Andruss the meeting was adjourned. ' Respectfully Submitted, 'aula A. McCarthy Tompkins Village Clerk PM/jb �Dear Mayor and Trustees: The zoning study is proposing several great regulatory improvements for Downtown. Some further enhancements are suggested, below. 1) Residential buildings should be required to provide secure bicycle parking. Two spaces per bedroom. 20% of spaces should be reserved for larger vehicles (e.g. recumbent tricycles used by disabled people cargo bicycles, etc). The spaces need to either be in a locked room of the building or in an enclosure. 2) Commercial establishments need bike parking as well. Street parkinq for customers and secure parking for employees. 3) In downtown locations, adding car parking does not solve the "parkinq problem, it just creates more driving. As Mayor Wray noted, parkinq requirements make the area ugly. They also make things more expensive for everyone and less desirable for builders. Completely eliminatinq car parking requirements is the wise choice. 4) The draft plan proposes doubling the parking requirement for medical offices. Downtown residents are the primary customers for our Downtown medical offices and walk to their appointments. Has Sleepy Hollow surveyed patients to see if they are driving to appointments and demonstrated a need for more parking? Again, requiring more parkinq induces more driving. 5) The zoning study proposes an option for a very small parking requirement reduction for builders who offer public benefits. The reduction listed in the report is far too modest to be a significant incentive. (Each unit would still need 1 parking spot, just lowering the additional spots for each bedroom from 0.5 to 0.25.) 6) Given the damage driving does to Downtown residents, visitors and the planet, reducing parking is a public benefit in itself. 7) The following tools are possible ways to reduce parking demand. They can also be added to the list of public benefit options in the development incentives section: * Public bike parking, especially if enclosed and secure. (Indoor space constraints and stairs make owning a bicycle hard for people living in apartments.) (Examples: https://www.ooneepod.mm/) * Cargo bike share for building tenants and customers. Extra points for having extra capacity for public use. (Example: https://carqoroo.nl/en/) * Car share for building tenants. Extra points for having extra �capacity for public use. * Transit passes for the building's residents and employees Constructing or funding pedestrian and cycling facilities 8) The zoning study proposes incentives for builders in exchange for a builder providing multiple public benefits. In theory, that sounds great; we can get developers to do things for the Village. In practice though, it misses the big picture: practice, Given how expensive rents and taxes are, building more housing and broadening the tax base _IS_ the public benefit. Certainty is crucial for builders. They want clear rules and simple procedures: follow the rules, submit drawings to the Building Department, get approved, build. Quick. Inexpensive. The incentives package, as proposed, is the opposite of that. Durinq the presentation to the Board of Trustees on May 4th, the consultant explained it would be a "special permit" process, with each applicant needing to go before the Board of Trustees. And it would be is completely discretionary, in which the Board could tell a builder: "you've met the criteria, but we don't think this is worth everything that's in here, and we think it's appropriate to only allow some of the bonuses and not others." - httDs://vimen.rnm/^452851Qfi#f=lfim^4c That means a bunch of meetings, back and forth, redesigns and lawyers And after all that effort, there's the potential that the proposal still gets rejected. Not only is the process itself costly, the risk involved means banks charge higher interest rates to the builders. Remind us again, where's the public benefit in all that? There are several worthy public objectives listed in the incentives proposal. The most important ones should be put in the zoning law and made mandatory for all projects. Again: follow the rules, submit drawings to the Building Department, get approved, build. 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