by susansiegel4yorktown | Nov 20, 2024
2025 Budget: In two separate actions, the Board voted to exceed the 2025 state tax cap and adopt a 2025 Preliminary Budget that will be subject to a public hearing on December 3rd. The hearing starts at 6:30pm. The Preliminary Budget will increase the “town tax” that...
by susansiegel4yorktown | Nov 20, 2024
Underhill Farms. In a brief appearance, the applicant advised the Board that it would be making the following changes to the site plan approved in 2023. Relocate two townhouse units back to the first building off Underhill Avenue. The approved plan moved the units...
by susansiegel4yorktown | Nov 14, 2024
Solar Law. The Board discussed what possible changes could/should be made to the current law for large scale ground mounted systems, aka solar farms, before the second moratorium ends at the end of March. Much of the discussion focused on whether to continue to...
by susansiegel4yorktown | Nov 6, 2024
Jacob Road Solar: All the speakers at the reconvened Public Informational Hearing spoke in opposition to the plan which they said did not belong in a residential neighborhood. In response to one speaker who asked if the town would profit by the project,...
by susansiegel4yorktown | Oct 23, 2024
Fluoridation. The meeting resulted in the end of fluoridation in Yorktown, at least while the current Board is in office. In a 3-1 vote, the Board adopted the local law that gives the Town Board the authority to decide, by resolution and without holding a public...