Miscellaneous
Town Board, March 11, 2025
by susansiegel4yorktown | Mar 12, 2025 | Battery storage, Battery Storage, Housing, Jacob Road, solar, Legislation, Sewers, Solar, Town Board, Traffic, Underhill Farm
A busy meeting with lots of proposed new local laws. Snow and sidewalks. To clear up two conflicting sections of the Town Code that regulate when sidewalks have to be cleared of snow, the Board referred out proposed local laws that would: 1)repeal one section of the...
Town Board, March 4, 2025
by susansiegel4yorktown | Mar 5, 2025 | Day Care (Crompond Rd), Pickleball, Town Board, Water
Water rates and meter testing. The Board adopted the local law that was the subject of a public hearing on February 18 that will increase water rates and impose surcharges on water bills if customers do not comply with meter testing requirements. Smoke and vape law....
Town Board, February 18,2025
by susansiegel4yorktown | Feb 19, 2025 | Legislation, Sewers, Town Board, Traffic, Water
Smoke shop/vape law. (See Town Board, January 14, 2025.) The Board opened and closed the hearing but delayed voting to adopt the law until its March 4th meeting as the Board decided to add “senior citizen housing developments and medical buildings” to the list of...
Town Board, February 4, 2025
by susansiegel4yorktown | Feb 5, 2025 | Battery storage, Battery Storage, Finance, Fluoridation, Fluoridation, Legislation, Navajo Fields, Sewers, Town Board, Traffic, Underhill Farm
Battery Storage Facilities (BESS).The Board referred out for comment a draft law that would allow only small scale battery storage facilities: up to a maximum capacity of 80 kWh with limits in 1 and 2 family houses to 40 kWh if the unit was in a utility closet or...
Town Board, January 21, 2025
by susansiegel4yorktown | Jan 22, 2025 | Battery storage, Battery Storage, Developments, Environment, Miscellaneous, Navajo Fields, Solar, Town Board
Solar Law. The Board discussed the pros and cons of six options for amending the current law as it relates to large scale (aka industrial) solar farms: Banning them from all residential districts (allowed in current law) Banning them from commercial districts (not...
Town Board, January 7, 2025
by susansiegel4yorktown | Jan 9, 2025 | Battery storage, Battery Storage, Finance, Legislation, Parks & Rec, Solar, Toll Bros, Town Board, Underhill Farm, Water
Water rates. The Board is proposing a series of changes to the local law governing water rates. The law, which will be subject to a public hearing on February18th, would Raise the base rate for 9,000 gallons to $71.10 from $64.25, Increase of $0.75/1,000 for each...
Town Board, December 17, 2024
by susansiegel4yorktown | Dec 18, 2024 | Developments, Finance, Fluoridation, Fluoridation, Navajo Fields, Parks & Rec, Sewers, Solar, Toll Bros, Town Board, Water
Most of the newsworthy action happened at Courtesy of the Floor when residents raised a variety of issues and Board members responded. Navajo Fields. Three residents expressed concern about the pending developer request to extend the Lake Osceola Overlay District to...
Town Board, November 12, 2024
by susansiegel4yorktown | Nov 14, 2024 | Developments, Environment, Finance, Legislation, Navajo Fields, recycling, Solar, Town Board, Water
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...
Town Board, October 22, 2024
by susansiegel4yorktown | Oct 23, 2024 | Developments, Fluoridation, Fluoridation, Legislation, Miscellaneous, Parks & Rec, Pickleball, Sewers, Solar, Toll Bros, Town Board
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...
Town Board, 10/15/2024
by susansiegel4yorktown | Oct 17, 2024 | Developments, Fluoridation, Fluoridation, Miscellaneous, Parks & Rec, Toll Bros, Town Board, Water
Fluoridation. At three hours, this was the meeting’s “main event.” For background: the public hearing was on a local law that would amend the current law that requires fluoridation. The amendment would repeal that provision, and in its place, adopt new language that...