Yorktown in Action, Week of Jan 9-13, 2012

Town Board work session, January 10, 2012

Town Board work sessions, which are not televised, are the best way to learn about what issues are currently on the front burner for our elected officials. Tuesday’s meeting, the first work session for the new board, was no exception – even though, at the last minute, several items were taken off the “open session” portion of the meeting and discussed in “closed session.” 

 Some of the more interesting “open session” discussions were:

• Whether to grant a temporary certificate of occupancy to the
• Should the town allow the owner of a condo unit, purchased in 1991 for $103,000 as part of the town’s affordable housing program reap a windfall of $300,000 on the sale of his unit?
• Are building permit renewal fees excessive?
• New procedures for filing FOIL (Freedom of Information) requests
• on Underhill Avenue

Planning Board meeting, January 9, 2012

Coming soon to Yorktown: Trail Side Café, an ice cream parlor at the corner of Commerce and Kear Streets. That was one of the two items discussed during the brief televised portion of Monday’s Planning Board meeting.

Discussed during the untelevised work session portion of the meeting were:

• An update on the DEIS (Draft Environmental Impact Statement) for the Costco project
• Responses to environmental and traffic concerns for the new Volkswagen building on Route 6
• Parking and garbage issues for Augie’s Prime Cut restaurant on Lexington Ave.
• A new day care center at the

For detailed summaries of both meetings, or to read about specific agenda items, check out www.ciyinfo.org, the website hosted by Citizens for an Informed Yorktown, a grassroots organization founded in 2008 whose mission it is to inform Yorktown residents about what’s happening in our town.