AN IMPORTANT LETTER FROM JESSICA DIECKMAN REGARDING CROTON'S URBANIZATION, ETC.

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

To my neighbors of The Village of Croton on Hudson,

I attended the village board meeting on July 24th. There were between 80-100 + people packing this meeting, and everyone was against the proposed zoning change of the 1 Half Moon Bay tire warehouse site from light industrial to residential, to allow for 280 new proposed apartments. People were strongly united against this, as well as the development of Lot A (by the train station), and asked for a moratorium on any new development. The only person who spoke in favor of the rapid and aggressive push for big apartment buildings all over Croton was the President of the Croton Housing Network, clearly a conflict of interest.

Croton residents are very frustrated because we feel that the board and the mayor ignore our concerns with the proposed colossal development projects.

Everyone at the meeting, regardless of political alignments, asked the mayor and trustees to slow down to see how we absorb what is still currently being built. Despite many intelligent arguments and passionate pleas, the board voted to start the rezoning process for the tire warehouse site. I add a special thank you to board member Nora Nicholson for voting no, she should be commended for listening to and sincerely considering residents’ input.

I invite concerned residents to go to board meetings, go to planning board meetings, write letters to the board and The Gazette. These actions can protect our village from greedy developers who don’t have our best interests at heart. This is a serious issue: Our schools, roads, fire, police and other infrastructure can’t smoothly cope with a massive population increase in a short time.

Please consider running for village board, regardless of your party affiliation. Local village politics are what people care about for these important issues. Please contact the village and The League of Women Voters about this if you are interested. Competition is a healthy and necessary thing and Croton is long overdue for it!

I also invite residents to sign two important petitions on change.org:

  1. Move village elections back to March! (TO SIGN THIS PETITION, CLICK HERE)

  2. Stop Croton’s Urbanization now! (TO SIGN THIS PETITION, CLICK HERE)

These petitions can also be found on The Croton Uncensored Facebook page.

Let’s unite our village against runaway development!

Sincerely,
Jessica Dieckman

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