Another Open Letter To Greenburgh’s Municipal Government
To the Editor: Readers of Black Westchester alerted me this week to Mechelle Brown’s open letter to members of the Greenburgh Town Board, which was posted in your July 25, 2022, edition, and encouraged me to share my own perspective. Ms. Brown criticizes board members for failing to adopt a law requiring that a minimum number of affordable houses be built in every new single family home development, noting in particular that the Town Board recently approved a 113-lot subdivision of million dollar homes on the site of the former Elmwood Country Club on Dobbs Ferry Road — without requiring a single one to be designated as “affordable.” In March of this year, I appeared at a public hearing on that project and formally called upon town board members to enact such a law for this and all other single family home subdivisions throughout the 19 square miles of unincorporated Greenburgh. Thirty-year incumbent Town Supervisor Paul Feiner announced he supported the idea, and the town’s planning commissioner said he would have a draft law prepared for the board to review within two months’ time. Then nothing happened. Three months later, in June, I appeared again before the town board to [...]
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To the Editor: Readers of Black Westchester alerted me this week to Mechelle Brown’s open letter to members of the Greenburgh Town Board, which was posted in your July 25, 2022, edition, and encouraged me to share my own perspective. Ms. Brown criticizes board members for failing to adopt a law requiring that a minimum number of affordable houses be built in every new single family home development, noting in particular that the Town Board recently approved a 113-lot subdivision of million dollar homes on the site of the former Elmwood Country Club on Dobbs Ferry Road — without requiring a single one to be designated as “affordable.” In March of this year, I appeared at a public hearing on that project and formally called upon town board members to enact such a law for this and all other single family home subdivisions throughout the 19 square miles of unincorporated Greenburgh. Thirty-year incumbent Town Supervisor Paul Feiner announced he supported the idea, and the town’s planning commissioner said he would have a draft law prepared for the board to review within two months’ time. Then nothing happened. Three months later, in June, I appeared again before the town board to [...]
