Friday, August 17, 2007

17 units of housing to be built on knollwood road

17 units of housing are being built on Knollwood Road (near the library). 2 of the units will be affordable. The application to build the homes was submitted in 2000 (zoning changes requested). The Planning Board granted approval for Princewood development to build the homes on October 4, 2006.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent. New tax revenue for Greenburgh Central Schools, and hopefully new students to boost the declining enrollments. Great location for public transportation, too.

Any other new housing and/or commericial construction going on in the GC school district?

Anonymous said...

This is great,how about some more decvelopment at Taxter ridge and Harts park.We need more revenue to help our tax structure.

Anonymous said...

The more housing the better it will be for the residents. We do have too much parkland,doing nothing.It's not a greener Greenburgh it's a messy and wasteful Greenburgh.

Anonymous said...

What about encouraging the property owners along the blighted section of Central Park Avenue to build some condos on their vacant properties.

Anonymous said...

Hey, per Bernstein's formal ethics complaint, has anyone figured out the amount Feiner's collected for this little assist to a developer?

Anonymous said...

This application took 7 years to complete-from start to construction.

Anonymous said...

You're so concerned with "affordable" housing - yet you seem to have no interest in housing for seniors.
Seniors need affordable, well-designed housing, unless you're more interested in catering to a particular community.
How about showing some initiative in this area?

Anonymous said...

Affordable housing, senior housing, whatever ... It would be great for the town to encourage more taxables, particularly on vacant land and properties in the 100-119 areas - plenty of reliable transportation and retail, plus a boost for Greenburgh Central School District's budget.

Anonymous said...

A nice apartment complex would go good on The property where Barnes and Noble stood.
One can say affordable houses would be great,or part of the complex for senior citizens.
Good location to the stores, bus and train services.
Someone should talk to the owner to consider this great change.

Anonymous said...

All this stuff about affordable housing, senior housing etc. runs absolutely AGAINST the creation of additional taxable properties - something the Supervisor and his anonymous stooge at 12:38 don't get. What makes Greenburgh soooo expensive are the property taxes - starting with the School District and running through the Town, the County, the Fire District, the sewer district, the drainage district, the park district and finally the dumbdumb district in which you reside. Affordable (including senior) housing is made so by eliminating or significantly reducing the property taxes for one or more of the districts. The Town's usual choice is to grant a PILOT (that's Payment In Lieu Of Taxes) and charge the developer/owner a flat rate - which is taken as revenue in the "A" budget. The school district gets screwed because it collects NO tax revenues but gets to educate the kids (and there are always kids Hal, even in "senior" housing - btw sorry you had such an inept matrimonial attorney) anyhow. The Fire district gets to provide "first responder" EMS services, but again, no revenues. The County has told the Town that it will accept nothing less than its fair share - which it deems to be every penny of it's share of the assessible. As Caratazzolo pointed out recently in an impressively researched document, the water and sewer districts haven't a clue which properties are assessible, let alone how much to charge them - so they scarcely count...
In the grand old Town of Greenburgh, "affordable" and "taxable" are antithetical concepts.

Anonymous said...

Well, I guess I'm the "anonymous stooge at 12:38" (even though I've never even met the supervisor) who made you "mad as hell." I'm no Dr. Phil, but I can tell you're angry about more than this. I just thought it would be a nice idea to put up something useful like housing on all the empty properties.

Anonymous said...

Surprised that Bernstein didn't try to persuade the council and the developer to deed the property to him, like he did with One Dromore?

Anonymous said...

Bernstein and McNally still have time to MAKE A DEAL.

Anonymous said...

affordable housing is exactly what greenburgh does not need!!! Are schools are bad enough, we need commercial properties that are going to supply more revenues for Central 7, and ease the tax burden on the middle class.

Anonymous said...

one can still have affordable housing plus commercial income. You have stores street level and housing above. What's wrong with that, I'll tell you Edgemont would definitly put the screws on anything to be built. If they can't have it their way no one can have it neither.Bernstein and McNally rule over all town matters,and with the exitisting four board members they have all the support that they need.

Anonymous said...

Dear Anonymous at 4:02 -
In a better world your suggestion for shops below and housing above (sometimes called "mixed use")would be ideal. Sadly, the economic reality is that developers do not want mixed use because it adds very significantly to the cost of building. It is cheap to build a "strip mall" - bulldoze a convenient lot, trench out for utilities (if you are in a progressive community which requires the burying of electric as well as gas, water and sewer lines), put in a foundation of little more than cinderblocks and a concrete floor. Put in a plain skeleton and rent "raw space" - or sell to an investor who hires a management company to rent out the space for him. The space can be enormous - and the cost of building each additional square foot decreases the average cost per usable foot until you get to some incredibly big space. Unfortunately, building a place where people will actually like to live is more complicated. At the very least one needs to provide actual rooms, with floor plans. Additonal stories of building height require elevators, fire stairs, incremental heating, ventilation and air-conditioning. In a commercial project those costs are frequently borne by the tenants - in a residential building they almost never are, and in an "affordable" building they are most certainly not paid for by the tenants prior to occupancy.
Good idea for Mayberry RFD in the immediate post Civil War era - unworkable in a post 9/11 world.

Anonymous said...

Guess the developer didn't know how to expedite his application...

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