YORKTOWN, N.Y. —The Yorktown Town Board’s meeting on March 18 was nearly three hours and included a celebration of local ambulance volunteers and continued a March 11 discussion on accessory dwelling units (ADUs). Residents can visit yorktownny.granicus.com to watch the March 18 meeting and all others.
The board designated March 21 as Down Syndrome Awareness Day, a day selected to signify the uniqueness of the triplication of the 21st chromosome that causes Down syndrome.
Back in 2017, the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act was signed into law and the town of Yorktown recognizes March 29 as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. There will be a ceremony at noon on March 29 at Veteran Memorials Circle, 363 Underhill Ave.
Chief Matthew Kness was at the podium to celebrate and recognize Robert Gross, Michael Koehl, Paul Lourenco, and Gus Stretz for the number of hours they’ve put in. He explained that at the Mohegan Fire Association annual dinner, the honorees were also invited because the ambulance corps is a byproduct of the Mohegan Volunteer Fire Association. Kness said the four gentlemen were presented with awards for over 800 points—a system used to track and reward volunteer service—for the year.
“That is a considerable amount of time that they donate to the town and to our ambulance corps,” he said.
The Town Board honored the volunteers at the meeting and presented them with certificates.
“We have quite the dedicated group of people volunteering for our town and really doing the right thing,” Town Supervisor Ed Lachterman said.
Planning Director John Tegeder was at the podium to continue a discussion from the week prior. The wording of the proposed law needed a minor tweak. It was referred out for comment. This small change is designed to clarify that the section of the law applied to existing detached ADUs.
The March 18 ADU discussion followed one on March 11, where the Community Housing Board presented its suggested changes to the existing code provisions regulating accessory dwelling units, which are allowed by a special permit issued by the Zoning Board. At that meeting, the proposed law was referred out for comment.
Lachterman later said the proposed revisions would benefit homeowners by loosening some of the restrictions on creating ADUs and it would “allow the landowner to occupy the smaller unit, which would be beneficial for someone looking to downsize, help pay their taxes and stay in their neighborhood,” but cautioned that ADUs, in his view, should not change a neighborhood’s character.
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