Yonkers Insider: Yonkers City Council Meeting - November 23, 2021.

 

The Yonkers City Council held a Real Estate Committee Meeting, as well as a City Council Stated Meeting this evening, November 23, 2021. All items on the agendas appear below, as well as the decisions taken by the City Council. Real Estate Committee Meeting 1. Resolution of the City Council of the City of Yonkers declaring Lead Agency under SEQRA and scheduling a public hearing relating to the proposed amendment of Chapter 43 of the Code of the City of Yonkers, commonly known as the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Yonkers, making "Automobile Rental Establishments" a permitted use (with supplemental requirements) in the B "Restricted Business and apartment houses medium-density" district of the city. (Added to tonight's Council Stated Meeting agenda for a vote) 2. Briefing on Ludlow Community Plan (Kept in Committee for further discussion) City Council Stated Meeting Old Business 1. Special Ordinance - Long House Connection - 37 Montgomery Avenue (Held over until next Council meeting of December 14, 2021) New Business 2. Special Ordinance - Authorizing the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program (SRAEP) Grant from the Westchester County Youth Bureau in the amount of $30,334.00 and amending the City of Yonkers Grant Budget for Fiscal year 2021/2022 (Adopted 7-0) 3. Special Ordinance - Authorizing and permitting the property owner of 76 Locust Hill Ave to make a long house sanitary sewer connection (Adopted 7-0) 4. Resolution - Approving an Inter-Municipal Agreement by and between the City of Yonkers and the County of Westchester for the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program (Adopted 7-0) 5. Resolution - Recognize and address the scourge of rampant shoplifting occurring in retail business occurring throughout the City of Yonkers (Adopted 7-0) 6. Resolution - To issue a Declaration of Climate Emergency (Adopted 5-2, with Minority Leader Breen and Council Member Merante voting against) 7. Resolution - Calling on Mayor Spano to appoint Golda Solomon as the City of Yonkers First Poet Laureate (Adopted 7-0) ADD-ON ITEMS 8.Resolution of the City Council of the City of Yonkers declaring Lead Agency under SEQRA and scheduling a public hearing relating to the proposed amendment of Chapter 43 of the Code of the City of Yonkers, commonly known as the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Yonkers, making "Automobile Rental Establishments" a permitted use (with supplemental requirements) in the B "Restricted Business and apartment houses medium-density" district of the city. (Adopted 7-0) 9.Resolution of the Council of the City of Yonkers commending the Albanian-American community upon the occasion of the Albanian Independence Day (Adopted 7-0)

I encourage Yonkers city residents to keep up with these items to stay current on what is happening in our city! As a friendly reminder, although the City Council has resumed its in-person Stated meetings, all Committee meetings, including Rules, will be held virtually for the time being. Tune in via the City Council Facebook page, City Hall TV (accessible via the City of Yonkers website), Optimum channel 78, or Verizon Fios channel 39. 

Best regards,   Hon. Corazon Pineda-Isaac E-mail: corazon.pineda.isaac@yonkersny.gov Tel: (914) 377-6312

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