SECOR AND RIDGE ROADS MEETING APRIL 29, 2008 Break Out Group Visioning

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1 , Town Councilman and CPSC Chair SECOR AND RIDGE ROADS MEETING APRIL 29, 2008 Break Out Group Visioning TRANSPORTATION: GROUP LEADER Ronald Hubert Stone Oak residents it is impossible to get out during school hours. Hartsdale Avenue always has congestion drivers are always locked in between Central Park Avenue, Route 100A and Route 100B. Transportation is about common sense and the plan of these roads does not have common sense. Our roads cannot handle the traffic demand. We should use a smaller, hybrid Town bus. Lots of places outside the U.S. are using hydrogen powered buses; we should consider it. Congestion at Four Corners. Buses should be expanded to serve the train as to cut vehicular traffic to the train station. There is no bus service to Huntley Estates. We need an easier way to serve seniors. The bus service into Manhattan is great. Let s keep it and make it known. Drivers cannot get out of Pat Capone Road. The traffic on Route 100A is bad; it is the worst when schools get out. Soloman Schecter traffic. It s a sharp turn onto Pat Capone Road from Hartsdale Avenue should extend the left lane and extend the marking rather than have the sharp turn. We should have a camera on East Hartsdale Avenue to capture real time information to see congestion and traffic patterns. There is no way to walk to Four Corners from Ridge Road. We are part of the problem we all have more than one car. Streets that connect to Ridge Road also lack sidewalks (Hillcrest Road) Cutting in traffic divert Hillcrest Road traffic to Ridge Road and West Hartsdale Avenue (holds up may not be able to avoid). People don t take turns. Four Corners cannot handle the volume and pedestrians. 1

2 , Town Councilman and CPSC Chair TRANSPORTATION continued: Secor Road and West Hartsdale Avenue intersection there should be no turn on red because there is no visibility. There is no snow removal at bus stops. Four Corners bus stop needs shelter move to front of Duane Reed (we don t want to stand in the parking lot in the snow) Police are good on Central Avenue. Parking shortage on Hartsdale Avenue. Parking enforcement is too aggressive and issues too many tickets. Add sidewalks to promote walking (Hartsdale Avenue and Ridge Road). Residents cannot walk to the parks. We keep adding buildings to Hartsdale without addressing the effects on traffic. Consider a traffic signal at Pat Capone Road. There s a helicopter that follows Ridge Road Park at 7:00PM and it flies so low that it shakes houses on Holmes Avenue. 2

3 , Town Councilman and CPSC Chair INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENT: GROUP LEADERS: Cynthia Doyle and Kristina Cascone POSITIVE o Snow removal and road maintenance. o Twice a week garbage pick up and once a week recycling pick up. o Good police and fire departments, animal control officer. o Department of Public Works. o Tree care. o Personal approach to Town government. o Good community advocates. o Small roads, little traffic and less pollution. o Green drainage. o Rural feeling. o Open spaces. o Parks with variety; lots of green areas (Ridge Road Park, Harts Brook Park). NEGATIVE o Sewers should be cleaned on a regular basis. o Improve road maintenance. o Speeding cars. o Power outages. o Noise along the Sprain Brook Parkway (tree cutting?). o Leaf removal (leaves sit for months and only picked up once in the winter). o Trees should only be pruned when necessary. o Poor representation for unincorporated areas. o Fix water pipe under road to prevent asphalt bursts. o Flooding (poor drainage on Birchwood Lane, Jean Lane and Fern Lawn Cemetary). o Lack of sidewalks along Ridge Road, Sprain Road, Joyce Road and West Hartsdale Avenue. o Not enough appreciation or use of our open spaces. o No neighborhood playgrounds in Joyce Road area. o Recreation areas noisy along Sprain Brook Parkway. o Clear-cutting of trees along power lines (Con-Ed) and not enough trimming. o Large trees removed when they are healthy. o Wetlands being filled in for wider driveways. IN SUMMARY: Greenburgh has a lot of green space and needs to monitor/regulate/enforce rules on destruction of wetlands, trees, etc. 3

4 , Town Councilman and CPSC Chair ECONOMICS AND LAND DEVELOPMENT: GROUP LEADER: Natalie Werner We need more ratables. We should work at bring businesses into Town that are the right mix with existing businesses. Disagreement with above point: Keep Greenburgh quiet businesses keep the Town divided from other uses and find tenants for vacant stores. Code enforcement preserves the health of the neighborhood. Public spaces with pedestrian traffic (corridors as well as Hartsdale Avenue, go and spend time congregate). Shopper friendly parking. Coffee shops. We need a good supermarket. No expansion of businesses in residential areas. Keep area of farm-stand in the residential zone. Look at codes and strengthen them or reinforce them. Keep developing in character of existing neighborhood. Sidewalks at least on one side of the street. Traffic calming on Secor and Ridge Roads. 4

5 , Town Councilman and CPSC Chair QUALITY OF LIFE: GROUP LEADER: Irene Holsten Air quality issue. Commercial enterprise allowed to penetrate our homes Secor Farms. School system Central 7. Where are our taxes going? Preserve open spaces. Visual attractiveness of store fronts and strip malls. More businesses in Town for tax purposes inequitable distribution of taxes for the homeowner. Discourage traffic need to plan for better construction keeping traffic in mind. Police, fire and animal control departments are fine. Code enforcement (illegal boarders). Help seniors keep them in their homes. Recreation services are great. Houses that are a blight to the neighborhood. Lead in the water. Save the trees (code enforcement). Day laborers on Central Avenue. 5

6 , Town Councilman and CPSC Chair OTHER: GROUP LEADER: Joseph Lomartire POSITIVE o Town services (police, fire and animal control). o Open government. o Community advocates. o Community involvement NEGATIVE o Quality of schools o Separate communities. o Paul Feiner. o Need to promote history of the Town. o Corner of Birchwood Lane and Richard Terrace (after five years of complaining). o Day laborers off Central Avenue. Z:\Greenburgh Comp Plan\Outreach_Visioning\neighborhood meetings\secor-ridge Roads\Secor-Ridge Roads - Breakout Group Visioning.doc 6