Sarah Lawrence College faculty member Joan Silber is the author of two short-story collections, Ideas of Heaven (finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize) and In My Other Life, and four novels: The Size of the World, Lucky Us, In the City and Household Words, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award. The event will be held at Sarah Lawrence College in the Slonim living room.
A Craft Talk with Joan Silber
1 Mead Way
Yonkers NY
10708 See map
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Ralph Petrillo May 3, 2013 at 01:11 am
Well there is definitely more community disapproval with the current plans then there is support.
A…Read More possible suggestion for the developer may be to cut the plans from 120 units to 60 units with no more then 120 parking spaces . The community is worried about the proposed plan with the idea of adding 240 to 250 additional cars a day causing congestion with respect to traffic.The developer can set aside funds to pay for a daily rush hour bus to bring his new tenants to the trains to cut down on an increase in traffic. The developer to gain public approval should give up on any non access to private roads or it maybe in the interest of the community to make some of their roads which are currently public into private roads whereby no one heading to the golf course or the condominiums could cross these private roads thereby making access to the condominiums quite difficult.
As far as a gain in the tax base. with any development where there are no tax abatements, it may appear that tax revenues may increase , however it may turn out to be a zero sum game, where the additional revenue pays for new public sector costs that will come with this project from garbage, water service, police , education, and any and all other public sector costs.
With development it is better for the developer to become part of the community . Orienta has great characteristics. Many in this community would like the developer to search for the mean between the extremes with respect to development.
Allison May 2, 2013 at 10:39 pm
David ,
can you please explain how having a luxury condominium building increases the tax base?