Village of Scarsdale Mayor Addresses Historic Preservation, Building Department

Mayor Miriam Levitt Flisser addressed the community at . Below is her full address:

The Village Board continues to be involved in many projects.

On April 16, we will hear a presentation from LI Saltzman, who are our consultants for Historic Preservation. If you would like to preview the report and photography produced in their recent windshield survey, please go to Scarsdale.com, and look for Historic Preservation under Hot Topics. Then join us in Rutherford Hall on April 16 at 6:30 p.m.

In addition, we are working concerning the Building Department. We continue to receive input from residents about specific instances, and we welcome all community experience. I have been working on concepts for administrative review, based on this input, and have been able to categorize them in five main areas:

1) Planning: The role of Land Use Boards, and also how information from the Building Department affects their deliberations.

2) Notification: How notifications have limitations, and how modifications of approved projects are exempt from notifications.

3) Enforcement: Including inspections and actions based on them; especially current practices in inspections.

4) Recourse: Correction and other issues, especially those involving neighbors.

5) Changed environment, especially concerning water, and practices for regulation and enforcement.

Our next meeting will concern the first topic, Planning Boards, the date to be announced.

Finally, this Board's sitting term is ended, with this being meeting, and we will re-start next month with a newly elected member, Mr. David Lee, who will be sworn in, along with two Trustees beginning their second term, Trustee  Kay Eisenman and Trustee Jonathan Mark, on Monday April 2 at 3:30 p.m. in Rutherford Hall. This is a public event that you are invited to join.  

We bid farewell to Trustee Richard Toder, a community volunteer with a long and impressive history of service to Scarsdale, and we express our gratitude for his contribution to this, and other organizations that he has served.