Brewster Trustees Mull Extending Building Moratorium

Brewster officials are considering extending for another 12 months the temporary building moratorium they put in place in 1013. The local law suspended the issuance of certain building permits and applications for development of property in the village.

A public hearing on the extension proposal has been scheduled for 7:31 p.m. Sept. 3 at Village Hall, 50 Main Street, Brewster, NY.

The interim development law the trustees adopted in 2013 was put in place because the village began work on an urban renewal program, a new comprehensive plan and a public-engagement process as part of “Envision Brewster.”

Officials said back then they wanted to get rid of “blighted substandard insanitary deteriorated and deteriorating conditions which negatively impact the residents of the Village their safety health morals and welfare and their property values...”

Progress on that work was updated at the Aug. 13 board meeting, when VHB Engineering, Surveying & Landscape Architecture, P.C. made a presentation with preliminary data results and recommendations for the Comprehensive Plan, Zoning Ordinance and Urban Renewal Plan.