The village has a municpal parking lot that rarely has anyone parked in it with the exception of school staff. Is it too far to walk to yoga class from the municipal lot?

ok---am I reading this right? The mayor is willing to pay for a shuttle to take shoppers (what shoppers?) into town and refuses to give us a bathroom at donahue park. How is this good? Enjoying our local park and hudson is not a priority, but spending money is

It?s a bit disingenuous to poll the board on their support, pro or con, for local business. That?s like asking us if we?re pro or con for village homeowners. We?ve been elected to be pro Cornwall-on-Hudson, which we most certainly are, and that means always looking at the big picture. As far as protecting the character of our village is concerned, and what can result from poor planning, we need only to look as far as the town to realize that we still have something that hasn?t been largely spoiled. In reality, we have only a small stable of available business properties which are not currently in use, and we?d be delighted to see an appropriate type of business hang out their shingle at any of those storefronts. We hope that the recommendations made by the Village Square improvement committee, of which I was a part, will be implemented by the mayor and board. It will serve to focus and enhance, not only our local businesses, but our community at large. It respects the scale and pace of the village while making parking, walking and cycling safer and more accessible.

Rick Gioia

The only way our village could handle a business district is to allow much denser residential housing, high rise towers turning houses into triplexes and consuming every square inch of land for building then directing a thoroughfare so traffic can make a easy route from 9w to the business district. The other option would to make this village a destination. So the only option I see is to preserve the village as a hideaway location to the hustle and bustle of Orange county and for that fact the Hudson valley region. And wouldn't it be so nice to promote a relaxing village hideaway for a weekender who wishes to board at the Painters tavern eat and drink at our fine establishments and walk the streets admiring the interesting architecture and clean fa?ades while traffic is calm and quite and you can cross the streets without horns honking or rushing you to move faster towards dock hill waterfalls and the magnificent open space at the riverfront. Lets keep it simple guys.

At one point village zoning required all first floor occupancies to be business. That changed because it was a hard ship on building owners when they could not get business to rent space. I think it's now gone too far in the other direction. It became to easy to turn the village into a residential only area. As buildings change hands, zoning should require first floors to be business occupancy again. That would clearly help get a thriving business community going again and make building owners get involved in the growth process if they want to be able to collect rent.