This Coming Week: Chappaqua Crossing Public Hearings

1. It was announced that on Tuesday evening, the New Castle Town Board will resume a series of public hearings for the Chappaqua Crossing retail plan. They are for the proposed rezoning legislation to enable the plan and proposed changes to the town development plan. The hearings start at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at town hall in Chappaqua.

Meanwhile, work on the proposal's final supplemental environmental impact statement (FSEIS) continues. Developer Summit/Greenfield, which is seeking to have 120,000 square feet of retail space, has submitted response comments to comments made during the spring regarding an earlier draft version of the document. The town has also uploaded its own market study, done by firm AKRF, which argues that there is unmet demand for certain types of retail and reacts favorably towards proposed storefront restrictions to prevent the establishment of smaller stores, believing they would mean a smaller chance of competition.

To read the AKRF report, click here, and to read the FSEIS (it's split into sections between documents submitted by Summit/Greenfield and the town), then click here.

2. The Mount Pleasant Community Theater announced that it will have a performance of "Fiddler on the Roof," on Friday at 8 p.m. at Westlake High School in Thornwood. Click here for details. 

3. The Mount Kisco Public Library announced that on Tuesday at 4 p.m. it will have an earring making event with Joan Lloyd. Click here for details. 

4. The Katonah Museum of Art announced that it is holding a kids' workshop called Mix It Up!, where collages can be made form fragments of other objects. It will be held on Thursday at 10 a.m. Click here for details. 

5. The Chappaqua Library announced that a lecture will be held on Friday about art collector Samuel Kress, who lived on a 72-acre estate called Rock Hill, which was located in New Castle and Ossining. The program starts at 7:30 p.m. at the library. Click here for details.