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SOUTHERN
Lloyd
addresses
lack of
affordable
housing
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School to prison pipeline?
Restorative Justice Center opens in Ulster
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
At the first Lloyd Town Board meeting
of 2019, Councilman Joe Mazzetti again
touched upon the lack of compliance with
the Affordable Housing provisions in the
town code.
A recent Freedom of Information
request by the Southern Ulster Times
revealed that Lloyd’s Town and Planning
Boards have failed to have owners/
developers of residential projects provide
10 percent of their units for Affordable
Housing, despite it being required in
the code. The FOIL request also showed
that on numerous occasions the Building
Department and the town’s land use
attorney have not compelled the Planning
Board to ensure that a developer provide
affordable housing units when it came
time for the board to vote on approving
their projects.
Mazzetti provided board members
with an opinion he received from Sarah
Brancatella, of the Association of Towns,
who stated that a town may retroactively
enforce provisions of its code.
“The
mistaken
or
erroneous
issuance of a permit does not estop
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On December 27, Ulster County Executive Mike Hein cut the ceremonial ribbon to open the Restorative Justice and Empowerment Center
in midtown Kingston.
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
On December 27, County Executive
Mike Hein cut the ceremonial ribbon to
open the new $3.2 million Ulster County
Restorative Justice and Empowerment
Center at 733 Broadway in Midtown
Kingston.
Hein began by thanking his task
force for providing him with invaluable
advice and praised the Ulster County
Legislature for fully supporting the
center.
Hein said the project came in under
budget and on time; thanking all of
the contractors for transforming a
relatively small space into the most
technologically advanced structure in
Ulster County.
Hein said reading a disturbing
statistic is what propelled him into
action.
“Almost 85 percent of people born
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into poverty die in poverty, that was a
chilling number. The idea that we are
the kind of country, whether we like it
or not, that has incarcerated a larger
percentage of our citizens per capita
than any other country in the world;
that system hasn’t worked,” he said.
Hein said the Ulster County center
is aimed at creating more varied
opportunities in a system that all too
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