Patchogue trustees set public hearing on removing kennels from D1 zone after extended public comment

The Village Board of Trustees on March 10 ratified a prior approval to set a public hearing to repeal kennels as a permitted use in the D1 Business District and heard more than an hour of public comment on the issue.

The action ratified a February 26, 2025 polling of the board to set a public hearing on a proposed local law to amend section 4-35-20(a) of the village code. The board voted to ratify the prior approval by voice vote (motion details and recorded tallies were not provided in the public transcript).

The proposal would remove “kennels” from uses allowed in the D1 district, the trustees’ staff said. The code defines kennel under section 4-35-1 as “any establishment for the raising, training, boarding, or selling of dogs and cats or other small animals for hire or profit where more than three dogs or cats or other small animals are harbored or kept on a regular basis,” language trustees and staff repeatedly cited during the…