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Planning board adopts negative declaration, advances Greater Centennial’s Family Life Center with conditions on landscaping and renderings

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The board adopted a SEQRA negative declaration and closed the public hearing on a proposed Belvie and Shirley Jackson Family Life Center at 318 South Eighth Avenue, and asked the applicant to provide enhanced landscape renderings and a security plan before final action; staff and counsel will draft a resolution for the July 16 meeting.

The Mount Vernon Planning Board on Wednesday adopted a negative declaration under SEQRA and closed the public hearing for a proposed Belvie and Shirley Jackson Family Life Center to be built at 318 South Eighth Avenue by Greater Centennial AME Zion Church.

Reverend Dr. Belvie Jackson of Greater Centennial AME Zion Church described the center as a multipurpose community facility with a full‑court gymnasium, after‑school programming and centralized church offices. The…

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