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Village staff proposes 30‑day vacant‑storefront registry and incentives to reactivate storefronts
Summary
Village staff presented a model vacant‑storefront registry that would require owners to register properties vacant 30 days, provide contact and safety information, allow waivers for active marketing, and pair enforcement with storefront improvement grants to encourage reuse.
Presenter, a staff member, proposed a draft vacant‑storefront registry for Dobbs Ferry that would require property owners to register any commercial space vacant for 30 days and provide information on size, insurance and emergency contacts. "We were suggesting 30 days of vacancy, for the owner of the building to register the building with the village to provide, you know, quite a bit of information about it," the Presenter said.
The proposal, modeled on registries used in other Westchester municipalities, would be established by local law and use a time‑sensitive fee structure: an initial…
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