Planning Board Won’t Consider Hearth at Mount Kisco PILOT
The Mount Kisco Planning Board has no plans to review a potential Payment in Lieu of Taxes arrangement between the village and the developer of a proposed senior housing project.
Board Chairman Joseph Cosentino said during the Sept. 10 public hearing on the project that any potential PILOT involving The Hearth at Mount Kisco and the municipality will be for the village board to decide, not the planners.
“I’m asking this board not to get involved,” Cosentino said.
A week earlier, Mayor Michael Cindrich said if the village and the developer agreed to a PILOT, he and the trustees would demand that the annual payments be at least equal to what Mount Kisco would receive in taxes.
When they were informed by Village Attorney Whitney Singleton in August that the developer was eyeing a possible PILOT, planning board members expressed outrage, concerned that the village would lose key tax revenue.
Singleton said officials have met with the developer but no agreement has been reached. With the PILOT now a nonissue for the planning board, last week it refocused its attention on the potential environmental impacts of the project. The applicant, Hearth Management, has proposed a 129-unit senior housing facility on 17.7 acres off Kisco Avenue opposite Holiday Inn.
Mark Miller, an attorney representing the developer, said his client was working on details of the revised site plan, including the retaining walls that would be located on the back of the site.
The wall would have stone facings that would use material already on the property, said project engineer Charles Utschig.
“This is a work in progress,” he told the board.
A detailed revised site plan would be submitted to the village prior to the next planning board meeting, Utschig said. The developer’s representatives have already met with village staff and had a very productive meeting, he added.
No residents spoke during last week’s hearing, which was adjourned until Sept. 24.
