GENERAL ORDINANCE
BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT COLLINS-BELLAMY, MAJORITY LEADER RUBBO, MAJORITY WHIP ROBINSON, MINORITY LEADER BREEN, COUNCILMEMBERS, PINEDA -ISAAC, DIAZ AND MERANTE:
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A GENERAL ORDINANCE GRANTING AN APPEAL OF THE SELF-STORAGE TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ADOPTED JUNE 26, 2024 BY GENERAL ORDINANCE 9-2024
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The City of Yonkers, in the City Council convened, does hereby ordain and enact:
Section 1. Recitals
Whereas on June 26, 2024 the Yonkers City Council adopted General Ordinance 9-2024 that imposed a nine (9) month moratorium on Self Storage Facilities in the City of Yonkers in order to assess and address the proliferation of the number of such facilities in the City, and
Whereas Section 3 of said General Ordinance allows anyone aggrieved by the Moratorium to appeal the same to the City Council, and
Whereas on October 28, 2024 Mehranco, LLC filed a Petition to appeal the Moratorium for their property located at 1999 Central Park Avenue and known as Section 4, Block 4385, Lots 42.43, 44-48, 49.5, 51.54, 55.58 with the City Council, and
Whereas, in accordance with Section 3 of the General Ordinance the City Council found that Mehranco was an aggrieved person and had standing to appeal, such that the City Council noticed and conducted a public hearing on December 3, 2024, and
Whereas, Section 3 of the General Ordinance provides that if the Council finds that: 1) the hardship is not self created; 2) the harm is unique to the petitioner's property; 3) the relief requested is the minimum necessary to relieve the hardship; 4) the benefit to the applicant if the relief is granted does not outweigh any detriment to the health safety and welfare of the community; and 5) that granting the appeal is not contradictory to any pending new or amended regulations, and
Section 2. Findings
Whereas, upon the basis of the record consisting of the Petition and Public Hearing herein the City Council finds that: 1) the hardship is not self...
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