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Developer Andrew Cortese, doing business as Hillside Street, LLC, plans to build 4 houses on uninhabited forest known as “The Knoll”.
The land, next to the Juhring Preserve, serves as a natural rain garden for the neighborhood and a home for diverse wildlife. Building here would set a concerning precedent for other green spaces in Dobbs Ferry threatened by potential paper road development.
The developer proposes building on a “paper street” de-mapped in 2005 by the Dobbs Ferry Board of Trustees.
The resolution stated “The Knoll + east extension”, along with 40 other paper streets, was “de-mapped and discontinued.” In 2010, the Board Of Trustees released a Vision Plan, stating “Preserve the Knoll neighborhood as an attractive, private place to live.” Why? “…mapped paper streets have led to out of scale infill development on wooded, topographically challenging terrain widely used and enjoyed as open space, and created continuing pressure for such development, which threatens to dramatically alter the character of the neighborhood.”
