safe, walkable streets & village-wide parking plan
In every Sleepy Hollow neighborhood, parking, traffic, and safe streets are top of mind. We know there are unique challenges that will require community input and legislative action to solve.
fixing the parking crunch
Everyone expects Village government to use its power to solve this long-standing problem. We plan to
This January, we will be hard at work with our partners in the New York State Legislature to ensure home rule legislation passes, allowing residential parking permits Downtown and in the other neighborhoods that want them.
We’ll make sure recently acquired properties at 64-68 Beekman Avenue can provide interim and permanent public parking spaces as the site is redeveloped. We will advance concepts to provide interim public parking at 193 Beekman Avenue and at other Village owned parcels.
We can solve parking shortages for residents who struggle to park at the end of a long work day.
We commit to work with private parking lot owners to open up overnight spaces to visitors and residents, especially at those parking lots within proximity to Downtown.
We’ll look for all opportunities to provide more overnight and visitor parking where possible without burdening taxpayers.
We look forward to hearing the results of neighborhood parking surveys, and we will support the proposals that emerge from them.
Make walking safe and pleasant
We’ll build off Sleepy Hollow’s Complete Streets progress and accelerate problematic intersection redesigns. We can deploy several solutions to eliminate speeding and poor driver behavior. Improved crosswalks, curb extensions with cobblestone, and iron safety bollards can be beautiful additions to Sleepy Hollow while protecting our residents - especially our kids and older residents - from bad driver behavior.
reduce traffic backups
We’ve all been stuck at endless red lights in Sleepy Hollow. As the Village grows, we must change our current traffic control systems. We’ll press the New York State DOT to accelerate plans for a smoother ride along Route 9 using short-term highway work permits and interim solutions until funding for wholesale reconstruction can be secured. We’ll go as far as eliminating traffic signals and replacing them with stop signs on Village streets where we know they cause speeding, traffic, and major backups. Some intersections might warrant a new signal. We’ll explore whatever it takes to get Sleepy Hollow moving.