Our Work in Sleepy Hollow

• Introduction
• History
• Developer Plans
• Traffic Issues
• Density Issues
• Community Issues
• Environmental Issues
• Parks Issues
• Hudson Access Issues
• Pocantico Issues
• Quotes

Citizens want everyone to have access to the Hudson

1. Plans don’t meet the goals of the village’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Program.
2. Plans don’t include trails linking with Kingsland Point Park and existing state and county trails.

Scenic Hudson sees some potential solutions

1. Create more water-related facilities, including a fishing pier, fishing stations and perhaps a dock. Access to the new waterfront park should be easy for all. Include a pedestrian ramp connecting this park with existing parks.
2. The buffer between Kingsland Point Park and Lighthouse Landing provides the space to create an ecological and recreational corridor connecting with the park and trails.
3. Scenic Hudson is studying the ecological health of the Pocantico River to determine the best use of this buffer. One possibility might be the creation of a second branch of the Pocantico along its historic route through the GM site.

Development on the GM plant site must not cut the community off from its waterfront.

“I think we definitely want to extend the use of Kingsland Point Park. Also, having an additional outlet for the Pocantico River allows another side of Kingsland Point to be opened up where people can actually walk down to the Hudson River. That particular kind of access to the river would allow for wading or launching kayaks.”
–Nicholas Robinson, Sleepy Hollow resident (and chair of the village planning board), River Journal, Apr. 20, 2005