NYCkayaker YCC/ YPRC club house outside original Alexander street master plan, included map

[mike]

As bad as the YCC/yprc relocation issue is, the rest of the master plan is
worse. I eventually want to make my focus the lack of public transportation,
bicycle and greenway issues, the total lack of the word bicycle incorporated
in the traffic plans and studies in the surrounding primary streets that
will feed this area.   This plan effectively reduces the width of the
greenway by adding of marinas on the waters edge. The adding of 3 marinas
within one mile, contains very specific language about the marina industrial
operations crossing the ped/bike greenway.

Most of NYC greenway users are familiar what happens when you have vehicle
movement across a greenway/bikeway. NYC is seeking to reduce these
conflicts; Yonkers is incorporating them and adding them. This master plan
calls for boat lifts, Slings, yahoo  boat trailers to cross the greenway.
Even more problematic, it effectively dead-ends the proposed greenway from
NYC to Tarrytown with the construction of this marina at the north end. 

 http://tinyurl.com/22ybbo

 http://www.yonkersny.gov/Index.aspx?page=1818

page 2 of chapter 6 "community"

 shows the original plan which  clearly shows the YCC/yprc not included in
the boundaries.   Also very specific language has been added to the plan to
discount the stability and permanency of the present YCC/yprc site. It
highlights that the YCC clubhouse has had frequent relocations and gives it
a vagabond sense, it is also highlights how the YCC failed to meet historic
and landmark status .

Chapter 6 community

YONKERS CANOE CLUB

The Yonkers Canoe Club, a privately operated organization, maintains a
boathouse located on Westchester County property on the waterfront
immediately adjacent to the County-owned North Yonkers Pump Station. The
Club has been in existence since 1937 and provides space forcanoes, kayaks,
and other boats for members. The Yonkers Canoe Club building has been moved
several times. The Canoe Club is a recreational facility that provides
access to the Hudson River. Membership in the Club is open to the general
public. 

 

YONKERS CANOE CLUB

As noted above, the Yonkers Canoe Club occupies an extremely narrow section
of the subject area's waterfront, being sandwiched between the Hudson River
and the North Yonkers Pump Station. The Club's small building, deck, and
dock effectively occupy the area where a segment of the proposed public
esplanade would be installed. This segment of the esplanade on the Canoe
Club site would provide the only shoreline connection between the proposed
Alexander Street waterfront public esplanade and the esplanade to the south,
on the Collins Phase II development. In order to establish the continuous
esplanade along the waterfront, the Proposed Action anticipates that the
Yonkers Canoe Club would be relocated from this County-owned site to another
location where it can continue to provide access and other member services.
This Proposed Action does not propose a specific site for the relocation of
the Canoe Club. The Proposed Action, however, encourages individual
developers to consider accommodating the Canoe Club within a development
proposal for a waterfront parcel. Doing so would necessitate locating the
Club on the River's edge to provide direct water access for canoes and
kayaks. It should be noted that the Yonkers Canoe Club building has been
moved several times in the Club's history; the relocation included in the
Proposed Action is intended to provide a permanent home for the Club. As
documented in the 1998 Yonkers Downtown Waterfront Master Plan FGEIS, the
Office of Historic Preservation of the New York State Office of Parks,
Recreation and Historic Preservation had determined that the Yonkers Canoe
Club building did not meet the criteria for listing on the State and
National Registers of Historic Places. And also YONKERS CANOE CLUB In the
future absent the Proposed Project the Yonkers Canoe Club is expected to
continue operating its current programs and activities at its existing
location. PROBABLE IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED ACTION As part of the Proposed
Action, the Beczak Environmental Education Center would remain in its
current location just north of the North Yonkers Pump Station facility. The
Beczak Center would continue to provide hands-on educational workshops about
the ecological, cultural, and historic aspects of the Hudson River estuary
for school children and adults. Due to its proximity to the new public
esplanade and parkland, the Beczak Center would likely experience increased
patronage as a result of the Proposed Action. The Hudson River Museum would
undertake its capital improvement program, thereby enhancing its facilities.
Trevor Park would not be affected by the Proposed Action.>>-----Original
Message-----