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Leaders from
towns and villages along the Hudson River signed an Inter-Municipal Agreement (IMA) on
January 16, 2002, which officially established the Rockland Riverfront Communities Council
(RRCC). This organization, comprised of eleven Rockland towns and villages, the
County of Rockland, and the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, will function to improve
land use planning and development through inter-municipal cooperation. The organization is
similar in structure to the Historic River Towns of Westchester. By working together
as a group, the organization will also better enable these communities, most of which are
Hudson River Valley Greenway communities, to secure grant funding for Hudson River-related
projects.
Elected officials and agency heads signed
the IMA with the Lieutenant Governor Mary O. Donohue looking on, at the signing ceremony
at Civile’s on the Hudson in the Village of Haverstraw. The Rockland Riverfront
Communities Council is an outgrowth of the Lower Hudson Corridor Quality Communities
Program developed through a $150,000 New York State Quality Communities Grant awarded to
Rockland and Westchester Counties. C. Scott Vanderhoef lauded the agreement saying,
"For the first time, all of our riverfront communities have officially agreed to work
together toward preserving and enhancing one of Rockland’s greatest assets, our
riverfront communities." Greater cooperation will allow these communities to
effectively coordinate their actions, and it will enable them to obtain additional grants
for improvements to their waterfronts.
The member-communities include the Towns of Clarkstown,
Orangetown, Haverstraw and Stony Point, and the Villages of Grand View, Haverstraw, West
Haverstraw, Nyack, South Nyack, Upper Nyack and Piermont. For further information on the
Rockland Riverfront Communities Council, please call Arlene Miller at the Rockland County
Planning Department – 845-364-3448. |
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