Aiding good-neighbor relations between a long-time waterfront industry and an anticipated luxury condo development, the Yonkers City Council recently amended the city”™s noise ordinance.
The change exempts industries and commercial facilities in Yonkers from limiting operations-generated noise to 50 decibels or less as measured at a residential property. The amended law also exempts industrial or commercial buildings that fail to meet noise standards because of a new residential use on nearby or adjoining property.
Council President Chuck Lesnick said the change was requested by American Sugar Refining Inc., whose Hudson River plant adjoins the proposed Palisades Point, a 436-unit high-rise development that Struever Fidelco Cappelli L.L.C. plans to build on the city waterfront. At public hearings on the SFC project, attorneys for the refinery expressed the company”™s concern that noise from its operations could adversely impact residents of two 25-story towers planned at Palisades Point.
