New Rochelle City Council members squawk about homeowners getting their property re-evaluated. Why, because of Iona's purchasing taxable property; tax abatements for Costco, Home Depot, New Roc City; and the 21-year pilot program for Avalon on the Sound.
Iona's off-campus dormitory is destroying the quality of life for those who live around the blasted dorm. Having your front yard used as a bathroom, a bedroom (for sex), a garbage dump and parties at 4:30 in the morning, are not beneficial! Neither would be a bigger, taller off-campus dorm for Iona.
The excessive taxes homeowners pay is a corporate welfare tax; we pay to make up for the taxes Iona, developer Louis Cappelli, Avon, Home Depot and Costco, didn't or still don't pay. Our City Council members are capricious, they act without thinking! I saw a bumper sticker that describes our City Council members very appropriately, "Politicians , like diapers, should be changed frequently for the same reason, they stink!"
Ward Henderson
New Rochelle, NY
