Lee Ellman, Yonkers's planning director, says historic designation would "put teeth in efforts to enforce historic preservation," by requiring approval of new roofs and windows, and tree removal.
A landmark designation would mean that any changes to the row house's appearance would require the preservation commission's approval.
We need to approve the site plan and the Trump Organization has to submit a tree preservation plan for our approval.
Yet winning approvals for their preservation plan has been an arduous process, as the couple have run up against zoning regulations unadapted to modern development pressures.
The event won the approval of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, which oversees the 150 acres that are not national parkland.
The funds necessary for its construction must be raised, and the project's realization still depends upon approval by the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation and other regulatory authorities.
The much-anticipated remake of Clifton's Brookdale cafeteria on Broadway carries a stamp of approval from the leading preservation group in town, the Los Angeles Conservancy, which held a benefit there last month.
The first is bureaucratic, a long slog of design and review, hearings, environmental and historical preservation studies and finally, perhaps years later, approval from the CFA and the NCPC.
Protocols for both fertility preservation and donation for research had Ethical Committee approval, and all patients and/or their parents gave informed consent to both aspects in writing.
But planning officials said the studio so far has rebuffed suggestions to alter the project, despite assurances that it would be would be easier to win approval if it were more preservation-minded.
The designation means that homeowners hoping to make changes to their houses' exteriors must seek approval from the borough's historic preservation committee.
