and effectively allowing the college to build on the larger unified tax parcel “as of right” without City Council approval.

Iona College announced a series of major campus projects in January 2014 including a new seven-story residence hall at the former site of the Mirage Diner (since completed), and “a new School of Business building, expansion and renovation of the science building, creation of a performing arts venue, and a reconfigured arena complex in the existing Hynes Athletics Center.” Sources tell Talk of the Sound plans also include a new parking structure at the corner of North Avenue and Beechmont Drive. Iona College did not respond to requests for comment.

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Iona College responded the day after the article ran, they added a comment below, they stated they haveif the City would agrees to withdraw the amendment to Section 331-91 “to give the College a reasonable period of time to discuss with the City the issues that have given rise to the law, and possible solutions that will not be so harmful to the College.”

The proposed changes to the Zoning Code are the result of years of community input, work by city staff and the City Council.

In 2010, the City Council adopted GreeNR a sustainability plan for the City of New Rochelle. As a step towards fulling the sustainability objectives expressed in GreeNR, the City held a series of visioning sessions in 2012 and input from these sessions, expressed in EnvisioNR, which served as the starting point for the Comprehensive Plan update that began in 2015.

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