- The Town of Greenburgh makes the zoning and planning decisions that affect Edgemont’s quality of life, school enrollment, taxes, and services.
- Edgemont funds a heavy and growing share of the Greenburgh's rapidly increasing, inefficient, and often duplicative budget. The Town tax rate has more than doubled since 2002, and debt is up 44% since 2007.
- Representing only 8% of the Town-wide voting population, Edgemont has limited political influence at the Town. The Greenburgh Town Board includes no Edgemont representatives, and its long-term interests are often not aligned with Edgemont’s.
- Based on our tax burden and community spending priorities, the EIC believes a Village of Edgemont could obtain the same or better services with tax neutrality, while enjoying all of the benefits of self-governance.
- Incorporating would provide Edgemont with the intangible benefits of having a village-based identity fully inclusive of the entire community.
Why Now?
- Recent land-use matters in Edgemont have been mishandled by Greenburgh, resulting in costly litigation and settlements. They have sparked Edgemont residents to consider the long-term impacts of the Town’s careless granting of variances.
- The Town's June 2017 reassessment has caused Edgemont's share of Town taxes to increase from 24% to over 26% for the same level of Town services.
- By becoming Greenburgh's seventh village, Edgemont will have its own local zoning and planning boards and could implement a comprehensive land-use plan reflecting Edgemont’s vision for Edgemont.
- As a village, we will represent 100% of our voting population. Edgemont will elect our own village mayor and trustees consisting of residents who are accountable to us.
- We believe that Edgemont would benefit from professional day-to-day executive management. Like Hastings, Scarsdale, Rye Brook and other well-managed and financially healthy Westchester municipalities, Edgemont would hire an experienced village manager to run the day-to-day operations of our government.