Jeff Lewis

A shooting over the weekend at a home on a usually quiet cul-de-sac in Clarkstown has the supervisor looking to beef up the town’s rules regarding rental properties. The house at the center of the incident on Turnberry Court in New City sold just last month and was, police say, being used as a rental property. Orangetown supervisor Teresa Kenny says in Orangetown they have a landlord rental registry, but no restriction on Air B&Bs. Kenny says she’d rather not put too many restrictions on homeowners…

Clarkstown’s supervisor says homeowners have to join a registry in order to rent their homes out. In Stony Point, supervisor Jim Monaghan says they had trouble with a few homes last year, but they changed their laws to ban short-term rentals, and instead rentals now have to be a minimum of 30 days…

Ann Zeilingold is Vice President of FM Home Loans in New City, and says while she owns two properties and rents them as Air B&Bs, she’s glad she’s not living next door to one, but she doesn’t think municipalities should overreact…

Four Brooklyn men and a juvenile were arrested early Saturday afternoon in New City after multiple gunshots were fired. There were no injuries. If you have information or video of the incident, Clarkstown Police ask you to contact them at 845-639-5840.

Another vote has been set for next week following Tuesday’s failure by the legislature to authorize the county executive’s spending plan to create an office of Building and Codes to take over that function for the village of Spring Valley. While the law passed unanimously, three legislators left the meeting early so the vote on the budget stalled. Justin Schwartz heads up the Rockland Illegal Housing Task Force, and he called on the three to resign, calling their actions “failed justice for Jared Lloyd” and a slap in the face of every county volunteer firefighter and Rockland resident…

Rockland County Executive Ed Day says a Declaration of Procurement Emergency may be needed to let the County’s Director of Purchasing release the funding required to hire building inspectors and code enforcement officials…

Callers to “The Morning Show” yesterday said they were disturbed by what they perceived to be the legislators’ lack of concern for Rocklanders’ safety…

The Legislature put out a statement late yesterday afternoon, and said of the three legislators who left the meeting early, Ramapo’s Alden Wolfe was given permission to be excused early for a personal matter, Clarkstown’s Aney Paul said she had technical issues during the meeting, and Ramapo’s Toney Earl had undergone a medical procedure earlier in the day, but was able to sign-in to vote to create the office, but not on the budget. WRCR reached out to them for further comment, but we did not hear back. The state-authorized move to take over the village building department comes in the wake of last year’s fatal fire at the Evergreen Adult Home in which a resident and Spring Valley firefighter Jared Lloyd were killed. Two former Spring Valley building department employees and four others have been charged in connection with the blaze.