The first Town Board meeting of 2026 did not disappoint. The highlight? A presentation from the Open Space Acquisition Committee on preserving Bedford’s natural beauty. It even featured a beautifully crafted video by a local high school senior - well worth watching, either for the production value or to remember what Bedford used to look like.
Because the audience for all this was the very same Town Board currently attempting the ‘Bedford Bulldoze-a-Thon’. A group so committed to overdevelopment, they hand out variances and easements like Oprah: “You get a setback waiver! You get a parking variance!” *Provided you’re a developer. Residents can go kick rocks.
Plans are already underway to stack another apartment complex next to the one that just went up in Katonah. The Bedford Village Historic District may soon be known as ‘BV Commons,’ once the space behind the theater becomes a parking tower. And in Bedford Hills, brace yourself for Westchester’s first unregulated skyscraper - proudly featuring setbacks as thin as a Bedford Town Board agenda.
One thing is clear: open space is important. Just not as important as currying favor with a governor whose housing mandates have turned local zoning into a political audition. Because why stick around to govern Bedford when you can use it as a springboard?
Last night’s meeting felt less like a Town Board session and more like a Save the Rainforest fundraiser - accidentally booked inside a logging convention.
