Plans for Yorktown Muslim Center Held Up by Traffic

April 14, 2005

Source: The Journal News

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050414/NEWS02/504140355/1020/NEWS04

On April 14, 2005 The Journal News reported, "the Yorktown Planning Board could vote on dividing the old Franciscan High School property, part of which would be used as a mosque and Muslim center, as soon as May 9. If the opening of public hearings on plans to turn a former Catholic high school into a Muslim center were marked with alarm from some in Mohegan Lake who said it was necessary to question their neighbors in post-9/11 America, the public comment sessions ended calmly this week... Over the recent weeks of dialogue between neighborhood leaders and the prominent local Arab-American family that wants to open a mosque at the old Franciscan High School, concerns have moved back to a more familiar realm — traffic. That worry is not surprising given how burdened northern Yorktown residents feel about sprawl and congestion."