CLARKSTOWN RESIDENTS: Stopping Highrise Hoehmann’s Reckless Overdevelopment has always been mission-critical for me.
We won't stop until Hoehmann and the yes-men council are GONE! I will continue to show up, FIGHT FOR YOU, and protect the suburban character of your neighborhood.
Right now, Clarkstown's zoning code has nothing to say about data centers. No definition. No limit. Nothing.
That's not a small gap. The day a developer files for a windowless server farm — one that can pull as much electricity as a small city and millions of gallons of water for cooling — the town would be writing the rules with the applicant's lawyers already in the room. Say no then, and we're in court. Decide it now, and it's settled.
Nearly 12 gigawatts of data center load is already sitting in New York's grid queue, and towns across the state are fielding these proposals.
So I drafted the law myself: data centers and crypto mines prohibited in every zoning district — with the ordinary server rooms at your office or school expressly protected.
Your power bill. Your water. Your quiet street. Decided before someone else decides for you.
Either way, ~$600k of your tax dollars have been paid out without proper backup documentation to justify it.
I have submitted complaints to the NYS Comptroller and Attorney General requesting they conduct a proper audit and investigation.
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Learn where Eugene stands on ending overdevelopment, stabilizing your taxes, enforcing our codes, and bringing real term limits to Clarkstown. Read his story, see the Bondar Blueprint, and find out how you can get involved before November 3rd.
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You're paying high taxes, and in some cases, may feel overwhelmed every year to see the tax bill keep going up.
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Hundreds of residents showed up to tell the Planning Board that they do not want overdevelopment in their neighborhoods.
Your attendance is essential for protecting your quality of life in Clarkstown.
Residents have the real power to determine what gets built in our neighborhoods.
July 29, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in Room 301 @ Town Hall
The destruction of our neighborhoods and natural habitat MUST be stopped! There are no good reasons for this giant warehouse to be built in Congers close to private homes.
This is not about generating more property taxes, because then there wouldn't be a HUGE tax break!
This is not about creating jobs for the long term!
This is not what the residents of Congers want!
Only one candidate is running this November for Supervisor that has not received tens of thousands of dollars from developers and realtors. There is only one candidate who has been aggressively fighting, both publicly and behind the scenes, to stop overdevelopment in Clarkstown. And that candidate is NOT HIGHRISE HOEHMANN!
Nobody on the current 5-0 Hoehmann Board cares about YOU! If you do not want your neighborhoods destroyed, YOUR CHOICE is to JOIN ME in the fight to take Clarkstown.
I will answer only to the residents, not anyone else! I will protect our suburban lifestyle, and I will end the reckless overdevelopment.
I am Eugene Bondar, a New York and New Jersey attorney and candidate for Clarkstown Town Supervisor. As part of my campaign platform, I am releasing a proposed local law I will introduce if elected: a temporary moratorium on development applications in Clarkstown's Hamlet Center zoning districts.
Why?
In 2023 and 2025, Clarkstown enacted sweeping zoning amendments without completing the studies the Town's own 2021 Comprehensive Plan required.
First. No hard-look SEQRA review. The Negative Declaration did not fully analyze cumulative traffic, infrastructure, and community character impacts as required under 6 NYCRR 617.10(d) and the Town's own FGEIS.
Second. No comprehensive traffic study. High-density zoning was approved across four hamlets without analyzing cumulative traffic impact.
Third. No design safeguards. New districts promote density without enforceable architectural, scale, or buffering standards.
Fourth. No impact fee system. Existing taxpayers bear the full infrastructure cost instead of developers.
Fifth. No Housing Needs Assessment. We do not know if these zones produce the affordability levels Clarkstown residents actually need.
What would the moratorium do?
Pause approvals for 12 months to commission the traffic study, complete the SEQRA review, draft zoning code amendments, develop impact fees, and conduct a Housing Needs Assessment.
Full proposed law: voteforbondar.com/proposed-laws-and-policies
Happy to answer any questions below.
Over the last 10 days, I've shared the outline of Chapter 135 — a proposed law to protect Clarkstown homeowners, support the good, hardworking contractors who do things the right way, and preserve the professional standards our Town has always counted on.
This isn't a sketch. It's a 29-page drafted law — over 20 hours of work drawing on my decade as a government attorney, including prior experience in Consumer Affairs and for the County of Rockland. When I say Chapter 135 is ready to introduce on Day 1 in office, I mean the text is written, the authority is grounded, and the structure is designed to survive legal challenge.
The response over these past ten days has been encouraging. But a law on paper isn't a law that passes.
Here's how you can help make Chapter 135 real:
1️⃣ READ IT. The full 29-page draft is at https://voteforbondar.com/proposed-laws-and-policies/. If you're going to vouch for it, know what's in it.
2️⃣ SHARE IT. Send this post to a neighbor, a family member, or a friend who's hired a contractor in the last five years. They'll want to know this is coming.
3️⃣ MESSAGE ME. Questions, suggestions, critiques, or offers to help — send them. I read every message. If you're a contractor, a homeowner, a former building inspector, a union member or leader, a lawyer, or just someone with an opinion — I want to hear from you.
The strongest laws come from the strongest conversations. Let's have them. 🏡
🧠 Some people have asked me: why draft a new contractor law now? What changed?
Here's the honest answer.
For 40 years — since 1984 — Clarkstown homeowners have been protected by strong County-level oversight of home improvement contractors. That oversight worked. It created expectations. Homeowners knew they had recourse.
In April 2026, Rockland County reorganized that program. The enforcement infrastructure that backed up those protections was reduced.
That's a decision the County made. I'm not here to litigate it.
But when a layer of protection that homeowners have relied on for 40 years changes, a Town Supervisor's job is to respond — to make sure our residents don't lose what they've always had.
Chapter 135 is that response. It preserves the level of oversight Clarkstown homeowners have always expected, delivered at the local level, administered by our Building Department, and paid for by contractor fees.
Chapter 135 has been fully drafted and will be formally introduced to the Town Board upon my taking office as Supervisor in 2027.
It's not reactive. It's not political. It's a Town doing what a Town should do when circumstances change: protect its residents.
Read the full draft at voteforbondar.com/proposed-laws-and-policies/. Tell me what you think. 🏡
📝 A note to the home improvement contractors in our Town:
Chapter 135 was written with you in mind.
If you carry proper insurance, use written contracts, handle deposits responsibly, and deliver what you promise — you already meet every standard in this law. The $50,000 bond is a cost of doing professional business. The escrow requirement for large deposits is a protection you should welcome, because it also protects YOU from disputes.
What this law actually changes is the competitive landscape:
✅ Contractors who operate under a different business name every 18 months can't undercut you anymore
✅ Operators who take deposits and walk away can't hurt homeowners — and can't hurt your reputation by association
✅ A clear local registry means homeowners can verify credentials instantly before they hire
The professional standard becomes the minimum standard. That's good for you.
Chapter 135 also includes a 180-day transition period for contractors already operating in the Town — plenty of runway to come into compliance — and preserves your access to Town debris disposal.
I'm open to feedback from anyone in the trades. If there's something in the draft that doesn't work for legitimate businesses, I want to hear it. Message me. voteforbondar.com/proposed-laws-and-policies/. Tell me what you think. 🏡
🗣️ Quick story: a Clarkstown homeowner pays a contractor $40,000 upfront for a kitchen remodel. Two weeks later, the contractor disappears. The money is gone. The kitchen is still torn apart.
This scenario — which plays out in towns across the country every year — is exactly what Chapter 135 is designed to prevent.
Under my proposed law, no contractor can take a deposit over $25,000 without placing the funds in an escrow account at a federally insured bank or an attorney's IOLA account.
Here's what that means:
✅ The money sits in a third-party account — not the contractor's bank account
✅ Both the homeowner AND the contractor must authorize each release
✅ Funds only move when an actual milestone is completed (framing inspected, drywall finished, etc.)
✅ The contractor pays the account setup costs — not the homeowner
This is how modern real estate closings work. It's how trust accounts in law firms work. And it's how Clarkstown can make sure homeowners don't lose $40,000 in a weekend.
Read the full proposal at https://voteforbondar.com/proposed-laws-and-policies/ 🏡