The Village is excited to announce that fourteen ChargePoint Level 2 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations are now live at McDowell Park, 439 Heatherdell Road. In the coming weeks, fourteen more chargers will be active at Pascone Park, 638 Ashford Avenue. 

The charger is available to the general public. The ChargePoint app is required to activate and pay for charging.  Charging rate: $0.30 per kWh

The Natural Resource Inventory is intended to serve as a reference document to assist the Board of Trustees, Planning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals, Village staff, and residents in reviewing development applications and planning initiatives.  

The adoption of the Natural Resource Inventory does not create new regulatory authority but serves as an informational and planning tool to guide future policy decisions and updates to the Village Code and Comprehensive Plan.  Read more NRI Report 

The Village of Ardsley has been a Tree City USA for 13 years.   Tree City USA is a national recognition program run by the Arbor Day Foundation that honors cities and towns committed to caring for their trees and urban forest.

It started in 1976 and has since recognized thousands of communities across the U.S.  Being a Tree City USA doesn’t mean a place just has trees - it means the community actively manages and protects them through a formal program.

Every fall, volunteers in the Village of Ardsley celebrate Arbor Day and plant several trees at a municipal park. The most recent event was at McDowell Park where a sugar maple and two red maples were planted by members of Scout Troop 3 and their families 🍁

DPW maintains all Village trees and prunes them as needed for safety. Overhanging and intruding vegetation is removed from all Village right-of-ways. Licensed arborists, under contract with the Village, are consulted to assess trees with obvious signs of disease, and treatment or removal of the specimen follows accordingly.   To learn more visit: Caring for Urban Trees  🌲

Do you want to get involved in environmental action, but need to step up your knowledge of key terms? 

If you’re struggling to keep up with the climate conversation, the Climate Dictionary is for you.  Read it, bookmark it, make use of it in your climate action work 📢

The 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or simply COP30, is an annual global meeting where nation's leaders, scientists, non-governmental organizations and civil society representatives negotiate goals and imminent actions against climate change.  

For the first time, the conference will take place in Brazil,  in the Amazon forest.  Learn more