Maybrook to regulate storage PODS

Audeen Moore
Posted 2/12/20

Moving/storage portable on demand (PODS) are getting more and more popular as they crop up in residents’ driveways or yards. Until Monday’s village board meeting, Maybrook’s zoning …

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Maybrook to regulate storage PODS

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Moving/storage portable on demand (PODS) are getting more and more popular as they crop up in residents’ driveways or yards. Until Monday’s village board meeting, Maybrook’s zoning code did not address any aspect of these metal containers. Now the code does.

Building Inspector Tim Ippolito asked the board for, and received, passage of a local law regulating PODs. The vote was unanimous.

Trustee Jim Barnett termed the new regulations “reasonable” and Mayor Dennis Leahy complained that some residents are putting PODS on their property “for a long time”. But not anymore.

The law allows the siting of PODS on residential and non-residential property on a “limited basis” not to exceed 30 days a year. No more than one unit is permitted. The PODs must be on paved off-street areas. There are size limitations and restrictions on what you can put in a POD. You can’t wire it or heat it or keep animals in one.

However, a POD that has been converted for use as an accessory building or shed is permitted, if it complies with all village building codes and land use requirements.