OUR VISION

The map below describes the landholdings of the Peckham Materials Pleasant Valley Quarry. The quarry, originally operated by Dutchess Quarry & Supply Co. and owned by the Arborio family, was started in 1937. As one of the larger landowners in the Pleasant Valley community, Peckham collaborated with the Dutchess Land Conservancy (DLC) to create conservation easements that would protect large portions of our property from future development. These DLC easements will assure that future use and development of our property will be in harmony with the conservation objectives of the DLC, as well as the goals and objectives of the Town of Pleasant Valley’s Comprehensive Plan and Town Open Space Plan. The DLC is a non-profit conservation organization dedicated to preserving the rural character, important resources and open lands of Dutchess County.

Currently, Peckham is presenting the Town of Pleasant Valley with a proposal for a comprehensive approach to future use of Peckham’s properties in the Town to assist implementation of the Town Centers and Greenspaces Plan. Our proposal provides for three conservation easements to be entered into with the Dutchess Land Conservancy on approximately 295 acres of Peckham owned lands. The conservation easements will eliminate any future development on these properties such as sand and gravel mining or housing developments. To offset the loss of development rights and mineral resources under the conservation easements, Peckham is asking the Town to rezone approximately 23 acres adjoining south of the current quarry into the Quarry District.  One of the three proposed conservation easements will be placed on adjacent lands to ensure that the Quarry District will never be further expanded. Two more conservation easements will apply to Parcels west of North Avenue. This comprehensive approach will create a sustainable plan that preserves open space landscape values in Greenway Areas on North Avenue as identified in the Town Comprehensive Plan, as well as Priority Areas for Conservation, including the Gretna Road /Salt Point Area and Wappinger Creek Corridor, as identified in the Town Open Space and Farmland Plan, yet still allows continued mineral resource development on a much-reduced footprint.