Mount Vernon, NY Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

Mount Vernon's zoning code, adopted as a form-based code for the Mount Vernon West Transit-Oriented Development Zone, sets a targeted electric-vehicle charging mandate rather than a citywide one. City of Mount Vernon Code Section 267-19 governs the MVW District, an area built around the Metro-North Mount Vernon West station in Westchester County, New York, and its Design and layout provisions for off-street parking state that any parking lot in the district holding more than 150 spaces must set aside at least two spaces for electric vehicle charging stations.

The requirement sits inside a broader package of design-and-layout rules that apply on top of the citywide off-street parking design standards in Section 267-38: shared driveways are encouraged to cut down curb cuts on Mount Vernon Avenue, Grove Street and Oak Street; off-street parking must be screened and landscaped; and parking structures fronting MacQuesten Avenue and Mount Vernon Avenue must be wrapped with ground-floor nonresidential uses. Because the MVW District operates on a park once model built around the train station, base parking ratios are already reduced under Section 267-19(8), and the electric vehicle spaces are layered onto whatever base parking count the project ultimately builds.

The rule applies at the site-plan stage: projects in the MVW District go through one of three review tracks, no-review, expedited review, or standard review, run by the Department of Planning and Community Development, the Planning Board and the Architectural Review Board, and layout compliance including the EV spaces is checked as part of that site plan approval before a building permit issues. There is no exemption for phased or shared-parking facilities; a shared-parking arrangement can supply up to half a project's required spaces but does not waive the two-space electric vehicle threshold once a lot exceeds 150 spaces.