Patterns for Westchester is the county's long-range land-use policy framework guiding local comprehensive plans toward centers-and-greenways development, mirroring specific-plan concepts used elsewhere but implemented through municipal master plans.
Westchester County does not directly zone land; that authority rests with the 6 cities, 19 towns, and 20 villages. Patterns for Westchester serves as the county's policy guidance, encouraging compact mixed-use centers along the Metro-North corridor, preservation of greenways and reservoir watersheds, and TOD around stations. Municipal comprehensive plans must consider county policy under General Municipal Law referrals when projects affect inter-municipal interests. The county Planning Board reviews referrals and offers nonbinding recommendations on significant projects.
Patterns for Westchester is advisory and carries no fines. Local comprehensive-plan or zoning violations are enforced by each city or village through standard zoning-code penalties.
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Yonkers, NY
Overnight on-street parking is generally allowed on residential streets but subject to alternate-side street-cleaning rules. Some zones require residential p...
Yonkers, NY
Retaining walls over 4 ft tall (from bottom of footing to top) require a building permit and engineered drawings in Yonkers. Walls with surcharge loads requi...
Yonkers, NY
Chickens and livestock generally prohibited in Yonkers residential zones. Zoning code allows only conventional household pets in single-family and multi-fami...
Yonkers, NY
Yonkers enforces New York State smoke and carbon monoxide alarm requirements under 19 NYCRR Part 1225 (Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code). All dwelli...
Yonkers, NY
Yonkers is not in a designated wildfire zone. New York does not maintain WUI (wildland-urban interface) fire hazard maps, and Yonkers is a dense urban city i...
Yonkers, NY
Yonkers is an urban municipality with no defensible-space brush-clearance mandate. Property owners must keep lots free of overgrowth, debris, and nuisance ve...
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