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Mount Vernon planning officials outline comprehensive-plan update, zoning rewrite and downtown design push
Summary
Deputy Commissioner Pam Tarla told the Real Estate Committee the city is advancing a long-delayed comprehensive plan update, a simultaneous zoning-code rewrite, and downtown-specific design work tied to a 17-acre brownfield site and other redevelopment efforts.
Deputy Commissioner Pam Tarla, Planning Department, told the Mount Vernon Real Estate Committee on Sept. 26, 2025, that the city is moving forward with a long-overdue comprehensive plan update and a concurrent rewrite of the zoning code to guide downtown redevelopment and reuse of a 17-acre brownfield site along the Hutchinson River.
Tarla said the comprehensive plan — the city’s guiding land-use document — has not been updated since 1968 and that staff held roughly 20–30 community visioning meetings to gather resident input for the new plan. “The goals are to increase the quality of life for Mount Vernon residents and their investors,” Deputy Commissioner Pam Tarla said, and she described the zoning rewrite as the next step to make that vision “as-of-right” and easier for property owners and developers to follow.
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