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Planning commission debates new "unified residential development" use for town center
Summary
Commission reviewed a draft ordinance to permit a new residential use in the town center with design standards, setbacks, parking and adjacency limits; members directed staff to split out a separate building-setback item and send the draft for Act 247 review.
The Westchester Borough Planning Commission spent much of its Sept. 23 working session reviewing a draft ordinance that would create a new permitted use called “unified residential development” in the town center and establish area, bulk and design standards for such projects. Tom (meeting speaker who drafted and explained the text) walked commissioners through a multi-page ordinance that, as written, would allow consolidated residential developments subject to specific limits on tract size, density, setbacks, parking and design.
Tom said the draft derives from a sketch plan for 410 South High Street and is intended to provide a rules-based path for developments that replicate traditional, owner-occupied housing forms rather than large, multi-story urban apartment buildings. “This is where, your input is needed,” Tom told the commission as he read standards on minimum and maximum tract sizes, adjacency…
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