The City of White Plains Planning Board voted to draft a letter to the common council expressing support for a revised site plan for 1 Water Street, a 1.24‑acre, transit‑oriented project that proposes 380 residential units and about 4,000 square feet of retail.

The letter will reflect the board's generally positive view of the project's redesign and will be circulated to board members for edits; members agreed to allow submission of any additional comments in writing to the board secretary through Friday for inclusion in the letter.

Lucia Kyocchio, attorney with Cuddy & Feder representing 1 Water Street Acquisitions, told the board the project “includes 380 residential units and 4,000 square feet of retail space,” and said the development complies with the CB Core Business 4 zoning district and Central Parking District requirements and the city's affordable‑housing program. Chris Boone, project architect with Lazard Design, said the revised building has been reshaped from a more vertical form to a U‑shape, increasing street activation and adding terraces and landscaped setbacks.

Board members questioned details of the submission during the referral review. Several members asked about the building height and massing; board members were told the design now totals 18 stories inclusive of the penthouse (14 residential floors over four stories of above‑grade parking, plus one below‑grade level). The applicants said the project uses a zoning schedule allowance (footnote P) to achieve the proposed floor‑area ratio and that the land swap depicted in the materials was recorded in 2021 and therefore is already reflected in the owner's current site configuration.

On parking and open space, the applicants said the plan provides one parking space per dwelling unit plus 14 spaces for retail, for a total reported parking count of 394 spaces, and roughly 12,500 square feet of publicly accessible park space along Farris Street and Water Street. Kyocchio described the affordable housing approach as an 8% set‑aside, with a payment‑in‑lieu arrangement for a portion of the units; the submission lists six on‑site affordable units (one studio, four one‑bedrooms and one two‑bedroom unit) with the remainder addressed via payment in lieu as described in the application materials.

Board members and staff also discussed loading and service access, bicycle storage and the project's pedestrian connections to the train station. Boone said the design includes a secondary lobby on Farris Street to facilitate pedestrian access to nearby transit and that rooftop amenities and pool decks are screened and stepped back to reduce visible massing from the street.

The board voted to draft a letter for the common council indicating the planning board's positive view of the redesign, subject to circulating a draft and incorporating any additional written comments submitted to the planning board secretary by Friday. The motion passed on a voice vote.