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Committee forwards form-based code edits including rec fee change and reduced first-floor heights; accessory building rule debated
Summary
The committee voted to forward edits to Kingston’s form-based zoning code that simplify the parkland/recreation fee process and lower first-floor height requirements; members debated a planning-board suggestion to require accessory buildings to be placed to a lot's side or rear and asked the zoning working group to revisit that separate policy.
The Laws & Rules Committee on May 21 voted to forward to the Common Council a package of targeted edits to Kingston’s form-based zoning code that streamline the parks and recreation fee process and change several dimensional standards, including lower first-floor height requirements for most transect districts.
Bartek (presenter identified as a staff member in the record) told the committee the City had already referred these proposed amendments under Common Council resolution 54 of 2025 to the Kingston Planning Board, the Historic Landmarks Preservation Commission and the Ulster County Planning Board and had set a public hearing. He said the edits are intended to fix inconsistencies in the code adopted in 02/2023, to better organize…
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