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The presentation of the code workshop that took place in December is now available here for download. It is a large file so please be patient.

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To facilitate your review of the code, we have prepared an executive summary that gives you a snapshot of the new standards and the differences with the existing code.

The purpose of this Executive Summary report is to introduce form-based codes or character-based codes, and to provide guidance as to how to use the Form-Based Code. Specifically, this document will enable Village staff, Trustees, and the public-at-large to familiarize themselves with how a form-based code regulates development for a particular piece of property. This document is outlined as follows:

1. Form-Based Code Overview
2. Introduction to Character Districts
3. Breakdown of Specific Character District Regulations
4. Building Types
5. Lot Layers & Encroachments
6. Parking
7. Uses
8. Site Plan Procedure
9. Nonconforming Uses

The Plan the Port Code First Public Draft is now available for review and comment! The Plan the Port team is looking forward to hearing feedback from everyone interested in reviewing the code. We ask that comments be provided before November 21, 2018 end of business day.

You can provide your feedback directly on this website by clicking here.

The First Public Draft of the new Port Chester Code was presented by our team of consultants last week on October 11, 2018. If you have missed the presentations you can view the PDF of it on our Code page here.

Our team is working hard to get this first draft finalized and available for all to see in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned everyone!

You can now view the Closing Presentation of Planapalooza that we taped for those you might have missed the event. Please enjoy!

Simply click on the Title above to be redirected to the video.

About 100 people packed the Caver Center in Port Chester last week to consider some novel development concepts as part of Port Chester’s efforts to overhaul its zoning regulations, according to the Westchester County Business Journal.

Billed as Planapalooza, the presentation was part of a series of events that looked at affordable housing, transportation, open space and waterfront development among issues facing the village’s future. Town Planning & Urban Design Collaborative, a Tennessee-based planning consultant hired by the village of Port Chester to lead an effort to modernize its zoning, ran the session which contemplated different example development schemes for the village.

“This is the way you start thinking about the future,” Brian Wright told a crowd of Port Chester residents on March 28. “You draw big ideas and you see what happens.”

Wright is founder and principal of Town Planning & Urban Design Collaborative, a Tennessee-based planning consultant hired by the village of Port Chester to lead an effort to modernize its zoning. He was speaking in front of a projection screen at the village’s Carver Center as the finale to a week of community planning and discussion events known as Planapalooza, a term Wright’s company trademarked.

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