Planned Design District Overlay Zones

It is found and determined that there is a need throughout the Town of Yorktown to encourage and establish further economic development. To stimulate that growth and provide for revitalization, the Town requires the use of smart-growth techniques capable of creating smarter, less wasteful, and more economically efficient development patterns. Specifically, the Town needs flexibility in land uses which bolster economic development by providing not only a diverse array of commercial businesses, but mixed-use residential and commercial parcels to both provide abundant job opportunities and contribute to the local tax base.

This article regulates the location, design, occupancy, and use of structures and the use of land within the areas known as the "Planned Design District Overlay Zones" (hereinafter "PDDOZ") within the Town of Yorktown. The primary purpose of this article is to institute a legally enforceable zoning code for each unique Planned Design District ("PDD") adopted herein or prospectively, based upon and in furtherance of the goals established by Chapter 4 of the Town of Yorktown Comprehensive Plan adopted on July 15, 2010 (hereinafter "the Comprehensive Plan") and as hereinafter amended. The applicability of the provisions of this article shall only apply to the specific overlay zones duly adopted and set forth herein and to those properties within said zones that the Town Board has determined granting the flexibility allowed by the Planned Design District will result in a significantly better site plan that still protects the health, safety, and welfare of Yorktown's businesses and residents.

So far the Town of Yorktown has adopted two Planned Design District Overlay Zone areas; Yorktown Heights and Lake Osceola. The following are the documents prepared for the environmental review of these two areas.