Village of Port Chester Comprehensive Plan

The 2012 Comprehensive Plan vision focused on preserving Port Chester’s diversity, downtown vibrancy, and housing variety, while strategically guiding redevelopment in targeted areas such as the waterfront, downtown, and train station, alongside protecting established residential neighborhoods.

Plan the Port is the economic development and community visioning project that guided the development of Port Chester’s form-based code. Building upon the Comprehensive Plan, Strategic Plan, and the Plan the Port initiative, the Village adopted a form-based code in 2020. The character-based code was adopted to help foster predictable building results, a high quality public realm, and attractive streetscape.

AKRF’s 2022 parking study surveyed on-street and public parking lots in the village downtown and provided an analysis of off-street parking demand and regulations from other Westchester communities, and information from national and industry-wide sources.

The Village analyzed trends and provided recommendations to generate better housing outcomes for Port Chester residents. Key concerns identified in the report include housing affordability, displacement, and infrastructure capacity, particularly water infrastructure. Port Chester is facing stagnating wages and rapidly rising housing costs. The report found that the highest demand for housing is for low to middle income households and that Port Chester’s Hispanic and Latino households are more vulnerable to displacement than white, non-Hispanic households.

The LWRP is a long-range guide for future development of the Village’s waterfront. In addition to existing conditions and policy analysis, the plan includes a discussion of proposed waterfront projects, a central objective of which is to meaningfully expand public access to the waterfront.

Following the adoption of the form-based code, Port Chester developed a Master Transportation Study to identify traffic impacts of new development and create a “fair share contribution” approach for private developers to pay into a fund for transportation improvements to mitigate impacts.