Mount Vernon Comprehensive Plan

A Comprehensive Plan is a framework that guides the City’s future by providing policy and actions related to future growth, and development. The Mount Vernon NY Comprehensive Plan will be a living document that will outline a shared vision developed through a community-driven process, for the City’s future. It will guide the City and community in decision making about land use, zoning, transportation, housing, parks and open spaces, City services, and other important aspects of the community in the years to come. Typically, a comprehensive plan addresses the following topics. The Mount Vernon NY comprehensive plan will also address Downtown Revitalization, and Economy and Businesses.

The Comprehensive Planning process has two distinct phases: the first phase focuses on the Downtown and the second phase takes into consideration the entire City of Mount Vernon NY. At the current time, it is anticipated that both the phases will be completed within an 18-month period beginning 01 December 2022. Ongoing engagement throughout the planning process, and especially at key milestones will guide the development of the plan.

Project Phases

Chapters in the Final Plan

Vision and Goals	Land Use	Housing
Given that the Mount Vernon NY Comprehensive Plan will be developed through a community-driven process, this chapter will outline the community’s shared vision, accompanying goals, and objectives. These goals and objectives will guide the development and the recommendations for each of comprehensive planning topic.	The land use chapter is the cornerstone of a comprehensive plan and will establish policies to guide the physical form of the city. It will also provide direction on the type and range of development, density distribution, conservation, preservation, and land use compatibility issues.	The housing section will provide an overview of the housing stock, types of housing offerings and their condition, home prices, building permit data, vacancy rates and owner-occupied housing versus renter-occupied. Based on the demographic projections, this section will assess future housing needs.

Socio-economic Characteristics	Parks and Open Scape	Mobility and Transportation
This section will provide information about the Mount Vernon NY community’s population by age, gender, racial characteristics, household size, number of households, income levels etc. It will also provide population projections for the next 10 to 20 years based on the current demographics trends.	The Parks and Open Spaces chapter will include an overview of the City’s parks and open spaces including both soft- (parks) and hard-scape (plazas). The section will guide the future planning and design of active and passive recreation, as well as discuss where there are opportunities to reclaim/repurpose land as new open space.	Mobility and transportation will map and provide an overview of existing roadways, streets, transit services, and popular modes of transportation. A primary consideration will be the interconnectedness of key places, last-mile options to better integrate Mount Vernon NY’s community with Metro North stations, and streetscapes for a more equitable distribution of the roadway for all modes of travel including bikes and pedestrians.