GENERAL ORDINANCE
BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT COLLINS-BELLAMY, MAJORITY LEADER RUBBO, MAJORITY WHIP NORMAN, MINORITY LEADER BREEN, COUNCILMEMBERS, PINEDA-ISAAC, DIAZ AND HODGES:
A GENERAL ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 43 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF YONKERS ENTITLED “ZONING” BY AMENDING SECTION 43-33(J)(2) OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF YONKERS AS IT RELATES TO FRONT YARD SETBACKS FOR THROUGH LOTS AS DEFINED IN THE CODE
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Section 1. Recitals
The City of Yonkers is home to a great diversity of residential property types that all have their own unique set of attributes and challenges.
The Yonkers City Code serves to guide and direct the orderly development, maintenance and management of all of these properties to promote the interests of health, safety and welfare.
“Through lots”, defined in the Code as lots that have frontage on two (2) different streets, are one such property type.
Section 43-33(J)(2) of the Code exists to address the challenges of planning for the development of such properties.
However, over the years, as a practical matter this section of the Code has inadvertently created confusion, ambiguity and inconsistency in its application thereby resulting in the need for property owners to incur the time, cost and uncertainty of applying for interpretations and variances from the Zoning Board of Appeals in order to develop their properties.
For that reason from time to time, the City reevaluates the Code and its application to determine whether the existing standards continue to meet their intended objectives in an efficient and predictable manner.
At this time it appears that amending the Code as described below will promote the efficient and consistent development of the unique “Through Lots” spread throughout the City.
Towards that end, on June 9, 2026 the City Council adopted a resolution (Res. 117-26) indicating its intent to act as Lead Agency under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), determining that this Zoning Text Amendment...
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