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Rockland Lawmakers Quarrel with Governor’s Approach to Local Housing Strategies

January 18, 2023 by Jeff Lewis

An ambitious plan by the state of New York to address the state’s housing crisis by building 800,000 new homes over the next decade is being met with criticism here in Rockland. In her 2023 State of the State address last week, Governor Kathy Hochul said local land-use policies aren’t helping keep people in the state…

New York District 99 Assemblyman, Democrat Chris Eachus, covering Stony Point and parts of Orange County, is concerned the governor is overstepping her bounds…

Rockland County Executive Ed Day told “The Morning Show” Friday that New York is a home-rule state, meaning that local communities are supposed to have control over their own zoning. Day said Rockland localities have already been preparing for transit-oriented development and don’t need Albany politicians to decide what should be done here…

Hochul’s so-called “New York Housing Compact” is a multi-pronged strategy, that would, in part, require municipalities with MTA rail stations to locally rezone for higher-density residential development. There are different target objectives for downstate and upstate communities, though it was not immediately clear what qualifies as upstate or downstate.

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