Penn Yan's Comprehensive Plan

Under New York State Village Law §7-722, a Comprehensive Plan is the Village's official long-term planning document. It guides decisions about land use, infrastructure, housing, transportation, and the overall character of the community.

The statute makes one provision binding: all Village land-use regulations "must be in accordance with a comprehensive plan adopted pursuant to this section." That means zoning, subdivision rules, infrastructure standards, and major development decisions are all supposed to flow from, and remain consistent with, this single document.

If the Plan is out of date, the decisions built on it may be out of date too.

Penn Yan's current Plan was adopted in March 2017, replacing the 2000 Comprehensive Master Plan. It was amended once — in December 2022 — on the topic of housing only. The Plan does not stand alone: it works alongside the 2017 Infrastructure Design Criteria (the engineering rules every developer must meet), the 2010 Parks & Recreation Master Plan, and the 2017 Comprehensive Plan Appendix (community input record).

The Plan turns nine years old in 2026 and has not been substantively updated since 2022. That timing matters for active issues today.