The only formal amendment to Penn Yan's 2017 Comprehensive Plan since adoption.
Adopted by the Village Board of Trustees on December 20, 2022. One page. Covers senior housing and affordable owner-occupied housing only. Last reviewed on this page: May 2026.
Penn Yan's 2022 Housing Addendum is the only formal amendment to the 2017 Comprehensive Plan since the Plan's adoption. It was adopted by the Village Board of Trustees on December 20, 2022, five years and nine months after the underlying Comprehensive Plan took effect in March 2017.
The Addendum is a one-page document, formally titled "Review of the Comprehensive Plan as it relates to senior citizen housing and affordable owner-occupied single-family residences." Its scope is narrow: it addresses two housing categories (senior housing and affordable owner-occupied single-family residences) and does not revisit the Plan's broader analytical framework.
The drafting body was the Village Planning Board. The adopting body was the Village Board of Trustees. The Addendum was adopted under New York State Village Law § 7-722, which allows a Village to amend its comprehensive plan as long as it follows the required procedure.
The Addendum explicitly anticipates "developments in R-1 districts" via cluster and incentive zoning. R-1 is the Village's single-family residential zone. Cluster zoning lets developers group homes together on a site to preserve open space. Incentive zoning allows greater density in exchange for specific community benefits. This cluster-and-incentive-zoning language means future housing development in areas the Comprehensive Plan treated as single-family could fall within the Addendum's recommendations, including parcels that might later be added to the Village through annexation.
The Addendum identifies four specific recommendation areas. Each appears in the one-page Addendum as policy direction rather than detailed code language. Any specific code changes would require later action by the Village Board of Trustees. The four areas:
The Addendum calls for targeted zoning changes that allow for senior and owner-occupied affordable housing. The Addendum's text does not name specific zoning districts to be amended or propose specific density standards.
The Addendum recommends scale limits for low-rise and garden-apartment development. Specific maximum height, footprint, density, or unit-count standards are not stated in the Addendum's text.
The Addendum recommends buffer zones where higher-density development abuts R-1 (single-family residential) districts. The Addendum does not specify setback distances, landscaping standards, fencing requirements, or structural transitions for these buffers.
The Addendum recommends photometric and lighting standards for new residential development. Specific lumen, footcandle, or shielding metrics are not stated in the Addendum's text.
The Addendum focuses on senior and affordable owner-occupied housing. It does not revisit the underlying analysis of the 2017 Comprehensive Plan — see the 2017 Comprehensive Plan subpage for the full findings. Specifically, the Addendum does NOT update any of the following:
The 2022 Housing Addendum was formally adopted by the Village Board of Trustees on December 20, 2022. Adoption of a comprehensive plan amendment under New York State Village Law § 7-722 ordinarily generates a documentation trail — a public hearing record, a vote tally, identification of the trustees who made and seconded the motion, SEQRA classification documents, adopting resolution numbers, and, depending on the Village's procedures, Planning Board meeting minutes covering the drafting period. Several of these documentation items have not been located in the publicly available records reviewed for this page.
The following items relating to the Addendum's adoption have not been located in PennYanCitizens.com's available public records at the time of this writing:
A formal amendment to the Village's adopted comprehensive plan is a significant municipal action. The procedural documentation listed above is what a court, future researcher, or property owner would typically review to verify that the amendment was adopted in conformance with Village Law § 7-722 and SEQRA. These items are FOIL targets — accessible via a Freedom of Information Law request to the Village Clerk.
A focused FOIL request to the Village Clerk for "the public-hearing record, vote tally, SEQRA classification documents, and adopting resolution number for the December 20, 2022 Housing Addendum to the Comprehensive Plan, along with Village Planning Board meeting minutes covering the Addendum drafting period" would likely resolve all six gaps listed above.
For paste-ready FOIL request language and submission guidance, see the FOIL Requests Hub.
The 2022 Housing Addendum is a public record. PennYanCitizens.com hosts a copy on Box.com for direct download. The link below opens in a new tab.
Village of Penn Yan — Adopted December 20, 2022
1-page standalone PDF. Formally titled "Review of the Comprehensive Plan as it relates to senior citizen housing and affordable owner-occupied single-family residences."
View or Download on Box →The 2022 Housing Addendum is referenced across PennYanCitizens.com wherever the Village's amended housing policy is relevant to an active issue. Here is where it shows up.
The hub page covers the Addendum in context with the underlying 2017 Comprehensive Plan and the other Village planning documents (Infrastructure Design Criteria, Parks & Recreation Master Plan). It also covers the statutory framework under New York State Village Law § 7-722 and the question of how often a Village is required to update its plan.
Visit the hub →The underlying long-term land-use policy document the Addendum amends. Adopted in March 2017, the 2017 Comprehensive Plan provides the population, household size, infrastructure, fiscal, and Future Land Use Map analyses that the Addendum does not revise.
Visit the page →The five planning documents Penn Yan has adopted (or developed) between 1989 and 2026, including the consultants, steering committees, funding sources, and adoption records that produced each version.
Visit the page →The engineering manual that operationalizes the Comprehensive Plan. Adopted the same month (March 2017) as the underlying Plan itself. Sets technical requirements for water, sewer, stormwater, roads, and electric service.
Visit the page →In Development. The forthcoming McFetridge Compliance Audit subpage will use the Comprehensive Plan and the 2022 Housing Addendum as the primary policy framework for evaluating whether the Village has followed its own adopted planning commitments in the proposed McFetridge Farm annexation. The Addendum's cluster-and-incentive zoning recommendations, R-1 buffer recommendations, and silence on parcels outside the 2017 Village boundary are all directly relevant to that analysis.
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This subpage was last reviewed on May 20, 2026. Specific factual claims on this subpage carry their own source citations. The Village of Penn Yan has not been consulted in the preparation of this subpage. PennYanCitizens.com is an independent civic-journalism site; we are not affiliated with the Village of Penn Yan, the Town of Milo, or Yates County government.
Several items on this subpage depend on confirmation through Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request responses, in-person inspection at the Village Clerk's office, or access to Planning Board and Board of Trustees meeting minutes not currently in PennYanCitizens.com's available public records library. Section 5 of this subpage explicitly inventories what has not been located in available public records.
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