WHITE PLAINS—The Housing Monitor overseeing the $56.1-millionfederal fair housing case settlement with WestchesterCounty issued a report on Sept. 8 that charged sixmunicipalities in the county with engaging in exclusionaryzoning.
Those zoning practice foster clustering of two-family andmultifamily housing into disproportionally high minority householdareas and/or restrict two-family and multifamily development thatare popular with minorities.
Housing Monitor James Johnson, a partner withlaw firm Debevoise & Plimpton, LP of New YorkCity, found Harrison, Larchmont,Lewisboro, North Castle,Pelham Manor and Rye Brook tohave some or several forms of exclusionary zoning under an analysisof the Huntington standard that considers whether zoning codes havea discriminatory impact on racial and ethnic minorities.
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John Jordan
John Jordan is a veteran journalist with 36 years of print and digital media experience.
