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The issue

Development applications pending in Clarkstown.

Every application now before the Town, what each one actually proposes, and where it stands. Taken from the Town's own records and its published meeting agendas and minutes.

Units in applications with a stated count
601
More sought in the Paramount rezoning
230
Square feet of warehouse in Congers
561,520

What this page counts

Overdevelopment is the word most people in Clarkstown reach for, and it is usually said without numbers attached, because the Town does not publish them in one place. This page is the numbers. It covers applications where a Town of Clarkstown record states what is being proposed.

There is no single Town source that will tell you how many applications are open. The Planning Department publishes project records through the Town's mapping service, and the Town publishes agendas, packets and minutes for the Technical Advisory Committee, the Planning Board, the Architectural Historic Review Board and the Zoning Board of Appeals. Reading the agendas for 2024 to date turns up eighty-nine distinct project names. Several of them are plainly active and appear nowhere in the Planning Department's records, among them the Clarkstown Plaza Redevelopment, Homesteads at Demarest and Crystal Lake Condominiums, and at least one is filed there under a different spelling from the one the agendas use.

So this page does not offer a headline count of open projects, because no reliable one exists. It counts units instead, and it names every application it counts.

How Clarkstown got here

None of this happened by accident, and it did not start with any of the applications below. It started with the zoning.

The hamlet center rezonings of 2023 and 2025

In 2021 Clarkstown adopted a Comprehensive Plan Update, which also served as the town's Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement. That document is the official long-range vision for how Clarkstown grows, and it identifies traffic congestion as one of the town's major problems.

In 2023 and again in 2025, the current administration created and then amended the Hamlet Center Zoning Districts covering New City, Congers, Valley Cottage and West Nyack. Those changes raised the residential density allowed in the heart of each hamlet and modified the parking required to go with it. The environmental review behind them produced a Negative Declaration: a finding that the rezonings would have no significant adverse environmental impact.

The 2021 plan had expressly called for later implementing actions to get their own site-specific and action-specific review. That review was not done. Neither was a fresh study of what the cumulative traffic from the new density would do to roads the town had already identified as a problem.

Nearly every large application on this page sits in one of those districts, or in a corridor feeding them. The applications are not the cause. They are the consequence.

The applications

Largest first. Together they come to 601 units. The Paramount Country Club petition would add 230 more and is handled separately below, because it asks the Town Board to change the zoning first.

152 apartments

New City Living

180-248 and 254-258 South Main Street, New City

A 176,360 square foot five-story residential building with 152 multi-family units and two levels of parking, together with site plan amendments, a four-lot subdivision and a special permit. An earlier description of the same application had the building at six stories.

Land
11.972 acres, H4 zoning
Tax parcels
51.07-1-10 and 51.07-1-11
Latest step in the record
Planning Board environmental review and public hearing at preliminary, July 15, 2026
121 units

One75 Senior Housing, 175 West Clarkstown Road

175 West Clarkstown Road, New City

A 146,880 square foot three-story senior housing complex with 96 one-bedroom and 25 two-bedroom dwelling units.

Land
9.18 acres, R-22 zoning
Tax parcels
50.12-2-41
Latest step in the record
Technical Advisory Committee chairman's endorsement, May 27, 2026

Full detail on this application →

103 apartments

New City Center Redevelopment

The ShopRite shopping center, New City

A lot merger and redevelopment of the existing shopping center, replacing it with a 137,686 square foot five-story mixed-use building holding 103 residential units and 8,733 square feet of retail over enclosed ground-floor parking, plus a new 4,000 square foot retail building and a 2,258 square foot quick-service restaurant. The residential floor area in the plan grew from 94,916 to 112,709 square feet between July 2025 and May 2026 without the unit count changing.

Land
13.94 acres, H4 zoning
Tax parcels
43.15-1-21, 22, 27, 30, 32, 34, 35 and 37
Latest step in the record
Planning Board environmental review and public hearing at preliminary, May 20, 2026
85 units

Squadron Senior Housing

Nanuet

An age-restricted housing project of 85 dwelling units, 10 one-bedroom and 75 two-bedroom. The 85-unit ceiling is a condition the Town Board attached when it amended the terms of a 2009 zone change from PO to AAR in the spring of 2023.

Land
AAR zoning
Latest step in the record
Preliminary, application logged January 13, 2026
52 units

Nannawitt Commons

250 South Middletown Road, Nanuet

A 65,241 square foot three-story affordable senior housing complex with 27 one-bedroom and 25 two-bedroom units and 100 parking spaces.

Land
2.52 acres, PO zoning
Tax parcels
64.13-1-1
Latest step in the record
Planning Board final review, May 20, 2026
50 apartments

Clarkstown Plaza Redevelopment

170-172 and 174 South Main Street, New City

Removal of about 17,000 square feet of existing commercial space and the addition of a four-story, 50-unit residential building.

This application does not appear in the Town Planning Department project records.

Land
H4 zoning
Tax parcels
51.07-1-9 and 51.07-1-34
Latest step in the record
Technical Advisory Committee review, February 11 and September 2, 2026
17 lots

Homesteads at Demarest

New City

A 17-lot cluster subdivision on an undeveloped parcel.

This application does not appear in the Town Planning Department project records.

Tax parcels
51.06-3-1, formerly 38-A-11
Latest step in the record
Technical Advisory Committee review, April 30, 2025
15 lots

Rockland Country Day School Residential Subdivision

Congers

A residential subdivision of the former Rockland Country Day School property into fifteen lots. On February 28, 2026 the Town Board authorized the Planning Board to apply Town Law § 278 to it, the cluster provision that lets a planning board modify the lot dimensions the zoning district would otherwise require. A member of the Town Board has described the lots as intended for houses at roughly $1.5 million each.

Land
R-40 zoning
Tax parcels
44.14-1-31.2 and 44.14-1-31.1
Latest step in the record
SEQR determination January 13, 2026; Town Law § 278 authorized February 28, 2026; subdivision map signed March 24, 2026; first extension request and site plan modification, Planning Board, July 29, 2026
6 units

749-755 Route 9W Multi-Family Development

East side of Route 9W, Valley Cottage

A merger of two lots totaling 1.09 acres, then six two-bedroom multi-family dwelling units in two buildings, with a 400 square foot community hall. The existing single-family house stays. The County records that variances for lot coverage and maximum allowable density will be needed. The applicant is Richard Piccininni, doing business as 749-755 Route 9W LLC.

The Rockland County Planning Board voted unanimously to disapprove this application on August 8, 2024. See below.

Land
1.09 acres, MF-1 zoning
Tax parcels
53.13-2-28 and 53.13-2-29
Latest step in the record
Zoning Board of Appeals hearing on Appeal 4408, June 23, 2025; Planning Board resolution, April 22, 2026

Zone changes since 2023

Site plan applications work within the zoning a parcel already has. A zone change asks the Town Board to alter the map itself, which is a decision elected officials make rather than an appointed board. Four petitions by applicants have come before the Town Board since the start of 2023, on top of the hamlet center rezonings the Town initiated on its own.

The Dells, Inc. (Paramount Country Club)

R-160 to R-22 on parcels 34.11-1-1 and 34.10-1-50, to allow 230 units.

Referred to the Planning Board September 9, 2025 by Resolution 433-2025. Planning Board review continued to a date uncertain on June 10, 2026.

Full detail on this application →

Squadron Land LLC

Amending the conditions of the 2009 PO-to-AAR zone change adopted by Resolution 40-2009, with the number of units capped at 85.

Public hearing set April 25, 2023, acted on May 23, 2023.

Hansen Brothers

R-22 to Local Shopping at 241 South Little Tor Road, New City, parcel 51.09-1-49.7. Residential land converted to a commercial district.

Referred to the Planning Board March 26, 2024, Town Board action July 23, 2024.

Rockland Hospitality Associates LLC

Parcels 64.10-2-1 and 64.10-2-2 at 425 and 431 East Route 59, Nanuet. A daycare center and 8,438 square feet of retail and commercial space, not housing.

Referred October 14, 2025, local law amending the Zoning Map adopted March 10, 2026.

What the County said

Some Clarkstown applications also go to the Rockland County Planning Board. State law requires it whenever a project sits on or near a county or state road, a county or state park, or a municipal boundary, and for larger subdivisions and residential projects. The County reviews the file and issues a recommendation. That recommendation is not a veto, but it is not decorative either: when the County recommends disapproval, the local board needs a supermajority to approve the project anyway.

Nine Clarkstown matters went to the County between 2024 and today. One of them was disapproved outright. On August 8, 2024 the County Planning Board took up the 749-755 Route 9W multi-family application and voted unanimously to disapprove it, listing among its reasons a very steep downhill slope where the driveway meets Route 9W, inadequate turnaround for emergency vehicles at the end of the driveway, parking the Board thought insufficient for residents and guests together even though it met Town requirements, no area shown for garbage and a parking layout a refuse truck would struggle to use, no indication of where snow would be stored, and a community hall the Board called extremely small and could not identify a use for. The application is still live.

Cedar Corners, in Congers, is on the County Planning Board's agenda for September 10, 2026 as a State Environmental Quality Review Act update. It is not counted above because it is warehouse rather than housing, and it is the largest thing pending in the Town. It has its own page.

Where Eugene stands

Eugene Bondar's objection is not that Clarkstown should never build. It is that the Town rewrote the zoning without studying what the new density would do, and is now deciding the applications that zoning produced one at a time, without ever adding them up.

"Every one of these gets reviewed as though the others do not exist. Nobody at Town Hall has put the traffic, the sewers, the schools and the storm water from all of them on a single page and asked whether Clarkstown can absorb it. That is not planning. That is processing paperwork."
Eugene Bondar

He has published a proposed twelve-month zoning moratorium that would pause approvals under the Hamlet Center districts until the Town completes the project-specific environmental review New York law requires, and he has asked the Town Board to reject the Paramount Country Club rezoning outright. He has spent his career on the other side of this table, as counsel to a county planning department and planning board, and his argument is that the cumulative load is exactly the question a town is supposed to answer before it approves, not after.

The proposed zoning moratorium → The Paramount rezoning, explained →
Sources

Descriptions and unit counts are the Town's own, taken from published agendas and minutes on the dates given. Applications change between filings, and several of these already have. The fifteen-lot figure for the Rockland Country Day School subdivision comes from the Planning Board application; the price per house is attributed to a member of the Town Board. This page reflects the record as of September 11, 2026.