Research snapshot · Development · 31 August 2026

Zoning and site plan in New York: 10 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 17 dated municipal records flagged as zoning and site plan in New York, spanning 10 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Jamestown, 22 January 2021. Since then 10 New York towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Lockport on 22 July 2026.

The last 90 days put 3 meetings on the record, down from 4 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Common Council Agendas and, Town Board and Zoning Board of Appeals.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202500
Dec 2025 to Feb 202665
Mar 2026 to May 202653
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)32

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 6 meetings.

The towns on the record10, earliest first

Every New York town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Jamestownearliest 2021-01-22 · 1 meeting · latest 2021-01-22 · the document State of the City
Alfredearliest 2021-04-08 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-02-24 · the minutes June 2025 Meeting Minutes
Middletownearliest 2024-01-16 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-01-16 · the agenda Common Council Regular Meeting Agenda (PDF)
Uticaearliest 2026-01-15 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-08-10 · the minutes 060426 Plan Commission Meeting Minutes – Signed
Cohoesearliest 2026-01-27 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-01-27 · the agenda Packet
Lackawannaearliest 2026-01-29 · 4 meetings · latest 2026-05-15 · the document Public Hearing-Lackawanna-052226
Mount Vernonearliest 2026-02-11 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-02-11 · the agenda City Council Regular Meeting Agenda
Elmiraearliest 2026-03-03 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-03-03 · the agenda 2026 March Zoning Agenda
Irondequoitearliest 2026-04-21 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-04-21 · the agenda Town Board Meeting Packet - April 21. 2026 (PDF)
Lockportearliest 2026-07-22 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-08-12 · the meeting packet Meeting packet for 8.12.2026

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

12 August 2026 · Lockport

the meeting packet, on the town's own site Meeting packet for 8.12.2026

10 August 2026 · Utica

the minutes, on the town's own site 060426 Plan Commission Meeting Minutes – Signed

15 May 2026 · Lackawanna

the document, on the town's own site Public Hearing-Lackawanna-052226

21 April 2026 · Irondequoit Town Board

the agenda, on the town's own site Town Board Meeting Packet - April 21. 2026 (PDF)

Companies on this record39 companies, 12 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
ALSTARJamestown
AU Saxon Hill ProjectAlfred
Barrett’sAlfred
BMO Harris BankUtica
Bonadio GroupIrondequoit
C&S CompaniesLackawanna
Cutting Edge Forestry LLCUtica
Delaware River Solar ProjectAlfred
DolceJamestown
Finance and PlanningMount Vernon
Fleet Feet/Yellowjacket RacingIrondequoit
FogleLockport
Governor's OfficeAlfred
Greater Oshkosh Economic Development CorporationUtica
Greenthal’sAlfred
Horicon BankUtica
Irondequoit Bay Fish & Game ClubIrondequoit
Jasper'sUtica
K&M Builders of Pickett LLCUtica
Kings Landing Waste Treatment PlantIrondequoit
KirchbergerLockport
LandbankAlfred
LaSure'sUtica
MACEAlfred
McConville Considine Cooman & Morin PCIrondequoit
Mid-State Industries, LTD.Cohoes
New York State Attorney GeneralJamestown
Nightstick Club PBAIrondequoit
Northland PowerAlfred
NYS General City LawLackawanna

And 9 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 146 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

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Also at this scope: Zoning and site plan across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Zoning and site plan, New York

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

New York

every topic this state carries

Area

Development

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

10

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

22 January 2021

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

3 against 4 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

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