Fordham Law School Professor Sheila Foster is quoted in a New York Times article about the Westchester County village of Larchmont’s unusual decision to pass a six-month moratorium on residential development in hopes of slowing a recent trend of teardowns.
The village is working feverishly with a planner in Hoboken, N.J., to come up with new regulations by July. That could cause as many problems as it fixes, said Sheila Foster, co-director of the Urban Law Center at Fordham University, noting that any new zoning cannot simply be directed at properties.
“You have to be careful, because everyone going forward would be cuffed by the same rules,” she said.