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Downtown Steering Committee

Mission

In cooperation with other Town boards and agencies, the mission of the Downtown Steering Committee of the Town of New Castle is to recommend to the Town Board ways to improve, enhance, and revitalize the downtown Chappaqua hamlet by making changes that will affect the overall quality of life for residents, visitors, business and commerce.  The focus of the Committee is to encourage new vitality in the hamlet, while preserving its unique character and maintaining a full sense of community.

Report Submitted by Project for Public Spaces

The Town of New Castle is looking to enhance the identity of  downtown Chappaqua as a vibrant town center. This renewed community vision for the downtown, facilitated by Project for Public Spaces, (PPS) will help to ensure that the town grows and matures in an integrated way that best supports the community. icon Read the report here (4.57 MB).

Minutes of past meetings are available here.
Chappaqua Hamlet - Comprehensive Landscape Design Project PDF  | Print |  E-mail

In August 2008, The Town of New Castle retained a team of design consultants, Pouder Design Group, to advance a vision for the revitalization of the streetscape within the Hamlet of Chappaqua.  Click to see the plan ->icon Conceptual Plan for Downtown Chappaqua (3.32 MB)

Building upon previous studies of the area (i.e., icon 2003 Vollmer Associates Report and 2007 Project for Public Spaces Report (6.23 MB)),  the Town Board and Downtown Steering Committee (DSC) directed the consulting team to created a plan for the public areas based on these guiding principles:

  • Improve, enhance and revitalize the downtown Chappaqua to create a vibrant community destination and economically viable downtown district.
  • Encourage excellence in creative landscape design and programming in consideration with the distinct character, connections and small town charm of Chappaqua.
  • Create linkages between the architectural features, streetscape, and pedestrian elements and encourage the creation public open spaces.
  • mprove the aesthetics and functionality of public ways and sidewalks for directing the circulation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
  • Encourage the use of Low Impact Design tools and Integrated Management Practices.
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