Strengthen cross-jurisdictional planning and coordinate with neighboring municipalities, State, County and regional agencies in project review of developments likely to cause impacts beyond the Town’s borders

The Town should strength­en its rela­tion­ships with sur­round­ing munic­i­pal­i­ties to ful­fill its respon­si­bil­i­ty as a con­sid­er­ate neigh­bor, as well as to accom­plish plan­ning goals that have impacts across polit­i­cal bound­aries. In iden­ti­fy­ing biot­ic and open space cor­ri­dors that reach beyond New Castle’s phys­i­cal bor­ders, the Town should coor­di­nate with sur­round­ing munic­i­pal­i­ties to pre­serve these cor­ri­dors. When nec­es­sary, the Town should fos­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tion between neigh­bor­ing munic­i­pal­i­ties regard­ing rel­e­vant plan review that sup­ple­ments the Westch­ester Coun­ty refer­ral process. The Town should also con­tin­ue to par­tic­i­pate active­ly in cross-juris­dic­tion­al water­shed plan­ning and pro­tec­tion. The Town should pro­mote and help coor­di­nate inter-munic­i­pal scenic road preser­va­tion, includ­ing work­ing with state, coun­ty and local offi­cials to mit­i­gate impacts on our scenic roads from util­i­ty companies.