Open Space Plans of Orange County
What does this measure?
This indicator provides a list of municipalities in Orange County that have either a stand-alone open space plan or include open space policies within their comprehensive plans. The data also lists the type of plan and the year it was adopted or published.
Municipality: Town of Blooming Grove
Plan Type: Open Space Plan
Year (adopted/published): 2004
Municipality: Town of Chester
Plan Type: Recreation & Open Space Plan
Year (adopted/published): 2007
Municipality: Town of Cornwall
Plan Type: Open Space Inventory
Year (adopted/published): 2019
Municipality: Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson
Plan Type: Open Space Inventory (with Town of Cornwall)
Year (adopted/published): 2019
Municipality: Town of Warwick
Plan Type: Community Preservation Project Plan
Year (adopted/published): Adopted Aug 17, 2006; amended Aug 24, 2018
Municipality: Crawford
Has open-space policies in its 2017 Comprehensive Plan, but no stand-alone, adopted open-space plan
Municipality: Goshen
Open-space strategies are included in the 2017 Comprehensive Plan, not a separate open-space plan.
Municipality: Monroe
No formal open space plan; open space is addressed in subdivision regulations and comp-plan references.
Municipality: Montgomery
2021 Comprehensive Plan calls for creating an open-space/farmland preservation plan, but none adopted as a separate document.
Municipality: Mount Hope
“Open Space Plan” exists as a chapter in the 1991 Master Plan and is referenced in later comp-plan updates, but no separate plan.
Municipality: Walden
Open-space and park policies are part of the 2019–2020 Comprehensive Plan update, not a stand-alone OS plan.
Summary Statement
The data shows that several municipalities, including the Town of Blooming Grove, the Town of Chester, the Town of Cornwall, and the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, have specific open space or recreation plans. Other towns, such as Crawford, Goshen, Monroe, Montgomery, and Mount Hope, address open space through policies within their comprehensive plans rather than in a separate document. The Town of Warwick has a Community Preservation Project Plan that was adopted in 2006 and amended in 2018.
Sources
https://planning.org/knowledgebase/search/?page=74&q=site+plan
https://www.orangecountygov.com/2505/Open-Space-Fund-2025
https://bloominggrove-ny.gov/Community-Links
https://bloominggrove-ny.gov/Portals/5/documents/CAC/Local_Open_Space_Planning_Guide.pdf
https://chester-ny.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ChesterParkandRecreationPlan.pdf
https://hudson.dnr.cals.cornell.edu/conservation-planning/inventory-and-planning/open-space-planning
https://www.townofwarwick.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Warwick_Adopted_CPP-Amended-2018-08-24.pdf
https://www.scenichudson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Newburgh_Parks_inventory_220809_web.pdf
https://townofgoshen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UpdatedComprehensivePlan09172017.pdf