From Assembly Line to Sidewalk Cafe: Turning an Automobile Assembly Plant into a New Town in Sleepy Hollow, New York - A Case Study of Positive Land Use Change Triggered by a Local Environmental Law

摘要

This paper examines the practical application of local land use law in the context of turning an area of abandoned industrial blight, a defunct GM automobile plant, into what will soon be an economically productive and aesthetically appropriate site within the historic Village of Sleepy Hollow.