A housing proposal on Peekskill's Frost Lane is coming back to the city smaller than it started.

The plan for 1130 Frost Lane now calls for 24 condominiums in 11 buildings.

An earlier concept, floated in December 2023, had 33 homes in 13 buildings.

The current mix is six ranch-style homes, eight garage-under units and 10 townhomes.

The applicant is Peekskill Views LLC, a company based in Spring Valley.

The bigger change may be what does not get built.

The site covers about 13 acres, and the plan would split it into two lots.

Roughly 5.27 acres would hold the homes, a new two-way road, parking and utilities.

The remaining 8.5 acres or so would stay undeveloped and carry a public trail network.

The developer has talked with the Westchester Land Trust about looking after the preserved land.

That is the trade a cluster development offers: homes grouped tightly on one part of a property so the rest can stay open.

For residents, the plan lists a playground, a dog park and landscaping.

Each unit would have a two-car garage wired for electric vehicle charging, plus two driveway spaces.

Affordability is the part still unsettled.

The developer has said it would set aside two homes as workforce housing, priced for households earning 61 to 80 percent of Westchester's area median income.

It has also said it would prefer to pay a fee instead, if the Common Council adopts rules allowing one.

Two homes out of 24 is a small share, and a fee would mean none on the site at all.

Neighbors will have their own questions about traffic, drainage and how a new road changes a quiet street.

Those are the questions a public hearing exists to air.

The Peekskill Planning Commission hearing on the project was due to resume at the commission's October 15 meeting.

Check the city's posted agenda for the time, the location and how to submit comments before you go, since meeting details can change.

Peekskill, like most of Westchester, is short on homes that working households can afford, and it is also short on open land.

This proposal asks the city to weigh both at once: fewer homes than first planned, in exchange for trails the public can use.

Whether that balance is right is for the commission, and the people who show up, to decide.

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