Greene County

Town of Windham, NY: zoning for new construction

Town of Windham has no zoning ordinance at all. There are no districts, no minimum lot sizes and no setbacks to look up here — but that is not the same as no rules, and it does not mean a project is unconstrained.

What we know

The Town of Windham has NO zoning ordinance — no districts, no minimum lot sizes, no setbacks.

How building actually works here

Windham runs an active Building and Code Enforcement office and adopted the NYS Fire and Building Code by local law in 2022, so permits and inspections are real here even though dimensional zoning standards are not. Call code enforcement before designing. The Town is a ski resort community largely inside the Catskill Park, so state land use rules, steep-slope conditions and stream corridors often matter more to what can actually be built than any local dimensional standard would.

Who to call

(518) 734-4170 — confirm the current position before relying on the absence of zoning. Ask specifically what does apply: subdivision, site plan review and the state building code usually still do.

Whatever you are told, do not assume a neighbouring municipality's standards apply here. Adjoining jurisdictions in Greene County routinely differ by several acres of minimum lot, and a nearby town's schedule is not evidence of anything on this side of the line.

Zoning in nearby Greene County municipalities

These do publish their codes, and we hold the full district tables for them:

See every municipality in Greene County →