{"id":212420,"date":"2026-04-28T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212420\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:10:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-public-hearing-on-proposed-zoning-change-to-limit-size-of-levittown-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212420\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Public Hearing On Proposed Zoning Change To Limit Size Of Levittown Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Town of Hempstead residents will get a chance to speak out on a proposal to limit the size of new houses being built in Levittown.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/new-bill-would-limit-size-of-newly-built-homes-in-levittown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As News 12 reported<\/a>, the town is considering a new rule that would reduce the maximum footprint a home can occupy on a lot from 30% to 27.5%.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The plan comes as some residents have expressed concern about the size of new builds in recent years and how they negatively affect their own properties.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A public hearing on the proposed amendment will be held at Tuesday\u2019s town board meeting, which begins at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Levittown has long been known as America\u2019s first suburb, celebrated for its iconic modest houses built in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Town officials tell News 12 the proposed zoning changes would bring Levittown\u2019s regulations in line with 80% of the rest of Hempstead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Town of Hempstead residents will get a chance to speak out on a proposal to limit the size&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-212420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}