Traffic and parking are one of the main focus areas of the proposal. The owners hired a professional traffic and parking consultant, John Canning (a resident of Irvington for _ years), to study existing conditions and the likely impacts of the new hotel and residences. That work has looked at peak-hour trips, how traffic is spread throughout the day, and how vehicles move to and from Main Street, West Clinton, and the area around the train station.

As the application moves forward, the Village will also have its own consultants review these studies and can require additional analysis where needed. Those reports will be public and linked on both the Village website and the Our Cosmopolitan site.

Yes. A major goal of the proposal is to remove the building’s current demand from South Buckhout. Today, the former warehouse/office use is under-parked, and overflow ends up on nearby streets and in the Metro-North lot. The new plan fully parks the building on-site in an underground garage so that cars associated with the building no longer need to use Buckhout for daily parking. 

Any decision about future on-street regulations on South Buckhout (for example time limits or residential permits) would be made by the Village, not by the project team. The intent of this project is to give the Village more flexibility by eliminating the building’s overflow.

Each residence is assigned parking based on its size: two-bedroom units receive 1.5 parking spaces, and three-bedroom units receive 2 parking spaces.

The garage will be a managed facility. Hotel guests, visitors to the spa and restaurant, and residents will use either valet or self-park within the garage. Final pricing and policies (for example whether there is a separate fee or if it is bundled with a room or lease) will be determined closer to opening, in line with typical hotel and residential operations.

The project does not include any street parking in front of the hotel, and all regular parking and deliveries will take place in the underground garage. The project does not require any on-street parking. Any decisions about residential-only, time-limited, or other on-street parking regulations on Buckhout are entirely up to the Village.

Vehicles will access the garage off of Astor and exit the garage on the Metro-North (MTA) side of the site, not onto Buckhout. Guests arriving by car will use valet parking at Buckhout or garage access off the west side; when events end at night, cars leave down toward the MTA lot and then back out toward the station area, rather than exiting onto Buckhout. 

The basic idea is to shift vehicle movements away from Buckhout and closer to the train station circulation, where traffic is already oriented.

Yes. That is standard in a project like this. The owners have hired their own traffic consultant to prepare studies, and the Village will typically retain its own independent traffic and parking consultants to review those studies, ask questions, and request additional work where needed. That is expected here, and the team has already acknowledged that Village consultants will review and may ask for more analysis

All of those materials will be part of the public record.

Yes. The event space in the new program is roughly the same size as the existing event space in the building (about 140 people). The parking analysis includes that use, along with hotel rooms, residences, the spa, restaurant, and staff. 

Because different uses peak at different times (for example, events mainly in evenings and weekends, some hotel guests arriving by train), the shared 192-space garage plus valet management is designed to meet those combined demands.

Pedestrian safety is a major part of the design. Today, Buckhout functions as a loading and truck street with limited sidewalks. The proposal removes the loading dock and trucks, adds new sidewalks, and creates a safer connection from the east side of the village down to the waterfront and the MTA lot.

As traffic studies progress, key crossings and walk routes used by students will be part of the analysis. Any recommended improvements (such as signage, crosswalk enhancements, or timing changes) would be reviewed with the Village and, where relevant, other agencies.

Signalized intersections are ultimately decided by the Village and, in some cases, county or state agencies. The project’s traffic studies will look at how the development affects nearby intersections and will provide data the Village can use in its decisions.

If the Village and its consultants determine that changes such as a new signal, timing adjustments, or other measures are warranted, those would be handled as part of the broader traffic and safety planning. The development team cannot independently install a new traffic light, but will cooperate with any requirements that come out of the review.

The way the site is designed is what drives behavior. All hotel guests, spa visitors, restaurant patrons, and residents will be directed to the valet off Buckhout and garage on the west side of the building. The site design is for Buckhout to become a sidewalk and landscaped entrance area, not a parking zone.

Parking supply for the building is entirely within the underground garage. Wayfinding, hotel operations, and any future on-street rules determined by the Village will work together to keep building traffic in the garage and off neighborhood streets.

Based on the professional parking analysis, 192 spaces meet the projected demand for all of the proposed uses, and represent a significant improvement over the current situation, where the building would require more than 600 spaces if built under today’s code but has only about 62 on site.

The future uses generate lower parking demand than a fully leased industrial/office building of the same size. Shared parking and valet management allow the spaces to be used efficiently across the day and week, including for larger events.

The pattern of traffic will change, but the overall intensity is expected to be lower than a fully occupied warehouse/office building. Right now, traffic is concentrated in weekday rush hours. A hotel and mixed-use program spreads activity more evenly throughout the day and week.

In addition, many hotel guests are expected to arrive by train, and visitors who do drive will park in the garage on the MTA side rather than circulating on Buckhout.