Westvale homes and Town of Geddes permits
Single-family detached houses make up an estimated 99 percent (margin of error 12 percentage points) of Westvale’s 2,028 housing units, and about 98 percent (margin of error 2 percentage points) of its homes are owner-occupied. The median Westvale home was built in 1956 (margin of error 2 years), according to the American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates.
Westvale is a Census-designated place, not a village, and it lies wholly within the Town of Geddes. A Westvale homeowner who plans to enlarge or alter a house therefore applies to the town’s Code Enforcement Officer under the Geddes building permit rule, not to a village office. The same rule exempts ordinary repairs that are not structural, so routine non-structural repair work needs no town permit. The Village of Solvay, which also lies in the Town of Geddes, is a separate municipality with its own code enforcement office, so its rules do not apply to Westvale homes.
