WHITE PLAINS – Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino called on US Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan to become involved in ending an impact between the county and the federal agency over implementation of the 2009 affordable housing settlement.

Astorino said Friday that HUD is practicing “unprecedented bureaucratic overreaching” and “unwarranted trampling of local zoning rights” pertaining to the settlement.

The county executive said the new demands by the government are “economically and legally impossible to meet and threaten to derail the agreement.” That document calls for the county to develop 750 units of fair and affordable housing in 31 mostly white communities over a seven year period.

He said the county is a year ahead of schedule in getting the units developed, but that progress will “come to a halt if HUD continues to make demands that constitute unprecedented bureaucratic overreaching by the federal government and an unwarranted trampling of local zoning rights.”

Meanwhile, County Board of Legislators’ Chairman Kenneth Jenkins said Astorino has essentially locked lawmakers out of the process of administering the housing plan and he urged both branches of government to work together on the plan.