PRESENTATION
Extensive community board engagement and modifications made
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Recognizing the complexity of the 1000+ page proposal, the Department of City Planning made extensive efforts to engage and educate community boards. This included:
- 175 meetings with 59 community boards by the Department of City Planning alone
- Providing annotated text
- Publishing one-pagers
- Addressing misinformation
- Making modifications based on community board feedback
Four out of five borough presidents recommended approval with conditions.
Dan Garodnick
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I will note, Mister Chairman, and I will dwell on this just for a second because you noted it in your in your opening.
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This was a dense proposal.
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This is a complicated proposal.
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It's more than a thousand pages worth of text.
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And, of course, when you do big things in New York City as it relates to zoning, that's how it's going to come out with a lot of text and lots of complexity.
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And we were sensitive to that.
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And we understand how hard that is for community boards to be able to grab with it, which is the reason why we added so much extra time, why we at the Department of City Planning had a 175 meetings with the 59 community boards in our agency alone.
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We sent annotated text to help understand the specific details.
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We sent 1 pagers to explain what it all means.
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We did a special event in the middle of the process of the community review to address misinformation, which was coming out in the community board process.
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And then equally importantly to all of that, we took community board feedback and made changes at the city planning commission and then reported back to community boards the changes that we made.
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You have all this information Before you, I will highlight a few of the changes that we made at the city planning commission in response to community board concerns, but there were a lot more than the ones that I'm highlighting today.
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And it really was an effort by us to show community boards that we were listening, and they raised some really good issues in the process.
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I also am pleased to report that 4 of the 5 borough presidents recommended to approve this proposal with conditions, borough president Mark Levin of Manhattan Baro President Vanessa Gibson of the Bronx, Baro President, Antonio Reynoso, Brooklyn, and Barbara President, Donovan Richards of Queens, who appreciative all of them.
