QUESTION
What is the Department of City Planning's approach to funding infrastructure improvements in neighborhoods being rezoned?
2:22:35
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The Department of City Planning is identifying infrastructure needs and priorities in neighborhoods being rezoned through community input, and aims to fund and deliver on those priorities as part of the final rezoning agreements.
- The department's approach differs from the previous administration, which had a specific pot of funds set aside for infrastructure improvements in rezoned areas
- Examples of neighborhood plans currently underway are the Bronx Metro North Plan and Atlantic Avenue
- The department is open to discussing what infrastructure funding might look like for future mapped manufacturing zones
Lincoln Restler
2:22:35
And I represent areas that I think could make a lot of sense for the growth district.
2:22:39
This morning, I had breakfast in a hotel in a growth district and you know, it's like hotels and bowling alleys are the only kinds of businesses we're opening up in that IBZ at this point, and it's not working in the way that we had all intended it to.
2:22:51
And I think if we're strengthening protections and core districts and and and frankly strengthening the transition proposal more than what we've heard yet from the administration, then then adopting the growth model as well could make a lot of sense.
2:23:03
One related question that, you know, I think part of the reason there was success in the previous administration in rezoning a healthy number of neighborhoods was that there was an infrastructure fund set aside to go with those rezoning.
2:23:15
I certainly think something like that would be needed when we try to adopt when we try to map the the new zones into neighborhoods around the city.
2:23:24
Is that something that DCP has considered or any commitments you can make on that
Dan Garodnick
2:23:28
Well, in the context of neighborhood rezoning, we are doing a different approach in this administration as opposed to sitting on a specific pot of funds, what we are trying to do is in the context of neighborhood plans like our Bronx Metro North Plan or Atlantic Avenue, which are the first 2 that will be out the door here, that we are identifying through community needs, processes, community board, elected officials, city agencies that have actual priorities in those areas.
2:23:59
And then as part of our final points of agreement in connection with those rezoning, to be able to fund and deliver those at that time.
2:24:08
But in the context of future mapped m zones, we should talk about what that might look like, and we certainly look forward to continuing that conversation.
Lincoln Restler
2:24:19
I really appreciate it.
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