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QUESTION
What is the Department of City Planning's stance on requiring ground floor manufacturing and industrial uses in mixed-use commercial and manufacturing buildings to help incentivize industrial businesses?
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The Department of City Planning is open to discussing requiring ground floor manufacturing and industrial uses in mixed-use buildings to support industrial businesses as the zoning update process proceeds.
- Council Member Restler expresses concern that not enough is being done to support industrial businesses in transition districts
- Restler believes it's important to require manufacturing on the ground floor of mixed commercial-industrial buildings to provide an entry point for industrial businesses
- Dan Garodnick from the Department of City Planning says they are open to discussing this requirement as the process moves forward