QUESTION
What will the Department of City Planning (DCP) do to communicate the final zoning proposal to community boards, especially those that voted against the proposal?
1:55:45
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DCP will go back to community boards, as required by the City Charter, to explain the final zoning proposal and how it incorporated their feedback.
- DCP already attended 175 community board meetings to get feedback on the initial proposals
- Changes made by the City Planning Commission were communicated back to community boards
- The current proposal before the City Council includes amendments based on significant community board input
- DCP commits to going back to community boards again after the final Council vote to explain the adopted zoning changes
Sandy Nurse
1:55:45
And then lastly, this isn't a question, but I think in terms of moving this proposal along, I think it's gonna be really important that DCP puts resources towards taking the final version that will be voted on, and you all putting some time and effort back into the community board, specifically targeting the community boards that voted this down no, which is quite a a number.
1:56:11
Right?
1:56:12
Some gave feedback a lot didn't, and I'm just really concerned that we don't we're not gonna have the adequate time necessary to re communicate what has transpired for people who cannot tune into these processes.
1:56:30
And I I really think DCP needs to be at the forefront of that and not the council members with our limited staffs and all the projects we have going on to be the, you know, the foot soldiers for what is your proposal.
1:56:45
And we if you want this, you you need to put some some boots on the ground and and shore this up and explain this and show how you have responded directly to the concerns put forward.
Dan Garodnick
1:56:57
Thank you, counsel.
1:56:57
Remember, I really appreciate that question.
1:56:59
It's also not only something that we should do, it's something that the charter requires us to do as a matter of law that we be a resource to community boards.
1:57:10
What I will note is, and this is a unusual for the department.
1:57:17
Not only did we ask community boards to give us the feedback that you're describing, proposal by proposal as a way for us to truly figure out what people thought because that was an earnest effort for us to say, well, where do you land?
1:57:29
Do you like proposal 1, 4, 5, 11, and 12, but dislike 3, 8, 9, 18.
1:57:35
Okay.
1:57:35
Tell it to us.
1:57:36
We want to understand it.
1:57:38
But we also went out to 170 5 community board meetings of the 59 community boards.
1:57:46
And when we made changes at the City Planning Commission, we did do what you are describing at least at that level.
1:57:52
To go back to the community boards and relay to them what we heard and the changes that we made and adopted at the city planning commission.
1:58:00
So what you have before you at the council is changes that incorporated significant amount of community board feedback and amended at the city planning commission to be responsive to them.
1:58:11
I I get it.
1:58:12
And we'll go back to them at the end as well.
Sandy Nurse
1:58:14
But going back at the end is gonna be really important.
Richard Moses
1:58:16
For sure.