QUESTION
Why were 'last mile' warehouses not addressed in the Department of City Planning's proposal?
3:15:30
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Dan Garodnick explains that 'last mile' warehouses were not included in the proposal due to its focus on quick actions to support businesses and address vacancies post-pandemic.
- Including 'last mile' facilities would trigger an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and lengthier public review, deemed out of scope for the current proposal.
- The proposal aims to provide swift support for businesses and address vacancies caused by the pandemic.
- A micro distribution proposal is seen as part of the solution, allowing package delivery in neighborhoods to reduce truck trips.
- This approach aims to make freight delivery more efficient by reducing the need for delivery vehicles to travel long distances between large distribution facilities and destinations.
Kevin C. Riley
3:15:30
Speaking of last mile, if DCP is seeking to reduce the negative impacts of truck traffic, from package areas.
3:15:37
Why doesn't this proposal not also defined and address the huge last mile warehouses that have spread throughout many of our industrial districts?
Dan Garodnick
3:15:45
Yeah.
3:15:45
Thank you, Mister Chairman.
3:15:46
We we certainly heard that point from from your colleagues and also received a a letter on the subject.
3:15:52
This proposal was developed from the standpoint of what were those relatively quick actions that we could take to help businesses get into space and to address vacancy coming out of the pandemic that was what we were after here.
3:16:05
And a city wide attempt to restrict last mile facilities via zoning would almost certainly trigger an EIS requiring a lengthier public review process that than what we were going through.
3:16:19
And as you know, for that reason, it would be out of scope for us to add it to the proposal today.
3:16:24
But we do view that micro distribution proposal that you'd just mentioned as part of the solution here.
3:16:30
Today, there's no ability for package delivery to occur in neighborhoods close to where people live.
3:16:36
So delivery vehicles end up having to go back and forth and back and forth between large distribution facilities and people's homes and business This proposal would most certainly reduce truck trips by making freight delivery and logistics more thoughtful and more efficient.
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