REMARKS
Council Member Oswald Feliz introduces bill Operation Green NYC
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Council Member Feliz explains his bill to convert street medians into green spaces.
- The bill requires converting a minimum of 3 miles of street medians per borough per year into green spaces.
- Feliz says adding greenery will beautify communities, improve air quality, reduce noise, promote mental health, and increase flood resilience.
- He advocates transforming existing concrete/paved medians and incorporating green infrastructure in new median projects.
- Feliz expresses pride in the bills before the committee and eagerness to discuss his bill further.
Oswald Feliz
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Good afternoon, everyone.
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Thank you all for being here, and thank you chair Brooks Powers for this hearing.
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Very proud of the many bills before this committee today, including my bill.
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Operation, Green, and YC.
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My bill will help create better communities for all New Yorkers by improving our street medians, many which are made up of nothing but concrete and pavement.
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It'll require us street median as we turn it to green.
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3 miles per barrel, per year.
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Street media has to be converted into green.
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The greenery will bring millions of benefits to our communities.
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It will not only beautify our communities, making them more attractive, including other neighborhoods that we live in, but also our small business corridors.
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It'll also help clean our air.
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It'll also help reduce noise pollution.
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The beautiful green will also even help with mental health.
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And, of course, even more than that, it'll also help on the issues related to flooding and other environmental threats that we continue to face.
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So many benefits.
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We need to be creative.
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We have many mediums in our communities.
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They're made up of concrete.
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Pavement.
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Many are already there.
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There's also many new ones coming up.
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Why not beautify them with green?
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Why instead of just creating nothing about pavement and how creating our communities, why not build a green infrastructure so that we can easily achieve the many benefits that come with that?
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Thank you so much.
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Look forward to talking about my bill with all of you.