Q&A
City Planning's response to infrastructure concerns
4:26:31
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81 sec
Chair Garodnick explains the city's approach to addressing infrastructure concerns related to the proposed zoning changes. He emphasizes the diffuse nature of the changes and how this allows for gradual adaptation.
- Highlights that changes will be spread out geographically and over time, allowing capital agencies to respond accordingly
- Mentions existing capital plans for schools (5-year), childcare, and open spaces (10-year) that can incorporate these gradual changes
- Emphasizes that enabling changes doesn't guarantee immediate development, allowing time for infrastructure adjustments
Daniel Garodnick
4:26:31
The way we address it is the fact that we have proposed something which is as diffuse as it is means that we will see a little bit of impact across the city geographically, but also over time.
4:26:45
It is the sort of change in contrast to a neighborhood wide plan where we created intensity of change in a specific area.
4:26:53
It is much more spread out in both geography and time in a way that allows our capital agencies to see the impacts and see them change in a meaningful way.
4:27:07
The areas which are most affected here potentially for schools, there's obviously a 5 year capital plan.
4:27:15
For childcare, there's a 10 year capital strategy.
4:27:18
For open space and parks, 10 year capital strategy.
4:27:21
Those are areas in which the city has a process and it sees what is coming based on what is actually activating as opposed to, you know, a a moment where we're enabling something to happen but that doesn't mean anything actually will happen.
4:27:38
It's very complicated to do any of the things that we're proposing here.
4:27:42
So the city will be able to see these things happening over a broad geography and over a broad amount of time.
4:27:48
To be able to incorporate that into its capital investments.
Linda Lee
4:27:51
Okay.
4:27:51
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