Q&A
Council member requests transparency on DCP communications with outside groups
5:23:15
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Council Member Holden requests transparency from Chair Garodnick regarding the Department of City Planning's communications with outside special interest groups about the City of Yes proposal. Garodnick expresses willingness to discuss the matter publicly but pushes back on the broad nature of the request.
- Holden suggests the proposal looks like a 'developer's dream and a neighborhood nightmare'
- Garodnick offers to explain the proposal's origin in the public forum
- The exchange becomes somewhat tense, with interruptions from both sides
Robert F. Holden
5:23:15
Thank you.
5:23:16
And now for something completely different.
5:23:20
Would you be willing chair to to give to the council all communications between DCP and the outside special interest groups?
Daniel Garodnick
5:23:33
You're gonna have to be a little more specific about your question and what what is
Robert F. Holden
5:23:36
Well, it's you know, again, I'm I'm suspicious.
Daniel Garodnick
5:23:39
We talk to a lot of people all the time.
5:23:41
It sounds like a
Robert F. Holden
5:23:42
Well, it's
Daniel Garodnick
5:23:42
like burden that you're asking to impose upon me, but to impose your
Robert F. Holden
5:23:46
I'm I'm asking you, would you be transparent as to where this came from?
5:23:50
Who you spoke to?
5:23:51
What how It almost looks to me that this is a developer's dream and a neighborhood nightmare, especially for Queen's.
5:23:58
But let me let me get into some and I'll just ask if you are willing to turn over information as to how this came up.
Shahana Hanif
5:24:05
I'm
Daniel Garodnick
5:24:05
willing to tell you right here in a public forum in a forum exactly.
5:24:07
No.
5:24:08
No.
Robert F. Holden
5:24:08
I mean, you
Shahana Hanif
5:24:08
don't wanna
Daniel Garodnick
5:24:08
you don't wanna hear it here?
5:24:09
I want Rick.
Robert F. Holden
5:24:10
You
Daniel Garodnick
5:24:10
don't wanna hear?
5:24:11
How it came to be in a live Well,
Robert F. Holden
5:24:13
I have
Daniel Garodnick
5:24:13
far more about it.
Robert F. Holden
5:24:14
I have some more questions.
Daniel Garodnick
5:24:15
Alright.
5:24:15
Well, Carrie, you could
Robert F. Holden
5:24:16
you could add that at the end, but are you willing to turn over?
Shahana Hanif
5:24:18
Right.
Daniel Garodnick
5:24:18
I'm gonna I'm prepared to answer you right now.
5:24:20
And if you look for them how this thing came to because after 4 years of engagement, a city fair housing plan, an opportunity to Alright.
5:24:28
Open a door and neighborhood fill in the city this morning in the in the works for a very long.
5:24:32
Yeah.
Robert F. Holden
5:24:32
I mean, you can get on the soapbox, but it doesn't help in in what what's going on in this city right now in this administration.
5:24:39
Alright?
