REMARKS
Preservation of community input in land use decisions
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Council Member Kevin Riley emphasizes the importance of preserving community input in land use decisions as part of the City of Yes modifications. He explains the current proposal and the council's stance on maintaining community involvement.
- Riley stresses that community voice is essential for addressing local concerns
- He clarifies that the administration's proposal does not change the ULURP process
- The proposal seeks to replace certain special permits with authorizations, reducing community input
- The council recommends modifying the proposal to maintain special permits and community input
Kevin Riley
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Finally, I'd like to touch on an important issue, preservation of a community's voice.
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As you can see in my remarks today, community voice is essential as it allows the council to act on community concerns and allows input into land use by those who know their community
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best.
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Before going into the ways that council is modifying the proposal to preserve community input, I wanted to explain the administration's proposal does not take away or change the EULA process.
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This proposal seeks to scale back the requirement for certain special permits that currently require community input and council's vote.
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The proposal is to replace these special permits with authorizations, which is a process that allows the CPC to modify certain zoning requirements without the council's review.
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This is not acceptable.
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We need to modify the proposal to maintain these special permits and maintain communities input.
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I just discussed a lot of information.
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We'll be posting the materials on the council's planning and land use web page that explained the modifications that we are recommending.
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I hope your main takeaway today is that we listen to our communities and that we carefully review the administration's proposal and that we are recommending modifications to reflect the actual lived reality of New Yorkers.
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Plans should not be a theoretical exercise or wishful thinking.
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It needs to reflect the actual built environment of our neighborhoods and be responsive to the challenges our constituents face every day.
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Okay.
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That was a lot.
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All right.
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Before I discuss the next vote, councilor, are there any council members with questions, remarks at this time?
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Members, appearing remotely, can use the raise hand function.
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Council member McCar.
David M. Carr
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Thank you, chair thank you, chair Riley.
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I'd like to take this opportunity pursuant to section 9.110 of the rules of the council to move to amend the motion to approve l u 1812024 with modifications to be a motion to disapprove.
Kevin Riley
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K.
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Council member McCart, you have to wait till we call the vote to make the motion.
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So I'll come back to you.
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Okay?
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K.
UNKNOWN
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No problem.
