REMARKS
Subcommittee's approach to modifying the City of Yes proposal
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Council Member Riley outlines the subcommittee's process for reviewing and modifying the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal.
- The subcommittee considered multiple factors in their review, including climate change, infrastructure, access, housing diversity, and open space.
- Extensive public engagement was conducted, including reviewing submissions from community boards, elected officials, and over 1,300 written public comments.
- The council held numerous meetings, both in-person and virtually, to gather input from communities.
- The subcommittee aimed to find the right balance between competing objectives in addressing the housing crisis.
- Council Member Riley emphasized that this was the largest public engagement effort for any land use application during his tenure as subcommittee chair.
Kevin Riley
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Each of these factors that I just mentioned, climate change, infrastructure, access, a diversity of housing options, and open space must be considered in figuring out how to solve the city's housing crisis.
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And this is exactly what we did as a subcommittee when reviewing the administration's proposed reforms.
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I am now going to explain how the subcommittee is recommending to modify the city of YES for housing opportunity proposal to take into account each of these competing objectives.
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In finding the right balance between these objectives, we reviewed the detailed submission by the community boards and elected officials.
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We also considered over 1300 written comments submitted by the public.
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Besides these formal submissions, many, many and long means were held with communities in person and virtually.
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The council conducted the largest public engagement effort of any land use application since I have been chair of this subcommittee.
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We listened.
