REMARKS
Modifications to the zoning proposal explained
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Speaker Adams details the modifications made to the zoning proposal in response to community feedback. These changes aim to balance neighborhood character with the need for increased housing development and affordability.
- Modifications focus on making development more contextual with existing neighborhoods
- Increased affordable housing requirements and lower income targets
- Protections for existing homeowners and tenants
- Limitations on Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and transit-oriented development in certain areas
- Introduction of citywide inclusionary zoning for the first time in New York City
Adrienne E. Adams
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Throughout the public review process for DCP's citywide zoning text amendment proposal, we heard the voices of residents across the city, including those who are concerned about what it could mean for their neighborhoods.
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Our modifications to the zoning reforms balance respect for neighborhood character because not all districts are alike with the citywide need to build more housing, especially affordable homes.
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Our modifications prioritized creating the greatest number of homes while maintaining the fair housing principle that every neighborhood contributes in a plan that could be approved.
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This council has led efforts to make housing more affordable especially at the deepest levels needed by most New York New Yorkers.
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We have championed the importance of homeownership through support for existing homeowners and the expansion of opportunities to own a home for more working class New Yorkers to stay in our city.
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We are proud of what we were able to secure through the council's city for all housing plan in conjunction with modifications to the citywide zoning text amendment.
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City for all was formulated with the input of council members, advocates, and most importantly, New Yorkers who made their housing concerns and challenges abundantly clear to us.
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While we recognize the importance of zoning reform to build more housing, especially amidst the housing shortage, we knew more was needed to keep New Yorkers housed and address growing housing insecurity.
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We successfully secured a historic $5,000,000,000 commitment towards key investments, and with this funding we will make homes more affordable and preserve existing affordable housing including NYCHA and Mitchell Lamas, support homeownership, protect tenants, strengthen our city's housing agencies, invest in the sewer, street, and open space infrastructure of communities, and encourage neighborhood rezoning plans that can produce more housing in the coming years.
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This is the type of comprehensive housing plan and level of investment that New Yorkers require to address their wide ranging housing needs.
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And yet we know there is so much more to do.
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Advancing solutions to difficult problems isn't easy, but it can be done when we unite behind the common goal to focus on what is best for New Yorkers and the future of our communities and the city that we all love.
