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Council Member Powers introduces City Planning Commission reappointment and provides background
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Council Member Keith Powers introduces the next public hearing for the reappointment of Leah Goodridge to the City Planning Commission. He provides a comprehensive overview of the CPC's functions, responsibilities, and membership qualifications, including its role in city planning, zoning, and environmental reviews.
- The CPC consists of 13 members, with appointments made by the mayor, public advocate, and borough presidents.
- CPC members serve five-year terms and receive annual salaries ranging from $64,224 to $73,855.
- Leah Goodridge, a resident of Brooklyn, is being considered for reappointment to serve a five-year term from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2030.
Keith Powers
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Next question.
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Our next public hearing will be a nomination for the City Planning Commission pursuant to sections thirty one and one ninety two of the New York City Charter in a letter dated 05/18/2025, public advocate Jermani Williams requested the city's council's advice and consent for the proposed reappointment of Leah Goodridge, a resident of Brooklyn, to serve a five year term as member of the City Planning Commission.
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Before I reintroduce the candidate, I'll review the functions and membership qualifications of the CPC.
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If reappointed, miss Goodridge will serve a five year term beginning on 07/01/2025, expiring on 06/30/2030.
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City Planning Commission is responsible for the conduct and of planning relating to the orderly growth, improvement, and future development of the city, including adequate and appropriate resources for the housing, business, industry, transportation, distribution, recreation, culture, comfort, convenience, health, and welfare of its population.
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The CPC is also responsible for the review of and has veto power over all proposals to change the zoning map, the city map, and the text of the zoning resolution, site selections for city capital projects, all major concessions, proposed franchises, and revocable consents the Department of City Planning determines would have land use impacts, proposed housing and urban renewal plans pursuant to state and federal law, sales acquisitions, leases, or other dispositions of real property of and by the city, and the granting of special permits pursuant to the zoning resolution.
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CPC oversees the implementation of laws that require reviews of actions taken by the city in particular city environmental quality review, state environmental quality review act, and the national environmental policy act.
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The CPC assists the mayor and other officials in developing the ten year capital strategy, the four year capital program, as well as the annual statement of needs and is also responsible for various rules including establishing the minimum standards for certification of applications subject to the uniform land use review process commonly known as ULURP, establish the minimum standards and procedural requirements for community boards, borough presidents, borough boards, and commission itself in the exercise of their duties and responsibilities in ULURP, establishing specific time periods for pre certification review of applications subject to EULERT, establishing procedures for environmental reviews required by law, and the preparation of environmental assessment statements and environmental impact statements, establishing the minimum standards for the form and content of 197A plans, enlisting major concessions or establishing a procedure for determining whether a concession is defined as a major concession.
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Also has the power to modify any amendments proposed by the mayor to change rules governing site selection and the fair distribution of city facilities, and it has CPC has exclusive power to propose additional categories of land use actions to be reviewed pursuant to EULRP subject to enactment by the council.
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City Planning Commission consists of 13 members with the chair and six other appointments made by the mayor, one by the public advocate, and one by each borough president.
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Members are chosen are to be chosen for their independence, integrity, and civic commitment.
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Appointments of all members except the chair are subject to the advice and consent of the city council.
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CPC's members except for the chair who serves at the pleasure of the mayor serve for five year staggered five year terms which begin the day after expiration of the previous term.
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For purposes of chapter 68 of the charter, CPC members other than the chair should not be considered regular employees of the city and are prohibited from holding any other city office while they serve on the CPC.
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There's no limitation on the number of terms a member may serve.
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The member who has served as vice chair receives an annual salary of $73,855.
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The other members receive an annual salary of $64,224.
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Lee Goodrich has been a member of the City Planning Commission since first appointed by the Public Advocate in 2021.
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Welcome and congratulations on your reappointment.