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Chad Purkey from the Association for Better New York (ABNY) on City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal

7:40:49

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Chad Purkey, Interim Executive Director of the Association for Better New York (ABNY), testifies in support of the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal. He emphasizes the need for balanced and impactful responses to address New York City's housing crisis.

  • Purkey strongly supports all text amendments in the proposal, highlighting the increased balance they introduce to the zoning resolution.
  • He argues that the proposal offers better balance between prescriptive regulations and expanded options for property owners to meet evolving housing needs.
  • ABNY believes the proposal introduces the necessary balance between boldness and thoughtful policy solutions, prioritizing permission over directives.
  • The city is in a housing crisis that requires impactful yet measured responses
  • Support for all text amendments in the proposal due to increased balance in zoning resolution
  • The proposal offers better balance between prescriptive regulations and expanded options for property owners
  • Supports relegalizing building types like apartments over stores
  • Advocates for easier housing conversions
  • Supports giving more autonomy to single-family homeowners and religious/nonprofit institutions
  • Encourages allowing more varied housing types, including smaller shared housing
  • Supports extending affordability bonuses to more neighborhoods
  • The proposal offers a balance between boldness and thoughtful policy solutions
  • The reform will offer long-term benefits to residents across all city neighborhoods

[EXPERIMENTAL]

Which elements of City of Yes for Housing Opportunity were discussed in this testimony?

  • UAP
  • Residential Conversions
  • Town Center Zoning
  • Campuses
  • Small and Shared Housing

The following are AI-extracted quotes and reasoning about which elements of the proposal were discussed in this testimony.

This is a quick, close approximation. Occasionally, the connection between a testimony's transcript and specific elements of City Planning's proposal is tenuous.

Read about this AI-generated analysis here.

UAP

"Allowing more communities to reap benefits from affordability bonuses that today are excluded from parts to many neighborhoods."

This quote suggests a discussion of the Universal Affordability Preference (UAP) element, as it refers to expanding affordability bonuses to more neighborhoods, which is a key aspect of the UAP proposal.

Residential Conversions

"Allowing proven successful housing creation like conversions to be replicated more broadly and easily"

This quote directly addresses the residential conversions element of the proposal, suggesting support for making it easier to convert non-residential buildings into housing.

Town Center Zoning

"This would mean relegalizing building types that nonsensically today are essentially banned despite them being present in large spots of our city like apartments over stores."

This quote directly refers to the town center zoning element, which aims to relegalize mixed-use buildings with apartments above stores in commercial areas.

Campuses

"Allowing single family homeowners and religious or nonprofit institutions with campus is more autonomy in choosing how they use their properties to meet their short and long term needs for their families and their communities."

This quote directly mentions allowing campuses more flexibility in property use, which aligns with the Campuses element of the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal.

Small and Shared Housing

"Allowing New Yorkers to choose more varied housing types, including smaller shared housing"

This quote directly mentions allowing smaller and shared housing options, which is a key component of the Small and Shared Housing element of the proposal.

About this analysis:

This analysis is done by AI that reasons whether or not a quote from the testimony discusses a particular element of the proposal.

All the prompts and data are open and available on Github.

You can search for testimonies that mentioned a specific element in the table on the main meeting page.

When an element is explicitly stated in the testimony (e.g. "Universal Affordability Preference" or "UAP"), the analysis is accurate.

But the connection between a quote from the testimony and an element of the proposal is sometimes implicit.

In these cases, the AI might eagerly label a testimony as discussing a proposal when the connection is tenuous, or it might omit it entirely.

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Chad Purkey
7:40:49
Thank you.
7:40:49
It's late.
7:40:50
I'll keep it brief.
7:40:51
But good afternoon, commissioner, Cherilyn, Nick.
7:40:53
Thank you for the opportunity to testify on behalf of the Association for Better New York, Abney.
7:40:58
In support of the city of yes for housing opportunity proposal.
7:41:01
My name is Chad Perkins, the Interim Executive Director at Abney.
7:41:03
We're an organization with the mission of fostering dialogue and connections between the public and private sectors to make New York City a better place to live, work and visit.
7:41:12
As every New Yorker knows, we are in a housing housing crisis.
7:41:15
This crisis requires impactful yet measured responses that balance the myriad factors that will let us here and then need careful consideration to alleviate it.
7:41:23
So strongly support all of the text amendments in the proposal because of the increased balance that they introduced throughout the zoning resolution.
7:41:30
Each point in the package offers better balance between zoning codes, prescriptive regulations, which to often confine and limit with that of choices.
7:41:38
And expanded options for homeowners and property owners to make decisions on how to most effectively use their homes or property to meet their families or communities evolving housing needs.
7:41:47
If we want to see the solutions to this crisis, which we know are more housing, lower housing costs and a greater number of housing options for an ever diversifying an aging mix of households in our city, need to see the city of Yale's housing opportunity adopted in its entirety.
7:42:01
This would mean relegalizing building types that nonsensically today are essentially banned despite them being present in large spots of our city like apartments over stores.
7:42:10
Allowing proven successful housing creation like conversions to be replicated more broadly and easily, allowing single family homeowners and religious or nonprofit institutions with campus is more autonomy in choosing how they use their properties to meet their short and long term needs for their families and their communities.
7:42:27
Allowing New Yorkers to choose more varied housing types, including smaller shared housing, allowing more communities to reap benefits from affordability bonuses that today are excluded from parts to many neighborhoods.
7:42:37
Those only mentioned just a few of the numerous benefits of this reform would create.
7:42:41
But we believe at Ebony that this proposal offers and introduces the balance needed between the boldness and urgency that this crisis demand with thoughtful policy solutions that prioritize permission over directives with choices that will offer long term benefits to residents across all the city's neighborhoods.
7:42:56
The factors of performance we believe will move New York City forward and we strongly support adoption.
7:43:00
Thank you.
Dan Garodnick
7:43:00
Great.

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