The NYC Department of City Planning provides a comprehensive overview of the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity initiative, a proposed citywide zoning amendment aimed at addressing the housing crisis by enabling more housing development across New York City.

• The proposal includes changes for low-density areas, such as allowing 'missing middle' housing and accessory dwelling units (ADUs)
• In medium and high-density areas, the Universal Affordability Preference (UAP) would allow larger buildings if they include affordable housing
• Citywide changes include removing residential parking mandates and allowing conversions of non-residential buildings
• Environmental impact estimates project between 58,000 to 109,000 incremental housing units over 15 years
• The proposal is currently undergoing public review, with a City Council vote expected in the fall

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

I was not able to tie quotes from the testimony back to specific elements of the proposal. Check out another testimony here.

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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.