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Council Member Kamillah Hanks discusses the Landmarks Preservation Commission's role and recent initiatives
1:06:08
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Council Member Kamillah Hanks provides remarks on the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), praising their recent efforts to incorporate equity in their designation processes and take a more holistic view of preservation. She expresses interest in understanding LPC's evaluation methods, outreach processes, and management of federally funded restoration work.
- Hanks highlights LPC's 60-year history and its power to revitalize communities and drive investment.
- She emphasizes the importance of telling diverse stories of the city, including those that have been historically underrepresented.
- Hanks seeks information on LPC's efforts to increase the pace of landmark designations, process work permit applications, enforce complaints, and support office conversions and climate change resiliency projects.
Kamillah Hanks
1:06:08
Thank you chair Salamanca and welcome once again to LPC leadership to the members and the members of the public who are watching this hearing.
1:06:15
For six decades, l p LPC has sought to use the power of preservation to revitalize communities and drive investment to existing buildings and to tell the story of New York City.
1:06:27
I'm so pleased that over the past few years LPC has taken a more holistic view, and incorporated more strong strongly equity in assessing which designation proposals to pursue.
1:06:40
This means that telling the many stories of our cities, including the stories that are buried, sometimes quite literally in the ground requiring LPC urban archaeologists to excavate them, and at other times stories buried by historical under representation, racism, or other factors.
1:07:01
It is very positive to see LPC taking a broader view of what requires preservation and historical designation in the city, and today, the committee that hopes to learn much more about the ongoing process around making equitable designations across the five boroughs.
1:07:18
That of course includes my home borough, Staten Island, which is home to the city's oldest building dating back '62, which LPC designated in 1967.
1:07:30
I hope to better understand how LPC evaluates the economic and cultural impact of designations, and how their outreach processes are engaging all city residents.
1:07:43
I would also like to better understand how the agency manages federally funded restoration to work to make sure low income homeowners who live in historic buildings as well as not for profits have the necessary supports to preserve our shared heritage.
1:07:59
It is of particular interest.
1:08:01
And more broadly, we wanna hear more about LPC's efforts to increase the pace of landmark designations, processing work permit applications, enforcing complaints and possible violations, and supporting office conversions and climate change resiliency projects.
1:08:19
With that, I pass it over to chair Salamanca for questions.
1:08:22
Thank you very much and thank you chair.