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Inter-agency coordination and regulatory challenges in housing development
1:03:16
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Acting Commissioner Ahmed Tigani discusses the challenges of inter-agency coordination and regulatory processes in housing development projects.
- Multiple agencies need to work together to move a single project forward
- The Get Stuff Built report includes recommendations for streamlining processes with DEP, DOB, and state-level agencies
- Regulatory processes can add considerable time and cost to projects
- Initiatives like the green fast track have helped save time and money by removing unnecessary environmental reviews
Ahmed Tigani
1:03:16
And the only thing I'll add is, and this council has brought this up before and the administration has taken this seriously, so we are talking about multiple agencies having to work together to move one project forward.
1:03:26
So people are familiar with the Get Stuff Built report.
1:03:30
We have multiple recommendations that we're working on with DEP, with DOB, with our partners at the state level with DEC.
1:03:39
These permissions and regulatory pieces add considerable time to it.
1:03:43
So in both cutting that time, we can save tremendous money.
1:03:48
It's the reason why the green fast track was a priority.
1:03:50
By removing environmental pieces that don't seem to work out to actual issues, 98, 90 five percent of the time we saved a hundred thousand dollars in four months.
1:04:02
So if we can save these dollars through the regulatory piece.
1:04:05
If we can take projects that would otherwise use subsidy but have them use programs like J51 so we can make room for something else.
1:04:12
If we can get more resources and support that with additional staff in place, those are the things that would feed into the answer.
1:04:21
So that's why it's difficult to give you a certain range.
Pierina Sanchez
1:04:24
Yeah.