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Balancing fair share housing goals with community board input using criteria
3:20:33
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Commissioner Shams DaBaron asks Nichola Cox how to implement 'fair share' housing goals if community boards can reject projects. Cox suggests using clear criteria—evaluating a community's past contributions, the project's impact, and other planned developments—to balance citywide needs with essential local input and context.
- Cox proposes a checklist or criteria-based approach.
- Factors include past housing contributions, project impact, and pipeline developments.
- Acknowledges need for citywide/borough perspective but stresses balancing it with local knowledge.
- Context matters: asking for minor additions differs greatly from proposing large-scale changes in already burdened areas.
Shams DaBaron
3:20:33
So the one thing that I'm struggling to understand is, if if every community board can and I'm I really wanna learn.
3:20:46
Mhmm.
3:20:46
If every community board is able to reject housing for whatever reasons, whether it's too too tall or whatever.
3:21:00
The the question is that what happens, when we try to spread development to places that, where there is not the the fair share?
3:21:12
Like, how do we how do we address that part?
Nichola Cox
3:21:16
Well, I think it's key to, as I think someone talked about earlier, creating a framework criteria, and, basically, a checklist.
3:21:24
What has this community contributed to the city goals?
3:21:27
Again, either, borough president Reynoso spoke about the fact that we have to look at it from a citywide lens, which I agree, citywide, borough, etcetera.
3:21:37
We don't wanna just have a tunnel vision and only look at what's happening in our specific community.
3:21:43
At the same time, we need to balance.
3:21:45
And we so we need to make sure that we do have those people that can speak to the city.
3:21:50
What's going to how is it going to impact our community?
3:21:53
And if we haven't contributed any housing at all in the last ten years and you're only asking for a two two additional stories, then that's a big difference in telling someone who's in a two story building that I'm going to put a 14 story building in your backyard.
3:22:12
And your community has already contributed several thousand units of of housing.
3:22:18
So I think that if you have some kind of a criteria where you can check off and understand what has that community contributed, what is the impact to the, the surrounding buildings, what is already in the pipeline for that community, that can make a big difference in your decision making process.
Shams DaBaron
3:22:39
Thank you for that.
3:22:40
I appreciate that.
Richard R. Buery Jr.
3:22:41
Thank you.
3:22:42
Any other questions, miss Cox?