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Clarifying the relationship between rezoning statistics and as-of-right development
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Commissioner Sharon Greenberger asks Professor Vicki Been to clarify her statistic that one-third of recent housing production came from rezonings, questioning the implication for as-of-right development. Professor Been explains that the statistic covers a specific timeframe and doesn't capture the long-term impact of past rezonings on current as-of-right construction.
- Been clarifies that many projects currently built 'as-of-right' are on land rezoned years or decades earlier (e.g., Coney Island, Greenpoint/Williamsburg waterfront).
- Determining the true annual split between as-of-right and rezoning-driven development is difficult without analyzing decades of data.
Sharon Greenberger
0:19:14
Thank you again.
0:19:15
I just have a quick question.
0:19:16
You mentioned that one third of housing production is done through rezonings.
0:19:20
Does that imply that two thirds is done through as of right?
Vicki Been
0:19:24
Is that is that not exactly, Sharon.
0:19:28
I appreciate the question because what we looked at is a particular slice of time.
0:19:33
But many of the things that are being built even in the February were might have been rezoned in 1980 or the Coney Island example.
0:19:42
Right?
0:19:43
Fifteen years may go by before you see something actually happen.
0:19:47
It's attributable to that rezoning, but we only looked at a
Sharon Greenberger
0:19:50
it's Yeah.
0:19:50
Is there a way to determine if you looked on an annual basis how much would be as of right versus or is that just too difficult?
Vicki Been
0:19:58
You'd have to go back decades and decades to see what had been rezoned and and make sure that you're finished, you know, with what's being produced from that rezoning.
0:20:06
I mean, if you think about still the amount of development that we're seeing in on the Greenpoint Williamsburg Waterfront resulting from I don't know what that was 02/2007.
0:20:17
Right?
Annemarie Gray
0:20:17
Right.
Vicki Been
0:20:18
So it it does take a long time, but all of that is attributable back to that rezoning.
0:20:25
Right?
0:20:25
Right.