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Defining an ideal ULURP process focused on reconciling local and citywide views
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Commissioner Shams DaBaron asks Howard Slatkin to describe an ideal ULURP process and suggest improvements. Slatkin reiterates the core principle of starting with local perspective, then having bodies with broader purviews (BP, CPC, Council) progressively reconcile that input with citywide policy needs.
- The ideal process respects local input as the first step.
- Subsequent stages involve officials with wider geographic responsibility integrating local views with citywide goals.
- Both the Planning Commission and the City Council should actively engage in this reconciliation, rather than defaulting to the purely local view at the final stage.
Richard R. Buery Jr.
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One last question, commissioner DeBaron.
Shams DaBaron
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So I got here a little late, so I mighta, missed a lot.
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And so if I'm if I'm asking something that's already been said, pardon me.
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So I wanna ask you just for my own, understanding, for you, what is an ideal EULA assess?
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And what are some suggestions that you have if this hasn't been said or, you know, pardon me if it's already been said.
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What are some of the, suggestions that you would have to make that EULA process work better and more efficient?
Howard Slatkin
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I'll try I that's a that could be like a I could give a very long answer, but I won't.
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And I'll try to come back with some more specific recommendations.
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But I think I'll try to answer it again on the level of principles.
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I think the idea of the EULA process is that the first step in the process is to get the local community's perspective.
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That is the first and and the first voice in the process is what do they think.
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And then the people who consider that recommendation, next step you know, the I should say the borough presidents have a similar role, but, with a broader, geographic, basis for that.
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And then their recommendations are brought to the city planning commission, which has to put together its idea of citywide policy, which people should understand, with those local perspectives.
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And sometimes they fit together and sometimes they don't, but they always have to explain why they don't if they don't.
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And I think that's an important part of the process.
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So it's kind of a a reconciliation of of potentially opposing views, and that the city council is another sort of party to that step of the process.
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I think that it would be good to see a process where both the planning commission and the council are doing that thing, which is taking the input that's been received all the way through the process and finding ways to reconcile the citywide and the local perspectives.
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That's the I think, to me, that's the the the core of the process.
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How exactly do effectuate that is something that we're going to be, I'm sure, discussing more.
Richard R. Buery Jr.
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Thank you so much.
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I appreciate it.
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Thank you.
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Next, from a little out of order, I'm gonna ask for president Reynoso to join us.