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Commissioner DaBaron and Eric Kober discuss the proposed 60-day consolidated review period

2:20:13

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Commissioner Shams DaBaron asks Eric Kober (Manhattan Institute) if his proposed 60-day consolidated review period allows enough time, particularly for community input. Kober clarifies that the 60-day timeframe mirrors the current community board review period; the change is simply making the subsequent Borough President/Board reviews concurrent rather than sequential, arguing electronic communication makes the delay unnecessary.

The proposed 60-day period matches the existing Community Board review time.
The change eliminates sequential delays, arguing concurrent review is feasible with modern communication.

Shams DaBaron

2:20:13

How about how about referring to your the sixty day process and all for streamlining.

Richard R. Buery Jr.

2:20:25

The question I have for you is, is that enough time, and how would that work to still involve community input beyond just the board and stuff like that within that process?

2:20:39

How how does that work?

Eric Kober

2:20:41

The community board now in New York has sixty days.

2:20:44

So for the community board, it would be same question is whether the borough board needs to meet later and the borough president needs to consider the application only upon receiving the invitation from the community board.

2:21:05

And it seems to me that in the age of electronic communication, everybody knows what everybody else is thinking, and that's not really necessary.

2:21:14

And you could shave thirty days off the process by buying everybody in a single sixty day period.

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