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Commissioner Laremont and Eric Kober discuss streamlining the pre-ULURP process
2:17:19
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Commissioner Anita Laremont asks Eric Kober (Manhattan Institute) for more ideas on streamlining land use reviews, especially the often lengthy pre-certification stage before ULURP formally begins. Kober expresses doubt about the effectiveness of simply adding a time limit to pre-certification, suggesting it might shift delays rather than eliminate them, and points to reducing zoning complexity and improving staffing as potentially more impactful but harder to achieve through charter changes.
- Discussion on the challenges of speeding up the pre-ULURP certification process.
- Kober is hesitant about time limits, suggesting deeper issues like zoning complexity and staffing are involved.
Richard R. Buery Jr.
2:17:19
Thank
Anita Laremont
2:17:23
you all for your testimony.
2:17:25
I have a question for you, Eric.
2:17:27
You you mentioned one, item that you talked about collapsing the time of the CB World War and the World President, but I'm fairly confident that you have many additional ideas that you might be able to share with us.
2:17:41
You know, you talked about environmental you being the thing that takes a long time.
2:17:48
I've heard ideas about ways in which we could exempt certain types of projects that might be, you know, below a threshold that might make some sense.
2:17:57
But in addition, I wonder if you have any thoughts about the beginning of the process, which, you know, is really a place where things can drag on for years before anything gets into newer.
2:18:08
And I well, if you have anything to say right now that would be helpful, I would love it if you could share some suggestions with us about things that we can think about from that regard.
Eric Kober
2:18:19
Sure.
2:18:19
I you know, the one of the suggestions that I've heard, you know, which I I'm I'm kind of uncomfortable with this idea of having a talk for the prehuber period.
2:18:33
And my concern is that if we had a clock for the prehuber period, a new period would emerge, which is the prehuber period in which all of the inefficiencies would be sort of pushed earlier.
2:18:50
And and so, you know, you start chasing your own tail.
2:18:53
And so, you know, this is important a staffing issue.
2:19:00
This is important an issue of actually trying to reduce the complexity of zoning so that people don't have to go into.
2:19:11
But it's sort of very hard to do it through, you know, as far as I can tell, through through the chart.