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Commissioners seek clarification on EV charging costs and ULURP triggers for climate projects
0:21:06
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A commissioner confirms the $13.4 million cost for the initial 50 curbside EV chargers cited by Tiya Gordon.
The commissioner then asks Elijah Hutchinson to clarify which actions trigger ULURP; Hutchinson confirms it includes property acquisition, changing grades on mapped streets, and siting public facilities like solar panels.
He adds that the scale needed for climate projects, like a potential home buyout program or EV charging for mandated rideshare electrification, makes the current ULURP process infeasible.
UNKNOWN
0:21:06
First, thank you both for your testimony.
0:21:09
You stated a number for the cost of the 50 charging stations now.
0:21:18
Could you restate that?
Tiya Gordon
0:21:20
Yes.
0:21:20
So the current flow charging pilot, which you may see those tall blue chargers in certain boroughs of the city, it's 50 pieces of hardware, and ConEd paid $13,400,000 for that pilot.
0:21:34
That includes the hardware and the installation.
UNKNOWN
0:21:41
And, mister Hutchinson, I I wanna make sure I have this correct.
0:21:47
So right now, you ULURP is required, you said, for small lot acquisition and for the if you wanna change the grade of a street.
0:21:58
Is that what
Elijah Hutchinson
0:21:58
ULURP is required to give the city the authority to property, to change the grades on mapped streets that are on the city map to site public facilities for infrastructure, and solar panels will count as infrastructure.
0:22:16
And so our ability to do all of these things is very limited by that when let's say, we launch a housing mobility program and want to give people the option to sell their home, that person would then, as a next step, decide to go through ULURP.
0:22:34
It's not a feasible path forward for the scale at which we need to do things.
0:22:39
And I'll also add on the EV charging, the city, as of last year, passed the green rides, which is going to require that all rideshare vehicles be electric or handicap accessible by 2030.
0:22:52
So having EV charging in place is going to be critically important to support that.
UNKNOWN
0:22:59
Thank you.