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Commissioner Anita Laremont on changes to the affordable housing appeals board proposal
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Commissioner Anita Laremont explains a key modification made to the proposal for an appeals board based on stakeholder feedback.
The proposal has been narrowed and is now specifically named the "affordable housing appeals board."
Its power is now limited to reviewing actions on applications that would create additional affordable housing, such as those under the city's mandatory inclusionary housing program.
Anita Laremont
0:46:01
Thank you.
0:46:02
I'm just going to take a moment to highlight a really substantial change to this proposal since the release of the interim report, responding to feedback that we heard from stakeholders over the past few weeks.
0:46:15
This is now the affordable housing appeals board, a more limited purview for appeals.
0:46:21
Previously, the appeals board could have applied to any application in ULURP.
0:46:26
Now though, we are limiting the power of the appeal of the appeals board to actions that would create additional affordable housing such as the rezoning application that will require development to include affordable housing under the city's mandatory inclusionary housing program.
0:46:42
In other words, all actions subject to the board must involve the creation of affordable housing.
0:46:48
Land use actions that do not directly advance affordable housing such as the siting of new city owned facilities would remain subject to ULURP as it exists today.
0:46:58
Because housing proposals face particular challenges in the city's existing land use process, there is a special need to bring more borough wide and city wide perspectives perspectives to bear on land use decisions that create housing.
0:47:12
Thanks.