Comprehensive Long-Term Planning or Top-Down Centralized Planning? The Debate Around Intro 2186 | Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP jdsupra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jdsupra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog:
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson recently issued a report titled “Planning Together: A New Comprehensive Planning Framework for New York City” and has introduced legislation in the City Council to implement its recommendations (Intro. 2186).
The report criticizes the city’s current planning approach as “piecemeal” and “inherently reactive” and argues that it is insufficient for addressing the city’s greatest challenges, including disparate health outcomes, homelessness, unmet capital needs and climate change. To address the deficiencies in the city’s approach, the report proposes that the city establish a comprehensive planning process that has as its central goal advancing racial and economic justice, reducing disparities in resources and opportunities across the city, and addressing threats from climate change. The implications of its proposals for land use include greater coordination of la
eye on the news
Comprehensive-Planning Fantasies New York’s city council hopes that by extending the land-use process, it can make hard choices easier.
New York
Economy, finance, and budgets
In 1936, New York City adopted a new city charter, creating the City Planning Commission and charging it with drafting a master plan that would “provide for the improvement of the city and its future growth and development and afford adequate facilities for the housing, transportation, distribution, comfort, convenience, health and welfare of its population.” Somehow, the Commission never got around to producing this master plan, but the next version of the charter, in 1961, was even more ambitious, adding “business,” “industry,” and “recreation” to the list of “adequate and appropriate” facilities to be included in the plan. Mayor John Lindsay, elected in 1965, was determined to produce a plan as called for by the charter; in 1969, the Plan for New Yor
[co-author: Jennifer Dickson ]
The New York City Council, under Speaker Corey Johnson, announced this week the release of a proposal for “A New Comprehensive Planning Framework for New York City,” to support equitable, inclusive growth, and citing the City’s current “planning framework, or lack thereof, [as being] inherently flawed.” The report was released in tandem with legislation introduced by Speaker Johnson at the Council’s December 17 stated meeting (Int 2186-2020), requiring a 10 year comprehensive planning cycle. The proposal seeks to increase coordination across City agencies, proactively plan for neighborhood growth, even the zoning landscape that otherwise exacerbates socio-economic inequality, budget for long-term capital and infrastructure improvements and streamline the planning process. The proposal looks to the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and sustainability to oversee the efforts, which would be based on a report of the City’s population
Legal Disclaimer
You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review s (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed as legal or professional advice or a substitute for such advice. No attorney-client or confidential relationship is formed by the transmission of information between you and the National Law Review website or any of the law firms, attorneys or other professionals or organizations who include content on the National Law Review website. If you require legal or professional advice, kindly contact an attorney or other suitable professional advisor.