{"id":1395,"date":"2022-09-13T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T22:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2022-09-14T12:51:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T16:51:12","slug":"mayor-adams-plan-to-blast-the-ulurp-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/2022\/09\/13\/mayor-adams-plan-to-blast-the-ulurp-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Adams’ Plan to “BLAST” The ULURP Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Mayor Eric Adams directed a commission to create a blueprint that would allow development projects to happen faster and cost less.\u00a0 The NYC Economic Development and Housing committee, a known entity that creates opportunities for the use of public assets to assist the real estate industry in the creation of projects to make money, working with Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) a nonprofit organization organized a report to address Adams’ agenda.\u00a0 They made recommendations for changes in both the law and City and State policies regarding applications for development requiring rezonings. <\/span>Their main justification for such changes is to allow developers to build faster and cheaper development projects that are subject to review and to allow more projects to be \u201cas of right\u201d that requires no review at all. <\/span><\/p>

Below are the Commission\u2019s suggested changes, to the land use process.<\/p>

  1. No more court cases brought against developers.<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/li>
  2. The Community Board\u2019s review should be removed from the ULURP process. Only the Borough President should review rezoning proposals.<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/li>
  3. The Community review instead should take place during the pre-certification process and not after a project has been certified by the City Planning Commission and begins the ULURP process<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  4. The Environmental Review Process, Environmental Impact Statement and\/or Environmental Assessment Statement, does not have to be completed until the end of ULURP<\/b>.

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  5. A complete removal of the Environmental Review Process<\/b><\/b>

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  6. The Commission proposes that all development projects that are built next to transit, are district wide rezonings, include some type of affordable housing, are \u201csmall lots\u201d division, and multifamily projects be deemed \u201cas of right\u201d. The only environmental reviews required would be for projects that are sensitive to wetland and greenfield sites<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  7. Instead of focusing on environmental concerns and their impact upon a community\u2019s land, air and water, the focus should be on negative consequences vs. benefits<\/i>.<\/b><\/b>

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  8. The State should reduce the number of environmental impact categories<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  9. The City Council Deference for projects should be removed and not adhered to.<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/li>
  10. The City Council would need to have a Super Majority, not just a majority to overrule the City Planning Commission\u2019s recommendation on a project.<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/li>
  11. When the City Council disapproves a project, immediately an alternative group of decision makers would convene with the power to overturn the City Council\u2019s vote. The group would consist of the Mayor, Public Advocate, Borough President and Council Speaker.<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/li>
  12. Streamline the Environmental Process by not<\/u> interacting with other government agencies that specialize in a particular environmental impact concern.\u00a0 Instead, have one agency\u00a0 – i.e. the City Planning Commission \u2013 conduct\u00a0 all of the environmental impact analyses.<\/span><\/b><\/li><\/ol>
    Improving NYC’s Land Use Decision-Making Process<\/a><\/div>
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    Mayor Eric Adams directed a commission to create a blueprint that would allow development projects to happen faster and cost less.\u00a0 The NYC Economic Development and Housing committee, a known entity that creates opportunities for the use of public assets to assist the real estate industry in the creation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","category-fight-against-rezoning","category-knowledge-is-power"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}