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. @TribecaTrust “New Planning Law is Not the Law We Need” - Intro 2186
THREAD:
“...a proposed new law on planning that Council Speaker Corey Johnson is promoting, ostensibly to deal with what is criticized as "piecemeal" planning. Yet the law is a very bad one."
THREAD:
“...a proposed new law on planning that Council Speaker Corey Johnson is promoting, ostensibly to deal with what is criticized as "piecemeal" planning. Yet the law is a very bad one."
"The purpose of the law is to: “to prioritize population growth, where applicable, in areas that have high access to opportunity and low risk for displacement.”
“The Mayor would appoint a powerful, Robert Moses-like figure called “The Director.” The Director would produce research reports on a lot of topics, all required by the new law.”
“the Director creates 3 “scenarios” for every CB. The scenarios have assigned targets for how much new housing the neighborhoods in that CB must produce. The CBs would have to pick 1 of the scenarios. If they said “none of the above,” the Director would pick a scenario for them"
“The scenarios get bundled into a “comprehensive” 10 yr plan for the entire city, approved by CC to become law. Public hearings are built into the proposed planning process, but they're just advisory white noise, like they are today. Citizens never get to vote on the plan."
“Real democracy is replaced with a variety of optional workshops where a curated group of residents are invited to play with crayons and sticky notes under the manipulative guidance of biased workshop facilitators.“
“The law presumes that displacement is a danger that can only be solved through MIH housing policies, which in fact only make displacement worse.“
“the city has a lot of problems that could use some better planning, particularly when it comes to capital infrastructure planning & maintenance over a 20-year period.”
"We don’t need an all-powerful Robert Moses-like figure to deal with these problems. Nor do we need a sham, focus-group version of “community planning” to rubber stamp a bad strategy of directing population growth to the city’s overdeveloped core."
“We don't need a new Robert Moses who'll cut thru the city with a meat cleaver by assigning housing targets based on bad theorizing. We need something better, w/less preconceived biases about where “to direct growth”& one w/more democracy in it, not less." https://bitly.is/3aJqhgq
