Award Winning
The Department of City Planning's Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan has received national acclaim. The plan received a 2011 "Excellence on the Waterfront Award" from the Waterfront Center and the 2012 “Daniel Burnham Award”, the American Planning Association’s highest award bestowed upon a comprehensive plan. |
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NOW AVAILABLE IN THE DEPT. OF CITY PLANNING BOOKSTORE
On March 14th, 2011, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn announced the release of Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, a 10-year vision for the future of city's 520 miles of shoreline. This plan provides a sustainable framework for more water transport, increased public access to the waterfront and economic opportunities that will help make the water part of New Yorkers' everyday lives.
“New York City’s waterfront has always played a major role in its history and is one of its greatest assets – we have more miles of waterfront Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland combined – but for decades New Yorkers have been blocked from it and it’s become less and less a part of their lives,” said Mayor Bloomberg, “We’re committed to making it a part of New Yorkers’ lives again by completely revitalizing the waterfront and waterways.”  Read the full press release.
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Vision 2020, led by the Department of City Planning, is the culmination of a year-long, participatory planning process involving multiple agencies and organizations and input from New Yorkers in every borough. Building on the City's success in opening up to the public miles of shoreline that had been inaccessible for decades, and supporting expansion of the maritime industry, Vision 2020 sets the stage for expanded use of our waterfront for parks, housing and economic development, and our waterways for transportation, recreation and natural habitats. The 10-year plan lays out a vision for the future with new citywide policies and site-specific recommendations.
"Our water is the connective tissue between our boroughs and is, in effect, our Sixth Borough. We are now planning for our waterfront and waterways with the same intensity and passion that we have traditionally planned for our land," said City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden.
Vision 2020 is now available at the Department of City Planning Bookstore.
Download Vision 2020
(Warning: large file at low-resolution. Download high-resolution pdfs by chapter here.)
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Vision 2020 is accompanied by the New York City Waterfront Action Agenda, an outline of 130 key projects to be initiated within three years, which will catalyze waterfront investment, improve water quality, and expand public access.
“The waterfront represents an enormous opportunity for economic growth throughout the five boroughs,” said EDC President Seth Pinsky. “By investing in and expanding the working waterfront, we will be creating immediate job opportunities for New Yorkers as well as a source of long-term economic growth for New York City. Developing our waterfront infrastructure, so that we can expand industries like container shipping, will allow us to stay competitive with other waterfront cities around the world.”
Vision 2020 and the New York City Waterfront Action Agenda are the core components of the Waterfront Vision and Enhancement Strategy, an interagency initiative to improve the city’s waterfront. |
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For more information about Vision 2020 please contact waterfrontplan@planning.nyc.gov
This material was prepared for the New York State Department of State, with funds provided under Title 11 of the Environmental Protection Fund.
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