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Flood Resilience Zoning Text Amendment
Following Hurricane Sandy, the City is taking a wide range of steps to promote recovery from the storm, rebuilding, and increasing the city’s resilience to climate-related events, including coastal flooding and storm surge. As part of this effort, the Department of City Planning is proposing a Flood Resilience Zoning Text Amendment to enable new and existing buildings throughout designated flood zones to meet the latest standards for flood-resistant construction. It also removes additional impediments to flood-resistant construction, and modifies regulations to mitigate potential negative effects of flood-resistant construction on the streetscape and public realm. |
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Open Industrial Uses Study
The Department of City Planning is conducting a study of pollution prevention controls for industrial operations typically conducted in open yards. This Open Industrial Uses Study is an outgrowth of prior initiatives and is designed to support and grow the City’s working waterfront and industrial businesses, while making industrial areas greener, stronger, safer and more resilient to climate change. |
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Climate Resilience
Information on current DCP initiatives aimed at increasing the city’s resilience to the effects of climate change, including coastal flood risks – adapting so that the city and its neighborhoods can better withstand and recover quickly from weather-related events. |
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Waterfront Revitalization Program
The Department of City Planning is proposing a series of revisions to the Waterfront Revitalization Program (WRP) in order to proactively advance the long-term goals laid out in Vision 2020: The New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, released in 2011. The WRP is the City’s primary coastal zone management tool, and the proposed revisions, currently undergoing public review, emphasize sustainability and climate resilience planning, promote a range of ecological objectives and strategies, facilitate interagency review of permitting to preserve and enhance maritime infrastructure, and support a thriving, sustainable working waterfront. |
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Sustainable Communities
The Department of City Planning is participating in an unprecedented, bi-state collaboration of cities, counties and regional planning organzations who have united to form the New York-Connecticut Sustainable Communities Consortium. The Consortium was awarded $3.5 million in funding in the inaugural year of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program. The consortium will undertake a combination of regionally and locally oriented initiatives to promote sustainable, transit-oriented development throughout the region. Initiatives DCP leads under the Sustainable Communities program include three studies: a coordinated neighborhood planning study in East New York, Brooklyn; an evaluation of land use and transportation opportunities near Metro-North Stations in the Bronx; and several activities to advance citywide strategic planning efforts for building climate resilience.
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Vision 2020: The NYC Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
Released on March 14, 2011, Vision 2020 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.
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Public Space Design
For all of these initiatives, City Planning has established design standards to ensure that open spaces around the city are inviting, accessible, vibrant and safe.
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Green Initiatives
Ensuring that the city has adquate green spaces is critical to creating a livable, sustainable city with a healthy environment and an improved quality of life. |
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Zone Green Text Amendment
Adopted 4/30/12
Department of City Planning proposes a Citywide zoning text amendment to remove zoning impediments to the construction and retrofitting of greener buildings. This proposal would give owners more choices for the investments they can make to save energy, save money, and improve environmental performance. This proposal will help bring our buildings into the 21st century while protecting the character and quality of life of our neighborhoods.
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(E) designations Text Amendment
Adopted 3/28/12
The Department of City Planning proposes a citywide text amendment to Section 11-15 and related Sections of the Zoning Resolution to update the regulations governing Environmental “(E)” designations. This text amendment is being closely coordinated with the New York City Office of Environmental Remediation (OER) and will result in a more streamlined and transparent (E) Program – the City’s process for establishing environmental requirements related to hazardous materials, air quality and noise on potential development sites identified during CEQR for proposed rezonings.
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* Most recently approved proposals are described as originally proposed by the Department of City Planning. Any modifications of the proposals by the City Planning Commission or the City Council are summarized under Public Review, where viewers may link to the CPC report and, in some instances, to the final enacted zoning text. |
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| Earlier Rezonings**: |
- Key Terms Clarification Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on February 2, 2011.
- Car Share
Adopted by the City Council on September 29, 2010.
- Residential Streetscape Preservation Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on April 14, 2010.
- FRESH Food Stores
Adopted by the City Council on December 9, 2009.
- Inclusionary Housing Program Text
Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on July 29, 2009.
- Waterfront Design Guidelines Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on April 22, 2009.
- Zoning for Bicycle Parking
Adopted by the City Council on April 22, 2009.
- Yards - Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on April 30, 2008.
- Street Tree Planting - Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on April 30, 2008.
- Stairwells Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on April 16, 2008.
- Commercial and Community Facility Parking Lot - Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on November 28, 2007.
- Special Natural Area District
Adopted by the City Council on February 2, 2005.
- Community Facilities Zoning
Adopted by the City Council on September 9, 2004.
** The Earlier Rezonings are no longer being updated. They are presented for reference purposes. |
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