http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/prarch.shtml Press Releases en Copyright 2012, NYC Department of City Planning http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/gif/interface/apple.jpg http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/prarch.shtml http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr052013b.shtml May 20, 2013 – City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden today launched the official public review of the Department’s proposed rezoning of a 12-block area along East Fordham Road, a major east-west thoroughfare in the Belmont section of the central Bronx. As part of the City’s economic development strategy of strengthening commercial districts city-wide, this rezoning is designed to create new opportunities for growth while reinforcing the commercial character and vibrancy of East Fordham Road, and extend the success of the borough’s busiest retail district eastward. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr052013b.shtmlMon, 20 May 2013 16:59:28 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr052013.shtml May 20, 2013 – City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden today announced the beginning of public review for zoning changes to enable new and existing buildings throughout designated flood zones in New York City to meet the latest federal standards for flood-resistant construction. This proposal codifies and expands on Mayor Bloomberg’s emergency Executive Order announced on January 31, 2013 which temporarily suspended height and other restrictions to allow flood-resilient reconstruction. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr052013.shtmlMon, 20 May 2013 16:59:27 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr051313.shtml New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and the Department of City Planning (DCP) Commissioner Amanda Burden today announced the selection of the international team of the Jonathan Rose Company, Gehl Architects and Skanska to lead the City’s public planning and design process for the East Midtown Public Realm Vision Plan, a blueprint for re-envisioning world-class streets for one of City’s premier commercial districts. The consultant is being contracted in response to requests by Council Member Daniel Garodnick and by the Community Board led East Midtown Task Force, which is seeking “a comprehensive plan describing specific improvements to the East Midtown streetscape that will make the area a desirable place to live, work, pass through and visit.” The new consultant team will lead three public workshops in the spring and summer to facilitate discussions with local stakeholders and identify priorities and preferred approaches to enhance the public realm in this area, such as landscaping and public seating, among other treatments. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr051313.shtmlMon, 13 May 2013 13:34:47 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr042213.shtml April 22, 2013 – City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden announced the beginning of the official public review today for the much anticipated rezoning of East Midtown, a 73-block area surrounding Grand Central Terminal. The purpose of the rezoning is to ensure the area’s future as a world-class business district and major job generator for New York City. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr042213.shtmlMon, 22 Apr 2013 17:28:00 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr032913.shtml On Wednesday, March 27th the Department of City Planning presented to the multi-Community Board task force on the East Midtown rezoning proposal. In response to requests from the community and elected officials, one of the critical pieces of the proposal presented in detail was an ensemble of conceptual elements for public realm improvements within the rezoning area. This meeting was a significant step forward in facilitating a participatory design process to garner public feedback. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr032913.shtmlFri, 29 Mar 2013 11:22:22 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr031813.shtml March 18, 2013 – City Planning Commission Chair Amanda M. Burden today announced the beginning of public review for a 55-block rezoning of the western part of the Crown Heights neighborhood in Community District 8 in Brooklyn. This rezoning proposal was undertaken at the request of Community Board 8 and local elected officials to maintain the neighborhood’s character, to promote affordable housing, and strengthen commercial strips. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr031813.shtmlMon, 18 Mar 2013 15:47:16 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr031413.shtml Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that more people are moving to New York City than are moving out for the first time since before 1950, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates released today. The estimates show New York City’s population has hit an all-time record high of 8,336,697. The city’s population increased by 161,564 since 2010 – about two percent in two years. This increase is among the largest two-year increases in recent decades. The increase is fueled by a continuing increase in people moving to the city and a decline in the number of people leaving the city, as well as the continued growth in the surplus of births over deaths due to life expectancy in the city reaching new record highs. Each of the five boroughs registered gains in population. The largest percentage change occurred in Brooklyn, where the population grew by 2.4 percent or 60,900 people; followed by Manhattan (2.1 percent or 33,200 people); Queens (1.9 percent or 42,000 people); the Bronx (1.7 percent or 23,400 people); and Staten Island (0.4 percent or 2,000 people). New York City’s increase since April 2010 represented 84 percent of the total population increase in New York State, which slightly increased the city’s share of the state’s population, from 42.2 percent to 42.6 percent. The city’s population has grown by more than 300,000 since Mayor Bloomberg took office. Earlier this week, the MTA announced that subway annual ridership for 2012 was 1.654 billion, the highest in 62 years. Average weekend ridership on the subway grew by three percent, matching the all-time historic high for weekend ridership set in 1946. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr031413.shtmlThu, 14 Mar 2013 12:37:04 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr021913.shtml City Planning Commission Chair Amanda M. Burden today announced the beginning of the public review process for a 411-block rezoning of the Bellerose, Floral Park and Glen Oaks neighborhoods in northeast Queens. These neighborhoods are predominantly developed with detached, single-family homes, and this contextual rezoning proposal will protect the established low-density, suburban character of this area near the borough’s border with Nassau County. The proposal will also inhibit commercial encroachment onto residential streets. This rezoning proposal was developed in response to concerns from the community, local elected officials, local civic associations and the Land Use Committee of Community Board 13 that outdated zoning did not reflect the established neighborhood character and was resulting in denser new development inconsistent with the neighborhood. Since 2002, 43 neighborhoods in Queens have been rezoned encompassing 6,237 blocks. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr021913.shtmlTue, 19 Feb 2013 14:10:16 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr013113.shtml Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced new measures that New York City has put in place to allow home and property owners who are rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy to meet new flood standards without violating current zoning codes. The Mayor signed an emergency executive order to suspend height and other restrictions so that buildings can meet new flood elevation standards. The City also adopted a new rule to increase the required minimum flood proofing elevation so that substantially damaged buildings and other new construction are built to withstand greater flood risk. The measures also should help New Yorkers limit the cost of future Federal flood insurance premiums by better protecting properties in flood-prone areas from risk and damage. The measures follow the release of new data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which published the first of two phases of updated Advisory Base Flood Elevation maps on Monday. The maps contain the best currently available information about coastal flood risk and provide guidance on how to rebuild safely. The Mayor first announced that the City would adjust construction requirements as new flood data became available in an address about rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy in December. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr013113.shtmlThu, 31 Jan 2013 13:19:04 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr010913.shtml WASHINGTON, DC – New York City Department of City Planning will receive the American Planning Association's 2013 National Planning Excellence Award for Environmental Planning for its Zone Green, an initiative to change zoning regulations to foster greener buildings. The Environmental Planning Award honors efforts to create greener communities that reduce the impact of development on the natural environment and improve environmental quality.http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr010913.shtmlWed, 9 Jan 2013 13:29:08 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr120612.shtml The following are Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's remarks as delivered this morning at the New York Marriott Downtown: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr120612.shtmlTue, 18 Dec 2012 13:59:08 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr110512.shtml November 5, 2012 – City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden officially began the public review for the Department of City Planning (DCP)'s proposal to update zoning regulations governing off-street parking in the Manhattan Core, comprised of Manhattan Community Districts 1-8 which is below 96th Street on the East Side and below 110th Street on the West Side. The Manhattan Core, which includes some of the most transit-rich areas of the city, already has no minimum parking requirements and limits on the amount of allowed parking. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr110512.shtmlMon, 05 Nov 2012 17:36:38 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr092012.shtml Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, and Friends of the High Line Co-Founders Joshua David and Robert Hammond today hosted a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction on the third and final section of the High Line. Located between West 30th and West 34th Streets to the south and north, and 10th and 12th Avenues to the east and west, the final section of the elevated railway, called the High Line at the Rail Yards, extends one half mile beyond the current northern end of the High Line park, which has welcomed more than ten million visitors since it opened in 2009. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr092012.shtmlThu, 20 Sep 2012 13:51:21 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr091412.shtml The Department of City Planning has released 25,000 City Planning Commission reports dating back to 1938. Since 2003, the Department has been posting Commission reports online for land use applications as part of the Bloomberg Administration's commitment to transparency in government. Now, Commission reports for the past 74 years are available in one place -- just visit nyc.gov/planning and click on the "Commission Reports" link on the left side of the page. Because the format of City Planning Commission reports has changed over time, users should read the "How to Search" guide to learn the best way to locate documents for specific years. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr091412.shtmlMon, 17 Sep 2012 08:54:28 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr072412.shtml Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, and Friends of the High Line Co-Founders Joshua David and Robert Hammond today announced that the City of New York has acquired the third and final section of the High Line from CSX Transportation, Inc., a major step toward completing the vision of preserving the entire historic elevated railway and transforming it into public open space for future generations of New Yorkers to enjoy. CSX has donated the rail yards section to the City, just as it did for the High Line structure south of West 30th Street. This transfer of ownership clears the way for design and construction on the final stretch of the elevated rail viaduct to extend the High Line park to West 34th Street. Design of the rail yards section is underway, and construction is expected to begin later this year.  http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr072412.shtmlTue, 24 Jul 2012 13:22:41 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr070912.shtml Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert K. Steel and Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua today launched the adAPT NYC Competition, a pilot program to develop a new housing model for the City's growing small-household population. adAPT NYC seeks to create additional choices within New York City's housing market to accommodate the city's changing demographics. Currently New York City has 1.8 million one- and two-person households, but only one million studios and one-bedrooms.http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr070912.shtmlMon, 09 Jul 2012 14:42:03 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr062112.shtml Deputy Mayor Robert K. Steel announced today an initiative by the Department of City Planning (DCP) to streamline the agency's review of land use applications. As part of the Bloomberg Administration's commitment to helping New Yorkers do business with the City and improve customer service, DCP's Business Process Reform (BluePRint) simplifies and streamlines the City's pre-certification process, creating predictability for applicants and allowing projects to enter ULURP, the City's official public land use review process, more expeditiously. When BluePRint is fully implemented, DCP will be able to review the majority of all applications up to 50 percent faster than today, saving applicants time and money, and getting projects built and onto the city tax rolls sooner. The improved review process was developed in partnership with industry professionals and will be available to property owners and developers throughout the city beginning this July. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr062112.shtmlThu, 21 Jun 2012 10:14:45 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr060612.shtml June 6, 2012 – Statement from City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden: Today the City Planning Commission is voting on four actions to facilitate the growth of New York University’s main campus in the Washington Square area. NYU is proposing to construct four new buildings – to include academic space, a new athletic facility, student dorms, NYU faculty housing -- and approximately 4 acres of public parks and publicly-accessible open spaces. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr060612.shtmlWed, 06 Jun 2012 19:55:06 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr060412.shtml June 4, 2012 – City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden announced the beginning of public review for changes to reform the off-street parking regulations in Downtown Brooklyn. The proposal would reduce the amount of parking that new residential developments are required to provide to better reflect actual parking demand in Downtown Brooklyn, which features some of the best transit access in the city. It would also encourage affordable housing units by eliminating parking requirements for affordable housing. Finally, the proposed zoning text amendment would simplify the unusually complex parking regulations in the Downtown Brooklyn Special District to provide more opportunities for public parking for use by residents, employees and visitors. Citing studies showing that many new residential accessory garages are half empty in the evenings, Downtown Brooklyn civic leaders and property owners have called for revising the parking regulations in the Downtown area to better reflect the actual demand. The proposed changes were developed in consultation with these stakeholders, community leaders and elected officials. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr060412.shtmlMon, 04 Jun 2012 14:36:06 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr050912.shtml Statement from City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr050912.shtmlWed, 09 May 2012 11:21:58 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr050712b.shtml City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden today announced the beginning of public review for a 140-block rezoning in Bedford-Stuyvesant North to preserve the built character of the neighborhood and direct new residential growth to major commercial corridors. The proposed rezoning would also create new opportunities for permanently affordable housing and strengthen established commercial corridors, such as Broadway, Bedford and Myrtle Avenues. This comprehensive rezoning was undertaken at the request of the Community Board and local elected officials and follows the 2007 rezoning of Bedford-Stuyvesant South, which also sought to preserve the character of the neighborhood's noted brownstone areas while expanding opportunities and incentives for permanently-affordable housing and growth along Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue. The current zoning in Bedford-Stuyvesant North has been mostly unchanged since 1961 and has resulted in new development that has been out of character with the existing context and without incentives for affordable housing. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr050712b.shtmlMon, 07 May 2012 15:21:16 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr050712.shtml City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden today launched public review for a rezoning of approximately 90 blocks of West Harlem including the historic Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill districts to preserve the scale of its unique brownstones and apartment houses built in the first decades of the 20th century. The rezoning also would reinvigorate an existing light manufacturing area just north of 125th Street by allowing commercial, community facility and residential uses in existing and new buildings to promote economic development and job creation. In addition to preserving the context of the largely built out area of West Harlem, the rezoning would also promote new development at one location along West 145th Street near its intersection with Broadway by expanding commercial and residential development opportunity and providing incentives for affordable housing. The result of five years of extensive community engagement including several town hall meetings, the proposed rezoning fulfills a promise made by the Bloomberg Administration to Community Board 9, West Harlem residents, area stakeholders, Councilmember Jackson and the Borough President in 2007 for a plan to ensure appropriately scaled development and to provide opportunities for affordable housing. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr050712.shtmlMon, 07 May 2012 14:04:43 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr040512.shtml The results of the latest Census Bureau estimates putting the population of New York City at 8,244,910 as of July, 2011 confirm our contention that the city is growing, notably in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, portions of which where were the subject of our challenge to the 2010 Census. This is an increase of nearly 70,000 people over the 15 month period since the Census enumerated the city’s population in April, 2010 at 8,175,133. The estimates also showed strong growth in Manhattan with positive net migration (more people coming than going). Increases were more modest in the Bronx and Staten Island, the two boroughs with the highest reported levels of growth last decade and places where we think the Census Bureau did a good job enumerating people.http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr040512.shtmlWed, 05 Apr 2012 14:57:45 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr040412.shtml Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today officially opened the new 200,000-square-foot headquarters of JetBlue Airways in the historic Brewster Building in Long Island City. The new office consolidates JetBlue's regional corporate facilities, expands its footprint in New York City and demonstrates the successful economic revitalization of Long Island City. JetBlue's move to Long Island City was announced in 2010 after New York City won a multi-year competitive review process among cities nationwide. Mayor Bloomberg also marked the completion of the larger $45 million roadway, pedestrian, and bicycle improvement project that has transformed the primary entry point into Queens. The City received more than 600 submissions for its contest to name the new 1.5-acre open space in Queens Plaza, and Mayor Bloomberg today announced the winning name: Dutch Kills Green, submitted by both Harry Charalambides and James Stark, was chosen by a panel made up of City and community representatives. Mayor Bloomberg was joined at Queens Plaza North and the new office by JetBlue CEO Dave Barger, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, State Senator Michael Gianaris, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, Port Authority Executive Director Patrick J. Foye, New York City Economic Development Corporation President Seth W. Pinsky, Department of Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe and Department of City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr040412.shtmlWed, 04 Apr 2012 14:57:45 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr040112.shtml The Census Bureau has determined that New York City’s Count Question Resolution (CQR) challenge of August 2011 will not result in a change in the City’s 2010 population. The Census Bureau's examination of the addresses City Planning submitted did not reveal errors admissible under CQR. Admissible errors are only those concerning geographic boundaries and the processing of data already collected in the census enumeration; the Census Bureau does not change numbers produced from an enumeration, unless the error falls into those categories. The CQR process does not consider other types of errors in the 2010 Census that may have affected the city’s population count. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr040112.shtmlMon, 02 Apr 2012 7:50:11 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr032812.shtml Today I am thrilled to vote on the Department's latest sustainability initiative, Zone Green. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr032812.shtmlWed, 28 Mar 2012 10:59:11 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr032612.shtml March 26, 2012 – One year after the release of the award-winning Vision 2020: NYC Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden today announced the launch of public review for revisions to New York City's Waterfront Revitalization Program (WRP) that will advance the long-term sustainability goals and other priorities laid out in Vision 2020. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr032612.shtmlTue, 27 Mar 2012 08:45:45 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr032112.shtml Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced that New York City has won Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize in recognition of its leadership and achievement in sustainable policy, including the City's landmark planning program PlaNYC. The international honor is presented biennially for outstanding contributions to sustainable urban policy that are practical and cost-effective, and serve as a model for cities across the globe. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr032112.shtmlWed, 21 Mar 2012 10:40:45 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr022712.shtml February 27, 2012 – City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden today announced the beginning of public review for a 229-block rezoning in the Woodhaven and Richmond Hill neighborhoods in central Queens. The proposed rezoning would reinforce the area's one- and two-family residential character with contextual zoning, and direct new mixed-use development opportunities to major corridors, including Jamaica and Atlantic Avenues. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr022712.shtmlMon, 27 Feb 2012 16:15:29 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr012712.shtml January 27, 2012 – On behalf of the New York City Theater Subdistrict Council (TSC), City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden and Cultural Affairs Commissioner Kate D. Levin today announced that 10 organizations will receive grants totaling $1.3 million for a range of projects that will encourage audience development and foster the creation of new work. The groups are the beneficiaries of a zoning initiative that preserves historic theaters, and helps ensure the long term viability of live theater within New York City's Theater District, the world-famous area in midtown Manhattan from 40th to 57th Street. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr012712.shtmlMon, 06 Feb 2012 15:37:23 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr010312.shtml January 3, 2012— City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden today announced the beginning of public review for new zoning that would reinforce the character of the Upper West Side's main shopping streets. The proposed regulations will help ensure that over time the general multi-store character of Amsterdam and Columbus avenues would be maintained, while promoting a more varied and active retail environment on Broadway. These zoning tools have been crafted to respond to community concerns about the potential erosion of the Upper West Side's unique commercial character and to support active pedestrian retail streets. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr010312.shtmlWed, 04 Jan 2012 10:41:36 EST