Comments on: New York New Visions Tackles “Sustainable” New York Future http://dc.streetsblog.org/2007/02/06/new-york-new-visions-tackles-sustainable-new-york-future/ Your daily source for national transportation policy news and analysis. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Glenn http://dc.streetsblog.org/2007/02/06/new-york-new-visions-tackles-sustainable-new-york-future/comment-page-1/#comment-72823 Glenn Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:08:50 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/06/new-york-new-visions-tackles-sustainable-new-york-future/#comment-72823 And Tom Angotti has an interesting take on the Plan 2030 plan: http://gothamgazette.com/article/landuse/20070206/12/2095 <blockquote>The mayor’s office has launched a series of meetings for community leaders and civic groups in each of the five boroughs to discuss the plan. However, it is not at all clear whether this will lead to any changes in the plan, and if so who will make those decisions. NYC2030’s website makes it all sound like a harmonious process in which we all join arms and march into the future. New Yorkers can submit their comments on the website, but how do these get digested and acted upon? This leads us to a bigger question of how the plan gets approved and implemented. Will it get submitted to the City Planning Commission, City Council, or the voters for approval? Will the plan be anything more than the Mayor’s swan song before he moves on to his next job? Will the next mayor care? Where is the city’s capital and expense budget process in all this? And the city’s 59 community boards? NYC2030 evades entirely the mechanisms set up in Section 197-a of the City Charter to produce and approve plans. City Hall may not like those mechanisms but they are the only ones we have. Without them the Mayor’s plan could become just one chief executive’s boardroom strategy that provides some guidance but has no teeth. </blockquote> And Tom Angotti has an interesting take on the Plan 2030 plan:

http://gothamgazette.com/article/landuse/20070206/12/2095

The mayor’s office has launched a series of meetings for community leaders and civic groups in each of the five boroughs to discuss the plan. However, it is not at all clear whether this will lead to any changes in the plan, and if so who will make those decisions. NYC2030’s website makes it all sound like a harmonious process in which we all join arms and march into the future. New Yorkers can submit their comments on the website, but how do these get digested and acted upon?

This leads us to a bigger question of how the plan gets approved and implemented. Will it get submitted to the City Planning Commission, City Council, or the voters for approval? Will the plan be anything more than the Mayor’s swan song before he moves on to his next job? Will the next mayor care? Where is the city’s capital and expense budget process in all this? And the city’s 59 community boards?

NYC2030 evades entirely the mechanisms set up in Section 197-a of the City Charter to produce and approve plans. City Hall may not like those mechanisms but they are the only ones we have. Without them the Mayor’s plan could become just one chief executive’s boardroom strategy that provides some guidance but has no teeth.

]]> By: Glenn http://dc.streetsblog.org/2007/02/06/new-york-new-visions-tackles-sustainable-new-york-future/comment-page-1/#comment-72822 Glenn Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:48:15 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/02/06/new-york-new-visions-tackles-sustainable-new-york-future/#comment-72822 I wrote up something that's still in the editing queue about the "Community Leader" forum the PlaNYC folks put on. To summarize that post which should come out soon, they are planning for infrastructure, not necessarily people. And by the way, they claimed that only 25% of NYC's GW emissions come from cars and trucks. They are focusing much more heavily on green building design and electric supply and demand efficiency than transportation as far as I could tell. I wrote up something that’s still in the editing queue about the “Community Leader” forum the PlaNYC folks put on. To summarize that post which should come out soon, they are planning for infrastructure, not necessarily people. And by the way, they claimed that only 25% of NYC’s GW emissions come from cars and trucks. They are focusing much more heavily on green building design and electric supply and demand efficiency than transportation as far as I could tell.

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