City Council Environmental Protection Committee Hearing on PlaNYC 2030
An oversight hearing on the City’s PLANYC 2030 sustainability goal to "reduce global warning emissions by more than 30%" and how best to achieve it.
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At Flushing Commons, NYCEDC’s Fuzzy Math Superceded PlaNYC Goals
By Noah Kazis |
Yesterday, Streetsblog looked at Flushing Commons, a mixed-use development in the heart of transit-rich downtown Flushing, where the New York City Economic Development Corporation has mandated suburban levels of parking. We asked the EDC why they required nearly 1,600 spaces in the development, and now we have an answer. It’s a revealing look at how […]
PlaNYC Mastermind Rohit Aggarwala Leaving NYC
By Ben Fried |
Rohit Aggarwala (better known as Rit), the lead author of PlaNYC 2030 and director of the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, is leaving the post he created from scratch, the Bloomberg administration announced today. Aggarwala will be stepping down in June to join his soon-to-be wife in California. Aggarwala was tapped in 2006 […]
Bloomberg, Burden, and Pinsky Vow to “Finish the Job” on PlaNYC
By Ben Fried |
Please note: This was an April Fool’s Day post… Planning commissioner Amanda Burden and NYCEDC chief Seth Pinsky joined Mayor Bloomberg this morning at City Planning HQ to preview a major announcement scheduled for Earth Day, the third anniversary of the official launch of PlaNYC 2030. The mayor indicated that the city is preparing to […]
Public Hearing and Rally for PlaNYC
By Aaron Donovan |
PlaNYC 2030 and supporters will gather in front of the CUNY Graduate Center at 8:15 a.m. to show support for PlaNYC and enter when the doors open for a New York State Assembly public hearing (brownfields and energy), which begins at 10 a.m. Wear green! At 8:15 am we’ll have t-shirts, hats and stickers for […]
Mayor’s Office: Electric Cars Must Comply With PlaNYC Goal of Fewer Cars
By Noah Kazis |
New York City is not looking to create infrastructure for charging cars on city streets. Image: theqsqueaks via Flickr. "Electric vehicles are here. They’re coming, and they won’t stop." Last night, DOT Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller opened a panel discussion on electric car adoption in New York City with an implicit message: We should be […]
Transportation Tidbits in This Year’s PlaNYC Check-In
By Stephen Miller |
To mark Earth Day on Monday, the de Blasio administration released its first PlaNYC progress report [PDF], the latest annual check-in on the citywide sustainability plan released in 2007. The report includes a few facts about the city’s progress on its transportation goals: DOT’s PARK Smart program, which sets the price of on-street parking in response […]