PlaNYC Albany Advocacy Day

As the first government-issued urban sustainability plan in the United States, PlaNYC is a blueprint to improve transportation, housing, open space, water and air quality and traffic congestion. Perhaps most of all, PlaNYC aims to reduce our energy consumption and limit our impact on climate change.

As momentum is building for PlaNYC and the State legislative session is nearing an end, we invite you to take action and get involved. Join the Campaign for New York’s Future as we take our message to Albany! Meet with your elected officials to let them know you support a greener, greater New York.

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Transportation Tidbits in This Year’s PlaNYC Check-In

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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 […]

PlaNYC Mastermind Rohit Aggarwala Leaving NYC

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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 […]

At Flushing Commons, NYCEDC’s Fuzzy Math Superceded PlaNYC Goals

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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 […]

Bloomberg, Burden, and Pinsky Vow to “Finish the Job” on PlaNYC

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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 […]

Boston Endorses Parking Reform as Key Green Policy

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An illustration of how Boston will make its transportation system greener. Image: City of Boston "Folks, you ain’t seen nothing yet," Mayor Bloomberg told an Earth Day crowd yesterday. "The best and greenest days are yet to come." The PlaNYC update coming in 2011, he implied, would have a slew of new initiatives to make […]