Equity Planning: A call to Mayor Mamdani to strengthen NYC’s planning process and build equity for all New Yorkers

Equity Planning: A call to Mayor Mamdani to strengthen NYC’s planning process and build equity for all New Yorkers
Team
Eve Baron, Molly Blann, Meta Brunzema, Jocelyne Chait, Linda Cohen, Devyani Guha, Eva Hanhardt, Jill Hamberg, Zehra Kuz, Mercedes Narciso, Yvette Shiffman
Services & Activities
Featured, Urban Planning, Advocacy Initiatives, Comprehensive Plan
A call to Mayor Mamdani to strengthen NYC’s planning process and build equity for all New Yorkers
CCCE Position Paper on Community-based Comprehensive Planning
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Complete

It is exciting that Mayor Mamdani has embraced the concept of comprehensive planning as a key policy platform.  We firmly believe, that a comprehensive planning agenda must include both citywide and local perspectives.  As a group, as individuals, and in coalition with others, we have fought long and hard to ensure that New Yorkers have a voice in the future of their city and their neighborhoods, and that equity guides our decision-making processes. These four principles must guide reform of the planning process:

  • Create a comprehensive planning framework, that spells out goals and specific objectives and benchmarks while balancing citywide and local needs
  • Provide communities with planning expertise
  • Ensure that community plans reflect diverse community interests
  • Ensure that there is a real commitment to implementing community-sponsored local plans

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