Experts Examine NYC’s Land Use Process at MAS Conference
August 9th, 2010
Last Wednesday, more than 300 community board members, land use professionals, and others concerned with development in New York City gathered at Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts for Land Use and Local Voices: Is the City’s Land Use Process in Need of Reform?, a conference co-sponsored by MAS and Manhattan Community Board 1.
MAS President Vin Cipolla opened the day by posing a series of questions that the three panels and keynote interview addressed, “How does New York City build? How do the city’s neighbors shape their communities? What, exactly, is distinct about the way New York City plans its neighborhoods and development?…What changes do we want to see? What are the consequences of those changes? What mechanisms are already in place to address shortcomings in the land use process, and are they working?” He continued, “As you can probably tell, today’s program is likely to provide more questions than answers, and that’s ok. MAS, and others, are going to continue to work on these issues until we are that much closer to solving them.”
The conference’s triad of panels brought together some of New York City’s, and the country’s, leading voices on land use issues, and provoked interesting discussions among the panelists and the audience. Continue Reading>>






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