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Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee

Overview
Chairs
- Barak A. Wrobel
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Reports
- Support for Landmarks Commission Rules Amendments (March 23, 2018)
  
  Author(s): Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Land Use Planning and Zoning Land Use
- Support for Proposed NYC Department of City Planning Paperless Filing Rule (January 26, 2018)
  
  Author(s): Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Electronic Filing Land Use Planning and Zoning
- Report on NYC Council Legislation to Require the Auditing of Buildings for Compliance with the Affordability Requirements of the 421-a Tax Exemption Program (March 15, 2017)
  
  Author(s): Housing & Urban Development Committee Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee Real Property Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): 421-a Affordable Housing
- Letter to Governor Cuomo and Legislative Leaders calling for the re-enactment of the 421-a real-estate tax exemption and permanent extension of the Private Activity Bond Allocation Act of 2014 (May 17, 2016)
  
  Author(s): Housing & Urban Development Committee Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee Real Property Law Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Affordable Housing 421-a
- Comments on Mayor de Blasio's proposed Mandatory Inclusionary Housing text amendment to the City Planning Commission and New York City Council (January 26, 2016)
  
  Author(s): Housing & Urban Development Committee Cooperative & Condominium Law Committee Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Affordable Housing
- Report on legislation to authorize the Commissioner of Buildings of New York City to vary or modify a provision or requirement of the Multiple Dwelling Law (January 30, 2015)
  
  Author(s): Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Multiple Dwellings
- Letter to Mayor de Blasio outlining a number of recommendations on current land use issues affecting law and policy in New York City (March 18, 2014)
  
  Author(s): Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Land Use Planning and Zoning Transition Memo
- Comment to Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement on the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulation (December 01, 2011)
  
  Author(s): Environmental Law Committee Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Hydrofracking
- Further Utilizing the Zoning Resolution to Create a More Sustainable New York City, Better Prepared to Adapt to Climate Change (September 01, 2011)
  
  Author(s): Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Sustainability Climate Change
- Report regarding S.2810-B (Part BB - Budget), which would amend the transportation law to remove the power and authority of New York City to regulate advertising signs within its borders (March 01, 2011)
  
  Author(s): New York City Affairs Committee Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Billboard Licensing Budget - NYS Executive
- The Role of Community Benefit Agreements in New York City's Land Use Process (March 01, 2010)
  
  Author(s): Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Community Benefit Agreements
- Letter to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation commenting on the recently proposed brownfield regulations (May 01, 2006)
  
  Author(s): Environmental Law Committee Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee
  
  Subject Area(s): Land Use Planning and Zoning
News & Media
- What You Need to Know About the New 421-A Tax Break for Developers (DNAinfo) (April 27, 2017)
- Don't count on a plan to alleviate housing costs from the federal government, de Blasio says (Crain's New York Business) (September 15, 2016)
- Stroock’s Erica Buckley Is Dropping Government Know-How on the Firm’s Real Estate Practice (Commercial Observer) (August 04, 2016)
- City Bar urges Albany to pass 421a sans prevailing wage (The Real Deal) (May 18, 2016)
- City Bar Urges Governor and Legislature to Re-Enact Revised 421-a Law and to Renew the Private Activity Bond Allocation Act of 2014 (May 17, 2016)
- New York City Bar Association Recommends City Planning Commission Consider Postponing Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Amendment and Rezonings Pending Clarity on 421-a Tax Issues (January 27, 2016)
- A More Rational Approach to Incarceration - Carey R. Dunne (August 10, 2013)
- Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee podcasts (August 22, 2010)
- Community Pacts Questioned in the Zoning Process (April 27, 2010)
Events
- The Do's and Don't’s of Zoning Lot Mergers and Development Rights Transfers in New York City (December 09, 2019)

Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee

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