MAS Announces Yolanda Garcia Community Planner Award Winners
March 23, 2007
With the city poised to gain a million more residents over the next 25 years, the need for community-based planning has never been more urgent. City residents can and should have a voice on how their communities develop. The Livable Neighborhoods Program is a new effort to provide resources and training to communities as they meet the related challenges. Training sessions start in early May and registration begins soon. Continue reading...
Industrial Employment Districts Eyed
The City Council's Land Use Committee today will hear testimony on a resolution to create the city's first Industrial Employment Districts. City Council Resolution 141 &mdash crafted by the MAS, the New York Industrial Retention Network and the Pratt Center for Community Development &mdash would help protect jobs, stabilize neighborhood investment and restrict incompatible development. By moving on this innovative zoning initiative, the city has the opportunity to take an enormous step toward its goal of retaining nearly a quarter of a million stable, well-paying jobs in industrial and manufacturing businesses.
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MAS and NYC Team Up on CITI
A new partnership between the Municipal Art Society's Planning Center and New York City gives users of the city government's website direct access to the interactive maps and data featured on the Planning Center's CITI website. The current CITI website provides access to detailed property information including zoning, ownership, land use and lot dimensions. Over time, city officials will add new data and functions to the widely used map portal.
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Livable Neighborhoods for a Livable City
The Community-Based Planning Task Force has issued a call for the creation of a new, more democratic framework for planning our city. The report, prepared by the Municipal Art Society Planning Center, Livable Neighborhoods for a Livable City, details specific, realistic steps New York City should take to improve the capacity of communities to make and implement plans that address their diverse needs.
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Neighbors Building Neighborhoods
At a time when New York is engaged in the most ambitious and widespread development planning in decades, the conflicting visions of city planners, developers and local neighborhoods have never been more apparent and the stakes have never been higher.
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