The Missing Piece of PlaNYC

The Pratt Center has been a strong supporter of PlaNYC, the Bloomberg administration's sustainability agenda introduced four years ago and updated for Earth Day 2011. But as senior fellows Alyssa Katz and Eve Baron write in the Gotham Gazette, the ability of the city to realize the ambitious goals of PlaNYC has been hampered by the omission of a public process to develop and validate the plan. That's not just a political problem; it's an end run around the New York City Charter and the democratic process that created it.

"The City Charter needs updating to make New Yorkers part of the process not just on individual land use decisions, but on more comprehensive strategic planning about the future of New York City," write Katz and Baron.

Read the rest of "Participatory Planning: The Sustainability Plan's Missing Piece" at Gotham Gazette, or learn more about the Pratt Center's

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