With hot-button issues like the Hudson Tunnel crisis forcing a new perspective about the connection of New York city to its surrounding region, Mayor de Blasio has responded by creating a new office of regional planning.
Dana Rubinstein reports: "The New York City planning department is hiring a 'regional planning office director,' according to a job posting [pdf] that appeared on its on its website Sept. 30."
"The office is a new one, born of de Blasio’s OneNYC sustainability plan. According to planning commission chairman Carl Weisbrod, it will at first consist of two people. It might also be the first of its kind."
For many years, regional planning in the New York metropolitan area has been the task of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the Regional Plan Association. The article notes that New York City has never had a particularly strong culture of regional planning. New York Planning Commissioner Car Weisbrod is quoted in the article citing Denver and Chicago as two cities that plan more effectively on the regional level.
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