Mayor Eric Adams has proposed three sprawling amendments to the city's zoning code that he says would transform the Big Apple from a mess of red tape to a 'City of Yes.'
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The proposals are only in their infancy and have not yet been fully fleshed out. The contours align with the mayor’s campaign pledge to cut red tape, though they will still, of course, have to go through the city’s red tape-laden public engagement process before approval and implementation. Previous efforts to replace the aging code with a new one have failed, and so instead, the 1961 resolution has been amended over and over mainly by rezoning certain areas, and occasionally with citywide efforts like 2016’s, which shepherded the city’s mandatory inclusionary housing program.
The administration says that the relaxation of certain residential zoning rules would allow for greater proliferation of housing and, in turn, more affordable housing. The proposal calls for axing red tape around converting old office space into residential units, and would allow any development that includes affordable housing to be built larger than market-rate buildings, a privilege that currently only applies to senior affordable housing.
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