Minority Leader Carr Q&A: Mangin on charter revision and development timeline

You know, you were being very modest earlier about the scope of the changes of the charter revisions that were accomplished by the last Charter Revision Commission.

There's been a recent analysis by Rebney that it takes about 3.4 years for a single new residential building in the city.

It's an average of more than four, I think, in Manhattan.

And given that the council's role in ULERP that has been removed was, you know, at most 50 days, why wasn't there more focus in the revision commission on

the rest of the process, which clearly takes much longer, rather than on the council's role, which is a very small space in time when you consider the entire development.

Thank you for that question, Leader.

I would say the charter efforts were part of a range of similar efforts to address those issues.

I can say at City Planning, for instance, that we've been engaged in a pretty deep effort to try to streamline pre-certification processes for certain applications because, as you point out, it's not...

Just council, it's not just environmental review, it's not just DOB,

you know, these are all parts of a single process, all of which should be examined in order to make sure that they're serving the policy goals that we as a city are headed toward.