Avilés presses on development and industrial waterfront in coastal vision

The last question, in terms of the overall vision for coastal resiliency, how...

How does development factor into how these plans are being visioned and engaged?

And also as a council member that has a very large industrial manufacturing working waterfront,

I'm seeing the tensions and contradictions of kind of an incoherent policy model around economic development, industrial working waterfront, maritime, housing.

And coastal resiliency.

So how does that factor into the vision and the management across multiple agencies?

I think it'll be a challenge.

100%.

Okay, good.

We can agree.

I think it'll be a challenge.

You know, one of the first parts as well is I think we've also mentioned the

some additional visioning and we want to embrace the

voices and the visions of those different players.

As Beth said, you know, developers have a role to play within the city's infrastructure.

And the working maritime also has an important, important role to play.

And so we really will have to work with those neighborhood communities, the folks that live there, the folks that work there.

We're just now getting started.

We don't have a...

A vision of what the answer is yet, right?

Because we need to develop it.

So we really will want to get all of those voices together.

And the need for green space, the desire for green space and access to the waterfront.

There are trade-offs with coastal protection.

We can have a large 10-foot wall, but you can't access your waterfront.

But New York City is a city of their neighborhoods that want to be on their waterfront.

And so we have to balance all those things.

I guess my final plug will be as, again, a representative of an industrial manufacturing waterfront.

That has been utterly disincentivized to use the water when we as a city need to learn how to be with the water because it is not going anywhere, it's just getting higher.

You know, I would really encourage

us to push integration of economic development, integrating into the use of the water and not just hard lining every edge so that we can look at it as pretty or

to build luxury condos on the water.

Like those feel like where we're headed without the others.

So I just want to encourage some deep caution and skepticism on my behalf, but it is really, if we cannot build a resilient city without economic development that is integrated into using the water

and getting us to move things on the water.

So thank you.

Thank you.