Gennaro presses DEP on comprehensive coastal vision and silos
Gennaro quotes DeFalco's testimony about a coordinated citywide approach and asks how BCR's comprehensive vision will encompass other agencies' projects. He worries about siloed work and wants one lead planning entity.
Yeah, this is sort of like a theme through your statement.
Just as importantly, we need a coordinated citywide approach to coastal resilience, not a collection of individual projects.
Okay, just hold that in your mind for a second.
And the Bureau is also working toward a comprehensive vision for all 520 miles of New York.
I like that.
And then, no.
Okay.
So I agree that...
It's not a good paradigm to simply have a collection of individual projects done by different entities and not a lot of synchronicity, if that means anything other than the name of an album.
But I think it does.
And so, you know, because as you talked about before, you have things in silos.
These folks are doing this, these folks are doing that, or whatever, and sort of like where's the grand plan?
And so I agree with you, you don't want just a collection of projects, and I agree that we do need a grand plan, and it seems that
based on your statement here, I'll read it, the borough is also working toward a comprehensive vision for all 520 miles of New York coastline.
And so that is an ongoing project and that's a deliverable that, like who's doing it, what are you going to call it, and
Is this going to be, when you say that,
That you're working towards a comprehensive vision, just to get some clarity on the testimony.
So you got the Bureau, and then you got Tom, Dick, and Harry doing whatever else they're doing all over the city.
When you talk about a comprehensive vision being put together by the Bureau, does that encompass all the work that Tom, Dick, and Harry are doing, including what...
Things you would like to do and manage or are they separate?
Just tell me, just fill in the vision for me a little bit and how this is going to, because what I'm really looking for and what I, you know, sought to establish back in, you know, 2012 is,
you know, one major planning entity that would have the, you know, that would have the coastal resiliency ball, so to speak.
And, you know, and they wouldn't be operating in a silo.
They would, you know, branch out and try to get all these other projects that are going on under their
pyramid, for lack of a better word, you know, in their corral so that they could be, you know, front and center on how all the projects all over the city play out.