Chair Riley asks about implementation of New York City Industrial Plan
He asks if DCP is continuing to implement the industrial plan; Garodnick says yes, they use the land use framework to guide planning, and balance housing in neighborhood industrial areas while preserving heavy industrial.
In December 2025, DCP released a New York City industrial plan as required by Local Law 172 of 2023.
The plan includes the first time a citywide land use framework for industrial areas, as well as numerous important recommendations for economic development policy and infrastructure investment.
Is DCP continuing to work on implementing the recommendation of the New York City Industrial Plan?
Yes, we are.
So we've been utilizing the land use framework and the industrial plan to help guide our planning activities as well as decisions that we make, including at the CPC.
And so there's a framework in the industrial plan that outlines primary, secondary, and neighborhood industrial areas,
primary being our most intensive manufacturing uses, neighborhood industrial areas serving as the areas where we already see sort of mixed-use activity between residential, commercial, light manufacturing, for instance.
And so we've seen and certainly have pursued housing opportunities in some of the neighborhood industrial areas while we have certainly been working to ensure that we are keeping our heavy industrial.
areas intact.
That framework has been really important and helpful to how we are considering the work that we do.
We know there are a number of other recommendations in the industrial plan, particularly recommendations that are more programmatic policy.
And so we certainly have been in conversations with our other city agency partners in the economic development and justice world who are also looking at those proposals.
And how will the initiatives and blah, blah, blah be balanced with the goals of the New York City industrial plan and the preservation of dedicated manufacturing zone land?
Yeah, I think the industrial plan for the first time in a while gives us a framework to utilize as we start to reach this goal towards 200,000 new units, right, by sort of designating what we see as primary and secondary industrial where we,
and versus what we see as neighborhood industrial, which are areas that are more appropriate for including housing, closer to transit, have much more walkability.
We're able to factor those neighborhoods in more appropriately to our housing planning opportunities while still making sure that we are securing the jobs, right, and the protections that we need in our industrial sector.
Okay.