Chair Riley asks about pipeline of neighborhood plans and OMB funding

Going to go into another set of questions.

So since 2016, neighborhood plan rezoners have been one of DCP's primary tools.

We're doing one in my district right now to add housing development capacity alongside infrastructure and community investment to support growth.

Over the last decade, neighborhood rezoners have enabled nearly 80,000 projected additional housing units.

DCP is currently only undertaking two neighborhood plans, one in my district and one south of Prospect, as compared to the five neighborhood rezoners during the prior term.

Is DCP actively looking to add more neighborhood rezoners to the pipeline?

And does the administration have a goal as to the number of neighborhood rezoners it is seeking to accomplish?

And within that, has OMB set aside capital funding for those rezoners?

Thank you for your question.

And again, thank you for your partnership on White Plains Road.

I know that there's been a lot of work that's going into that plan in particular.

So we announced our first two neighborhood plans early in this administration.

They are the first two, but certainly not the last.

We will continue to move forward neighborhood plans.

We are also looking at other opportunities relative to the fast-track neighborhoods that may be more modest than our traditional neighborhood plans based on the scale of those communities.

But we know neighborhood plans are essential to really unlocking housing opportunity, but also ensuring that we're bringing economic investment, supporting job creation, making sure that we have livable neighborhoods that have been informed.

By community input.

So there is a commitment to neighborhood planning, absolutely, in this administration.

And as we refine our plans, we would be excited to share more neighborhoods that we would like to focus on.

With regard to your question regarding OMB investment and capital improvement, so all of our neighborhood plans, whether it's been the last administration or this administration, have been paired with significant investment.

And that is typically investment that emerges through, again, our environmental impact study, where we're identifying where there's a need for capital or other investment to mitigate issues or to, for instance, bring about new school seats.

There's also a world in which we're looking to accelerate existing planned work based on the housing growth that we project, as well as investments tied to what we heard from community, whether it's street improvement or public realm, as well as services and opportunities.

And so that will certainly be part of the White Plains Road plan, South of Prospect, and any other neighborhood plan that we move forward.