Chair Riley confirms commitments for larger projects despite SEQRA exemption
He notes the committee usually sees smaller projects, asks if DCP will still negotiate commitments; Garodnick says yes, projects outside fast-track still go to council, fast-track projects go through expedited process.
But on average,
Chair, we don't really see those type of projects come to the committee.
You don't really see the 250, 500 unit projects a lot.
You really see smaller projects coming to the committee.
So just wanted to confirm that even though it is going through Seeker,
you are still going to have that same conversation with members to figure out what type of commitments.
But these are technically kind of larger projects than we're used to seeing within the Land Use Committee.
Absolutely.
And I will note that there are projects that are exempt from
SECRA, but are still subject to the traditional Euler process.
So if those projects are in districts outside of the 12 fast track districts, they are still going to the city council for final approval.
The projects that are in the fast track districts would be the ones that are going through this expedited process.
Okay.