Chair Riley delivers closing remarks on collaboration and comprehensive planning

Thank you, Chair.

And thank you for answering our questions here today.

I think the essence of today's conversation was focused on collaboration and planning.

We understand the crisis.

We are not the council that is the NIMBYs.

We want to actually work with the administration, but there has to be some sense of urban or comprehensive planning that's coming into effect.

It's unfair to just focus on units and building and just putting people in a location where there's no true investment on infrastructure, on the schools, and so on and so forth.

I think everyone in this room would like to live in a vibrant community.

We talk a lot about affordable New York City, but we need a livable New York City.

We could be extremely affordable, but we don't put people in a community that they can actually live in and thrive in.

That's where.

We're going to lose a lot more New Yorkers to other states, and we don't want to do that.

We are in a very important time.

We understand the work that we have to do in the council.

700,000 units is extremely ambitious.

We want to work with you guys.

So that's just what we want to emphasize with this conversation today.

We do want to hear something more with the plans that you guys put out.

How do you guys plan to achieve these goals?

Because these are very ambitious goals and you're going to need a partner to achieve these goals.

So please utilize us as a partner.

We have council members that are trying to do their fair share, but they need the collaboration and cooperation with the administration.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you, Council Member.

All right.

Council Member, are you good?

All right.

All right.

All right, wrong question.

Do you have any more questions?

Okay, good.

All right.