Deputy Commissioner Sandler discusses resiliency standards; Brooks-Powers raises concerns

Sorry, go ahead.

Oh, yeah, I just wanted to add that in many cases, new construction housing can be a positive contributor to neighborhood resiliency needs.

And new housing that gets constructed, it has to meet much higher standards for resiliency.

It has to be built up above the city's flood elevation.

And then through the unified stormwater review, new housing construction typically comes with on-site retention of all stormwater that falls on that site.

And so in a lot of neighborhoods where you might have a surface parking lot, when it rains today, that water is flowing out into all of the neighboring sites.

And with new housing, that's an opportunity to retain that stormwater on site.

So these are important conversations to think about how they work.

Fit together.

I appreciate that.

But that has not been the case in some of the constructions, not only just housing, but just infrastructure, just new development.

So like we have a new Amazon facility has been there about four years now in Rosdale, where it did not flood before significant flooding.

But then there are other housing developments in the community and infrastructure projects that have happened even in Rockaway in the Arvin area that have pitched the streets wrong.

And while the infrastructure has been intended to, to your point, pull the stormwater and what have you.

To reduce what previously existed has created flooding in areas where it didn't exist before.

So it's kind of shifted the problem now.

And in my last two questions before I run out of time, for DCP, barring our vote, will this commission respond in writing to the community board and council member recommendations on an application?

And for HPD, how many affordable units in Community District 13 were approved over the last five years but are still waiting on financing or construction start?

Because I'm wondering if it also counts or doesn't count towards this list.