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July 15, 2020

Mayor de Blasio Announces City Planning Commission Meetings to Resume in August

Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced that the City Planning Commission (CPC) will start holding remote meetings in August. The CPC August meetings will include actions on development projects that are not subject to the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) and on ULURP projects that were already in public review prior to March 16. The August meetings will also include discussion and Department of City Planning (DCP) presentations related to development projects that are expected to begin the ULURP public process in the fall. The mayor's executive order suspending the ULURP clock will not be lifted until September.

This staggered restart is aimed at helping ensure that the city's 59 community boards, which must adhere to ULURP's timeline but often do not meet during summer months, are ready to host remote public meetings as soon as the clock restarts.

The first remote CPC meetings will be a Review Session on Aug. 3, followed by a Public Meeting on Aug. 5.

Following normal protocol, the public draft agendas for upcoming CPC meetings will be posted on the DCP website in the days before the meetings take place. While held remotely, CPC meetings will follow the same rules as they did pre-pandemic with regard to format, the need for a quorum, scheduling, sign-up for members of the public wishing to testify at a public hearing, testimony length and more.

All CPC meetings and public hearings will take place remotely for the foreseeable future. Information about how to participate in public hearings is available at NYC Engage, the newly launched portal to facilitate public engagement in remote hearings.

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