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    Dear PlanNYC Users:

    Thank you for visiting PlanNYC.

    As of July 7, 2010, we have suspended daily news updating on this website, and will not be adding new developments or policy and legislative debates.

    PlanNYC, a student-run website based at NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, has proudly served New Yorkers for five years. During that time, the growth of online information on land use and development issues, along with advances in technology such as RSS feeds and news alerts, have created many opportunities for New Yorkers to stay informed about housing and land use debates in the City. As a result, the daily news updating on this site has become less unique and less critical to our users.

    We are pleased to keep the existing PlanNYC content online as a resource; all content on the site is current of July 6, 2010, but will not be updated after that date.

    We hope you continue to use the data and research available at the Furman Center (which you can find at www.furmancenter.org), and we welcome your ideas and suggestions for how we can continue to provide objective information and analysis about land use and housing policy debates in New York City.

    For additional information or questions, please email furmancenter@nyu.edu.

    PlaNYC 2030

    In December 2006, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled PlaNYC 2030, a challenge to New Yorkers “to generate ideas for achieving ten key goals for the city’s sustainable future.” Organized into six key areas (Land, Water, Transportation, Energy, Air, and Climate Change), the PlaNYC 2030 project is targeting ten goals, ideally achievable by the year 2030, to allow for the growth and sustenance of New York City’s industry, population, environment, and infrastructure. The goals of PlaNYC 2030, in no particular order of importance, are:

    1. Create homes for almost a million more New Yorkers, while making housing more affordable and sustainable

    2. Ensure that all New Yorkers live within a 10-minute walk of a park

    3. Clean up all contaminated land in New York

    4. Open 90% of our waterways for recreation by reducing water pollution and preserving our natural areas

    5. Develop critical back-up systems for our aging water network to ensure long-term reliability

    6. Improve travel times by adding transit capacity for millions more residents

    7. Reach a full “state of good repair” on New York City’s roads, subways, and rails for the first time in history

    8. Provide cleaner, more reliable power for every New Yorker by upgrading our energy infrastructure

    9. Achieve the cleanest air quality of any big city in America

    10. Reduce global warming emissions by more than 30%

    (This list was provided by the Office of the Mayor and is available at: http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/plan/plan.shtml)

    Last Updated: June 8, 2010