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LISTEN: If You Zone It, They Will Build

City Planning Commission Chair Dan Garodnick speaks with Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Adolfo Carrión Jr. at a Mayor Eric Adams housing plan announcement at 90 Sands St. in Brooklyn. June 14, 2022.

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City Planning Commission Director Daniel Garodnick makes the case for the Adams administration’s hugely ambitious new plan to update “our zoning rules that have over time gotten in the way,” so that developers can build what City Hall has described as “a little more housing in every neighborhood” — adding up to a projected 100,000 new homes over 15 years. 

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