GREATER NEW YORK

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GREATER NEW YORK
A GREENER,
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New York City Population Growth
millions
Source US Census Bureau and NYC Department of
City Planning, Population Division
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A GREENER, GREATER NEW YORK
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Create enough housing for our growing population
Land
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Ensure all New Yorkers have parks within a
10-minute walk
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Clean up all contaminated land in New York City
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Water
Develop water network back-up systems
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Open 90 of our waterways and protect natural
areas
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Transportation
Improve travel times by adding transit capacity
for millions
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Achieve State Of Good Repair on our
transportation system
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Upgrade our energy infrastructure to provide
clean energy
Energy
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Achieve the cleanest air of any big city in
America
Air
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Climate Change
Reduce global warming emissions by 30
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GREATER NEW YORK
A GREENER,
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Land
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Land
Create homes for almost a million more New
Yorkers and to make that housing more
affordable.
Ensure all New Yorkers live within a ten-minute
walk of a park
Clean up all contaminated land in New York City
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Potential Capacity for Residential Growth
Units Current available capacity
400,000 2030 need 265,000 Total
additional 318,400 497,300
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Brownfields
Brownfields
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Open Space
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Open Space Initiatives
Schoolyards to Playgrounds
Take the field sites
Artificial turf
Fields to light
Neighborhood plazas
Regional parks
Greenstreets
Tree planting
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Water
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Develop water network back up systems
Open 90 of our waterways and protect natural
areas
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Tributary Water Quality Today
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Tributary Water Quality 2030
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Energy
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Upgrade our energy infrastructure to provide
clean energy
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Projected New York City Energy Increase
Electricity Consumption
Summer peak demand
Heating fuel consumption
Source KeySpan, ConEdison NYC Mayors Office of
Long-Term Planning and Sustainability
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Transportation
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Transportation
Improve travel times by adding transit capacity
for millions
Achieve State of Good Repair on our
transportation system
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Congested Rail and Subway Lines 2006
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Congested Rail and Subway Lines 2030
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New and Expanded Transit Infrastructure
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New and Expanded Transit Infrastructure
30 Billion Funding Gap
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The Mayors proposal to reduce congestion

• Three year pilot with detailed analysis of
  impacts
• Three main components will reduce traffic
• Congestion Pricing
• Transit improvements
• Peripheral strategies
• Additional measures will improve flow but not
  reduce traffic
• Block the box ticketing reform
• Additional traffic enforcement agents
• Bus lane enforcement
• Red light cameras

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Congestion Charge

• 6am-6pm Monday-Friday
• 4 daily charge for autos and small commercial
  vehicles traveling within the zone (5.50 for
  trucks)
• 8 daily charge for autos and small commercial
  vehicles entering or leaving the zone (21 for
  trucks)
• Toll rebates for E-ZPass users
• Reduced charge for clean trucks
• No charge on peripheral routes

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Short Term Transit Improvements

• New express bus routes
• Expanded service on existing lines

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0.2
Reduced TrafficVehicle miles traveled over a
24-hour period
0.3
1.8
4.7
6.3
1.2
0.1
1.5
0.6
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Sustainable
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Mobility
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And
Financing Authority
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Regional
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Transportation
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Congested Rail and Subway Lines 2030
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Congested Rail and Subway Lines plaNYC 2030
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Air Quality
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Air Quality
Achieve the cleanest air of any big city in
America
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NYC Child Asthma Hospitalization Rates
Rate Per 1000
NATIONAL AVERAGE
3.1
SourceNYS Department of Health (analyzed by NYC
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene) and
Centers for Disease Control
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Climate Change
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Climate Change
Reduce global warming emissions by 30
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Projected Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Strategies
The result will be an annual reduction of 33.6
million tons and an additional 15.6 million
tons avoided by accommodating 900,000 people in
New York City
Source NYC Mayors Office of Long-Term Planning
and Sustainability
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Climate Change
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GREATER NEW YORK
A GREENER,
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Since we last met

• Passage of rezoning in Jamaica, Queens, the
  Administration's largest-ever rezoning
• Release of Wetlands Transfer Task Force Report
  and preservation of Arlington Marsh wetlands area
• Launch of Million Trees NYC with planting of
  first tree, 28,165 trees planted to date
• New regulations for safe use of microturbines
• Mayor signs Executive Order 109 establishing
  Citys 30 by 17 greenhouse gas reduction plan
• Short-Term Plan to Begin Reducing Municipal
  Energy Consumption
• Intro 20 codifying PlaNYC emissions reduction
  targets passes
• Clinton Foundation, HUD, NYCHA Sustainability
  Partnership
• Pass zoning change for green parking lot
  requirements
• Mayor Bloomberg represents global cities at
  UNFCCC Bali climate talks
• TLC approves clean taxi cab legislation

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We are working with City Council on various
sustainability-related bills
To date, one has passed and three are moving
forward in the next month
Status
Key Elements

• Develop and implement stormwater management plan
• Monitor and report
• Engage stakeholders

• First hearing held in Nov 07, Council vote
  expected Jan 30, 2008
• First hearing held in Dec 07, Council vote
  expected Jan 30, 2008
• Council hearing scheduled for Jan 24, 2008

Intro 630 Stormwater Management

• Switch to ultra low sulfur diesel fuel
• Retrofit ferries to reduce emissions of NOx and
  particulate matter

Intro 168 Public Ferries

• Phase in use of biofuel blend for heating oil
  purchased for use in City-owned buildings and
  citywide buildings
• Reduce sulfur content

Intro 594 Clean Heating Oil

• We plan to work with City Council on additional
  issues this year
• School buses (Intro 622)
• Codifying the Sustainability Office (Intro 395)
• Brownfields
• Energy

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State legislative agenda-Energy
Two recent gas rate cases resulted in gt140
million/year in efficiency programs Proceedings
on electricity programs and planning on-going
Status
PlaNYC initiatives pursued
Key PSC processes

• Con Ed 14 million in Yr-1 and expected
  escalation in Yr-23 for gas efficiency funds
• KeySpan/Grid 20 million annually for 5 years
  for gas energy efficiency

• Con Ed PSC Order September 07
• KeySpan/Grid PSC Order December 07
• ALJ recommendations on Jan 9th, all efficiency
  measures punted to EEPS
• ALJ is expected to make Recommended Decision in
  1st Qtr 08
• Negotiations on Efficiency Partnership on-going
• Decision on phase I of proceeding on reliability
  related planning is expected by June 08

Con Edison and KeySpan/Grid gas rate cases

• Energy Efficiency Partnership
• Demand reduction plan to meet PlaNYC goals
• Clean DG, smart meters and real time pricing
• Prudent investment in infrastructure

Con Edison Electric Rate Case

• Energy Efficiency Partnership
• Demand reduction plan to meet PlaNYC goals
• Increase in SBC programs and funding

Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard Proceeding

• Long-term power supply contracts through RFP
  process
• NYC Energy Planning Board or alternative
  long-term planning process

Long-Term Supply Planning Proceeding
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Other initiatives in the works

• Housing
• Since September, adopted rezonings with
  inclusionary zoning (666 blocks)
• Jamaica
• Bedford-Stuyvesant
• Upper West Side
• 25 blocks around 125th Street in ULURP
• Announcement of consultant for West Shore Staten
  Island Study expected 1Q 08

• Land
• Water
• Transportation
• Energy
• Air
• Climate Change

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Other initiatives in the works

• Open Space
• Presentation of final design scheme for six
  regional parks 1Q 08
• Schoolyards to playgrounds 6 sites in design,
  construction to begin 2 Q 08
• Spring plantings and events, including 20,000
  trees on Arbor Day
• 20 pipeline community plazas in development,
  creating a program to generate new plazas in
  strategic neighborhoods

• Land
• Water
• Transportation
• Energy
• Air
• Climate Change

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Other initiatives in the works

• Brownfields
• Hiring process for Executive Director of the
  Office of Environmental Remediation is underway
• Triad pilot planning in progress
• Second meeting with NYC BOA and NPCR to assist
  groups in planning scheduled for January 17th

• Land
• Water
• Transportation
• Energy
• Air
• Climate Change

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Other initiatives in the works

• Land
• Water
• Transportation
• Energy
• Air
• Climate Change

• Street tree and front yard zoning requirements
• BMP Pilots in RFP process
• BMP Task Force draft report expected 3Q 08
• Working group evaluating wetland protections
  meeting regularly
• Land acquisition and enhancement program around
  watershed continues
• Croton Filtration plant construction and the UV
  disinfection plan contracting processes continue
  on-going

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Other initiatives in the works

• Land
• Water
• Transportation
• Energy
• Air
• Climate Change

• Continue to evaluate best strategies to increase
  bicycle parking
• Installation of bike lanes and bike racks
  citywide
• Neighborhood parking workshops
• Metered parking pilots

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Other initiatives in the works

• Land
• Water
• Transportation
• Energy
• Air
• Climate Change

• Release of solar RFP for 2 MW of capacity
  expected 1Q 08
• Evaluating bids on consultants for plan to meet
  City governments 30 reduction goal
• 10 University Challenge members completing GHG
  inventories and outlining reduction plans
• With NYS partners, upgrading State energy code to
  update lighting and landmark performance
  provisions
• Developing inter-agency green team to usher
  high-performance buildings and a process to
  "comb" codes for removal of impediments

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Other initiatives in the works

• Land
• Water
• Transportation
• Energy
• Air
• Climate Change

• Greening black cars
• Working with DOE, DOT, and Council to find
  practical strategy to reduce small school bus
  emissions
• Discussions with Port Authority on airport and
  marine facilities
• Research plan for local air quality study been
  peer reviewed, being revised, going to contract
  1Q 08
• Complete roll-out of biodiesel in city heavy
  truck fleet
• School boiler upgrade optimization strategy

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Other initiatives in the works

• Land
• Water
• Transportation
• Energy
• Air
• Climate Change

• Tropical hardwoods report to evaluate and reduce
  the Citys use of these woods
• Climate Change Adaptation Task Force kick-off
  meeting in planning phases
• Neighborhood educational process with UPROSE
  first workshop January 23rd
• FEMA floodplain planning process
• Inventory, monitoring, and reporting of
  emissions, PlaNYC progress, and overall
  sustainability