Needed: a Metropolis Planning commissioner after Dan Garodnick determined to step away from metropolis authorities.
New York Metropolis’s prime planning official knowledgeable his employees on Thursday that he was leaving his position, the New York Day by day Information reported. The choice got here after Garodnick was seemingly handed over for a deputy mayor submit with Zohran Mamdani’s administration.
In an electronic mail to his employees, Garodnick mentioned that “the time is correct for me to maneuver on.” He plans on staying on to assist the transition to whoever takes his place.
“I don’t take my departure frivolously,” Garodnick added.
A spokesperson for Mamdani confirmed Garodnick’s pending departure, however didn’t remark any additional on the choice.
Eric Adams appointed Garodnick as director of the Division of Metropolis Planning and chair of the Metropolis Planning Fee in 2022. Garodnick guided a number of of Adams’ greatest housing insurance policies, together with passage of the Metropolis of Sure and the Midtown South rezoning.
Previous to his time with the planning division, Garodnick was a Manhattan Metropolis Councilmember for 12 years. He helped negotiate Blackstone and Ivanhoe Cambridge’s $5.3 billion buy of Stuyvesant City-Peter Cooper Village in 2015, which required the homeowners to maintain 5,000 of the advanced’s flats reasonably priced for a minimum of 20 years.
He additionally shepherded the rezoning of Midtown East by means of the town’s arduous land use evaluate course of.
Who takes Garodnick’s submit with the DCP and CPC will probably be carefully watched by these in the true property business. The place is instrumental for growth plans within the metropolis, significantly within the realm of reasonably priced housing.
Mamdani has promised to assemble 200,000 reasonably priced items within the subsequent decade.
Dina Levy, the senior vp of single household and neighborhood growth with the state’s Division of Houses and Neighborhood Renewal, recently landed the nomination as commissioner of the Division of Housing Preservation and Growth.
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