Development Impact Fees

No More Promises

John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Domino, Charter Review Commission, Community Benefits Agreements, Development Impact Fees, Housing, Comptroller-John-Liu, Brooklyn, Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York City Council, Housing Development, CPC Resources, Affordable Housing, New York News
John Petro

The developer of the massive New Domino development on the Williamsburg waterfront agreed to a number of provisions to ensure the project's approval by the City Council -- but they aren't legally enforceable.

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Fixing Community Benefits Agreements

John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community Benefits Agreements, Development Impact Fees, Coney Island, Living Wage, Flushing Commons, Comptroller John Liu, Linkage Fees, New York City Bar Association, Willets Point, New York City, Atlantic Yards, Real Estate Development, New York News
John Petro

A Community Benefits Agreement between a developer and the community covers a wide range of community needs. The CBA process, if you can call it a process, is broken in New York City.

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The End of Central Planning?

John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Renewal, Development Impact Fees, Public Sector, Public Housing, Witold Rybczynski, Private Sector, Urban Planning, Inclusionary Zoning, Central Planning, Free Market, New York News
John Petro

The private sector is motivated by profit, and the means with which the private sector expresses this motivation are often at odds with what is best for a city and its inhabitants.

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