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PlaNYC Facts and Resources
Learn more about PlaNYC, New York's groundbreaking long-term sustainability plan
PlaNYC provides a vision for the future growth of New York City: how to accommodate one million more people in an already dense city, while at the same time reducing the City’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent and improving its infrastructure.
The plan, released on Earth Day 2007, outlines 10 major goals featuring 127 initiatives, and puts forward the overarching goal to create a “greener, greater New York.” The far-reaching PlaNYC has been hailed as a breakthrough in sustainability planning and is considered by local governments around the country to be the gold standard for big-city sustainability plans.
Read PlaNYC
View or download the plan and and its 10 key goals and 127 initiatives.
Progress Reports
Each year, New York releases a report on progress made toward PlaNYC goals. |
PlaNYC News
Read the latest on initiatives to help New York meet its PlaNYC goals. Greenhouse Gas Inventories
View New York's annual inventories of GHG emissions. |
PlaNYC Achievements as of April 2010
PlaNYC isn’t just a vision, or a report that has collected dust. In three years, the City has made remarkable progress toward its sustainability goals and over two-thirds of its initiatives are on-time or ahead of schedule. The latest achievements from the City's 2010 PlaNYC progress report:
- 19 rezonings approved focusing development in areas well-served by transit
- 100,000 affordable housing units created or preserved
- 319,054 trees planted and 113 schoolyards to playground sites opened by April 2010
- Office of Environmental Remediation created, becoming nation’s first municipal brownfield office
- All 14 wastewater treatment plants now meet Clean Water Act’s 85% pollutant removal requirement harbor-wide
- 200 miles of bicycle lanes installed and bike access law enacted
- Times Square, Herald Square, and Madison Square transformed into pedestrian-friendly plazas
- Greener, Greater Buildings Plan enacted into law, requires energy efficiency upgrades in all large buildings
- 86 energy efficiency projects completed as part of plan to reduce City government energy use 30% by 2017
- 25% of the yellow taxi fleet converted to hybrid vehicles
- Clean air school bus law enacted, requiring installation of interior air quality controls on entire fleet
- 9% decrease in citywide carbon emissions due to cleaner power generation and less sulfur hexafluoride release
- Assessment of climate change impacts on critical infrastructure completed by Task Force
PlaNYC Achievements as of April 2009
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