New Policies for a Human-Scale City: A Conference for Neighborhood Leaders, Boards, and Activists

New Policies for a Human-Scale City: A Conference for Neighborhood Leaders, Boards, and Activists 

Saturday, October 22, 50 East 7th Street (Middle Collegiate Church Social Hall)

10-5 p.m.

Reserve seats in advance at the link above.

Schedule

9:30:  Check-in

10:00 Welcome:  Mario Messina

10:05  Panel 1:  Affordable Housing in the Big Picture:  Part 1

– Moderator: Alison Greenberg

– Jeffrey Kroessler:  Upzoning:  The The Promise and Reality

– Marcel Rocheburn:  Wreck This Law:  A Short History of the Weaknening of Rent Stabilization

– Tom Angotti:  How Displacement Happens and How to Stop It

– Q & A, Discussion

11:05:  Panel 2:  Affordable Housing at a Human-Scale:  Part 2

– Moderator, Tom Angotti

-Annetta Seecharan:  The Basement Campaign

-Brian Loughlin:  Public Housing in Jersey City

– Susanne Schindler:

– Q & A, Discussion

12:05:  Lunch Break

– sandwiches and beverages available at cost in the Social Hall

12:30:  Keynote Talk:  Roberta Gratz of the Center for a Living City:  What Should We Do to Change What Ails Us?

1:00:  Panel 3:  New Ideas For A Human-Scale City

            – Moderator? 

-Sal Albanese:  Democracy Vouchers for Campaign Finance Reform

– William Duggan:  Democratic Neighborhood Improvemetn Districts: An Idea   Whose Time Has Come

– Simeon Bankoff:  Two Ways to Save Neighborhoods without the LPC

2:00:  Panel 4:  Community-Based Planning

– Alan Berger and Suki Cheong: 8 New Principles for Community Planning

– John Massengale:  If You are Going to Plan Your City, Why Not Plan The One You Want?

-Q & A

2:45:  Panel 5:  Zoning for a Human-Scale City

– Lynn Ellsworth:  Our Public Commons: Why we have to Remake the Rules about Height and Air Rights Transfers

– Layla Law-Gisiko:  How to Redesign The Rules for ‘As-of-Right’ Building

3:45:  What is to be done?  Panelists to be Announced            –

4:45:  Synthesis

5:00:  Reception