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Background - A lot can change in 25 years. By 1981, our City's near-bankruptcy caused basic services like schools, safety, and sanitation to deteriorate. Since then, almost everything - except New York's essential magic - has changed. We are the safest big city in the United States - and one of the greenest, too. Our economy is strong. We have some of the best schools and the cleanest streets. But success brings its own challenges. Now we are ready to look ahead for the next 25 years and address the physical barriers to maintaining and improving our quality of life. To sustain the City we love today, we must begin planning for tomorrow.
The top three things you should know about new york over the next 25 years
We will be getting BIGGER. (much bigger) Our infrastructure will be getting OLDER. (and it's pretty old to begin with) Our environment will be AT RISK. (and that's not a risk worth taking)
What impacts will we face from one million more people? What infrastructure needs should we get ready for? How will our environment become more vulnerable?
New York's resurgence has attracted record numbers of new residents. By planning for growth, we can maintain our quality of life and make sure our City stays as open as ever.
Learn more...		 By 2030, nearly all of our major infrastructure networks will be more than a century old – and under new pressures. Together we can maintain and modernize these systems to compete as a 21st century city.
Learn more...		 With rising sea levels – and temperatures – we’re already starting to experience the effects of global warming. We must conserve our City's resources and do our part to fight against climate change.
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What we heard
 
After PlaNYC was announced on December 12, 2006, we met with over 100 Advocacy Organizations, held 11 neighborhood leader and town hall meetings throughout the five boroughs, presented the challenges of PlaNYC to 50 organizations and received over 3000 emails through our website. New Yorkers in all five boroughs responded during the four-month public outreach process, offering suggestions that have helped form a plan to address the critical challenges ahead and to create a sustainable City. This is what we heard.


  
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10 Goals for 2030
 
The links below contain summaries of the comments we heard from the PlaNYC outreach efforts organized by the ten goals.

Summaries of the comments submitted through the website, and feedback from the community leader and town hall meetings are also available in PDF form.

Website Comments (in PDF)
Community Leader Meetings (in PDF)
Town Hall Meetings (in PDF)

  
1. Create homes for almost a million more New Yorkers, while making housing more affordable and sustainable What you told us...
2. Improve travel times by adding transit capacity for millions more residents, visitors, and workers What you told us...
3. Ensure that all New Yorkers live within a 10-minute walk of a park What you told us...
4. Develop critical back-up systems for our aging water network to ensure long-term reliability What you told us...
5. Reach a full &quotstate of good repair" on New York City's roads, subways, and rails for the first time in history What you told us...
6. Provide cleaner, more reliable power for every New Yorker by upgrading our energy infrastructure What you told us...
7. Reduce global warming emissions by more than 30% What you told us...
8. Achieve the cleanest air of any big city in America What you told us...
9. Clean up all contaminated land in New York City What you told us...
10. Open 90% of our waterways for recreation by reducing water pollution and preserving our natural areas What you told us...
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