NYLCV 2007 Legislative Priorities

• Ensure local economic development promotes smart growth and energy efficiency by reforming the Industrial Development Agencies,
  

• Encourage more private developers to clean up polluted sites by reforming the Brownfields Cleanup Program and the Brownfield Opportunity Area Program (BOA),

• End years of pollution, high cost, and environmental injustice to low-income communities by allowing NYC to go forward with a paper recycling component of its Solid Waste Management Plan,

• Allow local communities to raise funds to preserve open land, working farms or historic properties,

• Encourage the rehabilitation of historic commercial and residential properties by expanding an existing tax credit, and

• Help New York City become a model of sustainability by allowing the city to undertake a number of actions regarding transportation policy, energy policy and brownfields as put forward by Mayor Bloomberg in his PLANYC proposal.