Even as the city shifts from its original plan, the concept of leasing land for mostly market-rate apartments — with 20 percent of the 4,000 new units in the plan designated as affordable to lower-income households — is still being resisted.
Hansell's responsibility in the plan, designated AWPD 1, was information on German targets.
The plan designated Highway 403 north from Burlington and then parallel with the QEW to Highway 401 near Highway 27.
The plan designated several new highway corridors and widening projects through Peel and Halton, including Highway 10.
The new legislation allows expedited state approvals for developers in areas that the state plan designates as metropolitan or suburban.
Through its land use management areas, the Pinelands plan designates what intensities and types of growth are suitable for a given area.
Meanwhile, although the master plan designated $240 million for a new opera house, officials at Lincoln Center point out that there has been no money allocated as yet, and even though the project is expected to take a decade, fund-raising looks tougher than ever.
The plan also designates Mr. Bloomberg and Gov. George E. Pataki, both Republicans, as honorary chairmen of the New York City Host Committee, and it names former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani as the committee's chairman.
Unfortunately, though, the plan simply designates information, telecoms, chemicals and materials as "strategic growth areas"—which sounds all too much like the past strategy of picking winners, the kiss of death for most entrepreneurs.
The plan also designates $295 million for training and $273 million for construction of research facilities--needed to keep the work segregated from that funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
