{"id":134,"date":"2021-06-23T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/?p=134"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:47:19","slug":"nyc-enacts-racial-equity-reporting-for-many-land-use-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/2021\/06\/23\/nyc-enacts-racial-equity-reporting-for-many-land-use-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC enacts Racial Equity Reporting for Many Land Use Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>On <strong>June 17, 2021<\/strong> the New York City Council passed <strong>Intro &#8211; 1572-B<\/strong>, \u00a0legislation which requires \u201c<u>racial equity reports<\/u>\u201d for certain land-use actions. According to Langan and the ordinance,\u00a0racial equity reports will be standalone, project-specific, publicly-available documents that provide supplemental information for use\u00a0 during the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (\u201cULURP\u201d) process. <br \/><br \/>Starting <strong><u>June 1, 2022<\/u><\/strong>, a racial equity report will be required for applications involving all of the following actions:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Adopting citywide zoning text amendments that affect 5 (or more) community districts;<\/li>\r\n<li>Designating historic districts that affect 4 (or more) city blocks;<\/li>\r\n<li>Acquiring or disposing of (selling) <strong>city-owned land<\/strong> for a project containing at least <strong>50,000 square feet of floor area<\/strong>;<\/li>\r\n<li>Increasing permitted <strong>residential<\/strong> floor area by at least <strong>50,000 square feet<\/strong>;<\/li>\r\n<li>Increasing permitted <strong>non-residential<\/strong> floor area by at least <strong>200,000 square feet;<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li>Decreasing permitted floor area or number of <strong>housing units<\/strong> on at least four contiguous city blocks;<\/li>\r\n<li>Changing the <strong>permitted floor area<\/strong> (for any use) in a <strong>manufacturing district<\/strong>; and<\/li>\r\n<li>Changing <strong>use regulations<\/strong> in a manufacturing district with a project containing at least 100,000 square feet of floor area.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>The <strong>New York City Department of City Planning<\/strong> (\u201cDCP\u201d) and <strong>Department of Housing Preservation and Development<\/strong> (\u201cHPD\u201d) will have administrative oversight of the racial equity reports and have been charged with aggregating the data and developing detailed guidance for further report preparation.<\/p>\r\n<p>According to the <u>Real Deal<\/u>, the measure requires the DCP and the HPD to create a database (called the \u201cequitable development data tool\u201d (\u201cEDD\u201d)) with current and historic information focusing on neighborhood demographics, affordability and displacement risk. The EDD will include a 20 year\u00a0lookback, disaggregated by race origin, aimed at spotting trends in the data over time.<\/p>\r\n<p>For <strong>residential developments<\/strong>, reporting would include proposed rents or sales prices and the household incomes as well as listing\u00a0the number of government-regulated affordable units at different income levels.<\/p>\r\n<p>For <strong>nonresidential projects<\/strong>, reporting would include\u00a0the \u201cprojected number of jobs in each sector or occupation, median wage levels of such jobs based on the most recently available quarterly census data on employment and wages or other publicly available data, and the racial and ethnic composition and educational attainment of the workforce for the projected sectors of such jobs.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s easy to provide this information for projects with government regulatory agreements; not so for areawide re-zonings and private applicants, where many outcomes are possible. By acknowledging the \u201cworst\u201d possible outcomes (market-rate housing! non-union jobs!), the reports will tee up the opposition\u2019s demands.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Triple Bottom Line<\/strong> &#8211; often California leads policy and mandates on various social issues, in this instance,<strong> New York City<\/strong> has taken action and mandated racial equity reporting in various land use developments for new projects on a go forward basis.\u00a0 This action will require the aggregation of critical data in order to make land use decisions which will likely result in a different, more informed decision making process that takes into account racial disparity and equity.\u00a0 A big step in the process and one which many towns and municipalities in the US will look to in their own decision making.\u00a0 Too early to call on overall success of the initiative or what will occur, but in my view, a big important step in enabling more informed decisions, that this commentator believes will be the beginning of a more national move in many cities to similar reporting and requirements.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Duane Morris<\/strong> has an active <strong>ESG and Sustainability Team<\/strong> to help organizations and individuals plan, respond to, and execute on Sustainability and ESG planning and initiatives within their own space. We would be happy to discussion your proposed project with you. For more information, or if you have any questions about this post, please contact <strong>Brad A. Molotsky, Nanette Heide, Darrick Mix, David Amerikaner, Vijay Bange, Stephen Nichol<\/strong>, or the attorney in the firm with whom you are regularly in contact.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 17, 2021 the New York City Council passed Intro &#8211; 1572-B, \u00a0legislation which requires \u201cracial equity reports\u201d for certain land-use actions. According to Langan and the ordinance,\u00a0racial equity reports will be standalone, project-specific, publicly-available documents that provide supplemental information for use\u00a0 during the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (\u201cULURP\u201d) process. Starting June 1, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/2021\/06\/23\/nyc-enacts-racial-equity-reporting-for-many-land-use-projects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NYC enacts Racial Equity Reporting for Many Land Use Projects&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[166,168,165,22,72,52,160,162,167,161,71,169,164,170,163,155,134],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-000-sf","tag-168","tag-165","tag-brad-a-molotsky","tag-darrick-mix","tag-david-amerikaner","tag-far","tag-housing-units","tag-june-1","tag-manufacturing","tag-nanette-heide","tag-new-york-city","tag-non-residential","tag-racial-equity-reporting","tag-residential","tag-steve-nichol","tag-vijay-bange"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/esg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}