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Brooklyn borough president unveils comprehensive plan pushing transit-oriented housing near new IBX stops
Summary
Borough Hall presented a new comprehensive plan that maps neighborhood 'opportunity' and prioritizes housing near transit, including the 14-stop IBX project; officials urged community-board collaboration to direct where growth should go.
Borough President Antonio Reynoso presented a new Brooklyn comprehensive plan that uses maps and an "opportunity index" to identify neighborhoods with disparate access to jobs, transit, education and health care, and urged local boards to use the plan to guide housing and capital investments.
Reynoso said the plan highlights five pillars of opportunity—access to jobs, climate-risk exposure, transit, education and health—and shows where the borough has concentrated resources and where it has not. He described the proposal as a 5-, 10- and 20-year framework to align capital projects,…
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