View
1.909
Download
0
Category
Preview:
DESCRIPTION
Session 1: Wed. Feb. 24, 2010:"Opening Out Towards the Water"– The Big PictureModerator: Dr. William Solecki, Director, CISCSpeakers/PanelistsClick on each speaker's name to download their presentation [PDF]Dr. Rutherford H. Platt, Senior Fellow, CISCRobert Yaro, President, Regional Plan AssociationLinda Cox, Executive Director, Bronx River AllianceWilbur L. Woods, Director, Waterfront and Open Space Planning, New York City Department of City PlanningCortney Worrall, Director of Programs, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Citation preview
Moderated by: Dr. William Solecki
Panelists: Rutherford Platt • Robert Yaro • Linda CoxWilbur L. Woods • Cortney Worral
TURNING THE TIDE:New York’s Waterfront in Transition
TURNING THE TIDE: New York’s Waterfront in Transition
Four Public Colloquia on the Transformation of New York City’s Waterfront and Harbor.
Organized by
The Institute for Sustainable Cities, City University of New York
in collaboration with
The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
and
The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
TURNING THE TIDE: NEW YORK’S WATERFRONT IN TRANSITION
Session Dates and Topics
Feb. 24: “Opening Out Toward the Water”– The Big Picture
Mar. 17: Waterfront Parks: Old, New, Green, Blue
April 7: Seizing Opportunities: Waterfront Works in Progress April 28: Reviving the Estuary: Science and Education
Session One“Opening up to the Water:” The Big Picture
February 24, 2010
Introduction by
Rutherford H. Platt
Series Organizer Senior Fellow, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities and
Professor of Geography Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst
www.humanemetropolis.org
This series is inspired by:
The Humane Metropolis:People and Nature in the 21st Century City
University of Massachusetts Press andLincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2006
•Green
•Healthy and Safe
•Sustainable
•Equitable
•People-Friendly!
What is a “Humane Metropolis”?
An urban community at any scale (metro, city, suburb, neighborhood, block) that strives to be more––
Environment Magazine
July/Aug. 2009
Posted at:
www.humanemetropolis.org
New York’s Waterfrontis a Grand Experimentin creating a more humane megacity . . .
How did we get from this . . .
. . .to THIS?!
New York: “Matriarch of Megacities”
•Among World’s Ten Largest Cities (1900)and
Ten Largest Urban Regions (2006)
•The only “western” megacity among top ten today
•Long history of adapting to growth, decline, and diversity
•Innovative applications of technology, law, finance, and planning
•Model for large cities world-wide
Some New York “Megacity Milestones”
1807 Commissioners Plan for Future Streets
1840s - Croton River Water Project
1860s - Central Park, Prospect Park
1880s - Brooklyn Bridge
1899 - Five Borough Consolidation
1916 - Nation’s First Zoning Ordinance
1928 - First RPA Regional Plan for Greater NY
1997 - NYC Watershed Management Agreement
2000s - PlaNYC
1858 Olmsted and Vaux Plan for Central Park,
Central Park Today
Truly a “Central Park”!
What About a “Perimeter Park” . . .
A maritime counterpartto Central Park?
In 1944, Paul and Percival Goodman proposedthat New York “Open out toward the water” . . .lining the waterfront with parks . . . and giving upCentral Park for business and industry!
Central Park is not about to be abandoned . . .
But New York is indeed “opening out toward the water . . .” not as a single vast project like Central Park, but as a mosaic of individualprojects, with very different purposes, stakeholders, and legal frameworks
“Manhattan WaterfrontGreenway”
•Playgrounds
•Adult exercise and fitness
•People watching
•Dogwalking and run areas
•Music and art festivals
•Views of Harbor and skyline
•Fishing
•Water transportation
•Adaptive reuse of maritime structures
•Ecological habitat restoration
•Environmental education
•History and sense of place
New waterfront facilities provide many benefits, both traditional and new . . .
• Bike lanes
•Water Trails
•Green Rooftop - Riverbank State Park
•Piers -- Hudson River Park, Chelsea Piers
•Greenstreets
•Eco-Docks -- Dyckman Marina, 69th St. Bay Ridge
Abandoned rail facilities -- High Line Greenway
Barges -- Floating Pool Lady, The Science Barge
Flower Gardens - Battery Park City
Native plant beds - Stuyvesant Cove Park, Riverside Park South
Underwater habitat -- Hudson River Estuarine Sanctuary
And they incorporate new physical components . . .
Some Glimpses of Coming Attractions . . .
The City and its many partners like RPA, MWA, and the Bronx River Alliance envision a 21st Century waterfront that promotes recreation, health, jobs, mobility, and biodiversity across the five boroughs
Session 1 Today: “Opening Out to the Water” The Big Picture
Riverbank State Park -- ten acres of indoor and outdoor recreation -- on top of North River Sewage Treatment Plant!
Session 2 March 17: Waterfront Parks, Old, New, Green, Blue
Hudson River Park Established as a city-state partnership by
the Hudson River Trust Act in 1989
The High LineGreenway
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Battery Park City
Riverside Park South
Chelsea Piers
South Street SeaportIconic Rouse Festival Marketplace
(What next . . .?)
Governors Island, New York
Session 3 - Seizing Opportunities: Waterfront Works in Progress
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Cement Plant Park,Bronx River Greenway
South Bronx Greenway
Gateway National Recreation Area
New York City
Solar 2 Environmental Education Center (future)Courtesy: Colin Cathcart
Session 4 - Reviving the Estuary: Science and Education
The Urban Assembly Harbor School
New Home at Governors Island
“Turning the Tide”Closing Speaker:William Kornblum
Thank You!www.humanemetropolis.
org
Looking Ahead:Readying New York
Harbor for the 50 years
Bob YaroPresidentRegional Plan Association
February 24, 2010
“Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west,and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east.
Others will see the island large and small;Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross,
the sun half an hour high,A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence,
others will see them,Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide,
the falling-back to the sea of the ebb-tide.”
-Walt Whitman, “Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry,” 1856
Commerce & Industry Along the Edge
Source: New York Changing: Revisiting Berenice Abbott’s New York
1st Regional Plan
Relocating the seaport from Manhattan’s West Side to Newark Bay
2nd Regional Plan
Gateway National Park
River City andThe New JerseyWaterfrontRevitalization
3rd Regional Plan
Access to the Waterfront Today
Hudson River Park Queens West
Manhattan’s West Side Battery Park City
Residential and Commercial Development
New York - New Jersey Harbor
-8 million sq ft Commercial Space
- 4,000 New Housing Units
- $1.4 billion Invested
- Over 100 Park Initiatives costing $1-2 billion
Redefining the Harbor
Unfinished Agenda
$1–4 Million/Acre to Build
$135,000/Acre/Year to Manage
Arlington Marsh
Restoring andRebuilding the Seaport
Post-Panamax Cargo
Bridge
Panama Canal Expansion
Bayonne
Harnessing the Opportunities &
Overcoming the Challengesof Post-Panamax ShippingPort of
Baltimore
Port ofNorfolk
Bronx River Story
Stormwater Capture
Erosion Control
TM
VISION 2020VISION 2020New Comprehensive Waterfront PlanNew Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
February 24, 2010Turning the Tide Panel
Defining NYC’s Coastal Boundary
The area “landward from pierhead or property line, whichever is furthest seaward, to include coastal resources and the first mapped street.” (CEQR Technical Manual, 3K-l)
New York City Coastal Zone
1992 Comprehensive Waterfront Plan (CWP)
• Issued 1992 by Department of City Planning
• First comprehensive inventory of city’s entire waterfront
• Framework to guide land use along the waterfront
• Directed transition from industrial to post-industrial waterfront landscape, envisioning:
– Redevelopment of vacant and underutilized lands
– Parks and public access throughout the city
– Clean waters for swimming, fishing, and boating
– Protected natural habitats
– Thriving maritime and other industries
– Ferries, bikeways, and pedestrian pathways
– New housing and jobs in attractive, safe settings
• Identified and planned for 4 Major Functional Categories:– The Redeveloping
Waterfront – The Natural Waterfront– The Working Waterfront– The Public Waterfront
• Identified prime natural and industrial areas for special consideration
• Detailed studies of 22
Waterfront Reaches (Borough Plans)
1992 Comprehensive Waterfront Plan (cont.)
Achievements Since 1992 Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
City-wide strategies adopted and implemented to:
• Protect tidal and freshwater wetlands • Protect significant coastal fish and
wildlife habitats• Combat coastal erosion• Improve water quality through
significant and continued investment in city’s treatment upgrades and remediation programs
Plan for the Natural Waterfront
• Harbor Herons Complex
• Long Island Sound / Upper East River
Designated 3 Special Natural Waterfront Areas:
• Jamaica Bay
• Increased publicly accessible waterfront by approximately 29 miles of shoreline, plus an additional 13 miles in progress.
• Planned and developed linear public access corridors, including over 75 miles of waterfront greenways.
• Required public access and view corridors in over 40 new private developments.
• Provided point access: street ends and local parks in all five boroughs.
IKEA along Brooklyn’s Erie Basin
The Plan for the Public Waterfront
Achievements Since 1992 Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
IKEA Esplanade on Erie Basin, Brooklyn
The Plan for the Working Waterfront• Designated Significant
Maritime / Industrial Areas (SMIAs):1. Kill Van Kull2. Brooklyn – Sunset Park3. Brooklyn - Red Hook4. Brooklyn Navy Yard5. Newtown Creek6. South Bronx
• Major Projects:- Howland Hook Container Terminal and Arlington Yards- Brooklyn Cruise Terminal- Brooklyn Navy Yard Film Studio- Visy Paper, Arthur Kill- Red Hook Bargeport- Oak Point Rail Link and Harlem River Yards
12
3 4
5
6
Achievements Since 1992 Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
The Plan for the Redeveloping Waterfront
• Encouraged redevelopment of waterfront to foster economic growth, housing development, public access, and a better quality of life.• Amended city zoning regulations to better regulate waterfront development.• Identified specific rezoning opportunities in each borough• Specific projects have been implemented, and activity has been steady and growing.
Achievements Since 1992 Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
Hunters Point South Development, Queens
Waterfront Zoning Regulations• Adopted 1993• Advanced many CWP recommendations• Applies primarily to residential, commercial, and mixed-
used developments on waterfront – industrial and water-dependent uses exempted from many regulations
• Applies when redevelopment occurs• Updated in 2009 to improve public access design
standards
| WRP | Illustrations
Costco, East River, Queens
ACCESS TO WATER
COMPLEMENT SITE CONDITIONS
DESIGN QUALITY
DIVERSITY OF EXPERIENCES
VISUAL AND PHYSICAL CONNECTIVITY
“READ AS PUBLIC”
PRIVATELY OWNED WATERFRONT PUBLIC ACCESSdesign standards text amendment 2009: goals for public access components
2002: New Waterfront Revitalization Program (WRP)
WRP is the city’s principal coastal management tool.
• New WRP approved by NYS and Department of Commerce in 2002
• WRP intended to: – Maximize benefits derived
from economic development, environmental preservation, and public use of the waterfront
– Promote activities appropriate to specific locations
– Coordinate decisions and streamline regulatory process
What is the new Comprehensive Waterfront Plan?
• City Council legislation (Intro 809-a) adopted in late 2008 requires the Department of City Planning to update the Comprehensive Waterfront Plan (CWP) by December 31, 2010, and every 10 years thereafter.
• The primary requirements of the legislation are that the Plan should:
1. Set out a Vision for the city’s waterfront for the next 10 years (2010 – 2020).
2. Provide an Assessment of Waterfront Resources to include the current opportunities and challenges.
3. Develop planning policy alternatives for discussion with the public, and in consultation with appropriate governmental agencies and elected officials.
4. Provide a statement of the planning policy of the Department of City Planning and proposals for implementing the planning policy by amendment of the zoning resolution, development of plans or otherwise.
Major Themes of the CWP Update/Vision 2020
The major themes of the CWP Update/Vision 2020 are based on our experience and consideration of the waterfront planning issues identified recently by DCP’s Borough Offices. These themes mix the elements from the four functional categories of the 1992 Plan – the public, developing, working and natural waterfronts – plus the issues inherent in the water itself, or the “blue network”. The seven themes are:
1. Expanding public access on private and public property
Brooklyn Bridge ParkWilliamsburg Edge
2. Enlivening the waterfront with attractive uses, high-quality public spaces, and publicly oriented water-dependent uses, integrated with adjacent upland communities.
Greenpoint-Williamsburg Waterfront:Design Schematic
Lower Concourse Waterfront Plan
3. Supporting economic development on the working waterfront
New York Container Terminal - Staten Island
4. Restoring degraded natural waterfronts and protecting wetlands and shorefront habitats
Jamaica Bay Wetlands Management Area
Arlington MarshNorth Shore Staten Island
5. Enhancing the public experience of the “blue network” by expanding waterborne transportation, in-water recreation, as well as water-oriented educational and cultural activities
New York Water Taxi
Bronx RiverMarine Instruction
6. Maintaining and improving the environmental quality of our water bodies.
Bronx River
Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant
7. Pursuing strategies to improve the sustainability of the city’s waterfront, including increased resilience to climate change and projected sea-level rise.
Hamilton Beach, Queens – October 18, 2009
Waterfront Reaches
• City’s waterfront divided into 22 local planning segments, or reaches
• Organizing framework for detailed site-specific recommendations
| Zoning | WRP | Illustrations
Expanding Waterborne Transportation
Source: NYC Economic Development Corporation
Revitalizing Waterfront Areas
Sunset Park Vision Plan Goals:• Maximize the efficient movement of goods• Protect and grow industrial employment• Promote green practices• Balance neighborhood needs
Source: NYC Economic Development Corporation
Questions and Discussion
TM
February 24, 2010Turning the Tide Panel
Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
www.waterfrontalliance.org
MWA’s Mission
MWA is determined to transform the New York and New Jersey Harbor and Waterways to make them clean and accessible, a vibrant place to play, learn and work, with great parks, great jobs, and great transportation for all.
A waterfront cut off from people
San Francisco
Rotterdam
London
Sydney
Who are we?
• An alliance of nearly 400 organizations in the metropolitan region
• Committed to revitalizing the NY-NJ waterfront
• A BROAD coalition—from the paddlers of the Sebago Canoe Club on Jamaica Bay to the international shippers of the New York Shipping Association
MWA as waterfront convener
Waterfront Policy: The Waterfront Action Agenda
Policy Platform for
NY- NJ Waterfront
Transforming the Waterfront
2000 2050
Task Forces Convene 2007
A short history2000 to 2050
Today
MWA’s Programs
• Waterfront Permitting• Community Eco-Docks• Waterfront Edge Design• Harbor Camp• Task Forces/Comprehensive
Waterfront Plan
©2008 Guardia Architects
Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
• Updated by end of 2010
• Critically Important Year for Waterfront
• Public meetings • MWA Waterfront
Conference
Working Waterfront
Working Waterfront
• 230,000 Waterfront Jobs• Port Commerce = $20 billion• Cruise Industry = $1 billion• Rising costs and real estate pressure
Processed Dredge Costs
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
1999 2005 2010
Year
Higher Range
Lower Range
$23 to $29
$29 to $42
$50 to $100
Green Harbor and Restoration
New York/ New Jersey Harbor
Long Island Sound Study
Great Lakes
Restoration Funding
$4.24 million/ year
$168 million/ year
$580,000/year
$3200/mi2 $1800/mi2 $36/mi2
$0.20/person $4.90/person $0.03/person
Great Lakes Long Island Sound
NY/NJ Harbor
Comparison of Funding
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
35.0
40.0
45.0
50.0
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Year
Fu
nd
ing
(in
Mil
lio
ns)
LISS
GL
NY/NJ
475.0
How do we measure progress?
Join the Blue Movement!
MWA has helped to develop and promote waterfront programs that will develop and maintain a healthy and lasting harbor. Stay informed as members of the MWA Alliance.
Stay Tuned for 2010!
• MWA Task Force meetings• Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
meetings
• City of Water Day – July 24th
• MWA’s Waterfront Conference - December
Recommended