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Plan area: Housing and Preservation
The Department of City Planning (DCP) shapes the city's physical and socioeconomic development by advising on land use, zoning, housing policy, and infrastructure. DCP's racial equity goals include: addressing racial, gender, gender identity, age, and disability gaps in DCP positions; ensuring pay equity for all; expanding community engagement in planning processes in underserved neighborhoods; and integrating racial equity analysis into planning decisions. Historical land use, zoning, and redlining practices have consistently disadvantaged communities of color and low-income neighborhoods.
Address any underrepresentation based on agency disparity analysis in certain roles within the agency through equitable hiring and recruitment practices for all vacancies
Population focus: General
Goal ID: DCP-G01
Support communities by advocating for community needs and capital investment in neighborhoods with concentrated poverty and historic segregation
Population focus: Low-income New Yorkers
Goal ID: DCP-G02
Equip agency staff, including DCP Commissioners with knowledge on the discriminatory history of urban planning to foster greater commitment in addressing systemic racism across New York City
Population focus: Agency staff / employees
Goal ID: DCP-G03
via work of DCP’s Community Planning and Civic Engagement Studio (CPE), continue to build relationships, to increase trust, and transparency, and to facilitate stronger partnerships with the communities we serve and our stakeholders to create avenues for share decision-making
Population focus: General
Goal ID: DCP-G04
Identify and address any racial, gender, gender identity, age, and disability gaps in DCP positions and ensure pay equity for all
Population focus: People with disabilities
Goal ID: DCP-G05
DCP has had a 30% goal for M/WBE utilization and will continue to implement and evaluate goals going forward to ensure they are consistent with federal, state, and local law
Population focus: M/WBE owners
Goal ID: DCP-G06
Undergo a truth and reconciliation process with agency partners, local communities, and employees to examine how DCP practices, policies, and operations may have contributed to inequality and structural racism both internally and in the communities we serve
Population focus: Agency staff / employees
Goal ID: DCP-G07
