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Plan area · 8 agencies

Infrastructure and Environment

Sanitation, environment, parks, transportation, technology, transit, and construction

56 proposed goals 13 issue categories

Plan area context

Physical and digital infrastructure play a key role in determining how New Yorkers can access resources, services, and opportunities, as well as protection against environmental risks. Historical land use, zoning, and redlining practices have consistently disadvantaged communities of color and low-income neighborhoods, leaving communities vulnerable to environmental risks and health inequities. 35% of Black households and 36% of Hispanic households in NYC lack broadband access. The City has committed to building NYC's green-collar workforce to 400,000 employees by 2040.

Agencies in this plan area

Business Integrity Commission

BIC

2 ST 2 MT 2 LT
  • Short-Term: Connect trade waste companies with City resources or programs related to environmental justice, waste equity, and worker…
  • Short-Term: Increase investment in translation and interpretation services to promote language accessibility and ensure that agency …
  • Medium-Term: Ensure that BIC’s website is fully accessible in plain language and includes reference materials for new applicants, lic…
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Department of Design and Construction

DDC

2 ST 2 MT 2 LT
  • Short-Term: Prioritize maintaining an inclusive workforce environment for employees through staff development, engagement, and mento…
  • Short-Term: Ensure equitable access to agency-distributed public information on construction projects through expanding language acc…
  • Medium-Term: Strengthen workforce through enhanced recruitment and improving retention of diverse candidates and employees
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Department of Environmental Protection

DEP

1 ST 3 MT 3 LT
  • Short-Term: Partner with advocates and community partners to address the disproportionate impacts of the rising cost of drinking wat…
  • Medium-Term: Improve air quality associated with warehousing activity (warehouses are disproportionately located in low-income commun…
  • Medium-Term: Attract diverse talent to join DEP’s workforce
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Department of Parks and Recreation

NYCParks

4 ST 4 MT 1 LT
  • Short-Term: Parks had a 30% goal for M/WBE utilization (which captures both contracts awarded directly awarded by Parks and those aw…
  • Short-Term: Building on our value of engaging communities in our public input processes, empower historically underserved communitie…
  • Short-Term: Connect New Yorkers in need with NYC Parks’ public programs to learn new skills, grow capacity, and to build social conn…
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Department of Sanitation

DSNY

4 ST 2 MT 2 LT
  • Short-Term: Build robust neighborhood-level data on core services, enabling us to better respond to chronic conditions in historical…
  • Short-Term: Improve collection systems to address neighborhood inequities in cleanliness
  • Short-Term: Leverage DSNY’s authority to implement the Commercial Waste Zone (CWZ) Program to improve worker standards, enhance safe…
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Department of Transportation

DOT

5 LT
  • Long-Term: Develop an internal structure for centering equity at NYC DOT and supporting racial equity goals
  • Long-Term: Drive greater workforce diversity by reducing Titles of Interest20 and intensifying recruitment, mentorship, and capacit…
  • Long-Term: Build meaningful relationships with underserved communities to be more responsive to local needs while fostering greater…
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Office of Technology and Innovation

OTI

4 ST 2 MT 3 LT
  • Short-Term: Provide mandatory anti-bias training for all staff involved in the hiring process to promote an equitable hiring process
  • Short-Term: Build out MyCity to include additional City services while centering on the needs of underserved communities to reduce b…
  • Short-Term: Invest in Public Computer Centers (PCCs), digital skills training, and support awareness of their services
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Taxi and Limousine Commission

TLC

2 ST 2 MT 2 LT
  • Short-Term: Research and pilot additional ways of ensuring TLC-licensed services are available to all communities, especially commun…
  • Short-Term: Strengthen and increase education for TLC-licensed drivers to reduce discriminatory service refusal and support drivers …
  • Medium-Term: Address digital and language access barriers faced by TLC-licensed drivers and the public in navigating agency services
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