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The
Neighborly Substation: Electricity, Zoning, and Urban Design
by Hope Cohen, with a foreword by Peter
W. Huber
SLIDESHOW
New York City needs power and it needs land. Electrical substations
have to be near the businesses and homes they power, but neighbors
don't want ugly, scary substations near them. New York's competitor
cities London and Tokyo demonstrate that substations don't have
to be ugly and scary. Instead of covering acres with electrical
equipment, utilities there build substations into or under office
buildings and public spaces. The Neighborly Substation explains
how to update New York's antiquated zoning code to unlock valuable
land and build substations where they need to be, in a manner neighbors
will accept.
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Rethinking
Environmental Review: A Handbook on What Can Be Done
by Hope Cohen,
with a foreword by Richard Ravitch
New York City's environmental review
process was instituted so that public officials would understand
the full environmental implications of a development project and
could plan for any necessary changes to municipal infrastructure
and services. Over time, the process has evolved to become a hindrance
to all developers, especially small-scale ones. The Center for Rethinking
Development offers simple and effective suggestions for reform in
a report, "Rethinking Environmental Review."
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Hope Cohen is Deputy Director of the Center for Rethinking Development. With over a decade of experience in New York City government at the Department of Parks and Recreation and MTA New York City Transit, she brings invaluable experience navigating the complex city bureaucracy and an acute ability to solve complex problems by building consensus among multiple stake-holders.
Supplementing her professional work as a public servant with voluntary public service as a Board member, Land Use Committee Co-Chairperson, and Board Chairperson of Manhattan's Community Board 7 (Upper West Side), she represented her neighborhood's land use and zoning concerns to a variety of city agencies, always working to get the multiple interested parties to a place of consensus and cooperation. She also developed recognized expertise on land use issues, ranging from the inclusionary housing bonus to the use of sidewalk space.
As Chairperson, she reorganized the Board structure, introduced streamlined processes, and recruited ambitious, civic-minded new members to represent the community. A major achievement of her administration was a review of the city's Solid Waste Management Plan that included acceptance of a role for the West 59th Street Marine Transfer Station, but also highlighted solid waste management as one of several key issues that need to be addressed seriously in the context of the city's development. She is intensely interested in the development and maintenance of the infrastructure required to make New York City work.
She holds a B.A. from Harvard and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. Select Media
- MSNBC Live, 6-23-09
- ateline Washington, Radio America, 4-16-09
- Dateline Washington, Radio America, KOMO News, 4-10-08
- "World
Service", BBC Radio, 01-30-08
- "One
to One", CUNY TV, 01-21-08
Articles/Op-eds
- Property Taxes: Business Killer, New York Post, 06-09-09
- Bloomberg's On The Right track With Radical Plan; Now, Go Further, New York Daily News, 05-26-09
- Yes, Mayor Bloomberg, Streamline Environmental Review, New York Daily News, 02-13-09
- Growing NYC's Grid, New York Post, 01-24-09
- Cutting the High Cost of Housing, Gotham Gazette, 09-15-08
- No Parking, Ever, The New York Times, 08-16-08
- Bulldozing Through New York, The New York Sun, 08-07-08
- Clearing New York City Streets, Gotham Gazette, 04-14-08
- The Critics of Mayor's Toll Plan Get Silly, New York Post, 03-31-08
- A Simpler Alternative to Congestion Pricing, Gotham Gazette, 01-07-08
- Public Transit Should be Cheaper Option, Metro International, 08-06-07
- Building Blocks, The New York Times, 08-05-07
- Ensuring It Doesn't Happen Here, New York Post, 08-03-07
- Fill Potholes in Congestion Pricing Plan, New York Daily News, 07-26-07
- Improve Transit Before Congestion Pricing, Gotham Gazette, 05-07-07
- We Will Clog You, The New York Times, 12-17-06
- Putting
The Sub Back In Substations, Architect's Newspaper,
02-18-09
Center for Rethinking Development e-Newsletters
Testimony
- "Time
to Return Tolls to East River Bridges," to New York City Council
December 16, 2008
- On
Changes to City Capital Contracting Rules, to New York City
Council Contracts Committee September 19, 2008
- On
Congestion Pricing, to New York City Council March 24, 2008
- On
Congestion Pricing, to Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission,
January 16, 2008
- On
Safety of New York City's Bridges, to New York City Council
Transportation Committee, September 17, 2007
- Supporting
Intro. 199 to New York City Council Transportation Committee,
January 25, 2007
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