John Hennessy III,
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For more than 30 years, the RPA Assembly has convened thousands of policy experts, public officials and business leaders committed to addressing our region’s most urgent issues. Purchase tickets here 2023 RPA Assembly Features: Featured Speakers In-Person Assembly — Friday, May 5, 12-3pm at Pier 60, NYC Virtual Panels — Monday, May 1 – Thursday, […]
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Please join us for the 2021 Assembly as we gather experts from across the country to explore and plan for our region’s health, economy, housing, climate, open spaces, and infrastructure.
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The events of the past week are powerful reminders – which we should not have needed – that the physical fabric of a community is only as strong as the social contracts beneath it. That parks and housing and schools and jobs and transit need to be accessible and safe for everyone. And they aren’t. Not even close.
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Because the damage from Sandy cannot be fully repaired without closing down each of the two tubes in the tunnel, the only way to avoid several years of sharply reduced service is to build a second tunnel that could keep full service running while the existing tunnel is repaired. But it will take several years to construct a new tunnel, and full construction cannot start until funding is secured. Each day that passes without agreement on funding for a new tunnel makes it more likely that a tunnel shutdown will happen first.
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Celebrate the Tri-State is Regional Plan Association’s Inaugural Benefit. The event honors Domino Park/ Two Trees Management as the “Transformative Project of the Year.” Regional Plan Association (RPA) is also pleased to recognize Robert Billingsley, Cushman & Wakefield, with the “Above & Beyond Award” and Janette Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg Associates, with the “Making it Happen Award.”
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Each year, Regional Plan Association (RPA) brings together more than 1,000 civic and business leaders from around the New York metropolitan area to discuss major issues affecting the prosperity and quality of life in the region. The 2018 Assembly will feature Big Ideas that Can’t Wait — ideas we need to move forward on today to tackle some of the region’s biggest challenges in order to ensure sustainability, good governance and shared prosperity.
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We must act now. Our entire metropolitan economy is at risk if we fail to do a better job of maintaining, modernizing, and expanding our key regional infrastructure networks, including roads, bridges, railroads, subways, and airports. A number of themes and key issues emerged from these forums.
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REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION (RPA) The following is an excerpt of The Fourth Regional Plan: Making the Region Work for All of Us Most of the public institutions that govern the region were established in a different era. Because of this legacy, the region’s 782 municipalities are responsible for critical decisions about land use, property taxes, […]
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If the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs, from 1922, was about realizing that New York City was part of a larger regional economy and natural ecosystem; if the Second Regional Plan of 1968 was about trying to concentrate unconstrained sprawl into a constellation of regional cities; and if the Third Regional Plan of 1996 was about reinvesting in the infrastructure systems of the region to reassert our prominence on the national and international stage—then the lesson we learned from four years of data analysis and public engagement is that the Fourth Regional Plan is about creating and recreating our public institutions, and shaping them to make positive change happen.
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Without new affordable homes and walkable neighborhoods, housing markets tighten and costs rise, leading to less disposable income, longer commutes, the need to work longer hours, more stress, and poorer health for the region’s households. This disparity falls most heavily on the region’s lower-income households who, as referenced in RPA’s report Pushed Out, have seen housing costs rise unabated and continue to get pushed further away from central, walkable areas with access to jobs2. But it affects others as well – young families, seniors and anyone who needs affordable housing and doesn’t want to or can’t spend hours a day behind the wheel.
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