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Since the passage of the 1961 zoning ordinance, new approaches have been continually developed to deal with issues and opportunities that emerge as New York City grows and changes. A combination of incentive zoning, contextual zoning and special district techniques have been used to make zoning a more responsive and sensitive planning tool.
Today’s zoning has been designed to reshape the city by embodying smart growth and sustainable principles while addressing a range of goals as diverse as New York City’s neighborhoods. Over the past nine years, over 9,400 blocks - equal to roughly one-fifth of the city - have been rezoned. Increases in density are found in transit-oriented locations within walkable communities that offer a variety of retail, service, community facility and employment destinations that can be comfortably reached without having to use an automobile. In a city where housing is always in short supply, new opportunities for housing development, market-rate and affordable, have been created in former industrial areas and in established neighborhoods with good transit connections that can sustain increased density. Contextual zoning districts have been refined and expanded to better preserve the character of the city’s neighborhoods. In the outlying and more auto-dependent lower-density areas distant from mass transit, new growth management techniques have been developed to better address issues arising from rapid growth.
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