The following statement can be attributed to Maulin Mehta, New York Director, Regional Plan Association:

The future of New York City and the entire region faces unprecedented challenges due to the impacts of climate change, including extreme heat, damaging flooding, and rising sea levels. We applaud Mayor Eric Adams, NYCDCP Director and CPC Chair Dan Garodnik, and the entire Adams Administration for boldly addressing these problems and striving for a carbon-neutral city to help avoid worsening impacts. Modernizing and streamlining our zoning code through reforms that will encourage adding solar trellises, heat pumps, EV charging stations, and more green retrofits across the city are particularly critical to help us act to counter the difficult reality ahead, and we look forward to helping them be swiftly implemented.