i'm not going to bore everyone here with sequa, but sequa is embedded in the public resources code.t has significant has levels of threshold, threshold levels of significance that are different than what a planning evaluation would be for traffic. large scale retail, uh, for example, also has analysis associated with it far beyond, you know, the traditional we'll just let sequa substitute for that analysis. it's specifically on on. i thought it was interesting because we were talking about tobacco earlier this, uh, meeting the tobacco paraphernalia stores. okay. when they seek see you approval. have to provide in their application the impact tobacco paraphernalia stores will have on congestion. okay. so that's that's required for that. how can it not be required for parcel delivery service use and economic study is required for large scale retail and formula retail. okay that's that exists in the code right now. it's a suggest that it's onerous or it's in that we don't have staffing that's adequate. i get all that. i'm not you know, i work very closely with the planning department.

we could not do sequa and planning and implementation in that time frame. so the no was no. we will not move out. the date for you to do green infrastructure. the no was no. we the no was on on a timing. the only project that was through sequa going up and implementation plan was the pipe and it was their way of saying and we talked to them about it. um, they didn't want to say no to green infrastructure, but they were not going to give us the time to do it. and so we are working with them to do green infrastructure, just as you said. and you said in places in addition to the pipe. so the pipe will be there and then they would like to work with us to do the green infrastructure in other locations. in addition, but not instead. i'm very surprised. but, um, and disappointed to be honest with you, um, knowing how, um, when i was on regional board, we actually were trying to i mean, of course, we are a combined system, which is different from everybody else in the state. um, but the whole, um, managing stormwater, a lot of the focus was on using green infrastructure as a first l

adopt uh findings under sequa, including findings rejecting alternatives as infeasible and adopting a mitigation monitoring and reporting program and number two, grant conditional use authorization pursuant to planning code section 303, three, 3.1 and 712 to permit a formula retail use uh doing business as whole foods market within the nc three zoning district. again um whole foods market requires a formula retail authorization as it has 500 units worldwide. in a study of the surrounding areas of the 57 commercial ground floor storefronts within a quarter mile of the project site, 15 are formula retail, amounting to a concentration of approximately 30 or approximately 26.3, and when measured as linear feet of total frontage, the concentration is 32.75, with incorporation of the proposed project as additional formula. retail use, the concentration would increase by 1.5. in regards to uh by measured by the number of storefronts and increased by less than half a percent when measured by the linear feet of total frontage. the project has as a formula retail use. the project has been revie

as noted, we will still be able to apply mitigation measures under sequa, and we are working to add additionalive code standards. but projects using the state density bonus could potentially choose to use waivers or one of their concessions to avoid some planning code requirements. these conditions are not unique to the rezoning itself, and they also apply to historic resources in other areas of the city. so we have many staff here today in addition to the rezoning team, we have director hylis deborah dwyer, rich sucrÉ, allison vanderslice and others who can speak to how the department is working to align our historic preservation and environmental review goals with these new state policies. in particular, we are in conversations with the board of supervisors on changes to our work program so that we can expedite the process to evaluate and designate landmarks both in the rezoned areas and citywide. we've also updated our online rezoning map. it actually went live this morning. um, so that the commission and members of the public can see where historic resources are in relation to the rezoning