New York, NY – New York City is about to update its zoning regulations to catch up with the Bloomberg administration’s environmental image and to make it easier for buildings to insulate exterior walls, install solar panels and put gardens on rooftops.
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With buildings accounting for 75 percent of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions, city planners say, the hope is that owners will take steps to increase their structures’ energy efficiency, produce their own renewable energy, put storm water to good use and, in some cases, even grow food.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the City Council support the proposed new rules, which the Council is expected to approve in a vote scheduled for Monday. The zoning changes would affect building types as varied as office towers, warehouses and apartment buildings.
The new regulations would encourage better insulation by allowing buildings to add up to eight inches of thickness to exterior walls without its being counted in the building’s maximum footprint. Other changes would relax height limits and facade restrictions to make room for equipment like solar panels, wind turbines, awnings, green roofs, recreational decks and skylights.
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Nothing about “animal cruelty” and prohibiting dogs from living in apartments?
Where’s PETA?
And once wer’e on that subject, can’t dog-walkers go greener by diapering their dogs and take it home with them?
At least the council is busy with something.
I’m sure NYC will make all the difference needed, while the world at large does nothing. What a shame and waste of time!
I wonder if all our problems have been solved, if this is what they are up to.
Another reason to take our business else where.
how much greenhouse gasses does bloomberg burn betwwen his helicopters and planes