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Landmarks Commission Moves to Streamline Process
New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has scheduled a March 27 hearing on proposed changes to its approvals process. The changes are intended to expedite approvals for routine work on designated properties, and make the regulatory process more efficient and transparent for applicants, neighbors and the public.
Among other things, the revamp of the commission’s procedures will give LPC staff the authority to sign off on applications that currently must be considered by the full commission. It will entail reorganizing and consolidating some existing rules, along with introducing new ones.
The reorganization aims to make the rules more intuitive, practical and user-friendly. It’s also intended to make the Commission more efficient by ensuring that applicants don’t have to go through the more time-intensive Certificate of Appropriateness public hearing process for work types that are regularly approved by the Commission utilizing established criteria.
