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In 2017, the City Council passed a bill requiring HPD to make urban renewal data available to the public. See [City Council Approves Bill to Increase Transparency For Urban Renewal Areas The Low-Down](https://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2017/12/city-council-approves-bill-to-increase-transparency-for-urban-renewal-areas.html) | Ed Litvak | 12/12/2017. The bill became [law](https://nyc.legistar1.com/nyc/attachments/f6a21032-ecd2-4197-ba05-f415caa39ecf.pdf) in January 2018 and HPD posted its [Urban Renewal database](https://www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/services-and-information/urban-renewal.page) in January 2020; as of January 2024, that database does not include specific property information, but HPD has complied with the law by posting urban renewal area boundaries and plan documents that we had to inspect in person in 2014.

## Missing Information about Planned Uses and Missing Plans
In 2014, HPD provided us with a list of all the plans that ever existed but was not able to actually give us access to all the plans on their list. Although the NYC Urban Reviewer map contains each of those plans, for the ones that HPD did not produce in 2014, details are missing about planned uses for the included lots. Since HPD made plans availabe online in 2020, we direct you to those. Records remain missing for the College Point, Flushing Municipal Parking Lot #1, Seaside-Rockaway and University Heights I Area Plans.
In 2014, HPD provided us with a list of all the plans that ever existed but was not able to actually give us access to all the plans on their list. Although the NYC Urban Reviewer map contains each of those plans, for the ones that HPD did not produce in 2014, details are missing about planned uses for the included lots. Since HPD made plans availabe online in 2020, we direct you to those. Records remain missing for the College Point, Flushing Municipal Parking Lot #1, Seaside-Rockaway, Middleton–Lorimer and University Heights I Area Plans.

## Further Investigation
_What is urban renewal and master planning for our neighborhoods? Who makes comprehensive neighborhood plans and why? How have decisions been made about master planning in our cities? What kinds of narratives were used to promote urban renewal plans?_
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