The Garvin Report: A Secret Plan For New York City?

A blog releases a document it claims is a secret "new urban planning vision for New York City" developed by the consulting firm of Alex Garvin and Associates.

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August 17, 2006, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"As reported in today's Observer a team working under Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff has, for the last year or so, been secretly developing a sweeping, new urban planning vision for New York City...The goal of the Garvin Report, as it is referred to by some insiders, is to provide strategies and opportunities for increasing New York City's housing supply in a way that improves, rather than degrades, New York City's quality of life...The Garvin Report also recommends a set of strategies for improving New York City's public spaces and surface transit systems."

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