Here Are The 5 Proposals That Will Be On Voter's Ballots In November: See Here

NEW YORK CITY — The New York City Charter Revision Commission recently voted to adopt five ballot proposals that will appear on voter's ballot in November.

The five ballot proposals were adopted following a public comment period and would look to increase housing development, deliver more affordable housing, among other issues.

Here are the five ballot proposals below.

Question 1 - Fast Tracking Affordable Housing: This would create a simpler and faster approval process for publicly funded affordable housing. It also would speed up housing approvals in neighborhoods that haven't built enough affordable homes, in line with the Speaker's Fair Housing Framework.

Question 2 - Simplify Review of Modest Housing and Infrastructure Projects: This would exempt modest housing and climate resiliency projects—solar arrays, backyard ADUs, and new buildings under 45ft—from the ULURP gauntlet that today takes years and millions of dollars to complete.

Question 3 - Establish an Affordable Housing Appeals Board with Council, Borough, and Citywide Voices: Preserves local community voices in land-use decisions while ensuring that broader housing needs can also be considered through a new appeals board.

Question 4 - Modernize the City Map: Replaces the 8,000 outdated paper maps with a unified digital system, reducing long reviews for housing and infrastructure projects.

Question 5 - Move Local Elections to Presidential Election Years: This would move the City’s primary and general election dates to even-numbered years, to align with presidential elections in an effort to improve voter turnout.

Annemarie Gray, Open New York Executive Director, praised the proposed four housing amendments.

"[They] would collectively represent a huge step forward for affordability in New York. These changes reject the decades-old consensus that some neighborhoods should be off-limits to new neighbors, instead asserting that every neighborhood in New York must do its part to build more homes," she said.

“Today, the Charter constrains our ability to build new homes in the places New Yorkers most want to live. Every project, no matter how small, must go through the same expensive, years-long approval process. The consequences of this have been dire, including record-high rents, intense competition for limited options, and more power to landlords. The status quo does not meet the urgency of our housing crisis – these proposed amendments do.”