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April 24, 2011
A Post-Earth Day Post: Bloomberg, His PlaNYC 2030, His Environmental Creds (Credentials and Credibility) and Population Projections
Noticing New York
The basis for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's PlaNYC is a projection for an additional 1 million New York residents by the year 2030. Recent stats show that population increase for New York is going flat, but this old projection is considered immutable.
New York City’s population is still growing. By 2030 we project that our population will increase to more than 9 million
Why is this important? One reason is that the projections for enormous population growth have been used as a backdrop to help justify the Bloomberg-style mega-development that begins with tearing things down while not having terrific success at replacing what gets demolished. It is also interesting to note that in 2007 Bloomberg's Director or the Budget, Mark Page, was factoring in this assumed population growth when calculating his balancing of the budget.
Posted by steve at April 24, 2011 6:16 AM