DANIEL DROMM, Democrat for City Council

Expanding Travers Park
Daniel Dromm believes that all New Yorkers should have access to quality parks and adequate recreational opportunities. Unfortunately, Travers Park is the only viable public space in the Jackson Heights area and it does not even have enough room for much greenery. Our city council district has the least amount of greenspace and park land of any in the city.

As your city council representative, Dromm will fight to get money to expand Travers Park. He will dedicate all the resources of this office toward expanding greenspace in our area and will chase down any opportunity to convert land into public greenspace.

Creating a Tax Credit for Greenspace
The loss of trees, and other vegetation, in our urban areas not only intensifies the urban "heat-island" effect from loss of shade and evaporation, but we lose a principal absorber of carbon dioxide and other air pollutants as well. Many construction projects are foregoing any greenspace on private lots to make way for more parking. Daniel Dromm proposes that we should incentivize property owners to “green up” their properties.

As your city council representative, Dromm will write legislation to give property owners a tax credit for converting concrete on their lots into greenspace, or for improving existing greenspace such as internal gardens.

Labels: CommunityOrganizing, Environment, Greenspace