NYC's 'last-mile' delivery warehouses face a potential reckoning with regulation
, said he regularly smells the exhaust fumes wafting from the line of delivery vans exiting the Amazon warehouse just across the street from the nonprofit’s sprawling Columbia Street farm in Brooklyn.
The potential changes would mark the city's most significant regulation of the facilities yet. They have proliferated since the surge in e-commerce during the pandemic, with little oversight by city officials.
Salamanca said he and other councilmembers would have opposed the “City of Yes for Economic Opportunity” plan had the administration not agreed to regulate last-mile warehouses. “It gets to a point where you have to use your power of voting to get the attention of the city,” he said. “There was just no interest in it, and I felt like this was like a do or die. This was the opportunity, the perfect opportunity.
“We’ve been chomping at the bit for three years now,” said Avilés. "And it's good to finally see some real commitments."to require special permits for last-mile warehouses. Their proposal would bar warehouses within 1,000 feet of schools, parks, nursing homes, public housing complexes and other such warehouses.
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