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Official Fast Track districts now live

See whether a faster land-use path could apply to any NYC property.

Search an address to see the property's modeled ELURP and Affordable Housing Fast Track eligibility, potential zoning step, affordable-housing requirements, likely constraints, and whether rezoning may offer an advantage over building under today's rules.

22.8%

average permitted ELURP step in R6 and above. 30% is the ceiling, not the typical case.

Zoning ladder rebuilt from PLUTO, October 1, 2026 · Method

25%

of residential floor area: what Mandatory Inclusionary Housing generally requires under the modeled option (Option 1), across the whole building, after an ELURP map change.

DCP MIH program terms · Method

307

filed projects that might benefit from evaluating a rezoning, adding 1,327 market-rate homes in all. Most gains are small: 29 sites add 10 or more.

DOB filings as of September 30, 2026 · Method

How we read ELURP and the 12 districts →

The 12 Affordable Housing Fast Track districts

City Planning published the list on October 1, 2026. From January 1, 2027, applications in these community districts that are legally required to deliver Mandatory Inclusionary Housing get a binding City Planning vote in about 90 days, with no City Council step. Search an address to see whether it's in one.

  • Manhattan Community District 7Upper West Side
  • Manhattan Community District 8Upper East Side
  • Brooklyn Community District 10Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights
  • Brooklyn Community District 12Borough Park
  • Brooklyn Community District 18Canarsie, Flatlands
  • Queens Community District 4Corona, Elmhurst
  • Queens Community District 5Ridgewood, Maspeth
  • Queens Community District 10South Ozone Park, Howard Beach
  • Queens Community District 11Bayside
  • Queens Community District 13Queens Village
  • Staten Island Community District 2Mid-Island
  • Staten Island Community District 3South Shore
860KNYC tax lots covered

How it works

1

Enter an address

Any lot in the five boroughs — a building you own, one you're eyeing, or the block next door.

2

We read the public record

Zoning, PLUTO tax-lot data, DOB filings, City of Yes rules, and the 467-m / 485-x incentives — in seconds.

3

Identify development pathways

A 0–100 score and the opportunities and constraints that are difficult to identify from public records alone.

What a full report includes

Sample report
78LVI · A
A high-potential FiDi lot
Manhattan · commercial · 12 floors · built 1962
City of Yes · +2.1 FAROffice conversion · StrongUnused air rights · 18,400 sf

Built on NYC PLUTO + GeoSearch open data, with City of Yes housing provisions and the 2025 charter fast-track reforms modeled in. Estimates are directional — a starting point for a real conversation, not a substitute for due diligence. Latent.NYC is not affiliated with the City of New York.