One popular plan by the environmentalist group Uprose would transform the waterfront into environmentally-friendly manufacturing. The Grid plan, which has been in the works for several years, would attract clean energy manufacturers and incentivize existing factories to create environmentally-friendly infrastructure — pushing forward the city’s climate change goals, one expert said.
“[It] will realize tens of thousands of clean energy jobs, and these jobs are all part of building and moving our economy away from an economy dependent on fossil fuels,” said Uprose’s Summer Sandoval.
Under the proposal, more than half of Industry City would be slated for industrial uses, with limited retail and office space used only to support the complex’s factories.
In order to realize this plan — which has been created with extensive community input, according to Sandoval — the city would have to rezone the waterfront, with carve outs and specific uses spelled out in the zoning text, she said.