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Community Boards & Community Districts - What's the Difference? |
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8,000,000 people live on the 308 square miles of land that is New York City. To facilitate the delivery of city services and local governance, the City is divided into community districts. The City Charter (Section 2700) directed the City Planning Commission to create these districts using the following criteria:
- They must lie within the boundaries of a single borough and coincide with historic, geographic, and identifiable communities from which the city has developed;
- Be suitable for the efficient and effective delivery of services by municipal agencies;
- Be compact and contiguous and have a population of not more than two hundred fifty thousand persons.
Following these guidelines, the City Planning Department prepared a map dividing the city into 59 districts, each several square miles in size and having a population of 100,000 to 250,000.
The City Charter requires that the community district map be reviewed every decade (beginning in 1994) to determine if population shifts warrant a redrawing of district lines.
The 2000 Census counted 169,000 people living on community district 3’s 2.8 square miles of earth.
Each community district has a Community Board to oversee the delivery of city services and facilitate local governance.
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