ULURP is just a community engagement process. absent a plan i suppose it's a terrain on which organized groups compete to get resources for their interests (more affordable housing, capital $$ for NYCHA, etc)
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we need to move forward towards a citywide plan with social housing/public housing goals as well as towards a robust, democratic planning process that reduces power imbalances and race/class inequality - and really quite far from “local deference” as a proxy for the second
I am a big believer in participatory democracy and figuring forms for working class / collective governance over political processes and decision making but “local” = a problematic shorthand for that in a society as ridiculously segregated as ours.