Two city council committees are due to vote on City of Yes today after weeks of negotiations. At the time that we’re writing this newsletter, the votes — which were supposed to start around 11:15 a.m. — still haven’t kicked off.

That means debate over controversial items within the citywide zoning amendment, which could supercharge housing production across the five boroughs, is likely ongoing among city council members.

The result could be a City of Yes text that looks pretty different than the version that the Department of City Planning faced a two-day grilling over last month.

One big potential change has already leaked: a plan to create three different zones of the city that would have different minimum parking requirements for new developments, per reporting from The City. The council is also negotiating with the Adams administration over billions in funding the mayor could provide for infrastructure improvements to support the thousands of new units City of Yes would create, Crain’s New York Business reports.

If City of Yes gains approval from the committees, it’ll head to a full City Council vote on Dec. 5. We’ll have a story coming later today about the changes and how the vote goes down.

— Ciara Long and Sasha Jones

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