CEQR

CEQR is New York City's procedure implementing the state environmental review law for city actions: before a discretionary approval — a rezoning, a special permit, city financing — the lead agency assesses potential environmental impacts, through an Environmental Assessment Statement and, where significant impacts may exist, a full Environmental Impact Statement. The review informs decisions; it approves nothing by itself.

CEQR's lot-level residue is what analysts encounter: (E) designations mapped onto properties, mitigation commitments in recorded declarations, and study documents whose projected-development-site lists record which lots the city expected an action to change. As-of-right projects, having no discretionary decision to inform, do not trigger it.