The Boston Planning and Improvement Company is about to be retired, and a brand new company is about to take its place.

Mayor Michelle Wu plans to signal an ordinance Tuesday to place the plan into movement.

Beneath Wu’s outlined plan, this new planning division will nonetheless carry out a number of the similar roles the present Planning and Improvement Company does now, however this new ordinance expands their obligations.

The brand new division can have 4 divisions: planning, design, growth evaluate and actual property. Every in their very own approach might be targeted on affordability and fairness to handle “Boston’s pressing and long-term wants.”

Present workers might be transferred to the division, when the change takes place subsequent fiscal 12 months.

Regardless of passing at Metropolis Corridor by an 8 to three vote final week, some members known as the entire course of contentious, saying the vote for this ordinance appeared rushed and undemocratic.

Wu might be joined by metropolis leaders within the West Finish Tuesday morning to elucidate what might be anticipated from this new division.