It’s in buildings and parks and headlines, in sewers and taxis and in hundreds of pages of reports and proposals. PlaNYC 2030, the City’s plan to revamp the urban landscape and reduce waste, is nearly everywhere.

And the bullet points in PlaNYC 2030 are punctuated by streams of studies and statistics. The 127-point plan is peppered with references to everything from acres of reforested parks to additional ferry routes for the City.

But the most striking number in Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ambitious proposal is the population it hopes to accommodate by 2030: 9.1 million residents, including one million more than the current infrastructure serves.

And it’s with that 9.1 million in mind that ExplainThePlan.com seeks to follow PlaNYC 2030. This site will look at the issues from the ground up, reporting stories for neighborhoods, businesses, and individuals to help them understand what the policies mean and how they will manifest. As we look into the publicized progress and follow proposals as they become laws, we aim to offer a picture of the plan through your lens.

With video, audio, interactive elements and info graphics, we’ll cover the plan as journalists in a way no other site has tried to.

But we can’t cover everything. We welcome collaboration, crowd-sourcing, or just general news tips. You can start out by poking around PlaNYC 2030 and telling us what piques your interest. Is it feasible to have a plaza in every neighborhood? Does the City’s fiscal crisis leave enough room in the budget for all these plans? What would a million trees actually do for air quality?

Send us your questions to explaintheplan@gmail.com, we’ll try to get you some answers.