In its report released Wednesday, the commission said it is potentially looking at making changes to the city’s often tedious and complicated land-use process known as “ULURP."

“It is just too hard to produce affordable housing in New York City and so what we really looked at is how the city charter has been an obstacle to that and now how it can be a solution," Buery said.

The panel is potentially looking at creating a fast-track process for smaller and affordable housing projects. 

The commission is looking at taking a citywide instead of borough-wide approach to housing that would offset what is known as “member deference.” 

Normally, the local council member gets the last say on proposed developments in a district — a practice that critics say leads to less housing.

“We’re trying to explore ways to make sure that building housing in New York is not the burden it has been,” Buery said.  

The commission also has recommended overhauling the city’s primary election process, considering creating an open primary system where the top two candidates would face off in a general election.

“We looked at ways that we can both have elections be more cost effective but looked at ways where more people can be part of the political process,” Buery said.

“What this would do is actually is make sure that independent voters, nonaffiliated voters, which are the only group of voters growing in the city, not Democrats, not Republicans, but independents would give them a voice in the primaries when effectively many elections are decided,” John Avlon, the head of the Citizens Union, a good government group,said. 

Avlon supports the changes. 

A new report from the city’s Campaign Finance Board found that 21% of the city’s voters are now registered unaffiliated. 

The commission is also weighing whether to change local elections to even number years to coincide with state and federal elections, which have historically been times of higher voter turnout. 

“We know this: representative elections lead to representative results. And that’s good for democracy," Avlon said.

In response to the preliminary report, the council responded saying they have approved the creation of 120,000 units of housing. 

“This report conveniently omits the role a mayoral administration can play in politically interfering in the creation of new housing, as the mayor’s recent delay of the Elizabeth Street Garden housing project approved six years ago by the Council underscores. We will further review this preliminary report from the Mayor’s Charter Revision Commission," the council said.

Other recommendations centered on the city’s environmental resiliency and climate preparedness, as well as improving the city’s payment to nonprofits. 

Wednesday’s recommendations are purely preliminary. The commission still has a series of public meetings to go before publishing their final report.

If they want to propose changes to the charter, they have to submit their final recommendations by the end of the summer to make the November ballot.