S2966-2011 Actions

• May 1, 2012: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO CITIES
• Mar 8, 2011: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Feb 4, 2011: REFERRED TO CITIES

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S2966-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S2966               REVISED 03/04/11

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to
requiring that in all new commercial development streets and abutting
streets must be widened to the maximum allowable width

PURPOSE:
Provides that new streets within abutting streets of new commercial
projects in New York City be the maximum legal width.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section one amends the administrative code of the city of New York by
adding a new section 28-108-4.

JUSTIFICATION:
Currently when new commercial projects are constructed in the City of
New York developers of commercial and residential properties have the
right to go to the Department of Transportation when filing a
Builders Paving Plan (BPP) for a waiver if there is a widening line on
a property.

This bill requires developers of commercial construction projects to
make sure that all streets abutting such projects are the maximum
legal width. This legislation ensures that the Department of
Transportation does not issue waivers for new commercial construction
where a street must be widened.

This proposal will assist in reducing traffic in already narrow
streets where commercial developments are proposed.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2010: S.3173 - Referred to Cities/A.5905  - Referred to Transportation
2009: S.3173 - Referred to Cities/A.5905  - Referred to Transportation
2008: S.7488 - Referred to Cities/A.11401 - Referred to Transportation

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S2966-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         2966
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 February 4, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
 

AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
 relation  to  requiring that in all new commercial development streets
 and abutting streets must be widened to the maximum allowable width
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
 by adding a new section 28-108.4 to read as follows:

 

S 28-108.4 STREET WIDTH FOR NEW COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION.    DEVELOPERS
 OF  NEW  COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS SHALL BE REQUIRED TO CONSTRUCT
 ALL NEW STREETS WITHIN THE PROJECT AND WIDEN ALL EXISTING STREETS  ABUT
 TING  THE PROJECT TO THE MAXIMUM LEGAL WIDTH FOR SUCH STREETS. NO WAIVER
 OF SUCH REQUIREMENT SHALL BE GRANTED.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04693-01-1

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