Bill Text: NY A00602 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires affordable housing units to be equally distributed throughout building projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to real property taxation [A00602 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00602-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 602 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the distrib- ution of affordable units in certain projects The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 421-a of the real property tax law 2 is amended by adding three new paragraphs (h), (i) and (j) to read as 3 follows: 4 (h) Affordable units must be proportionally dispersed throughout the 5 project and may not be concentrated in certain floors or areas of a 6 building or buildings. 7 (i) Affordable units must have equal access to common spaces, amen- 8 ities, and ingress and egress as market-rate units. 9 (j) Within a city having a population of one million or more, the city 10 council may, by majority vote, waive the requirements of paragraphs (h) 11 and (i) of this subdivision for any project. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to 13 projects that commence construction after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01726-01-7
