Bill Text: NY A01544 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the rights and duties of neighboring municipalities in planning and zoning matters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to local governments [A01544 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01544-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1544
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the rights and
          duties of neighboring municipalities in planning and zoning matters
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  3  and  4  of section 239-nn of the general
     2  municipal law, as added by chapter 658 of the laws of 2005, are  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    3.  The  legislative body or other authorized body having jurisdiction
     5  in a municipality shall give notice to an adjacent municipality  when  a
     6  hearing is held by such body relating to:
     7    (a) the issuance of a proposed special use permit or the granting of a
     8  use variance on property that is within five hundred feet of an adjacent
     9  municipality;
    10    (b)  site  plan  review  and  approval on property that is within five
    11  hundred feet of an adjacent municipality; [or]
    12    (c) a subdivision review and approval on property that is within  five
    13  hundred feet of an adjacent municipality; or
    14    (d)  adoption  or  amendment  of  any zoning ordinance or local law or
    15  comprehensive plan, pursuant to section two hundred seventy-two-a of the
    16  town law, section 7-722 of the village law or section twenty-eight-a  of
    17  the  general  city  law,  where  such  changes  would affect a parcel or
    18  parcels that are within five hundred feet of an adjacent municipality.
    19    4. Such notice shall be given by mail or  electronic  transmission  to
    20  the  clerk  of  the adjacent municipality at least ten days prior to any
    21  such hearing.  A full statement of such proposed action sent to a county
    22  planning agency or regional planning council as required by section  two
    23  hundred  thirty-nine-m of this article shall also be sent to an adjacent
    24  municipality. Such adjacent municipality shall have  thirty  days  after
    25  receipt  of  a  full statement of such proposed action to comment to the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  referring body, accompanied by a  statement  of  its  reasons  for  such
     2  comment.
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.