Bill Text: NY A09961 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Ensures zoning lot mergers do not create any new non-compliance with applicable, pre-existing zoning regulations for multiple dwellings in a city having a population of five million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-03 - referred to housing [A09961 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09961-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9961

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 3, 2020
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the multiple  dwelling  law,  in  relation  to  ensuring
          zoning  lot mergers do not create any new non-compliance with applica-
          ble, pre-existing zoning regulations

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  multiple  dwelling  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 15 to read as follows:
     3    § 15. Zoning lot mergers; non-compliance with applicable  pre-existing
     4  zoning regulations. 1. For the purposes of this section:
     5    (a)  "Tax  lot"  shall  mean a parcel of land identified with a unique
     6  borough, block and lot number for property tax.
     7    (b) "Zoning lot development agreement" shall mean a contract to trans-
     8  fer floor area from one parcel of land to another and permits a develop-
     9  er to utilize the adjoining property's floor area to construct a  build-
    10  ing  that  is  larger  than  would  be  permitted  on  the  parcel being
    11  developed.
    12    2. The requirements of this section shall apply to multiple  dwellings
    13  in a city having a population of five million or more.
    14    3. No lot resulting from a merger with any other lot for tax, adminis-
    15  trative,  zoning,  or development purposes shall create any new non-com-
    16  pliance with the applicable, pre-existing zoning regulations.
    17    4. Transfer of floor area from one tax lot to another shall only  take
    18  place subject to the following conditions:
    19    (a)  The  transfer shall not come from more than two adjacent tax lots
    20  which result in more than a twenty percent increase in  floor  area  for
    21  the  receiving lot prior to any lot merger and shall not result in a lot
    22  with any new non-compliance with existing zoning regulations;
    23    (b) The lot or lots  transferring  floor  area  shall  not  have  been
    24  subject  to  a  previous  merger for tax, administrative, or development
    25  reasons, nor shall such lot or lots have themselves previously have been
    26  recipients of transferred floor area; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (c) The receiving tax lot shall not also be the recipient of  a  floor
     2  area  bonus  for  the  provision  of  affordable inclusionary housing or
     3  providing mandatory inclusionary housing pursuant to the  zoning  resol-
     4  ution for the city of New York.
     5    5.  The  department  shall maintain a publicly accessible database and
     6  map of tax lots that indicate a floor area transfer has occurred or lots
     7  have been merged and include an online version of  the  relevant  zoning
     8  lot development agreement.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.