Bill Text: NY A10866 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the Sunnyside Yards district advisory workgroup which establishes the Sunnyside Yards district and requires such advisory workgroup to undertake a review of the actions and measures necessary to improve the Sunnyside Yards district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-24 - referred to cities [A10866 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10866-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10866
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 24, 2018
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        Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Cities
        AN ACT to amend the economic development law, in relation to  establish-
          ing the Sunnyside Yards district advisory workgroup; and providing for
          the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The economic development law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  article 24 to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 24
     4                 SUNNYSIDE YARDS DISTRICT ADVISORY WORKGROUP
     5  Section 470. Sunnyside Yards district advisory workgroup.
     6    § 470. Sunnyside Yards district advisory workgroup. 1. There is hereby
     7  established  the  Sunnyside  Yards  advisory workgroup (the "workgroup")
     8  which shall consist of sixteen members, four of whom shall be  appointed
     9  by  the  governor, four of whom shall be appointed by the speaker of the
    10  assembly, four of whom shall be appointed by the temporary president  of
    11  the senate, two of whom shall be appointed by the minority leader of the
    12  assembly,  and  two of whom shall be appointed by the minority leader of
    13  the senate. All of the members of the workgroup shall be  residents  of,
    14  or  work within community boards one and two in Queens County as defined
    15  by the city of New York and established pursuant to section twenty-eight
    16  hundred of the New York city charter. The chair of the  workgroup  shall
    17  be nominated by the members of the workgroup.
    18    2. There is hereby established the Sunnyside Yards district. The boun-
    19  daries  of  the  Sunnyside  Yards  district  shall  be, in the county of
    20  Queens, west of 43rd Street, south of  Northern  Boulevard  and  Jackson
    21  Avenue,  east  of  21st  Street,  and  north of 49th Avenue and Skillman
    22  Avenue.
    23    3. The workgroup shall undertake a review of the actions and  measures
    24  necessary to improve the Sunnyside Yards district as established in this
    25  section  that would be beneficial to community boards one and two in the
    26  county of Queens.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    4. The workgroup shall review and make recommendations  regarding  the
     2  possible  uses  of  the  Sunnyside  Yards  district  as  defined in this
     3  section. Such recommendations shall include but not be limited to:
     4    (a) Recommendations for new open space and parkland, and uses for such
     5  open space and parkland;
     6    (b)  Possible  uses for the area including levels of commercial, resi-
     7  dential and industrial uses;
     8    (c) Recommendations for improvements to existing neighborhood  facili-
     9  ties or new neighborhood facilities including, transportation, education
    10  and  all  municipal  services.  Such  recommendations  shall include any
    11  service provided by governmental, non-governmental or quasi-governmental
    12  entities as the workgroup may determine;
    13    (d) Recommendations for appropriate development and density and chang-
    14  es to zoning to accomplish such development.  Such  recommendations  may
    15  include  those  for affordable housing which may be defined by the work-
    16  group; and
    17    (e) Recommendations for the retention and increase of  industrial  and
    18  commercial  uses  within  the district for purposes of job retention and
    19  creation.
    20    5. The commissioner shall provide support and resources as he  or  she
    21  determines is appropriate for the proper functioning of the workgroup.
    22    6.  The  Sunnyside  Yards workgroup shall, by a majority vote, approve
    23  and issue a final report and recommendations to the governor, the tempo-
    24  rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the  minority
    25  leader  of the senate, the minority leader of the assembly, the mayor of
    26  the city of New York, and community boards one and two in the county  of
    27  Queens on or before December thirty-first, two thousand nineteen.
    28    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    29  deemed repealed January 1, 2020.