Bill Text: NY S01230 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to siting requirements for the New York city school construction authority's leasing program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [S01230 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01230-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1230

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  authorities  law, in relation to siting
          requirements for the New York  city  school  construction  authority's
          leasing program

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1731  of  the  public  authorities
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 285 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    1. Prior to the commencing of new construction or  building  additions
     5  of  an  educational facility, or the acquisition of real property or any
     6  interest therein for such purpose, including the leasing of any building
     7  or property, the authority shall file a copy of the site  plan  of  such
     8  facility  in  its  offices  and shall provide a copy thereof to the city
     9  board, the city planning commission and the  community  school  district
    10  education  council  and the community board of the district in which the
    11  facility will be located. Such plan  shall  include  data  on  projected
    12  student  population  for  the community school district or districts and
    13  the community board or boards affected, the source of that data and  the
    14  reason  the  proposed  action is necessary and how such plan factors and
    15  accounts for student population projections.  Upon  request,  any  other
    16  person  shall  be  furnished  with  such  plan or a summary thereof. The
    17  authority shall publish in a newspaper of  general  circulation  in  the
    18  city  a  notice  of  the filing of such plan and the availability of the
    19  plan and a summary thereof. Such plan shall include, in the case of  any
    20  project  for  which the acquisition of real property or interest therein
    21  is proposed, the recommended site, any alternate sites  considered,  and
    22  any rationale as to why the alternate sites were not selected.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03126-01-1

        S. 1230                             2

     1    §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 1732 of the public authorities law, as
     2  amended by chapter 562 of the laws  of  1990,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  Following  the hearings held pursuant to section seventeen hundred
     5  thirty-one of this title, but prior to initiating  construction  of  new
     6  educational facilities, or prior to leasing any building or property for
     7  such  purpose, the authority shall submit the site plan of such projects
     8  to the mayor and the council for review, provided,  however,  that  such
     9  review shall be limited to the site selected for the project.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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