Bill Text: NY S01659 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within 500 feet of the adjacent municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-07 - referred to local governments [S01659 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01659-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1659

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS,  GAUGHRAN,  HARCKHAM  --  read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Local Government

        AN  ACT  to  amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring a
          municipality to  give  notice  to  an  adjacent  municipality  of  the
          adoption  or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that
          affect parcels of land within five hundred feet of the adjacent  muni-
          cipality

          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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05844-01-1
        S. 1659                             2

     1  planning  agency or regional planning council as required by section two
     2  hundred thirty-nine-m of this article shall also be sent to an  adjacent
     3  municipality  at least ten days prior to a hearing. The municipality may
     4  require  the costs associated with producing and sending the full state-
     5  ment to be borne by the adjacent municipality or the applicant.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
     7  have become a law.