Bill Text: NY S04059 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires any land development or construction project approved one year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic to be reevaluated through a land use review process if work has not been commenced on such project.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS [S04059 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04059-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4059

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 2, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
          opment and Small Business

        AN  ACT  in  relation  to requiring any land development or construction
          project approved one year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic to be reeval-
          uated through a land use review process if work has not been commenced
          on such project

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any land use, land
     2  development or construction project which was approved by the state or a
     3  local  municipality  within  one  year  prior  to the state of emergency
     4  declared by executive order 202 that began on March  7,  2020  shall  be
     5  reevaluated  through  a land use review process if work has not yet been
     6  commenced on such project. Such  reevaluation  shall  ensure  that  such
     7  project is still suitable to be constructed or developed pursuant to the
     8  original  approval granted, while taking into consideration and address-
     9  ing any adverse effects that the  COVID-19  pandemic  has  had  on  such
    10  project  or the area where such project is located which was not consid-
    11  ered during the initial approval process.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08725-01-1