STATE OF NEW YORK
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9696
IN SENATE
April 2, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on New York City Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring compliance
with the uniform land use review procedure for the disposition of
school property in New York city
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 11 and 20 of section 454 of the education law,
2 subdivision 11 as added by chapter 999 of the laws of 1966 and subdivi-
3 sion 20 as amended by chapter 1036 of the laws of 1971, are amended to
4 read as follows:
5 11. Subject to the terms and conditions of any lease, sublease or
6 other agreement with third parties and to the determination of the board
7 of education that such real property is unnecessary for the present or
8 foreseeable future school building needs of the city of New York, to
9 surrender to the appropriate city official, for other public use or for
10 sale, lease or other disposition in accordance with law, real property
11 held by the fund for its corporate purposes; provided, however, that
12 prior to any such sale, lease or other disposition there shall be full
13 compliance with the provisions of section one hundred ninety-seven-c of
14 the New York city charter, relating to uniform land use review proce-
15 dure, or the provisions of any other local law of the city of New York
16 relating thereto;
17 20. At the request or with the approval of the board of education, to
18 grant, sell, license, lease or otherwise transfer without public auction
19 or bidding any real property or any rights or interests therein or ther-
20 eto, including fee interests, easements, space rights or air rights,
21 held by it and occupied or reserved for school purposes and needed
22 therefor, to a private individual or private or public corporation sole-
23 ly and exclusively for the purpose of developing and constructing there-
24 in or thereon a combined occupancy structure, or a part or portion ther-
25 eof, or for the purpose of rehabilitating or improving an existing
26 school to become part of a combined occupancy structure within the mean-
27 ing of this article subject to a prior and enforceable agreement
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 approved by the board of education for the reconveyance, retransfer or
2 leaseback of the school portion thereof, upon completion, for use and
3 occupancy by the said board of education in those instances where a
4 grant, sale or lease has been made to such private individual or private
5 or public corporation; provided, however, that no such sale, lease or
6 transfer of lands or rights therein or thereto is authorized where the
7 development of a combined occupancy structure contemplates the erection
8 of nonschool facilities or improvements over an existing playground
9 unless such combined occupancy structure to be constructed over such
10 playground shall provide playground area at least equal in size to the
11 then existing playground area; provided further, however, that prior to
12 any grant, sale, license, lease or other transfer there shall be full
13 compliance with the provisions of section one hundred ninety-seven-c of
14 the New York city charter, relating to uniform land use review proce-
15 dure, or the provisions of any other local law of the city of New York
16 relating thereto;
17 § 2. Section 471 of the education law, as added by chapter 999 of the
18 laws of 1966, is amended to read as follows:
19 § 471. Inconsistent provisions of other laws superseded. Insofar as
20 the provisions of this article are inconsistent with the provisions of
21 any other general, special or local law, or with the provisions of any
22 charter or ordinance, the provisions of this article shall be control-
23 ling; provided, however, that the provisions of section one hundred
24 ninety-seven-c of the New York city charter shall apply as specified in
25 subdivisions eleven and twenty of section four hundred fifty-four of
26 this article; and further provided, however, that nothing contained in
27 article ten of the education law shall in any way supersede the require-
28 ments regarding parental involvement and the powers and duties of the
29 community district education council with respect to proposed signif-
30 icant changes in school utilization, including but not limited to phase-
31 out, grade reconfiguration, re-siting or co-location of schools, and
32 which shall also be deemed to include the temporary relocation of
33 students that will result from any transfer of an existing school site
34 to a developer for construction of a combined occupancy structure. The
35 provisions of this article shall not be deemed to prevent the city of
36 New York from financing the cost of acquiring, constructing, recon-
37 structing, rehabilitating or improving one or more school buildings by
38 the issuance of bonds or capital notes pursuant to the local finance
39 law.
40 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
