Provides that any municipality that is served by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and initiates a comprehensive zoning plan that is designed in relation to its proximity and accessibility to a transportation hub, where more than 4 subway/bus lines converge, shall conduct an environmental impact review to determine if such transportation systems can assimilate increased ridership.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2026
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to require an environmental impact review in certain instances
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contra-
2 ry, any municipality that is served by the Metropolitan Transportation
3 Authority and initiates a comprehensive zoning plan that is designed in
4 relation to its proximity and accessibility to a transportation hub
5 where more than 4 subway or bus lines converge shall conduct an environ-
6 mental impact review subject to the provisions of the state environ-
7 mental quality review act under article 8 of the environmental conserva-
8 tion law and its implementing regulations, to determine if such
9 transportation systems can assimilate increased ridership.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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