Relates to offsetting publicly available parking spaces replaced by designated bus lanes or removed by capital projects in the city of New York and requires a public hearing to be held prior to eliminating such parking spaces.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6962
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
December 1, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to offsetting
publicly available parking spaces replaced by designated bus lanes or
removed by capital projects in the city of New York and requiring a
public hearing to be held prior to eliminating such parking spaces
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1111-c of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
3 (m) 1. The city of New York shall offset each publicly available
4 commercial or residential parking space replaced by a designated bus
5 lane in any bus rapid transit program route implemented after November
6 first, two thousand seventeen by dedicating an equal quantity of public-
7 ly available commercial or residential parking spaces within a one block
8 radius for each parking space that is eliminated or removed.
9 2. Prior to eliminating or removing any publicly available commercial
10 or residential parking space, the city of New York shall convene no less
11 than one public hearing within the bounds of the community board
12 affected no less than thirty days prior to such determination to consid-
13 er alternative parking replacements. The city of New York shall provide
14 a minimum of fourteen days' notice before each hearing, placing notice
15 in a prominent location on the public website of the agency with primary
16 responsibility for managing the project.
17 § 2. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 1642 of the vehicle and
18 traffic law is amended to read as follows:
19 2. (i) Parking, standing, stopping and backing of vehicles; provided,
20 however, that any city having a population of one million or more shall
21 dedicate an equal quantity of publicly available commercial or residen-
22 tial parking spaces for each parking space eliminated or removed by a
23 capital project initiated after November first, two thousand seventeen.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (ii) Prior to eliminating or removing any publicly available commer-
2 cial or residential parking space, the city of New York shall convene no
3 less than one public hearing within the bounds of the community board
4 affected no less than thirty days prior to such determination to consid-
5 er alternative parking replacements. The city of New York shall provide
6 a minimum of fourteen days' notice before each hearing by placing notice
7 in a prominent location on the public website of the agency with primary
8 responsibility for managing the project.
9 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
10 the amendments to section 1111-c of the vehicle and traffic law made by
11 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
12 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
