Bill Text: NY A10558 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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) 2020-05-28 - referred to local governments [A10558 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10558-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10558 IN ASSEMBLY May 29, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pheffer Amato) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments 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. LBD16190-01-0