Bill Text: NY S00781 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the provision of geographic information system mapping technology for strategic planning and municipal study assistance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-11 - referred to local governments [S00781 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00781-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                           781
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, the town law, the state tech-
          nology law  and  the  executive  law,  in  relation  to  provision  of
          geographic  information  system  mapping  for  strategic  planning and
          municipal study assistance
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 237 of the general municipal law, as added by chap-
     2  ter 699 of the laws of 1913, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 237. Maps and recommendations. Such planning commission may cause to
     4  be made a map or maps of said city or village or any portion thereof, or
     5  of  any  land  outside  the limits of said city or village so near or so
     6  related thereto that in the  opinion  of  said  planning  commission  it
     7  should  be  so mapped.   Such plans may show not only such matters as by
     8  law have been or may be referred to the planning  commission,  but  also
     9  any and all matters and things with relation to the plan of said city or
    10  village  which  to  said  planning commission seem necessary and proper,
    11  including recommendations and changes suggested by it; and any report at
    12  any time made, may include any of the above.  Such  planning  commission
    13  may  obtain expert assistance in the making of any such maps or reports,
    14  or in the investigations necessary and  proper  with  relation  thereto.
    15  Such  planning commission may also request assistance from the office of
    16  information technology services, which shall assist with any mapping  of
    17  said  city  or  village  or any portion thereof, where such a request is
    18  made in order for said city or village to make any strategic development
    19  or policy decisions, upon a showing of need by the city or village  upon
    20  request  by  the  office  as defined by section one hundred three of the
    21  state technology law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05930-01-9

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     1    § 2. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 3 of section 239-c  of  the  general
     2  municipal  law,  as added by chapter 451 of the laws of 1997, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (d)  County  studies.  The county planning board may undertake studies
     5  relevant to the future growth, development, and protection of the county
     6  and municipalities therein, including studies in  support  of  a  county
     7  comprehensive  plan.   For any such studies that require strategic plan-
     8  ning and consultation of official or unofficial maps of the county,  the
     9  county planning board may request assistance from the office of informa-
    10  tion  technology  services,  which shall assist with any mapping, upon a
    11  showing of need by the county planning board upon request by the  office
    12  as defined by section one hundred three of the state technology law.
    13    §  3.  Section  273  of the town law, as amended by chapter 486 of the
    14  laws of 1956, is amended to read as follows:
    15    § 273. Official map,  changes.  Such  town  board  is  authorized  and
    16  empowered, whenever and as often as it may deem it for the public inter-
    17  est,  to  change or add to the official map of the town so as to lay out
    18  new streets, highways, drainage systems or parks, or to widen  or  close
    19  existing  streets,  highways, drainage systems or parks within that part
    20  of the town outside the limits of any incorporated city or  village.  At
    21  least  ten  days' notice of a public hearing on any proposed action with
    22  reference to any such change in the official map shall be published in a
    23  newspaper of general circulation in such town. Before  making  any  such
    24  addition  or  change, the town board shall refer the matter to the plan-
    25  ning board for report thereon, but if the planning board shall not  make
    26  its  report  within  thirty days of such reference, it shall forfeit the
    27  right further to  suspend  action.  Such  additions  and  changes,  when
    28  adopted,  shall become a part of the official map of the town, and shall
    29  be deemed to be final and conclusive with respect to the location of the
    30  streets, highways, drainage systems and parks shown thereon. The layout,
    31  widening or closing, or the approval of the layout, widening or closing,
    32  of streets, highways, drainage systems or parks, by the town  board,  or
    33  the  town superintendent of highways, under provisions of law other than
    34  those contained in this article, shall be deemed to be  an  addition  or
    35  change  of  the official map, and shall be subject to all the provisions
    36  of this article with regard to such additions or changes.  For any  such
    37  addition  or  change  that is made as part of a strategic development or
    38  policy, the planning board may request assistance  from  the  office  of
    39  information  technology  services,  which shall assist with any mapping,
    40  upon a showing of need by the planning board upon request by the  office
    41  as defined by section one hundred three of the state technology law.
    42    §  4.  Section  103 of the state technology law is amended by adding a
    43  new subdivision 7-b to read as follows:
    44    7-b. To provide technology services including  geographic  information
    45  system  mapping  upon  request  by  any  municipality, provided that the
    46  office may request a showing of need from any municipality. For purposes
    47  of this section, a showing of need shall be approved if the municipality
    48  demonstrates that technical assistance in providing geographic  informa-
    49  tion system mapping by the office will assist the municipality in making
    50  strategic  development  or  policy  determinations involving a review of
    51  floor space usage within its geographic borders  and  business,  employ-
    52  ment, and other capacity usage information.
    53    §  5.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 105-a to
    54  read as follows:
    55    § 105-a. Municipal study assistance. The commissioner shall cause  the
    56  department to offer, in conjunction with the office of information tech-

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     1  nology services, a program or system that shall assist counties or muni-
     2  cipalities  in  the  conducting  of  a study of the total usage of floor
     3  space within the given county or  municipal  borders.  Such  program  or
     4  system  shall include but not be limited to technical assistance, metho-
     5  dological support, and any technology services that  are  deemed  to  be
     6  useful  to  a  county  or municipality causing such a study to be taken.
     7  The use of such program or system shall only be used where  the  purpose
     8  of  such  study  shall  be  to determine the total floor space available
     9  within a given subdivision, the percentage of floor space used for resi-
    10  dential, commercial, and industrial purposes, and the  creation  of  any
    11  strategic plan related to responses on such floor space study.
    12    §  6.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.
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