Bill Text: NY S04907 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within 500 feet of the adjacent municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-11 - referred to local governments [S04907 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04907-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4907
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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, in relation  to  requiring  a
          municipality  to  give  notice  to  an  adjacent  municipality  of the
          adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws  that
          affect  parcels of land within five hundred feet of the adjacent muni-
          cipality
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  3  and  4  of section 239-nn of the general
     2  municipal law, as added by chapter 658 of the laws of 2005, are  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    3.  The  legislative body or other authorized body having jurisdiction
     5  in a municipality shall give notice to an adjacent municipality  when  a
     6  hearing is held by such body relating to:
     7    (a) the issuance of a proposed special use permit or the granting of a
     8  use variance on property that is within five hundred feet of an adjacent
     9  municipality;
    10    (b)  site  plan  review  and  approval on property that is within five
    11  hundred feet of an adjacent municipality; [or]
    12    (c) a subdivision review and approval on property that is within  five
    13  hundred feet of an adjacent municipality; or
    14    (d)  adoption  or  amendment  of  any zoning ordinance or local law or
    15  comprehensive plan, pursuant to section two hundred seventy-two-a of the
    16  town law, section 7-722 of the village law or section twenty-eight-a  of
    17  the  general  city  law,  where  such  changes  would affect a parcel or
    18  parcels that are within five hundred feet of an adjacent municipality.
    19    4. Such notice shall be given by mail or  electronic  transmission  to
    20  the  clerk  of  the adjacent municipality at least ten days prior to any
    21  such hearing.  A full statement of such proposed action sent to a county
    22  planning agency or regional planning council as required by section  two
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01203-01-9
        S. 4907                             2
     1  hundred  thirty-nine-m of this article shall also be sent to an adjacent
     2  municipality at least ten days prior to a hearing. The municipality  may
     3  require  the costs associated with producing and sending the full state-
     4  ment to be borne by the adjacent municipality or the applicant.
     5    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.