Bill Text: NY S08437 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to offsetting publicly available parking spaces replaced by designated bus lanes or removed by capital projects in the city of New York; requires a public hearing to be held prior to eliminating such parking spaces; requires notice of such hearing be placed in a newspaper that has general circulation, in not less than five public places and on the website of the agency with primary responsibility for managing the project.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-07 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S08437 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08437-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8437
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 7, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
        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 (n) to read as follows:
     3    (n) 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 by placing notice
    15  in a newspaper and on the website of a  newspaper  that  has  a  general
    16  circulation  in the geographic area, by posting a copy of such notice in
    17  not less than five public places in the impacted area, and placing  such
    18  notice  in a prominent location on the public website of the agency with
    19  primary responsibility for managing the project.
    20    § 2. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 1642 of the vehicle and
    21  traffic law is amended to read as follows:
    22    2. (i) Parking, standing, stopping and backing of vehicles;  provided,
    23  however,  that any city having a population of one million or more shall
    24  dedicate an equal quantity of publicly available commercial or  residen-
    25  tial  parking  spaces  for each parking space eliminated or removed by a
    26  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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        S. 8437                             2
     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  newspaper  and  on  the website of a newspaper that has a general
     8  circulation in the geographic area, by posting a copy of such notice  in
     9  not  less than five public places in the impacted area, and placing such
    10  notice in a prominent location on the public website of the agency  with
    11  primary responsibility for managing the project.
    12    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    13  the amendments to section 1111-c of the vehicle and traffic law made  by
    14  section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
    15  shall be deemed repealed therewith.