File #: Int 0162-2024    Version: * Name: Bicycle storage in city buildings.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to bicycle storage in city buildings
Sponsors: Eric Dinowitz, Christopher Marte, Gale A. Brewer, Crystal Hudson, Lincoln Restler
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require that certain city-owned buildings at least 10,000 square feet or more in size provide bicycle storage space for city employees or visitors. The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) would have the discretion to determine the location of the storage and whether it is appropriate to separate employee storage from non-employee bicycle storage. For school buildings, the Chancellor of the Department of Education would have the discretion to determine whether they believe there is appropriate space for bicycle storage. Where it would be impractical to have any storage, DCAS would have to explain in a posting in a common area why bicycle storage would be impractical. Finally, the DCAS commissioner and the DOE chancellor must report publicly where each building has added bicycle storage, and where it was determined that adding bicycle storage was impractical.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 162, 2. Int. No. 162, 3. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24

Int. No. 162

 

By Council Members Dinowitz, Marte, Brewer, Hudson and Restler

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to bicycle storage in city buildings

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 2 of title 4 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 4-218 to read as follows:

§ 4-218 Bicycle storage in city-owned buildings. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Commissioner. The term "commissioner" means the commissioner of citywide administrative services.

City-owned buildings. The term “city-owned buildings” means all buildings owned by the city, 10,000 square feet or more in size, except that “city-owned buildings” does not include the following:

1.  Any building that participates in the tenant interim lease apartment purchase program.

2. Any building that participates in a program administered by the department of housing preservation and development.

3. Any building managed by the New York city health and hospitals corporation.

4. Any building managed by the New York city housing authority.

5. Any senior college in the city university of New York system.

b. 1. Bicycle storage for city employees. The commissioner shall ensure that city employees have access to bicycle storage on the premises of city-owned buildings, where practicable.

2. Bicycle storage for other users of city-owned buildings. The commissioner shall ensure that other users of city-owned buildings have access to bicycle storage on the premises of city-owned buildings, where practicable. The commissioner may determine whether to combine or separate the bicycle storage allotted for city employees and other users of city-owned buildings.

c. Bicycle storage in city schools. The department of education shall ensure that employees of the city school district have access to bicycle storage on the premises of buildings operated by the city school district, where the department deems appropriate. The department of education shall also ensure that other users of buildings operated by the city school district have access to bicycle storage on the premises of school buildings, where the department deems appropriate. The department of education may determine whether to combine or separate the bicycle storage allotted for city school district employees and other users of buildings operated by the city school district.

d. Amount of bicycle storage allotted. The commissioner may determine the appropriate amount of bicycle storage space to allocate to city employees and other users provided that, where practicable, bicycle storage space is allocated.

e. Inability to accommodate bicycle storage. If, after examining the space within a city-owned building for possible bicycle storage, the commissioner believes that allocating space for bicycle storage is not practicable, the commissioner shall post in a common area an explanation of the reasons why bicycle storage on the premises is not practicable.

f. Reporting. Within 1 year of the effective date of the local law that added this section, the commissioner and the chancellor of the city school district shall report to the mayor and the speaker of the council and post on each department’s website a list of each city-owned building and school within the city school district that have had bicycle storage allocated on the premises, and city-owned buildings and schools within the city school district where bicycle storage was deemed impracticable. 

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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