File #: Int 0493-2024    Version: * Name: Expanding notice requirements and requiring a comment period prior to the installation of a neighborhood loading zone.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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 expanding notice requirements and requiring a comment period prior to the installation of a neighborhood loading zone
Sponsors: Kalman Yeger , Inna Vernikov
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require that, prior to installing a neighborhood loading zone, the Department of Transportation (DOT) post physical notices regarding the installation on the block of the proposed neighborhood loading zone and nearby blocks. The bill would also require notification of the affected Council Member; affected community board; property owners, community-based organizations, and members of the public who have requested to be notified of installation; and others DOT deems appropriate. The bill would additionally require DOT to provide a 30-day comment period, during which the public would be able to submit feedback to DOT about the proposed neighborhood loading zone. DOT would be required to consider comments and would have the discretion to implement corresponding changes to its installation plan. Finally, the bill would require DOT to publish the location of new neighborhood loading zones online within 5 days of their installation.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 493, 2. Int. No. 493, 3. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24

Int. No. 493

 

By Council Members Yeger and Vernikov

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding notice requirements and requiring a comment period prior to the installation of a neighborhood loading zone

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision a of section 19-170.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new definition of “neighborhood loading zone” in alphabetical order to read as follows:

                     Neighborhood loading zone. The term “neighborhood loading zone” means a loading zone on a residential street, as such term is defined in subdivision b of section 19-170, specifically designated as a neighborhood loading zone by department signage.

§ 2. Subdivision d of section 19-170.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 168 for the year 2021, is amended to read as follows:

d. 1. No later than January 1, 2023, the department shall provide publicly accessible information, through the open data portal or the department's website, regarding the location of all loading zones. Such information shall be updated on an annual or more frequent basis.

2. The department shall publish the location of any newly installed neighborhood loading zone through the open data portal or on the department’s website no later than 5 days after the department installs the neighborhood loading zone.

§ 3. Section 19-170.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new subdivisions e and f to read as follows:

e. 1. At least 90 days before the installation of a neighborhood loading zone, and in addition to any notice required pursuant to section 19-175.2 or any other provision of law or rules, the department shall provide notice of installation of the neighborhood loading zone to the council member and community board in whose district the neighborhood loading zone is to be installed. Such notice shall include but not be limited to details regarding the proposed location of the neighborhood loading zone, the anticipated date of installation of the neighborhood loading zone, and a method to participate in the comment period required by subdivision f of this section. The department shall also provide such notice to any property owners, community-based organizations, and members of the general public that have formally requested to be notified of installation of a neighborhood loading zone and to other individuals or organizations that the department deems appropriate.

2. At least 90 days before the installation of a neighborhood loading zone, and in addition to any notice required pursuant to section 19-175.2 or any other provision of law or rules, the department shall post in conspicuous locations at least 4 physical notices of installation of the neighborhood loading zone, including but not limited to details regarding the proposed location of the neighborhood loading zone, the anticipated date of installation of the neighborhood loading zone, and a method to participate in the comment period required by subdivision f of this section, on each of the following blockfaces, as such term is defined in section 19-167:

(a) The blockface on which the neighborhood loading zone is to be installed;

(b) The blockface opposite the one on which the neighborhood loading zone is to be installed;

(c) Each blockface that is directly adjacent to the blockface on which the neighborhood loading zone is to be installed; and

(d) Each blockface that is directly adjacent to the blockface opposite the one on which the neighborhood loading zone is to be installed.

f. Beginning at least 60 days but not more than 75 days before the installation of a neighborhood loading zone, the department shall afford the public 30 days to submit comments to the department on the installation of the neighborhood loading zone. The department shall consider the comments, if any, submitted pursuant to this subdivision and may incorporate corresponding changes into its plan for installation of the neighborhood loading zone.

§ 4. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.

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01/11/2024

 

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