File #: Int 0504-2024    Version: * Name: Establishing priority for sidewalk repairs at developments operated by the NYCHA.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 3/7/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing priority for sidewalk repairs at developments operated by the New York city housing authority
Sponsors: Shaun Abreu, Alexa Avilés, Shahana K. Hanif, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Sandy Nurse, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Lincoln Restler
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to give priority to senior-only housing developments operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), followed by non-senior only NYCHA developments when determining the order of repairs to be made at sidewalks in front of or abutting properties, when the DOT is required by law or has otherwise undertaken to make these repairs. This bill would also require DOT to report to the Council and post on the DOT website a report detailing which sidewalks have been repaired and a proposed timeline of sidewalk repairs for NYCHA developments.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 504, 2. Int. No. 504, 3. March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24

Int. No. 504

 

By Council Members Abreu, Avilés, Hanif, Brooks-Powers, Nurse, Gutiérrez, Sanchez and Restler

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing priority for sidewalk repairs at developments operated by the New York city housing authority

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter one of chapter one of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 19-160 to read as follows:

§19-160 Sidewalk repair priority. a. For purposes of this section, “senior-only housing development” means a housing development or building designated by the New York city housing authority to be occupied exclusively by individuals 62 years of age or older.

b.   In determining the order of repairs to be made at sidewalks, where the department is required by law or has otherwise undertaken to make such repairs, the commissioner shall give priority to sidewalks in front of or abutting senior-only housing developments operated by the New York city housing authority, followed by non-senior only housing developments operated by the New York city housing authority. Such priority shall not apply where the commissioner determines that the sidewalk in front of or abutting property that is not operated by the New York city housing authority is in need of critical or emergency repairs, provided that the commissioner shall notify in writing the council member in whose district the housing development no longer receiving priority is located and the community board of the community district in which such development is located of the reasons for such determination.

c.   Not later than June 30, 2023, the commissioner shall deliver to the speaker of the council and post to the department’s website a report indicating (i) all New York city housing authority developments at which sidewalk repairs have been completed or are in the process of completion and (ii) the proposed timeline for completing sidewalk repairs for those New York city housing authority housing developments at which work has not yet commenced.

                     §2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

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