NY State Senate Bill 2019-S8560

Senate Bill S8560

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring certain land development or construction projects to be reevaluated through a land use review process

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2019-S8560 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A10558
Current Committee:: Senate Rules
Law Section:: Economic Development
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: S4059
2023-2024: S2485

2019-S8560 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires any land development or construction project approved one year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic to be reevaluated through a land use review process if work has not been commenced on such project.

2019-S8560 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S8560

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act in relation to requiring any land development or construction
project approved one year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic to be reevalu-
ated through a land use review process if work has not been commenced on
such project

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To require certain land development or construction projects to be
reevaluated through a land use review process.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 states that any development planned within a year of the
Governor's Executive Order 202 be reviewed to determine its impact as it
relates to a future health pandemic before construction begins.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the inequities and disparities in our
healthcare system, especially as it relates to a neighborhoods ability
to fight a rapidly spreading infectious disease. For example, in the
23rd Assembly District representing nearly 150,000 constituents, which
had one of the early hotspots of this illness there is only one hospital
and limited acute care and ICU capacity.

Additionally, there are thousands of planned units of development that
will bring increased density even more potential patients to our neigh-
borhoods, and at no point did a development have to secure any acute
care medical space through their land use review process with the City
of New York. This puts medically underserved communities at great risk,
and before any of these planned projects begin the City must review them
to ensure that they do not have a significant burden on an already
strained healthcare system.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

None

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

n/a

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Effective immediately.

2019-S8560 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8560
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 16, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT in relation to requiring any  land  development  or  construction
   project approved one year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic to be reeval-
   uated through a land use review process if work has not been commenced
   on such project

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any land use, land
 development or construction project which was approved by the state or a
 local municipality within one year  prior  to  the  state  of  emergency
 declared  by  executive  order  202 that began on March 7, 2020 shall be
 reevaluated through a land use review process if work has not  yet  been
 commenced  on  such  project.  Such  reevaluation shall ensure that such
 project is still suitable to be constructed or developed pursuant to the
 original approval granted, while taking into consideration and  address-
 ing  any  adverse  effects  that  the  COVID-19 pandemic has had on such
 project or the area where such project is located which was not  consid-
 ered during the initial approval process.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16190-01-0

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