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                                   9083
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2024
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 Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Cities
 
 AN  ACT requiring a city with a population over one million to study the
   feasibility of constructing new urban consolidation centers and shared
   use locker technologies or retrofitting existing spaces to accommodate
   such centers and locker technologies

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The city council of a city with a population of one million
 or  more  shall  conduct  a  study,  in consultation with local agencies
 responsible for transportation, city planning, environmental  protection
 and  any  other  local agency which the city council deems necessary, to
 examine the feasibility and impact of  constructing  new  urban  consol-
 idation  centers  and  shared  use  locker  technologies or retrofitting
 existing spaces to accommodate  such  centers  and  locker  technologies
 including, but not limited to, the following:
   (a)  Explore  the possibility of reducing truck traffic in residential
 neighborhoods by creating urban consolidation centers, including through
 public-private partnerships.
   (b) Assess the application of urban consolidation centers  to  service
 high-rise   buildings,  districts  with  high  pedestrian  volumes,  and
 locations with constrained delivery infrastructure.
   (c) Explore shared use locker storage technologies for  improved  last
 mile goods delivery.
   (d)  Evaluate  the  feasibility of authorizing the operation of shared
 use lockers in the public right of way, on city-owned  property,  or  in
 partnership  with  private  entities  for  improved freight distribution
 efficiency and service effectiveness.
   (e) Explore the existing spaces that  can  accommodate  urban  consol-
 idated  centers  and  shared  use  locker technologies, and evaluate the
 possibility for their retrofitting.
   (f) Identify the needs to increase  the  use  of  urban  consolidation
 centers  and  shared  use  locker  technologies and the impact that they
 could have on reducing vehicle miles traveled.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   § 2. For purposes of this act: (a) "urban consolidation centers" shall
 mean specially designed  places  or  facilities  that  combine  multiple
 deliveries  from  different suppliers to a central location to be deliv-
 ered inside the service area; and
   (b)  "shared  use  locker  technologies" shall mean the final delivery
 locations in a neighborhood which are used to consolidate packages to  a
 single location with lockers (including parcel lockers, automated parcel
 lockers, smart lockers, etc.) for pick-up by a consumer.
   § 3. Within one year of the effective date of this act, the city coun-
 cil of any city with a population of one million or more shall publish a
 report by posting it in a clear and conspicuous location online with the
 findings  and recommendations of the study conducted pursuant to section
 one of this act, as well as deliver the report to the legislature.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.