What's happening
This bill exempts certain public school and library facility projects in large cities from state smart growth infrastructure requirements.
Why it matters
Speeds Up School and Library Projects. By removing smart growth infrastructure requirements for certain school and library projects in large cities, the bill could reduce delays and administrative hurdles, enabling faster renovations, repairs, or new construction.
Potential Environmental Impact. Exempting these projects means they may not have to consider factors like sustainable land use, transportation access, or environmental preservation that smart growth policies promote, potentially leading to less environmentally conscious development.
Targeted to Urban Areas. The exemption applies only to cities with populations of 125,000 or more, focusing the impact on New York’s largest urban centers where school and library infrastructure needs and pressures are often greatest.
Resource Allocation Implications. By streamlining approval and funding processes for these specific projects, the bill could reallocate state resources and oversight away from environmental review and toward meeting educational and community facility needs in densely populated areas.
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- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
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Exempt Schools from Smart Growth
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor Carl L. Marcellino
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5469
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 9, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the state smart growth public infrastructure criteria
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6-0107 of the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 433 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
1. In addition to meeting other criteria and requirements of law governing approval, development, financing and state aid for the construction of new or expanded public infrastructure or the reconstruction thereof, no state infrastructure agency shall approve, undertake, support or finance a public infrastructure project, including providing grants, awards, loans or assistance programs, unless, to the extent practicable, it is consistent with the relevant criteria specified in subdivision two of this section. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision or any other provision of this article to the contrary, projects for the reconstruction, renovation, repair or improvement of existing public school facilities or existing library facilities, and projects for the construction of new or expanded public school or library facilities in cities having a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more, shall not be deemed public infrastructure projects subject to the requirements of this article.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07811-01-7
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