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This bill requires municipalities to notify adjacent municipalities about zoning changes or hearings affecting land within 500 feet of their borders.
Why it matters
Increases transparency and regional awareness. by ensuring neighboring municipalities are informed about significant zoning actions that could impact shared borders, potentially allowing them to participate or raise concerns before changes are finalized.
Expands the types of actions triggering notification. to include not just permits and site plans, but also adoption or amendment of zoning laws or comprehensive plans, which can have longer-term and broader effects on local development and land use.
Standardizes the notification process. by requiring a “full statement” of the proposed action to be sent to adjacent municipalities at least ten days before a hearing, aligning with existing requirements for county or regional planning agencies.
Shifts potential administrative costs. by allowing the municipality initiating the action to require either the applicant or the neighboring municipality to cover the costs of producing and sending detailed notices, potentially affecting the resources of smaller communities.
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Notify Neighbors of Zoning Changes
In Assembly Committee · Local Governments · Sponsor James Skoufis
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2075
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within five hundred feet of the adjacent municipality
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 239-nn of the general municipal law, as added by chapter 658 of the laws of 2005, are amended to read as follows:
3. The legislative body or other authorized body having jurisdiction in a municipality shall give notice to an adjacent municipality when a hearing is held by such body relating to:
(a) the issuance of a proposed special use permit or the granting of a use variance on property that is within five hundred feet of an adjacent municipality;
(b) site plan review and approval on property that is within five hundred feet of an adjacent municipality; [or]
(c) a subdivision review and approval on property that is within five hundred feet of an adjacent municipality; or
(d) adoption or amendment of any zoning ordinance or local law or comprehensive plan, pursuant to section two hundred seventy-two-a of the town law, section 7-722 of the village law or section twenty-eight-a of the general city law, where such changes would affect a parcel or parcels that are within five hundred feet of an adjacent municipality.
4. Such notice shall be given by mail or electronic transmission to the clerk of the adjacent municipality at least ten days prior to any such hearing. A full statement of such proposed action sent to a county planning agency or regional planning council as required by section two
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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hundred thirty-nine-m of this article shall also be sent to an adjacent municipality at least ten days prior to a hearing. The municipality may require the costs associated with producing and sending the full statement to be borne by the adjacent municipality or the applicant.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
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