What's happening
This bill requires quality of life hearings and environmental impact statements before making traffic changes on residential streets in large cities.
Why it matters
Gives local residents and representatives a formal role in traffic changes. By requiring joint "quality of life" hearings by both borough and community boards, the bill ensures local concerns and perspectives are heard before any traffic modifications happen in residential areas.
Mandates thorough environmental oversight. The requirement for two separate environmental impact statements—one from the boards and one from the municipality—means changes must be examined from multiple angles, potentially surfacing issues that a single review might miss.
May slow or complicate the process of traffic changes. These added steps could delay the implementation of traffic modifications, affecting how quickly cities can respond to congestion, safety issues, or new development needs.
Creates a new standard for transparency and accountability. Municipal funding for all impact statements ensures these reviews are not a financial burden for neighborhoods, while also making the process and findings accessible to the public.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2097
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring a quality of life hearing and preparation of environmental impact statements prior to implementing traffic modifications on streets with residential zoning in a city having a population of more than one million people
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-158.1 to read as follows:
§ 19-158.1 Traffic modifications impact statements. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, in a city having a population of more than one million people, no traffic modifications shall be made on streets with residential zoning until the borough board and the community board of the area in which the modification is to be made jointly conduct a "quality of life" hearing and determine that the quality of life in the area will not be negatively impacted by the traffic modifications. The borough and community boards shall jointly prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) reflecting their findings. A second environmental impact statement (EIS) shall be prepared by the municipality. All environmental impact statements shall be funded by the municipality.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07213-01-9
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