What's happening
This bill requires new housing construction applications in New York City to disclose estimated school-age children and forward this data to the Department of Education.
Why it matters
Helps city planners and the Department of Education better anticipate and address school capacity needs. by providing advance notice of how many school-age children new housing developments might bring to specific neighborhoods.
Requires developers to provide detailed demographic estimates. (including number of families and compulsory school-age children) up front, potentially influencing both project approval processes and how neighborhoods prepare for population growth.
Mandates inter-agency coordination. , as the Department of Buildings and Department of City Planning must create standardized methods for estimating future family and child populations—improving data consistency and urban planning accuracy.
Could impact neighborhood dynamics and local policy. , as more transparent data on incoming residents may affect debates over school zoning, resource allocation, and community services.
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Builders Must List School District
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2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
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STATE OF NEW YORK
786
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED, CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requirements on the construction of new housing for school district purposes
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 28-105.12.10 to read as follows:
§ 28-105.12.10 Disclosure of community school district information. Any application submitted to the commissioner pursuant to section 28-105.5 of this article for a permit for the construction of any new dwelling, as defined in subdivision four of section four of the multiple dwelling law, or for the addition to, change of use or occupancy of, or renovation to an existing building that will cause it to have dwelling units, shall specify: (1) the community school district in which the dwelling or dwelling units are located; (2) the number of families that will occupy the dwelling or dwelling units; and (3) an estimate of the number of children of compulsory school age, as defined in subdivision eleven of section two of the education law, that will occupy the dwelling or dwelling units. No later than ten days after the approval of the application for the permit, the commissioner shall forward such information to the New York city department of education.
The department of buildings, in conjunction with the department of city planning, shall promulgate regulations for determining the number of estimated children and families authorized to occupy each new dwelling or dwelling unit.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02584-01-9
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