 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7803
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 15, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing
 
        AN ACT to amend the multiple dwelling law, in  relation  to  floor  area
          ratio
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 26 of the multiple  dwelling  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  748 of the laws of 1961, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. Floor area ratio (FAR). [The] Except as otherwise provided  in  and
     5  determined under a zoning law, ordinance, or resolution of a city with a
     6  population  of  one  million  or  more, or after consultation with local
     7  officials, as provided in a general project plan of the New  York  state
     8  urban  development corporation, the floor area ratio (FAR) of any dwell-
     9  ing or dwellings on a lot shall not exceed 12.0, except that a fireproof
    10  class B dwelling in which six or more passenger elevators are maintained
    11  and operated in any city having a local zoning law, ordinance or  resol-
    12  ution  restricting  districts  in  such  city to residential use, may be
    13  erected in accordance with the provisions of such zoning law,  ordinance
    14  or resolution, if such class B dwelling is erected in a district no part
    15  of  which  is  restricted by such zoning law, ordinance or resolution to
    16  residential uses.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11649-01-3
Relates to floor area ratio

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