Bill Text: NY A08330 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires affordable housing units to be equally distributed throughout building projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to real property taxation [A08330 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A08330-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8330
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
December 18, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Real Property Taxation
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the distrib-
ution of affordable units in certain projects
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 421-a of the real property tax law
2 is amended by adding three new paragraphs (h), (i) and (j) to read as
3 follows:
4 (H) AFFORDABLE UNITS MUST BE PROPORTIONALLY DISPERSED THROUGHOUT THE
5 PROJECT AND MAY NOT BE CONCENTRATED IN CERTAIN FLOORS OR AREAS OF A
6 BUILDING OR BUILDINGS.
7 (I) AFFORDABLE UNITS MUST HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO COMMON SPACES, AMEN-
8 ITIES, AND INGRESS AND EGRESS AS MARKET-RATE UNITS.
9 (J) WITHIN A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, THE CITY
10 COUNCIL MAY, BY MAJORITY VOTE, WAIVE THE REQUIREMENTS OF PARAGRAPHS (H)
11 AND (I) OF THIS SUBDIVISION FOR ANY PROJECT.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to
13 projects that commence construction after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11753-01-3
