Bill Text: NY S00919 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires local boards and the division of housing and community renewal to submit certain residential housing and zoning information to the department of state annually; requires such information to be published by the department of state on its website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-27 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S00919 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00919-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           919

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  MAY,  JACKSON,  KAVANAGH,  WEBB -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Housing, Construction and Community Development

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to requiring certain
          housing production information to be reported  to  the  department  of
          state

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 120 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 120. Housing production reporting.  1.  For  the  purposes  of  this
     4  section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
     5    (a)  "Local board" means any city, town, or village board, commission,
     6  officer or other agency or office having supervision of the construction
     7  of buildings or the power of enforcing municipal building laws.
     8    (b) "Housing site" means the site of planned construction, conversion,
     9  alteration, demolition, or consolidation  of  one  or  more  residential
    10  buildings.
    11    (c)  "Dwelling  unit"  means  a dwelling within a residential building
    12  which is either rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or  is
    13  occupied  as  the  residence  or home of one or more individuals that is
    14  independent of other dwellings within such residential building.
    15    2. The department shall require each local  board  to  submit  to  the
    16  department  annually,  in  the  manner  and format to be directed by the
    17  department,  the  following  information  regarding  new   construction,
    18  conversion,  alteration,  demolition, or consolidation of a housing site
    19  within the jurisdiction of such local  board  that  is  required  to  be
    20  reported to such local board:
    21    (a) the address of such housing site;
    22    (b) the block and/or lot number of such housing site;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03201-01-5

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     1    (c) the total number of dwelling units in such housing site;
     2    (d)  the  building  type, any relevant dates of approval, permits, and
     3  completions associated with such housing site;
     4    (e) any associated governmental subsidies or program funds being allo-
     5  cated to such housing site that such local board is aware of; and
     6    (f) the specific details of such construction, conversion, alteration,
     7  demolition, or consolidation of such housing site.
     8    3. Beginning on the thirty-first of January next succeeding the effec-
     9  tive date of this section, and annually thereafter, the department shall
    10  require each local board to submit to the department, in  a  manner  and
    11  format  to  be determined by the department, a digital file containing a
    12  zoning map of such local board's jurisdiction that contains the  follow-
    13  ing information for the prior year:
    14    (a) The geographic extents of areas where residential housing, commer-
    15  cial, industrial, or other developments are permitted;
    16    (b)  In  areas  zoned for residential housing areas, where residential
    17  buildings containing two, three, and four or  more  dwelling  units  are
    18  allowed per lot;
    19    (c) Any minimum lot size requirements for residential housing;
    20    (d) Any minimum size requirements for individual dwelling units;
    21    (e) Any parking requirements for residential buildings;
    22    (f) Any setback or lot coverage requirements;
    23    (g)  Designation of whether each zoning approval granted by such local
    24  board was as-of-right or discretionary; and
    25    (h) The geographic bounds of any areas which have been  amended  since
    26  such local board's previous submission pursuant to this subdivision.
    27    4.  The  division of housing and community renewal shall submit to the
    28  department annually, in a manner and format  to  be  determined  by  the
    29  department, a report of all housing subsidies administered by such divi-
    30  sion in the prior year.
    31    5.  The  department  shall  make the information submitted pursuant to
    32  subdivisions two, three, and four of this section publicly available  on
    33  its website, updated annually to reflect the most recent submissions.
    34    6.  Failure  of  any local board to comply with the reporting require-
    35  ments of this section shall result in a fifty percent reduction  of  any
    36  funds  to  be  distributed to any municipality within such local board's
    37  jurisdiction pursuant to the community development block  grant  program
    38  authorized under title one of the federal Housing and Community Develop-
    39  ment Act of 1974, as amended.
    40    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    41  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
    42  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
    43  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
    44  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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