NY State Senate Bill 2019-S7606

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 29, 2020	referred to transportation

2019-S7606 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9114
Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1640-m, V & T L; amd §3, Chap 454 of 2010
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:: S6428, A3058

2019-S7606 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the residential parking permit system in the city of Albany; makes provisions permanent.

2019-S7606 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7606

SPONSOR: BRESLIN
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the residen-
tial parking permit system in the city of Albany; and to amend chapter
454 of the laws of 2010 amending the vehicle and traffic law relating to
authorizing a pilot residential parking permit system in the city of
Albany, in relation to making such provisions permanent

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

Relates to the residential parking permit system in the city of Albany

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1: (1) Permits the City of Albany to provide for a residential
parking permit system.

(2) Defines the area such a residential parking permit system may apply

to.

(3) Excludes streets zoned for commercial property from the residential
parking permit program.

(4) Sets forth the content necessary for a local law or ordinance creat-
ing such a residential parking permit system.

Section 2: Amends section 3 chapter 454 of the laws of 2010.

Section 3: Sets the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Albany's resident permit parking authorization was first adopted in 2010
as a two-year pilot program and has been extended every two years there-
after. Since local implementation on February 15, 2013, as three sepa-
rate geographically distinct zones, the system has met its primary
objectives of increasing the availability of daytime resident parking
within the permit zones and creating more short-term parking availabili-
ty for locally owned neighborhood small businesses; under Albany's
permit system, every resident permit designated space is also designated
for short-term visitor parking of two-hours. Despite success, there
continues to be challenges. The current system is limited to within a
three-quarter mile radius of the Empire State Plaza which has resulted
in displacement impacts in neighborhoods west of one of the zones, in
addition, the limitation on total number of spaces (2,750) that may be
designated permit-only limits the flexibility of the system to address
impacts from new development and revitalization projects in downtown
Albany. These include projects in the downtown business district, expan-
sions on the SUNY Albany downtown campus and at Albany Medical Center
(which has also included a significant expansion of garage capacity
available to employees and visitors).

Expanding the allowable radius within which a permit system may be
implemented from three-quarters of a mile of the Empire State Plaza to
one-mile will enable the system to address issues on the western edge of
the zone, particularly those related to SUNY and Albany Medical Center.
It should be noted that the original permit proposal, prior to the 2010
adoption, did contemplate a one-mile radius. In addition, expanding the
number of allowable spots to be designated by 750 will enable the system
to address issues in the expansion area as well as issue related to
projects in the downtown business district. Finally, the system should
no longer be considered a pilot program, eliminating the sunset date on
the authorizing chapter will provide certainty to the continuation of
the system and ease administrative concerns regarding the need to seek
biennial reauthorizations.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S7606 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7606
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 29, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the residen-
   tial parking permit system in the city of Albany; and to amend chapter
   454 of the laws of 2010 amending the vehicle and traffic law  relating
   to  authorizing  a pilot residential parking permit system in the city
   of Albany, in relation to making such provisions permanent
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 1640-m of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
 chapter 454 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   § 1640-m. [Pilot residential] RESIDENTIAL parking permit system in the
 city of Albany. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions  of  any  law  to  the
 contrary,  the  city  of Albany may, by adoption of a local law or ordi-
 nance, provide for a residential  parking  permit  system  and  fix  and
 require  the  payment of fees applicable to parking within certain areas
 of the city or as delineated by the common council of the city of Albany
 in accordance with the provisions of this section.
   2. Such residential parking permit  system  may  only  be  established
 within  the  areas  of  the city of Albany described as follows: an area
 within [three-quarters of] a ONE mile radius of the Nelson A.  Rockefel-
 ler  Empire State Plaza. The permitted streets within this area shall be
 described in a local law or ordinance adopted by the common  council  of
 the city of Albany pursuant to this section.
   3.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, no permit shall be
 required on streets where the adjacent properties are zoned for  commer-
 cial, office and/or retail use.
   4.  The  local law OR ORDINANCE providing for such residential parking
 permit system shall:
   a. Set forth the specific factors which necessitate the implementation
 of said system and shall include, but not be  limited  to,  findings  of
 facts  as  to  the existence of such traffic hazards, congestion and air
 and noise pollution within any such areas;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD14405-02-9

 S. 7606                             2
 
   b. Provide that motor vehicles registered  pursuant  to  section  four
 hundred  four-a of this chapter shall be exempt from any permit require-
 ment;
   c.  Provide the times of the day and the days of the week during which
 permit requirements shall be in effect;
   d. Make not less than twenty percent of all spaces within  the  permit
 area  or  areas available to nonresidents which shall provide short-term
 parking of not less than ninety minutes in  duration  in  such  area  or
 areas;
   e. Make not more than [two thousand seven] THREE THOUSAND FIVE hundred
 [fifty] of the approximately nine thousand residential spaces within the
 permit area or areas available for residential parking by permit;
   f.  Provide  the  schedule of fees to be paid for residential permits;
 and
   g. Provide that such fees shall be credited to the general fund of the
 city of Albany.
   5. No local law or ordinance shall be adopted pursuant to this section
 until a public hearing thereon has been held by the  common  council  of
 the  city  of  Albany  concerning the designation of the certain area or
 areas in which said parking permit system is to be implemented.
   § 2. Section 3 of chapter 454 of the laws of 2010 amending the vehicle
 and traffic law relating to  authorizing  a  pilot  residential  parking
 permit  system  in  the city of Albany, as amended by chapter 243 of the
 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately [and shall remain in  full
 force and effect for a period of eight years after the implementation of
 the  local  law  or  ordinance adopted by the city of Albany pursuant to
 section 1640-m of the vehicle and traffic law as added by section two of
 this act at which time this act shall expire and be deemed repealed].
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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