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Assembly Bill A6692

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within 500 feet of the adjacent municipal

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2021-A6692 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1659
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §239-nn, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A7686
2017-2018: A1544
2019-2020: A2075, S4907
2023-2024: A2830, S3409
2025-2026: S4780

2021-A6692 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within 500 feet of the adjacent municipality.

2021-A6692 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6692
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 25, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation  to  requiring  a
   municipality  to  give  notice  to  an  adjacent  municipality  of the
   adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws  that
   affect  parcels of land within five hundred feet of the adjacent muni-
   cipality
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  3  and  4  of section 239-nn of the general
 municipal law, as added by chapter 658 of the laws of 2005, are  amended
 to read as follows:
   3.  The  legislative body or other authorized body having jurisdiction
 in a municipality shall give notice to an adjacent municipality  when  a
 hearing is held by such body relating to:
   (a) the issuance of a proposed special use permit or the granting of a
 use variance on property that is within five hundred feet of an adjacent
 municipality;
   (b)  site  plan  review  and  approval on property that is within five
 hundred feet of an adjacent municipality; [or]
   (c) a subdivision review and approval on property that is within  five
 hundred feet of an adjacent municipality; OR
   (D)  ADOPTION  OR  AMENDMENT  OF  ANY ZONING ORDINANCE OR LOCAL LAW OR
 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO-A OF THE
 TOWN LAW, SECTION 7-722 OF THE VILLAGE LAW OR SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT-A  OF
 THE  GENERAL  CITY  LAW,  WHERE  SUCH  CHANGES  WOULD AFFECT A PARCEL OR
 PARCELS THAT ARE WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF AN ADJACENT MUNICIPALITY.
   4. Such notice shall be given by mail or  electronic  transmission  to
 the  clerk  of  the adjacent municipality at least ten days prior to any
 such hearing.  A FULL STATEMENT OF SUCH PROPOSED ACTION SENT TO A COUNTY
 PLANNING AGENCY OR REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL AS REQUIRED BY SECTION  TWO

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

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