Senate Bill S1405

                             
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                                   1405
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2023
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 Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
   and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  authorities  law, in relation to siting
   requirements for the New York  city  school  construction  authority's
   leasing program

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1731  of  the  public  authorities
 law,  as  amended by chapter 790 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read
 as follows:
   1. Prior to the commencing of new construction or  building  additions
 of  an  educational facility, or the acquisition of real property or any
 interest therein for such purpose, INCLUDING THE LEASING OF ANY BUILDING
 OR PROPERTY, the authority shall file a copy of the site  plan  of  such
 facility  in  its  offices  and shall provide a copy thereof to the city
 board, the city planning commission and the  community  school  district
 education  council  and the community board of the district in which the
 facility will be located. The authority shall also  provide  a  copy  of
 such  plan to the council member, senator and member of assembly repres-
 enting the district in which the facility will  be  located.  Such  plan
 shall  include  data  on  projected student population for the community
 school district or districts and the community board or boards affected,
 the source of that data and the reason the proposed action is  necessary
 and  how  such  plan factors and accounts for student population projec-
 tions. Upon request, any other person shall be furnished with such  plan
 or  a  summary  thereof.   The authority shall publish in a newspaper of
 general circulation in the city a notice of the filing of such plan  and
 the  availability  of  the  plan  and a summary thereof. Such plan shall
 include, in the case of any project for which the  acquisition  of  real
 property  or  interest  therein  is  proposed, the recommended site, any
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02674-01-3
              

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 alternate sites considered, and any rationale as to  why  the  alternate
 sites were not selected.
   §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 1732 of the public authorities law, as
 amended by chapter 562 of the laws  of  1990,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  Following  the hearings held pursuant to section seventeen hundred
 thirty-one of this title, but prior to initiating  construction  of  new
 educational facilities, OR PRIOR TO LEASING ANY BUILDING OR PROPERTY FOR
 SUCH  PURPOSE, the authority shall submit the site plan of such projects
 to the mayor and the council for review, provided,  however,  that  such
 review shall be limited to the site selected for the project.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.