Senate Bill S5651

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Directs a study on the feasibility and impact of urban consolidation centers and shared use locker technologies

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 03, 2024	referred to cities 1
Mar 10, 2023	referred to cities 1

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2023-S5651 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9083
Current Committee:: Senate Cities 1
Law Section:: New York City
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:: A6241

2023-S5651 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs a study on the feasibility and impact of urban consolidation centers and facilities that combine multiple deliveries from different suppliers to a central location to be delivered inside the service area, and shared use locker technologies as final delivery locations.

2023-S5651 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S5651

SPONSOR: GOUNARDES
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act requiring a city with a population over one million to study the
feasibility of constructing new urban consolidation centers and shared
use locker technologies or retrofitting existing spaces to accommodate
such centers and locker technologies

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To study the feasibility of making the last mile delivery more efficient
through the urban consolidation centers and shared use locker technolo-
gies.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one of this bill requires the city council of a city with a
population of one million or more to conduct a study (in consultation
with local agencies responsible for transportation, city planning, envi-
ronmental protection and any other local agency which the city council

deems necessary) to examine the feasibility and impact of constructing
new urban consolidation centers and shared use locker technologies or
retrofitting existing spaces to accommodate such centers and locker
technologies.

Section two defines the terms "urban consolidation centers" and "shared
use locker technologies".

Section three sets the requirement on the city council of a city with a
population of one million or more to publish the report with findings
and recommendations and deliver such report to the legislature within
one year of the effective date of this act.

Section four sets the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Close to 90% of New York City's goods are moved into and around the city
by truck. Our dependency on trucks to meet the growing demand for
products worsens traffic congestion, air pollution, and harms the quali-
ty of life in our residential neighborhoods. Many neighborhoods face the
challenges of urban last mile deliveries, which need to be addressed by
introducing innovative solutions and new technologies to make freight
movement in those neighborhoods less frequent and polluting.

Making last mile delivery more efficient will reduce costs for the
industry while lessening the burden that trucks place on our communi-
ties. The City of New York must reduce truck traffic in residential
neighborhoods. Congested neighborhoods have a high delivery demand and
often lack loading docks for trucks. The impact of delivery vehicles in
these areas can be mitigated through the implementation of urban consol-
idation centers and using shared user locker technologies. By removing
the "last mile" truck delivery from the logistics chain, off-street
consolidation helps to reduce roadway congestion and competition for
curb access and deliveries during the most congested times of the day.


Urban Consolidation Centers pool multiple deliveries from different
suppliers to a central location. Shared use locker systems reduce deliv-
ery time by eliminating failed delivery attempts, and provide more reli-
ability of last-mile delivery service by consolidating packages to a
single location in a neighborhood with limited person-to-person contact.

This bill urges the New York City Council to conduct a feasibility study
on using urban consolidation centers and shared use locker technologies
as a solution to increase the efficiency of the last mile delivery
system which can have a significant positive impact on our safety, envi-
ronment, transportation, healthcare, and economy.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

TBD

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediate

2023-S5651 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5651
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1
 
 AN  ACT requiring a city with a population over one million to study the
   feasibility of constructing new urban consolidation centers and shared
   use locker technologies or retrofitting existing spaces to accommodate
   such centers and locker technologies
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The city council of a city with a population of one million
 or  more  shall  conduct  a  study,  in consultation with local agencies
 responsible for transportation, city planning, environmental  protection
 and  any  other  local agency which the city council deems necessary, to
 examine the feasibility and impact of  constructing  new  urban  consol-
 idation  centers  and  shared  use  locker  technologies or retrofitting
 existing spaces to accommodate  such  centers  and  locker  technologies
 including, but not limited to, the following:
   (a)  Explore  the possibility of reducing truck traffic in residential
 neighborhoods by creating urban consolidation centers, including through
 public-private partnerships.
   (b) Assess the application of urban consolidation centers  to  service
 high-rise   buildings,  districts  with  high  pedestrian  volumes,  and
 locations with constrained delivery infrastructure.
   (c) Explore shared use locker storage technologies for  improved  last
 mile goods delivery.
   (d)  Evaluate  the  feasibility of authorizing the operation of shared
 use lockers in the public right of way, on city-owned  property,  or  in
 partnership  with  private  entities  for  improved freight distribution
 efficiency and service effectiveness.
   (e) Explore the existing spaces that  can  accommodate  urban  consol-
 idated  centers  and  shared  use  locker technologies, and evaluate the
 possibility for their retrofitting.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09599-02-3

 S. 5651                             2
 
   (f) Identify the needs to increase  the  use  of  urban  consolidation
 centers  and  shared  use  locker  technologies and the impact that they
 could have on reducing vehicle miles traveled.
   § 2. For purposes of this act: (a) "urban consolidation centers" shall
 mean  specially  designed  places  or  facilities  that combine multiple
 deliveries from different suppliers to a central location to  be  deliv-
 ered inside the service area; and
   (b)  "shared  use  locker  technologies" shall mean the final delivery
 locations in a neighborhood which are used to consolidate packages to  a
 single location with lockers (including parcel lockers, automated parcel
 lockers, smart lockers, etc.) for pick-up by a consumer.
   § 3. Within one year of the effective date of this act, the city coun-
 cil of any city with a population of one million or more shall publish a
 report by posting it in a clear and conspicuous location online with the
 findings  and recommendations of the study conducted pursuant to section
 one of this act, as well as deliver the report to the legislature.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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