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Assembly Bill A6528

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to floor area ratio requirements for buildings on farms

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2025-A6528 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §264, Town L; amd §7-710, Vil L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10156

2025-A6528 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires floor area ratio requirements for buildings on farms to be no more restrictive than state requirements for zoning purposes.

2025-A6528 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6528
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the town law and the village law, in relation to floor
   area ratio requirements for buildings on farms
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  264  of  the town law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5. FLOOR AREA RATIO REQUIREMENTS; FARMLAND.  (A) NO  ZONING  ORDINANCE
 SHALL  RESTRICT  THE FLOOR AREA RATIO OF A DWELLING LOCATED ON AN ACTIVE
 FARM WHICH IS MORE RESTRICTIVE THAN THE FLOOR  AREA  RATIO  REQUIREMENTS
 ESTABLISHED UNDER ANY CHAPTER OF LAW.
   (B)  ANY ZONING ORDINANCE IN VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE DEEMED
 REPEALED AND UNENFORCEABLE.
   § 2. Section 7-710 of the village law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 6 to read as follows:
   6.  (A)  NO  ZONING LOCAL LAW SHALL RESTRICT THE FLOOR AREA RATIO OF A
 DWELLING LOCATED ON AN ACTIVE FARM WHICH IS MORE  RESTRICTIVE  THAN  THE
 FLOOR AREA RATIO REQUIREMENTS ESTABLISHED UNDER ANY CHAPTER OF LAW.
   (B)  ANY ZONING LOCAL LAW IN VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE DEEMED
 REPEALED AND UNENFORCEABLE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
 addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10228-01-5

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