File #: Int 1271-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring review of the long-term sustainability plan by the environmental justice advisory board.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
On agenda: 5/1/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring review of the long-term sustainability plan by the environmental justice advisory board
Sponsors: James F. Gennaro
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require the Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability (“OLTPS”) to provide drafts and proposed revisions of the long-term sustainability plans, otherwise known as PlaNYC, to the Environmental Justice Advisory Board (“EJAB”), and would require EJAB to review the drafts and proposed revisions and make recommendations to OLTPS prior to the finalization of the long-term sustainability plans.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1271, 2. Int. No. 1271

Int. No. 1271

 

By Council Member Gennaro

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring review of the long-term sustainability plan by the environmental justice advisory board

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision e of section 20 of the New York city charter, as added by local law number 84 for the year 2013, is amended to read as follows:

2.   No later than April twenty-second, two thousand eleven, and no later than every four years thereafter, the director shall develop and submit to the mayor and the speaker of the city council an updated long-term sustainability plan, setting forth goals associated with each category established pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision b of this section and any additional categories established by the director, and a list of policies, programs and actions that the city will seek to implement or undertake to achieve each goal by no later than twenty years from the date each such updated long-term sustainability plan is submitted. No later than two thousand fifteen, and no later than every four years thereafter, the plan shall also include a list of policies, programs and actions that the city will seek to implement or undertake to achieve each goal relating to the resiliency of critical infrastructure, the built environment, coastal protection and communities. Such updated plan shall take into account the population projections required pursuant to subdivision d of this section. An updated plan shall include, for each four-year period beginning on the date an updated plan is submitted to the mayor and the speaker of the city council, implementation milestones for each policy, program and action contained in such plan. An updated plan shall report on the status of the milestones contained in the immediately preceding updated plan. Where any categories, goals, policies, programs or actions have been revised in, added to or deleted from an updated plan, or where any milestone has been revised in or deleted from an updated plan, the plan shall include the reason for such addition, revision or deletion. [The director shall seek public input regarding an updated plan and its implementation before] Before developing and submitting such plan pursuant to this paragraph, the director shall seek both public input regarding an updated plan and its implementation, and, with sufficient time for review and comment, submit any draft or proposed revisions of the plan to the environmental justice advisory board in conformity with paragraph 8 of subdivision e of section 3-1006 of the administrative code. The director shall coordinate the implementation of an updated long-term sustainability plan.

§ 2. Subdivision e of section 3-1006 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 64 for the year 2017, is amended to read as follows:

6. Review proposed and final environmental justice plans, and proposed revisions thereto, and make recommendations to the interagency working group relating to such plans and proposed revisions; [and]

7. Recommend agencies or offices for inclusion in the interagency working group[.]; and

8. Review the draft and proposed revisions of the long-term sustainability plans before its finalization, as developed by the office of long-term planning and sustainability pursuant to subdivision e of section 20 of the charter, and make recommendations to the office of long-term planning and sustainability relating to such plans and proposed revisions.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately. APM

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