File #: Int 0837-2015    Version: * Name: Requiring the Landmarks Preservation Commission to make available a database of all items designated or under consideration for designation.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Land Use
On agenda: 6/26/2015
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the Landmarks Preservation Commission to make available a database of all items designated or under consideration for designation.
Sponsors: Daniel R. Garodnick, Brad S. Lander, Helen K. Rosenthal, Peter A. Koo, Karen Koslowitz, Rosie Mendez, Ben Kallos, Jumaane D. Williams, David G. Greenfield, (by request of the Manhattan Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Summary: This bill would require the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to publish a database online that provides information on all properties that are designated as landmarks or historic districts, or under consideration for such designation. The database would include information on items under consideration for designation, including the location of properties, the person or organization that submitted a request for consideration, relevant documents, dates of scheduled hearings or meetings and the current status of consideration. Items under consideration for designation include any properties for which the public has requested consideration, properties surveyed by commission staff, and properties calendared for consideration.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 837, 2. Land Use Calendar - September 9, 2015, 3. Committee Report 9/9/15, 4. Hearing Testimony 9/9/15, 5. Hearing Transcript 9/9/15
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2017*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/9/2015*Daniel R. Garodnick Committee on Land Use Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/9/2015*Daniel R. Garodnick Committee on Land Use Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/26/2015*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/26/2015*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 837

 

By Council Member Garodnick, Lander, Rosenthal, Koo, Koslowitz, Mendez, Kallos, Williams and Greenfield (by request of the Manhattan Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the Landmarks Preservation Commission to make available a database of all items designated or under consideration for designation.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 25-303 of chapter 3 of title 25 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new subdivisions l to read as follows:

l.                     The commission shall publish online a database of all items designated as landmarks, historic districts, interior landmarks, and scenic landmarks, and all items under consideration for designation. For the purposes of this subdivision, items under consideration for designation shall include any properties or neighborhoods surveyed by the commission, any items for which the public has requested consideration of landmark status, and any item formally calendared for consideration by the commission. Such database shall include information regarding the current status of consideration or designation for each item including, for items under consideration, the location of property under consideration, the person or organization who submitted a request, copies of relevant documents, any scheduled hearings or meeting dates and whether the item is currently under study, inactive, calendared, or designated.

§ 2. This local law shall take effect sixty days after it shall have become a law.

 

 

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