File #: Int 0489-2006    Version: * Name: Public input on the issuance of variations by the commissioner of buildings.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 12/6/2006
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to public input on the issuance of variations by the commissioner of buildings.
Sponsors: Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, John C. Liu, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Alan J. Gerson, James S. Oddo, Sara M. Gonzalez
Council Member Sponsors: 7

Int. No. 489

 

By Council Members James, Koppell, Liu, Mark-Viverito, Gerson, Oddo and Gonzalez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to public input on the issuance of variations by the commissioner of buildings.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section one.  Section 27-107 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended to read as follows:

§27-107 Variations. a.  The requirements and standards prescribed in this code shall be subject to variation in specific cases by the commissioner, or by the board of standards and appeals, under and pursuant to the provisions of paragraph two of subdivision (b) of section six hundred forty-five and section six hundred sixty-six of the charter, as amended. 

b.  No proposed variation shall be issued by the commissioner until there shall have been no less than a thirty-day period of time for public comment and any comment received shall be considered by the commissioner in his or her decision.  The commissioner shall publish notice in the City Record of such comment period.  In addition to any other requirements prescribed by law, an applicant seeking a variation shall be required to provide notice of the application for a variation and the comment period to the affected community boards or borough boards, the affected council member, the affected borough president, the city planning commission, and any residential, commercial and industrial tenants of record in the premises or building that is the subject of the application as well as owners of property within a radius of not less than four hundred feet from the center of the lot that is the subject of the application.

§2.  This local law shall take effect sixty days after its enactment.

 

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11/30/06