File #: Int 1066-2023    Version: Name: Role of trees and the tree canopy with respect to the city's long-term sustainability planning.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 6/8/2023
Enactment date: 10/15/2023 Law number: 2023/135
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the role of trees and the tree canopy with respect to the city's long-term sustainability planning
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Shekar Krishnan, Erik D. Bottcher, Farah N. Louis, Tiffany Cabán, Amanda Farías, Chi A. Ossé, Sandy Nurse, Sandra Ung, Shahana K. Hanif, Lincoln Restler, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Kevin C. Riley, Carlina Rivera , Julie Menin, Alexa Avilés, Mercedes Narcisse, Julie Won, Linda Lee, Rita C. Joseph, Eric Dinowitz, Marjorie Velázquez, Darlene Mealy, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
Council Member Sponsors: 24
Summary: Local Law 84 of 2013 requires the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability to create a long term sustainability plan with goals for certain categories (i.e., air quality, energy, climate change, coastal protection, etc.) as well as tracking sustainability indicators for those categories. That plan is released every 4 years. This bill would require Local Law 84’s planning to consider the role of trees in its long-term sustainability planning in addition to the other factors it already measures.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1066-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1066, 3. Int. No. 1066, 4. June 8, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 6-8-23, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - June 8, 2023, 7. Committee Report 6/13/23, 8. Hearing Testimony 6/13/23, 9. Hearing Transcript 6/13/23, 10. Proposed Int. No. 1066-A - 9/7/23, 11. Committee Report 9/14/23, 12. Hearing Transcript 9/14/23, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. September 14, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-14-23, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 14, 2023, 17. Int. No. 1066-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 20. Local Law 135
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
10/17/2023AGale A. Brewer City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/15/2023AGale A. Brewer Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/29/2023AGale A. Brewer Mayor Hearing Scheduled by Mayor Cancelled  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/29/2023AGale A. Brewer Mayor Hearing Scheduled by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/14/2023AGale A. Brewer City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/14/2023AGale A. Brewer City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
9/14/2023*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Parks and Recreation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/14/2023*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Parks and Recreation Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/14/2023*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Parks and Recreation Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/14/2023AGale A. Brewer Committee on Parks and Recreation Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/13/2023*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Parks and Recreation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/13/2023*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Parks and Recreation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/8/2023*Gale A. Brewer City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/8/2023*Gale A. Brewer City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1066-A

 

By Council Members Brewer, Krishnan, Bottcher, Louis, Cabán, Farías, Ossé, Nurse, Ung, Hanif, Restler, Gutiérrez, Riley, Rivera, Menin, Avilés, Narcisse, Won, Lee, Joseph, Dinowitz, Velázquez, Mealy and the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams)

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the role of trees and the tree canopy with respect to the city's long-term sustainability planning

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

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

1. develop and coordinate the implementation of policies, programs and actions to meet the long-term needs of the city, with respect to its infrastructure, environment and overall sustainability citywide, including but not limited to the categories of housing, open space, trees and the tree canopy, brownfields, transportation, water quality and infrastructure, air quality, energy, and climate change; the resiliency of critical infrastructure, the built environment, coastal protection and communities; and regarding city agencies, businesses, institutions and the public;

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RL/KS

LS #10327/12258

9/6/23 4:40PM