File #: Int 0079-2024    Version: Name: Installation of pedestrian lighting fixtures.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 2/8/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to installation of pedestrian lighting fixtures
Sponsors: Lincoln Restler, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Shekar Krishnan, Erik D. Bottcher, Lynn C. Schulman, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Crystal Hudson, Sandy Nurse, Shahana K. Hanif, Farah N. Louis, Christopher Marte, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Tiffany L. Cabán, Kevin C. Riley, Julie Won, Nantasha M. Williams, Darlene Mealy, Shaun Abreu, Keith Powers , Robert F. Holden, Kristy Marmorato, Joann Ariola , Frank Morano, (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough Presiden
Council Member Sponsors: 23
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to install pedestrian lighting fixtures on no fewer than 300 commercial corridors per year, until the average level of illumination along the length of sidewalk on a block in each commercial corridor is at least 1 footcandle (11 lux). DOT would be required to consider certain factors in selecting such commercial corridors, and to the extent practicable, at least 250 of the selected commercial corridors must be contiguous to at least one other commercial corridor that either has been selected for installation in the same year, or that already has sufficient lighting. This bill would also require DOT to submit an annual report regarding installations completed during the preceding calendar year.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 79-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 79, 3. Int. No. 79, 4. February 8, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-8-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 8, 2024, 7. Committee Report 6/25/24, 8. Hearing Testimony 6/25/24, 9. Hearing Transcript 6/25/24, 10. Proposed Int. No. 79-A - 11/6/25, 11. Committee Report 11/12/25, 12. Int. No. 79-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 13. Int. No. 79-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council

Proposed Int. No. 79-A

 

By Council Members Restler, Brooks-Powers, Krishnan, Bottcher, Schulman, Gutiérrez, Hudson, Nurse, Hanif, Louis, Marte, Sanchez, Cabán, Riley, Won, Williams, Mealy, Abreu, Powers, Holden, Marmorato, Ariola and Morano (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to installation of pedestrian lighting fixtures

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 3 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-188.3 to read as follows:

§ 19-188.3 Pedestrian lighting. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Commercial corridor. The term “commercial corridor” means a block in a commercial district or a commercial overlay established pursuant to the zoning resolution.                     

Pedestrian lighting fixture. The term “pedestrian lighting fixture” means a lighting fixture that illuminates a sidewalk.

Sufficient lighting. The term “sufficient lighting” means that the average level of illumination, as measured at the level of the walking surface, along the entire length of a sidewalk on a block in a commercial corridor, is at least 1 footcandle (11 lux).

b. Each year, the department shall install a pedestrian lighting fixture on no less than 300 commercial corridors until each commercial corridor has sufficient lighting. In selecting such commercial corridors, the department shall consider the population density of the neighborhood of a commercial corridor, public input regarding lighting on a commercial corridor, the geometric design of the roadway of a commercial corridor, adjacent land uses, and any other factor deemed relevant by the department. To the extent practicable, no less than 250 of such commercial corridors shall be contiguous to at least 1 other commercial corridor that the department has selected for the installation of a pedestrian lighting fixture pursuant to this subdivision in the same year, or to at least 1 commercial corridor that has sufficient lighting.

c. No later than April 1, 2028, and no later than April 1 of each year thereafter, the department shall post on its website, and submit to the speaker of the council and the mayor, a report regarding installations completed by the department pursuant to this section during the preceding calendar year.

d. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, where the department installs a pedestrian lighting fixture on a commercial corridor as part of a project or construction work by the department or any other agency, or in response to a request or complaint from the public, and following such installation, such commercial corridor has sufficient lighting, the department may count such commercial corridor toward the number of commercial corridors on which the department is required to install a pedestrian lighting fixture pursuant to subdivision b of this section.  

§ 2. This local law takes effect January 1, 2027.

 

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