Int. No. 743
By Council Members Fisher, Carrion, Miller, Malave-Dilan, Eisland, Freed, Henry, Linares, Lopez, Marshall, Michels, Quinn and White; also Council Members Cruz, DiBrienza, Espada, Foster, Harrison, Koslowitz, Leffler and Perkins
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a moratorium on requests to the council related to the development or disposition of greenthumb community gardens.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter one of title 18 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by the addition of a new section 18-132 to read as follows:
§ 18-132 Greenthumb community gardens. a. For the purposes of this section, a "greenthumb community garden" is space on city-owned land, which is designed, built and maintained by a garden group, with technical assistance provided by the department of parks and recreation, for the purpose of neighborhood beautification and the provision of community programming.
b. There shall be a moratorium on requests to the council for development or disposition of any greenthumb community garden until the expiration of 90 days after the effective date of this local law.
§2. This local law shall take effect immediately.
LS #2911-A
04-18-00
A:gdn. Moratorium bill.doc (ISP disc 2000A)