File #: Int 1091-2024    Version: * Name: Identifying and explaining the use of tree pits located on streets and in landscaped parks on the tree map.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 10/23/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to identifying and explaining the use of tree pits located on streets and in landscaped parks on the tree map
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Shahana K. Hanif, Farah N. Louis, Lincoln Restler, Kevin C. Riley, Nantasha M. Williams, Justin L. Brannan
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Summary: This bill would require that the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation identify tree pits located on streets and in landscaped parks and display them on the City's online tree map within 3 years after the effective date of the bill. The Commissioner would thereafter have to update the map annually to reflect changes to tree pits and the creation of new tree pits. The map must note whether each tree pit contains a tree, and if a tree pit does not contain a tree the reason for the disuse of the tree pit.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1091, 2. Int. No. 1091, 3. October 23, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-23-24

Int. No. 1091

 

By Council Members Brewer, Hanif, Louis, Restler, Riley, Williams and Brannan

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to identifying and explaining the use of tree pits located on streets and in landscaped parks on the tree map

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 18-157 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision d to read as follows:

d. 1. The commissioner shall identify each tree pit located on streets and each tree pit located in landscaped parks. The commissioner may undertake such identification during its tree inspections conducted pursuant to subdivision a of this section.

2. On the map published pursuant to paragraph 5 of subdivision c of this section, the commissioner shall display each tree pit located on streets and in landscaped parks. Such map shall indicate whether each tree pit contains a tree, and if a tree pit does not contain a tree such map shall indicate the reason for the absence of a tree in such pit. The commissioner shall accomplish such display no later than 3 years after the effective date of the local law that added this subdivision and thereafter shall update the display no later than November 1 of each year based on the commissioner’s findings during the identification undertaken pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.   

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