File #: Int 1296-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring a solid acceptable color or the display of artwork on temporary protective structures on construction sites.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 5/28/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city building code, in relation to requiring a solid acceptable color or the display of artwork on temporary protective structures on construction sites
Sponsors: Carlina Rivera , Amanda Farías, Lincoln Restler, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would expand the allowable color of sidewalk shed parapet panels to include approved or alternative artwork through the City Canvas program.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1296, 2. Int. No. 1296, 3. May 28, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 5. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 6. Committee Report 6/3/25

Int. No. 1296

 

By Council Members Rivera, Farías, Restler and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city building code, in relation to requiring a solid acceptable color or the display of artwork on temporary protective structures on construction sites

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 3307.6.4.11 of chapter 33 of the New York city building code, as amended by local law number 47 for the year 2025, is amended to read as follows:

3307.6.4.11 Color. Sidewalk sheds shall meet the following color requirements:

 

1.                     Parapet frames and braces, [parapet panels,] legs and vertical members, beams, cross bracing, and metallic elements shall be a solid acceptable color. 

 

2.                     Parapet panels shall be a solid acceptable color or display approved or alternative artwork pursuant to Section 3307.11.

 

[2]3.  Acceptable colors are hunter green, metallic gray, or white. In addition, when the shed is installed for an existing building, other than one undergoing a full demolition or subject to the provisions of Section 28-101.4.5 of the Administrative Code, a color matching the façade, trim, cornice, or roof of the building, if the roof is sloped and visible from the street, is acceptable.

 

[3]4.  Where a fence is installed at the site in accordance with Section 3307.7, the fence and shed shall be the same color. 

 

Exceptions: Regardless of the color of the shed:

 

1. Metallic elements and components of the shed may be painted metallic gray.

 

2. Mesh elements of parapet panels may be black.

 

§ 2. This local law takes effect on the same date as local law number 47 for the year 2025.

APM

LS #18769/18703/17744

5/13/2025 12:39 PM