File #: Int 1345-2025    Version: * Name: Providing notice to home and business owners regarding new bus stops.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 8/14/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing notice to home and business owners regarding the creation or removal of bus stops
Sponsors: Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Chris Banks, Farah N. Louis, Justin L. Brannan, Mercedes Narcisse
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to provide notice, as practicable, to owners of homes and businesses when new bus stops are designated to be placed within 50 feet of such homes and businesses or when existing bus stops within 50 feet of such homes and businesses are designated to be removed.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1345, 2. Int. No. 1345, 3. August 14, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8-14-25, 5. Committee Report 11/13/25, 6. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 8. Hearing Testimony 11/13/25
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11/13/2025*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/13/2025*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/14/2025*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/14/2025*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1345

 

By Council Members Brooks-Powers, Banks, Louis, Brannan and Narcisse

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing notice to home and business owners regarding the creation or removal of bus stops

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 1 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-159.9 to read as follows:

§ 19-159.9 Notification regarding bus stops. a. The department shall coordinate with the metropolitan transportation authority to provide notice, as practicable, to owners of homes and businesses when bus stops are designated to be created or removed within 50 feet of such homes and businesses.

b. The department shall, as practicable, provide the required notice by sending a letter to each such home and business owner, posting a flyer on the front doors of each such home and business, and posting signage at the physical location where the new bus stop is to be located or the existing bus stop is to be removed.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

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