File #: Int 0495-2022    Version: * Name: Requiring DOT to conduct a pilot project on the use of cool pavement.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 6/2/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law in relation to requiring the department of transportation to conduct a pilot project on the use of cool pavement
Sponsors: Sandy Nurse, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Farah N. Louis, Crystal Hudson, Shahana K. Hanif, Rita C. Joseph, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Shaun Abreu, Lincoln Restler, Justin L. Brannan, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Lynn C. Schulman, Tiffany Cabán, Amanda Farías, Kevin C. Riley, Alexa Avilés, Christopher Marte, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Julie Menin, Carlina Rivera , Diana I. Ayala, Erik D. Bottcher, Keith Powers , James F. Gennaro, Shekar Krishnan, Chi A. Ossé, Marjorie Velázquez, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Gale A. Brewer, Sandra Ung, Julie Won, Oswald Feliz, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Robert F. Holden, Nantasha M. Williams, Mercedes Narcisse, Linda Lee, Eric Dinowitz
Council Member Sponsors: 38
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Transportation to conduct a pilot project on the use of cool pavement on City streets—pavement and pavement coatings designed to keep area temperatures cooler than traditional asphalt and thus combat the urban heat island effect. The Department must then submit a report to the mayor and Council on the results of the pilot project.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 495, 2. Int. No. 495, 3. June 2, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 6-2-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - June 2, 2022

Int. No. 495

 

By Council Members Nurse, Brooks-Powers, Louis, Hudson, Hanif, Joseph, Gutiérrez, Abreu, Restler, Brannan, Sanchez, Schulman, Cabán, Farías, Riley, Avilés, Marte, Richardson Jordan, Menin, Rivera, Ayala, Bottcher, Powers, Gennaro, Krishnan, Ossé, Velázquez, De La Rosa, Brewer, Ung, Won, Feliz, Salamanca, Holden, Williams, Narcisse, Lee and Dinowitz

 

A Local Law in relation to requiring the department of transportation to conduct a pilot project on the use of cool pavement

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Cool pavement pilot project. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “cool pavement” means porous, permeable, light-colored or other pavement and pavement coatings designed to reduce pavement temperatures and ambient air temperatures.

b. The department of transportation shall conduct a one-year pilot project for the use of cool pavement on city streets in one or more locations. As part of such pilot project, the department shall assess the range of options for cool pavement and the technical feasibility, temperature and other environmental impacts and all anticipated costs of such options. The department shall post on its website and submit to the mayor and the council a report on the results of the pilot project no later than 180 days after the pilot concludes.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

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