Int. No. 543
By Council Members Lander, Reynoso, Rose and Adams
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to improving public information about concentrated siting of city facilities
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 204 of the New York city charter, as added by vote of the electors on November 7, 1989, is amended by adding a new subdivision a-1 to read as follows:
a-1. 1. Beginning in 2017, for every facility listed in the statement, the statement shall include the facility’s type, according to the illustrative listing of facility types in attachments a, b and c to the criteria for the location of city facilities as adopted pursuant to section 203. The statement also shall include a ranked index of the relative concentration of each such facility type in each community district, based on the ratio of facility capacity per thousand population in each community district, and, if the type of facility in question targets or serves a particular segment of the population, based on the ratio of facility capacity per thousand of such target population.
2. Beginning in 2017, for every facility listed in the statement, the statement shall include the facility’s use type according to the use codes and types used by the department of citywide administrative services to categorize city owned and leased properties. The statement also shall include, for every use code applicable to a facility listed in the statement, a ranked index of community districts based on the ratio of facility capacity per thousand population in each community district, and, if the type of facility in question targets or serves a particular segment of the population, based on the ratio of facility capacity per thousand of such target population.
§ 2. This local law takes effect 45 days after it becomes law.
KC/PS - PLS
LS 5127/Int. 1490-2017
LS 354
12/14/17