File #: Int 0906-2023    Version: * Name: Parking for tractor trailers.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 2/2/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law in relation to parking for tractor trailers
Sponsors: Justin L. Brannan, Kamillah Hanks, Kevin C. Riley, Eric Dinowitz, Sandra Ung, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Farah N. Louis, Nantasha M. Williams, Alexa Avilés
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Summary: This bill would require an agency or office designated by the mayor to, by December 31, 2023, identify one location in each borough where it would be feasible and appropriate to create designated, off-street parking for tractor trailers. The designated agency or office would then be required to create such parking by December 31, 2025.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 906, 2. Int. No. 906, 3. February 2, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-2-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 2, 2023, 6. Committee Report 4/10/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 4/10/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 4/10/23

Int. No. 906

 

By Council Members Brannan, Hanks, Riley, Dinowitz, Ung, Brooks-Powers, Louis, Williams and Avilés

 

A Local Law in relation to parking for tractor trailers

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Tractor trailer parking. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this local law, the following terms have the following meanings:

Residential street. The term “residential street” means a street, or part thereof, which is located within a residential district under the zoning resolution.

Tractor trailer. The term “tractor trailer” means a large commercial vehicle used to transport goods, including, but not limited to, a tractor-trailer combination, tractor, truck trailer or semi-trailer.

b. Report. No later than December 31, 2023, an agency or office designated by the mayor, in coordination with the department of transportation and any other federal, state, local or non-governmental agency, authority or other entity, shall submit to the mayor and to the speaker of the council a report identifying at least one location in each borough where such designated agency or office deems it feasible and appropriate to create designated off-street parking for tractor trailers, provided that no such location is on a residential street.

c. No later than December 31, 2025, the agency or office designated pursuant to subdivision b of this section shall create at least one designated off-street parking location for tractor trailers in each borough where such designated agency or office deemed it feasible and appropriate to do so in the report required by subdivision b of this section. If in any borough a designated off-street parking location is not established prior to December 31, 2025, the agency or office designated pursuant to subdivision b of this section shall submit a report to the mayor and to the speaker of the council indicating the reasons for such delay.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

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LS 8237/9536

1/12/2023 6:00 PM