File #: Int 1517-2025    Version: * Name: Findings made by the affordable housing appeals board.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Land Use
On agenda: 12/18/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to findings made by the affordable housing appeals board
Sponsors: Sandy Nurse
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would clarify that the affordability options selected by the City Council for mandatory inclusionary housing sites, based on the options provided for in the City’s zoning resolution, are not subject to the review of the affordable housing review board.
Attachments: 1. Memorandum in Support, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1517, 3. Int. No. 1517, 4. Dedember 18, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12-18-25

Int. No. 1517

 

By Council Member Nurse

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to findings made by the affordable housing appeals board

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision b of section 197-g of the New York city charter, as approved by a vote of the electors on November 4, 2025, is amended to read as follows:

2. Such action disapproves or approves with modifications an application that would directly facilitate the development of affordable housing, including but not limited to actions that include the application to specified parcels of real property a program established in the zoning resolution that mandates that any new housing on designated lots include minimum percentages of permanently affordable housing equivalent to or exceeding the requirements under any mandatory inclusionary housing program, and related actions that directly facilitate such housing, such as special permits that modify residential bulk regulations or remove required residential parking, but excluding actions by the council that specify the applicable affordability options set forth in the zoning resolution without impacting the bulk of the proposed development; and

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

JMF

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11/12/2025 3:21 PM