Details Meeting Name: Committee on Housing and Buildings Agenda status: Final Meeting date/time: 4/25/2024 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final   Meeting location: Committee Room - City Hall Published agenda: Agenda Published minutes: Minutes   Meeting video: Video   Attachments: CLICK ANY FILE # BELOW (in blue) TO ACCESS LEGISLATION AND ATTACHMENTS Meeting Items (23) 23 records Group Clear sorting Clear grouping Group by Type Group by Result Export Export to Excel Export to PDF Export to Word Show: All agenda items Legislation only All agenda items File # Ver. Prime Sponsor Agenda # Agenda Note Name Type Summary Action Result Action Details Multimedia                     Roll call Not available T2024-1584 *       Oversight - Building Integrity Oversight   Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available T2024-1584 *       Oversight - Building Integrity Oversight   Filed, by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0135-2024 * Selvena N. Brooks-Powers     Study on structural loadbearing capacity of parking garages. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Buildings (“DOB”) to conduct a loadbearing capacity study for parking garages. DOB would be required to assess factors such as the size, age, materials, and structural design of the parking structure. After conducting this study, DOB is also required to report any recommendations based on their findings. No later than 1 year after the effective date of this local law, DOB shall submit to the mayor, the speaker of the council, and post on its website a report on the findings of this study. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0135-2024 * Selvena N. Brooks-Powers     Study on structural loadbearing capacity of parking garages. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Buildings (“DOB”) to conduct a loadbearing capacity study for parking garages. DOB would be required to assess factors such as the size, age, materials, and structural design of the parking structure. After conducting this study, DOB is also required to report any recommendations based on their findings. No later than 1 year after the effective date of this local law, DOB shall submit to the mayor, the speaker of the council, and post on its website a report on the findings of this study. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0136-2024 * Selvena N. Brooks-Powers     Weight limits for parking structures. Introduction This bill would require owners of most parking garages to refuse to park any vehicle on a level of such garage when doing so would cause the collective weight of vehicles on that level to exceed its maximum permissible weight limit. Each such garage would be required to install a motor vehicle weigh station so that an entering vehicle could be weighed before determining if parking such vehicle is feasible. Moreover, commercially licensed parking garages would be required to display information regarding the maximum permissible weight limits on levels within such garages and to notify the public when no further vehicles may be parked without the weight limit on each level being exceeded. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0136-2024 * Selvena N. Brooks-Powers     Weight limits for parking structures. Introduction This bill would require owners of most parking garages to refuse to park any vehicle on a level of such garage when doing so would cause the collective weight of vehicles on that level to exceed its maximum permissible weight limit. Each such garage would be required to install a motor vehicle weigh station so that an entering vehicle could be weighed before determining if parking such vehicle is feasible. Moreover, commercially licensed parking garages would be required to display information regarding the maximum permissible weight limits on levels within such garages and to notify the public when no further vehicles may be parked without the weight limit on each level being exceeded. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0170-2024 * Amanda Farías     Increased penalties for department of buildings violations issued to parking structures. Introduction This bill would double the standard civil penalties for Department of Buildings-enforced violations when issued to the owner of a parking structure. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0170-2024 * Amanda Farías     Increased penalties for department of buildings violations issued to parking structures. Introduction This bill would double the standard civil penalties for Department of Buildings-enforced violations when issued to the owner of a parking structure. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0176-2024 * Oswald Feliz     The creation of a boilerplate annual checklist for parking garage inspections prior to initial annual condition inspections. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Buildings to create and publish on their website a boilerplate annual observation checklist to be used by parking garage structure owners or their authorized agents prior to their initial annual condition inspection. This checklist would include, but would not be limited to, the age and location of the structure, whether vehicles are stored on the roof, and any outstanding violations for structural issues. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0176-2024 * Oswald Feliz     The creation of a boilerplate annual checklist for parking garage inspections prior to initial annual condition inspections. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Buildings to create and publish on their website a boilerplate annual observation checklist to be used by parking garage structure owners or their authorized agents prior to their initial annual condition inspection. This checklist would include, but would not be limited to, the age and location of the structure, whether vehicles are stored on the roof, and any outstanding violations for structural issues. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0231-2024 * Crystal Hudson     Increasing the frequency of parking structure inspections. Introduction This bill would require that condition assessments of parking structures be conducted once every four years upon the completion of the current six-year inspection cycle on January 1, 2028, and would require that follow-up assessments be conducted within two years after a parking structure is deemed safe with repair or monitoring. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0231-2024 * Crystal Hudson     Increasing the frequency of parking structure inspections. Introduction This bill would require that condition assessments of parking structures be conducted once every four years upon the completion of the current six-year inspection cycle on January 1, 2028, and would require that follow-up assessments be conducted within two years after a parking structure is deemed safe with repair or monitoring. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0313-2024 * Francisco P. Moya     Requiring asbestos surveys and abatement after certain catastrophic events. Introduction This bill would require the survey and abatement of asbestos-containing materials by a building owner following the occurrence of a catastrophic event which thoroughly disturbs the structure of a building. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0313-2024 * Francisco P. Moya     Requiring asbestos surveys and abatement after certain catastrophic events. Introduction This bill would require the survey and abatement of asbestos-containing materials by a building owner following the occurrence of a catastrophic event which thoroughly disturbs the structure of a building. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0607-2024 * Shekar Krishnan     Requiring tenant relocation services to the same community district, a nearby community district, or the same borough. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to relocate tenants who lost their homes due to a fire or other emergency in the same or an immediately adjacent community district upon request. When no suitable accommodation is available in the same or immediately adjacent community district, the bill would require HPD to relocate such tenants to the nearest community district in the same borough. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0607-2024 * Shekar Krishnan     Requiring tenant relocation services to the same community district, a nearby community district, or the same borough. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to relocate tenants who lost their homes due to a fire or other emergency in the same or an immediately adjacent community district upon request. When no suitable accommodation is available in the same or immediately adjacent community district, the bill would require HPD to relocate such tenants to the nearest community district in the same borough. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0608-2024 * Shekar Krishnan     Requiring the department of housing preservation and development to increase tenant relocation services in the event of a vacate order. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to dispatch a team of tenant relocation specialists to a building when a vacate order has been issued. These specialists will provide any displaced tenants with assistance including materials in the tenants’ preferred language, and, if deemed safe, assistance with accessing the tenants’ vacated units. It would also require HPD to begin an Article 7-A proceeding to appoint an administrator to oversee building repairs where tenants have been forced out due to harmful conditions and the building owner has not corrected such conditions in the time specified in the vacate order. Finally, this bill would require that landlords, where applicable, to notify tenants if they have a right to re-occupy the vacated unit. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0608-2024 * Shekar Krishnan     Requiring the department of housing preservation and development to increase tenant relocation services in the event of a vacate order. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to dispatch a team of tenant relocation specialists to a building when a vacate order has been issued. These specialists will provide any displaced tenants with assistance including materials in the tenants’ preferred language, and, if deemed safe, assistance with accessing the tenants’ vacated units. It would also require HPD to begin an Article 7-A proceeding to appoint an administrator to oversee building repairs where tenants have been forced out due to harmful conditions and the building owner has not corrected such conditions in the time specified in the vacate order. Finally, this bill would require that landlords, where applicable, to notify tenants if they have a right to re-occupy the vacated unit. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0609-2024 * Shekar Krishnan     Requiring the department of housing preservation and development to report on the special repair fund. Introduction This bill would require the department of housing preservation and development to report on its use of the special repair fund, including the source and amount of money deposited into the fund, the amount of money disbursed by the fund, and the types and location of repairs financed by the fund. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0609-2024 * Shekar Krishnan     Requiring the department of housing preservation and development to report on the special repair fund. Introduction This bill would require the department of housing preservation and development to report on its use of the special repair fund, including the source and amount of money deposited into the fund, the amount of money disbursed by the fund, and the types and location of repairs financed by the fund. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0904-2024 * Pierina Ana Sanchez   Preconsidered Establishing a proactive inspection program for buildings. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Buildings to create a risk-based inspection program to identify hazardous buildings, using a predictive model to weigh factors including but not limited to building data, violation history, and prior façade inspection reports. The department shall conduct proactive inspections after the model assigns a risk score indicating the likelihood of a structural collapse. The owner of a building that receives a notice of violation as a result of the risk-based inspection program shall submit and post a corrective action plan within 10 days, and shall be precluded from receiving any non-emergency permits until all façade defects are corrected. Violations issued as a result of the risk-based inspection program shall be corrected within 30 days. The department shall impose escalating penalties for any violation centered on an unsafe condition that was present during the prior façade inspection program cycle. Hearing on P-C Item by Comm   Action details Not available Int 0904-2024 * Pierina Ana Sanchez     Establishing a proactive inspection program for buildings. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Buildings to create a risk-based inspection program to identify hazardous buildings, using a predictive model to weigh factors including but not limited to building data, violation history, and prior façade inspection reports. The department shall conduct proactive inspections after the model assigns a risk score indicating the likelihood of a structural collapse. The owner of a building that receives a notice of violation as a result of the risk-based inspection program shall submit and post a corrective action plan within 10 days, and shall be precluded from receiving any non-emergency permits until all façade defects are corrected. Violations issued as a result of the risk-based inspection program shall be corrected within 30 days. The department shall impose escalating penalties for any violation centered on an unsafe condition that was present during the prior façade inspection program cycle. P-C Item Laid Over by Comm   Action details Not available