File #: Int 0796-2024    Version: Name: Providing community boards and elected officials with notice of sidewalk shed permits.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 4/11/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city building code, in relation to providing community boards and elected officials with notice of sidewalk shed permits
Sponsors: Althea V. Stevens, Diana I. Ayala, Mercedes Narcisse, Chris Banks, Farah N. Louis, Amanda C. Farías, Yusef Salaam, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Sandra Ung, Lincoln Restler, Simcha Felder, Vickie Paladino, Frank Morano
Council Member Sponsors: 13
Summary: This bill would require DOB to send a monthly email to all Council Members and community boards notifying them of new sidewalk shed permits that were issued during the immediately preceding month. The emails would disaggregate the new permits by council district and community district and include the reason for each sidewalk shed installation.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 796-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 796, 3. Int. No. 796, 4. April 11, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-11-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 11, 2024, 7. Committee Report 6/25/24, 8. Hearing Testimony 6/25/24, 9. Hearing Transcript 6/25/24, 10. Proposed Int. No. 796-A - 11/18/25, 11. Int. No. 796-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 12. Int. No. 796-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 13. Committee Report 12/4/25, 14. Hearing Transcript 12/4/25, 15. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 16. December 4, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
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12/4/2025AAlthea V. Stevens City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/4/2025AAlthea V. Stevens City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
12/4/2025*Althea V. Stevens Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/4/2025*Althea V. Stevens Committee on Housing and Buildings Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/4/2025*Althea V. Stevens Committee on Housing and Buildings Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/4/2025AAlthea V. Stevens Committee on Housing and Buildings Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/25/2024*Althea V. Stevens Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/25/2024*Althea V. Stevens Committee on Housing and Buildings Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/11/2024*Althea V. Stevens City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/11/2024*Althea V. Stevens City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 796-A

 

By Council Members Stevens, Ayala, Narcisse, Banks, Louis, Farías, Salaam, Brooks-Powers, Ung, Restler, Felder, Paladino and Morano

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city building code, in relation to providing community boards and elected officials with notice of sidewalk shed permits

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 33 of the New York city building code is amended by adding a new section 3307.6.5.15 to read as follows:

3307.6.5.15 Permit issuance notification. No later than the fifth day of each month, the commissioner shall send an e-mail notification to all council members and community boards containing a report of all new sidewalk shed permits issued during the immediately preceding month. Such report shall be disaggregated by council district and community district and shall include the reason for each sidewalk shed installation.

 

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

EH/APM/SNT

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