File #: Int 0571-2024    Version: Name: Establishment of a Wards Island affordable housing task force.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 3/7/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law in relation to studying the feasibility of building affordable housing on Wards Island
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Diana I. Ayala, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Shekar Krishnan, Tiffany L. Cabán, Nantasha M. Williams, Kamillah Hanks, Chris Banks, Chi A. Ossé, Rita C. Joseph, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Farah N. Louis, Oswald J. Feliz
Council Member Sponsors: 14
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to publish a study on the feasibility of building affordable housing on Wards Island. The study would assess such factors as cost, restrictions on permissible land use, and provision of services and amenities to Wards Island, and would include policy recommendations relating to building affordable housing on Wards Island. The study would be due no later than July 1, 2027.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 571-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 571, 3. Int. No. 571, 4. March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 7, 2024, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 8. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 9. Committee Report 6/3/25, 10. Hearing Testimony 6/3/25, 11. Hearing Transcript 6/3/25, 12. Proposed Int. No. 571-A - 12/12/25, 13. Committee Report 12/18/25, 14. Hearing Transcript 12/18/25, 15. December 18, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 16. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 17. Int. No. 571-A (FINAL), 18. Int. No. 571-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 19. Int. No. 571-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB
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12/18/2025AGale A. Brewer City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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12/18/2025*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/18/2025*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Housing and Buildings Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
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12/18/2025AGale A. Brewer Committee on Housing and Buildings Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/3/2025*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/3/2025*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Housing and Buildings Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/7/2024*Gale A. Brewer City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/7/2024*Gale A. Brewer City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 571-A

 

By Council Members Brewer, Ayala, Restler, Hudson, Krishnan, Cabán, Williams, Hanks, Banks, Ossé, Joseph, Brooks-Powers, Louis and Feliz

 

A Local Law in relation to studying the feasibility of building affordable housing on Wards Island

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Wards Island study. a. No later than July 1, 2027, the department of housing preservation and development, in consultation with the department of parks and recreation, the department of city planning, and any other agency or office the department of housing preservation and development deems relevant, shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council and publish on its website a study on the feasibility of building affordable housing on Wards Island.

b. Such study shall include, but not be limited to:

1. A summary of existing active uses on Wards Island and the feasibility of their relocation or redevelopment;

2. An assessment of potential locations for housing or mixed use development on vacant sites or sites where existing uses could be relocated and the potential scale of development on such sites;

3. An assessment of needs for services, amenities, infrastructure, and access to transportation to support potential housing development on Wards Island;

4. Information on fiscal considerations associated with building affordable housing on Wards Island;

5. An assessment of existing restrictions on permissible land use on Wards Island, including those set forth in section 18-130 of the administrative code of the city of New York, and the potential for removing any such restrictions; and

6. Recommendations for legislation and policy relating to building affordable housing on Wards Island.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

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