Requires a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within 500 feet of the adjacent municipal

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          4780

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    February 12, 2025
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        Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        AN  ACT  to  amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring a
          municipality to  give  notice  to  an  adjacent  municipality  of  the
          adoption  or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that
          affect parcels of land within five hundred feet of the adjacent  muni-
          cipality

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4  of  section  239-nn  of  the  general
     2  municipal  law, as added by chapter 658 of the laws of 2005, are amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    3. The legislative body or other authorized body  having  jurisdiction
     5  in  a  municipality shall give notice to an adjacent municipality when a
     6  hearing is held by such body relating to:
     7    (a) the issuance of a proposed special use permit or the granting of a
     8  use variance on property that is within five hundred feet of an adjacent
     9  municipality;
    10    (b) site plan review and approval on  property  that  is  within  five
    11  hundred feet of an adjacent municipality; [or]
    12    (c)  a subdivision review and approval on property that is within five
    13  hundred feet of an adjacent municipality; OR
    14    (D) ADOPTION OR AMENDMENT OF ANY ZONING  ORDINANCE  OR  LOCAL  LAW  OR
    15  COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO-A OF THE
    16  TOWN  LAW, SECTION 7-722 OF THE VILLAGE LAW OR SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT-A OF
    17  THE GENERAL CITY LAW, WHERE  SUCH  CHANGES  WOULD  AFFECT  A  PARCEL  OR
    18  PARCELS THAT ARE WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF AN ADJACENT MUNICIPALITY.
    19    4.  Such  notice  shall be given by mail or electronic transmission to
    20  the clerk of the adjacent municipality at least ten days  prior  to  any
    21  such hearing.  A FULL STATEMENT OF SUCH PROPOSED ACTION SENT TO A COUNTY
    22  PLANNING  AGENCY OR REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL AS REQUIRED BY SECTION TWO

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08754-01-5
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     1  HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE-M OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL ALSO BE SENT TO AN  ADJACENT
     2  MUNICIPALITY  AT LEAST TEN DAYS PRIOR TO A HEARING. THE MUNICIPALITY MAY
     3  REQUIRE THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PRODUCING AND SENDING THE FULL  STATE-
     4  MENT TO BE BORNE BY THE ADJACENT MUNICIPALITY OR THE APPLICANT.
     5    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.