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A06283 Summary:

BILL NOA06283A

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SAME ASSAME AS S03492-A

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SPONSORKelles

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COSPNSRSimone, Bichotte Hermelyn, Lasher, Shrestha, Epstein, Shimsky, Clark, Lunsford, Kay, Gallagher,
 Paulin, Levenberg

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §8-0119, amd §8-0105, En Con L; amd §600, Pub Hous L

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Enacts the "sustainable affordable housing and sprawl prevention act"; exempts or limits environmental review under SEQR for the construction of certain new residential units to avoid creating unnecessary housing sprawl; limits certain rights to action under SEQR; makes related provisions.

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BILL NOA06283A

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03/03/2025referred to environmental conservation

06/13/2025amend and recommit to environmental conservation

06/13/2025print number 6283a

01/07/2026referred to environmental conservation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6283--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES, SIMONE, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, LASHER, SHRES-
 THA, EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environ-
 mental Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the public hous-
 ing law, in relation to enacting the "sustainable affordable housing
 and sprawl prevention act"

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "sustaina-
 2 ble affordable housing and sprawl prevention act".
 3 § 2. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new
 4 section 8-0119 to read as follows:
 5 § 8-0119. Certain actions exempt or subject to limited review.
 6 1. Exempt actions for construction of residential dwellings. (a)
 7 Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, qualifying
 8 actions with respect to the construction of a new multiple dwelling or
 9 more than one contiguous multiple dwellings, including building permits,
 10 variances, subdivision approvals, site plan approvals, and zoning text
 11 amendments, that meet the following thresholds shall be automatically
 12 determined not to have a significant impact on the environment and shall
 13 be exempt from any environmental review requirements under this article
 14 or any rules or regulations promulgated pursuant hereto:
 15 (i) fewer than ten total residential units in municipalities that have
 16 not adopted zoning or subdivision regulations;
 17 (ii) fewer than fifty total residential units in a building in which
 18 no more than twenty percent of the floor area consists of commercial or
 19 community facility uses, not to be connected at the commencement of
 20 habitation to existing community or public water and sewerage systems
 21 including sewage treatment works;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03754-06-5

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 1 (iii) in a city, town, or village having a population of ninety thou-
 2 sand persons or less, fewer than two hundred total residential units in
 3 a building in which no more than twenty percent of the floor area
 4 consists of commercial or community facility uses to be connected at the
 5 commencement of habitation to existing community or public water and
 6 sewerage systems including sewage treatment works;
 7 (iv) in a city, town, or village having a population of greater than
 8 ninety thousand but less than one million, fewer than five hundred total
 9 residential units in a building in which no more than twenty percent of
 10 the floor area consists of commercial or community facility uses to be
 11 connected at the commencement of habitation to existing community or
 12 public water and sewerage systems including sewage treatment works; or
 13 (v) in a city having a population of one million or more persons,
 14 fewer than one thousand total residential units in a building in which
 15 no more than twenty percent of the floor area con