L.L. 2024/055

Enactment date: 4/6/2024

Int. No. 17-B

By Council Members Brannan, Louis, Restler, Stevens, Gennaro, Brewer, Hudson, Dinowitz, Bottcher, Won, Schulman, Avilés and Mealy (by request of the Queens Borough President)

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the New York city building code, in relation to electric vehicle supply equipment in open parking lots and parking garages

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 5. Electrical vehicle charging station report. No later than 2 years after effective date of this local law, the commissioner of transportation, in consultation with the director of city planning, the commissioner of buildings, the commissioner of housing preservation and development, the commissioner of citywide administrative services, and the commissioner of consumer and worker protection, shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council and post on its website a report on off-street parking spaces in parking garages or open parking lots in the city that are not subject to regulation by the department of consumer and worker protection, including but not limited to:

   a.   The estimated number of such parking spaces that are not subject to regulation by the department of consumer and worker protection;

   b.   Any analysis of the estimated location and geographic distribution of such parking spaces, including the estimated number of parking spaces in each parking garage or open parking lot as such terms are defined in the New York city building code;

   c.   A categorization of the estimated number of parking garages and open parking lots by building occupancy type and affordability status;

   d.   The estimated number of such parking garages and open parking lots for buildings with dwelling units that are required by law or by an agreement with a governmental entity to be regulated in accordance with the New York state emergency tenant protection act of 1974, the New York city rent stabilization law of 1969, or the local emergency housing rent control act of 1962 and what possible waivers or adjustments could be applied to such parking garages and open parking lots to address potential financial constraints;

   e.    An analysis of the estimated predominant users of such parking garages or open parking lots, including but not limited to residents, employees, or customers, of the building to which such parking garage or open parking lot is attached, if any;

   f.   Structural considerations of such parking garages or open parking lots for the addition of electric vehicle supply equipment;

   g.   An analysis of how projected parking usage patterns relate to building occupancy type for such parking garages and open parking lots;

   h.   Other factors relevant to the ability to install electric vehicle supply equipment in such parking garages and open parking lots;

   i.   A review of the state of electric vehicle supply equipment technology, including costs of such equipment, and available federal, state, utility, and other incentives; and

   j.   Recommendations for the required level of electric vehicle supply equipment installation and allowable exceptions for such parking garages and open parking lots by building occupancy type consistent with their usage profile as reported in subdivisions b through i, including ownership by the city, the New York city housing authority, or an affordable housing development, and with meeting the greenhouse gas reduction set forth in article 75 of the environmental conservation law. Such recommendations shall include the level of alterations to an existing structure that will require the installation of such equipment.

§ 6. This local law takes effect on the same date as a local law of the city of New York for the year 2024 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to the electrical code and repealing chapter 3 of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York in relation thereto, as proposed in introduction number 436 for the year 2024, takes effect.