N.Y.C. Admin. Code § L.L. 2023/016: L.L. 2023/016

Enactment date: 1/21/2023

Int. No. 842-A

By Council Members Krishnan, Brooks-Powers, Narcisse, Hudson, Brannan, Riley, Hanif, Menin, Velázquez, Louis, Yeger, Joseph, Stevens, Richardson Jordan, Farías, Restler, Lee, Avilés, Williams, De La Rosa, Ayala, Ung, Cabán, Dinowitz, Ossé, Mealy, Gennaro, Carr and Kagan

A Local Law in relation to requiring the department of parks and recreation to develop a strategy to reduce the duration of its capital projects

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. No later than December 1, 2023, the department of parks and recreation shall, in coordination with other agencies as appropriate, prepare and submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, and post on its website, a strategy aiming to reduce the average duration of its capital projects by at least 25 percent. Such strategy shall consider, at a minimum, the use of early completion incentives, opportunities to standardize capital project processes, timelines, and forms, potential improvements in coordination with utility companies, and other reductions to regulatory barriers that may be considered.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.