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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

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Introduced Feb 12, 2025

Latest action (May 18, 2026) REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Summary

This bill requires municipalities to notify adjacent municipalities when holding hearings on zoning and land use decisions affecting property within 500 feet of the municipal boundary. The notice must be sent by mail or electronic transmission to the adjacent municipality's clerk at least 10 days before the hearing. Notice is required for special use permits, use variances, site plan reviews, subdivision reviews, and adoption or amendment of zoning ordinances or comprehensive plans. The bill also requires the full statement of proposed action sent to county planning agencies to be sent to adjacent municipalities at least 10 days prior to the hearing, and allows municipalities to require the adjacent municipality or applicant to bear the costs of producing and sending the statement.

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Official abstract

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 municipality.

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Action history (16)

  1. Feb 12, 2025 REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT · upper
  2. Mar 18, 2025 1ST REPORT CAL.564 · upper
  3. Mar 19, 2025 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
  4. Mar 20, 2025 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
  5. May 6, 2025 PASSED SENATE · upper
  6. May 6, 2025 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
  7. May 6, 2025 REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS · lower
  8. Jan 7, 2026 DIED IN ASSEMBLY · lower
  9. Jan 7, 2026 RETURNED TO SENATE · lower
  10. Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT · upper
  11. May 5, 2026 1ST REPORT CAL.898 · upper
  12. May 6, 2026 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
  13. May 7, 2026 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
  14. May 18, 2026 PASSED SENATE · upper
  15. May 18, 2026 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
  16. May 18, 2026 REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS · lower

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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S04780 Summary: BILL NO S04780 &nbsp SAME AS No Same As &nbsp SPONSOR SKOUFIS &nbsp COSPNSR HARCKHAM &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Amd §239-nn, Gen Muni L &nbsp 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 municipality.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

4780

2025-2026 Regular Sessions

IN SENATE

February 12, 2025 ___________

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.

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