Ensuring that community gardens are classified as open space, outdoor recreation, a community garden or other similar description of land in a database maintained by the dept of city planning.

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to ensuring that community gardens are classified as open space, outdoor recreation, a community garden or other similar description of land in a database maintained by the department of city planning

This bill would require the Department of City Planning (DCP) to categorize community gardens as open space, outdoor recreation, a community garden, or other similar description in the Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output data set, and would also prohibit DCP from categorizing such gardens as vacant land.