Fair Share - Reducing overconcentration of city facilities in certain community districts.

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to reducing overconcentration of city facilities in certain community districts

This bill would require the Mayor and City Planning Commission (CPC) to develop new criteria for siting city facilities under the City’s Fair Share process. The new criteria would prohibit siting a city facility, including emergency contracted facilities, in any community district highly concentrated with such facilities. High concentration means the top 10% of community districts with the highest ratios of capacity of similar facilities to district population. An agency proposing a siting could overcome the prohibition by demonstrating the facility serves particular needs of the community, except where need was created by unfair overconcentration of similar existing facilities. Sitings exempted from the prohibition based on need would be subject to a recorded vote by the CPC and subsequent Council review. Prohibited sitings would be reported to the Council, and the status of sitings made under the need-based exemption would be tracked on an online database updated annually.