The City Council is contemplating a brand new legislative bundle geared toward overhauling the long-term abuse of sidewalk scaffolding within the Big Apple.
“Scaffolding shouldn’t be one of the first things people associate with NYC,” stated Manhattan City Councilman Keith Powers, who launched a few of the payments.
“It’s time we reclaim our streets.”
Among the nine bills introduced Thursday have been measures to determine a drone-inspection program to assist property homeowners velocity up the scaffolding-removal course of; to lift scaffoldings’ minimal top to at the least 12 toes; and create stricter timelines for removing when development stalls.
The legislative bundle additionally features a measure by Councilman Erik Bottcher (D-Manhattan) requiring property homeowners to use for work permits inside six months of putting in scaffolding or face hefty fines, and one other mandating brighter lighting the place the sheds are up, to assist deter crime.
There are greater than 9,000 scaffolding sheds within the metropolis, thrice as many as there have been twenty years in the past, in response to the Office of Management and Budget.
Some of the sidewalk sheds have been up way back to 2006, in response to Bottcher.
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