The New York City Council - File #: Int 1049-2018

• File #: Int 1049-2018
• Version: A
• Name: Requiring the dept of small business services to assess the state of storefront businesses.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 7/18/2018
• In control: Committee on Small Business
• On agenda: 7/18/2018
• Final action: 8/23/2019
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of small business services to assess the state of storefront businesses
• Sponsors: Carlina Rivera , Corey D. Johnson, Kalman Yeger , Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Stephen T. Levin, Mark Levine, Helen K. Rosenthal, Ben Kallos, Andrew Cohen, Farah N. Louis, Bill Perkins, Margaret S. Chin
• Indexes: Report Required

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/27/2019	A	City Council	Returned Unsigned by Mayor
8/23/2019	A	Administration	City Charter Rule Adopted
7/23/2019	A	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
7/23/2019	A	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
7/22/2019	*	Committee on Small Business	Hearing Held by Committee
7/22/2019	*	Committee on Small Business	Hearing Held by Committee
7/22/2019	*	Committee on Small Business	Amendment Proposed by Comm
7/22/2019	*	Committee on Small Business	Amendment Proposed by Comm
7/22/2019	*	Committee on Small Business	Amended by Committee
7/22/2019	*	Committee on Small Business	Amended by Committee
7/22/2019	A	Committee on Small Business	Approved by Committee	Pass
3/18/2019	*	Committee on Small Business	Hearing Held by Committee
3/18/2019	*	Committee on Small Business	Hearing Held by Committee
3/18/2019	*	Committee on Small Business	Laid Over by Committee
3/18/2019	*	Committee on Small Business	Laid Over by Committee
7/18/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
7/18/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
7/18/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council
7/18/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 1049-A

By Council Members Rivera, the Speaker (Council Member Johnson), Yeger, Ampry-Samuel, Levin, Levine, Rosenthal, Kallos, Cohen, Louis, Perkins and Chin

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of small business services to assess the state of storefront businesses
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Be it enacted by the Council as follows:


Section 1. Chapter 10 of title 22 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 22-1003 to read as follows:
? 22-1003 State of storefront businesses assessment. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Storefront business. The term "storefront business" means a "ground floor commercial premises" as such term is defined in ? 11-3001.
Storefront business assessment. The term "storefront business assessment" means an analysis of a community district's storefront business environment, including, but not limited to, the following factors:
(i) district demographics;
(ii) number of storefront businesses;
(iii) types of goods or services provided by storefront businesses and consumer spending by each type;
(iv) number of vacant storefront properties;
(v) physical conditions of storefront businesses, including interior and exterior conditions of businesses, both occupied by commercial tenants and vacant;
(vi) built environment of the community district;
(vii) challenges facing commercial tenants of storefront businesses;
(viii) storefront business involvement with community based organizations; and
(viii) opportunities for promoting various types of commercial uses and improving the built environment within the community district.
b. Beginning October 1, 2019 and no less frequently than once every three years thereafter, the department shall commence a storefront business as...