Planning, Economic Development and Land Use Committee

This meeting is being held in accordance to Governor Cuomo’s Executive Order and other Federal and State Orders that impact in- person attendance at public meetings, if applicable orders expire or are revoked before March 8, 2021, this will be an in-person meeting in City Hall, please check our website and Facebook for updates. Please submit your public comment via email commoncouncil@albanyny.gov or on our website by March 8, 2021 12pm. These comments will be shared with members and/ or read for the record at the meeting. The meeting will be held using Zoom and streamed through the Albany Common Council’s Facebook. To stream this video please visit: https://www.facebook.com/albany.commoncouncil. If we experience any technical difficulties on Facebook, the video will be streamed to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC- rQHp1fBLPcdk_4N6J4XbQ COMMON COUNCIL MEETING PLANNING, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND LAND USE COMMITTEE Cathy Fahey, Chair DATE: Monday, March 8, 2021 TIME: 5:30 p.m. TOPIC(S) OF DISCUSSION/CONSIDERATION: ORDINANCE 3.12.21 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 375 (UNIFIED SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF ALBANY CLARIFYING VEGETATIVE COVERAGE IN RELATION TO NON-APPLICABILITY TO GREEN ROOFS PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: YES Council Member O’Brien introduced the following: ORDINANCE 3.12.21 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 375 (UNIFIED SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF ALBANY CLARIFYING VEGETATIVE COVERAGE IN RELATION TO NON-APPLICABILITY TO GREEN ROOFS The City of Albany, in Common Council convened, does hereby ordain and enact: Section 1. Sub-Paragraph (e) of paragraph 3 (General Landscaping Standards) of subdivision (F) (Landscaping, Screening and Buffering) of section 375-4 (Development Standards) is hereby amended to read: (e) Vegetative Coverage Any development or redevelopment site that triggers the requirements of this Section shall ensure that landscaping, screening, and/or buffering achieves at least the equivalent of 30 percent lot coverage by vegetated material to the greatest degree practicable. This shall not include green roofs. Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect immediately. APPROVED AS TO FORM THIS 8TH DAY OF JANUARY, 2021 ________________________________ Corporation Counsel To: Danielle Gillespie, City Clerk From: John-Raphael Pichardo, Esq., Research Counsel Re: Request for Common Council Legislation Supporting Memorandum Date: January 7, 2021 SPONSOR Council Member O’Brien ORDINANCE 3.12.21 TITLE AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 375 (UNIFIED SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF ALBANY CLARIFYING VEGETATIVE COVERAGE IN RELATION TO NON-APPLICABILITY TO GREEN ROOFS GENERAL PURPOSE OF LEGISLATION Clarifying the USDO to state that Green Roofs shall not be considered in the development standards of Vegetative Coverage. FISCAL IMPACT(S) None.